I think of those people the same way they think of me when I say “what’s that? Is that a sports team? I don’t care about any of that.”

I call it slop when it was generated by AI and not carefully reviewed (and probably tweaked) by a human that understands the output.

Code written not by a software developer? Slop.

Code written by a software developer that just shipped it without understanding it? Slop.

Code written by a software developer that went through subsequent review, testing, and adjustment? “AI-assisted”, maybe?

Replace code with any other industry and the same principle applies.

I generally equate slop with human laziness, even though the actual “quality” of the slop still varies.

That’s silly. North America is huge. In the US South, it’s very common for people to poop every day. In fact, you usually wouldn’t even talk to a doctor about it. But as you get to the northern states and into Canada, it’s so cold that people don’t poop at all!

So the 1 day thing is probably just someone averaging out the numbers.

It’s so stupid. I absolutely love it.

I think the psychological effect is called reactance. When faced with opposition to their position, people will defend it more aggressively than they would just agree with someone affirming the same position.

There was a joke that said if you wanted programming help, you’d post a question on Stack Overflow, then use another account and answer your question with an aggressively wrong answer. People would attack the wrong answer and actually give a quality answer more regularly than they would otherwise just answer a question with no answers.

It also reminds me of that web comic with a woman telling a man to come to bed, and he just stares at the computer and says “I can’t. Someone is wrong on the internet.”

HIS NAME WAS ROBERT.

Then living a good life and never thinking of them again.

I don’t think I could work with Navi’s attention seeking behaviours.

Ah. Walmart.

I was wracking my brain trying to think of what kind of store could possibly sell both those products.

Lmao thanks. It was even still sitting in my clipboard!

You have answers already, but here’s a page with a good rundown and a photo that matches yours nicely.

https://www.thespruce.com/recognize-lady-beetle-ladybug-nymphs-1402696

DO YOU EVEN WHITEN YOUR TEETH?

Ah fuck I did it wrong.

Operating systems are niche nerd stuff. Your average iPhone user doesn’t know what iOS is. Most Android users don’t know they’re Android users - “I have a Samsung” or, worse, “this is my iPhone” (it clearly is not).

The market for alternative mobile OSes is basically software developers and tech/privacy nerds. It’s not an enormous market and it’s full of customers that see through the usual profit-generating enshittification that plays well in the mass market. There’s not that many of us and we’re fickle bitches.

I would take Elon Musk’s estimate and slap a 0 on the end.

The family wouldn’t be installing Signal, a secure messaging app. They would be installing “that app I only use to talk to that one idiot”.

That shit would not fly at my local Costco. I stopped for the first time on a weekday morning and it was a bloodbath of efficient cart movement. I almost died because I was too slow grabbing a bag of sugar and putting it in my cart in a fluid motion.

Bless those people, though they scare me.

Now the motherfuckers that show up later in the day after they start handing out free samples, on the other hand…

My company was using token burn as an AI adoption metric, but they’ve started clawing that back in search of better metrics.

After a bunch of people all blew through $2000 of tokens over a weekend building “something”, leadership cooled their heels and is pivoting to trying to use AI more intelligently.

And yet we can still measure productivity by how fast it takes to get a feature deployed and we can measure customer satisfaction… I still don’t understand why that’s insufficient. If adding AI made the line go up, then it is a benefit. If line not go up, why buy AI?

Instead it seems like a lot of companies are just looking for new magic numbers to chase in order to justify their predetermined conclusions.

Hello fellow X-COM player.

Rinse/scrape off the big chunks. And fucking corn. Then in it goes.

Exception: if you’re a small household and don’t run the dishwasher every day or two, rinse more so the dishwasher won’t stink as much before you run it.

I save space on backups by symlinking my data in a backup directory. It’s never failed!