Lol, worst autocorrect ever. XD

It was a Saturday, but I was on-call when Networking shit the bed. One of the main trunk lines degraded and they took almost five minutes to switchover to backup 'cuz their automated degredation monitoring was on a five-minute interval. XD

“Anything worth doing is worth doing half-assed”.

It’s an inversion of the saying that ends in “worth doing well”, and it sticks with me because it’s genuinely good advice.

Like, turning in a half-completed assignment for a failing grade is way less harmful to one’s GPA than failing to turn in anything and taking a “0”. I might not have the energy after work to do all of my laundry, but knocking out one load is still better than none. Frozen dinners might not be healthy, but skipping meals would be worse.

You can’t whole-ass everything all the time, but half-ass is better than no-ass. 😸

Sounds like an advantage to me…

Apologies for the pithy remark; but if you have to ask yourself if it’s burnout, then it’s probably burnout.

That is not to say that it can’t also be other things too, in my experience burnout is usually accompanied by depression and an excess of work stress.

Wow… I wasn’t expecting to get anything close to the right answer that liberals aren’t part of the left. XD

Okay then, I’ll be more specific…

Define “the left”.

Define

No, we don’t.

The first step is admitting that the State won’t let us vote its power away.

11 Nazis

Bro you saw the answer. They have the same value despite different sizes. It’s simple. Basic. Elementary. 😉

Joking aside; no I’m totally serious. They should have semi-automated mammogram vending machines that pay people to get tested and they should be as common as the blood pressure kiosks at pharmacies (which should also pay people to use them). The value of catching more treatable diseases earlier in their progression would well outweigh the cost.

It literally could not be more straightforward~.

You’d probably have a hard time avoiding comparisons to ministers or priests.

Add two or three tablespoons of sugar when you’re making a batch of salsa, just a tiny hint of sweetness is all it takes~

Gross, get that “AI”-generated image publisher out of my construction toys.

My official work title is “Site Reliability Engineer”, which means I’m somewhere between a clerk, a tinkerer, and a millwright.

But I’m not recording any transactions by hand and the mills I work on don’t have anything to do with grain. Instead, they’re simple but very fast arithmetical machines that the moneychangers had built to account for every penny that moves from one bank to another.

Sometimes the machines don’t work as they are expected to, and it’s my job to catch this misbehavior and identify the cause so that one of the arithmetical millwrights can figure out how to fix it. I also help them them do the fixing and testing to make sure the equiment runs true before we set it back to work.

How many watt-hours did that cost?

Oh, no question. I’m sure someone will think it’s a good idea and waste a lot of money on it.

That’s the thing, how do you determine whether or not the “AI solution functions enough” without having a human review it?

The economics aren’t there because LLM outputs aren’t trustworthy, and the kind of expertise you’d need to validate them is functionally equivalent to that which could be employed to write the code in the first place.

“Generative AI” is an inefficient solution to a problem that’s already been solved by the existence of coding support forums like StackOverflow. Sure, it can be neat to ask it for example code or a bedtime story, but once the novelty wears off all you’re left with is an expensive plagirism machine that won’t even notice when it confidently lies to you.

I fail to see how adding an LLM to an IVR could improve that situation. Keywords like “fill perscription”, “schedule technician”, and “do you have [blank] in stock” are already present and don’t need any kind of text generation to shunt a caller into the appropriate queue or run a query on a warehouse database.

Where, exactly, do you think an LLM could contribute other than, like, a computer generated bedtime story hotline or something?