The tail placement is optimal.

Movies funded by Germany.

It’s always the same type of movie. Either we get some boomer vs. youth plot, a family (+child) with relationship problems or something about the second world war. It’s the most boring slop for our aging population you can imagine.

Plot Twist: With more AI.

Ich hab’ hunderte von Ameisen unter meinen Terrassenplatten. 🫠 Weiß nicht ob das besser oder schlechter ist…hab’ letztes Jahr Fallen gelegt, dann waren sie weg - dieses Jahr sind sie wieder da.

Ich glaube…ich gebe einfach auf.

From a lot of posts here I get that working as a dev in the US is now a total shitshow. But to give you my European perspective (I work in Germany): AI adoption hasn’t been as rapid here. People and companies are more skeptical about it, compared to the US.

I work as a web developer for an employer that is cautious about AI. I can use it, but I am not forced to. Tried it excessively for a few months (agents writing my code, playing a glorified manager and all of that jazz), but I noticed my own skills atrophying and me losing the general grasp of what my code actually does. And even though everyone and their dog claim that the models get better with each new release, I still run into hallucinations way too often. If you are very experienced in a field and you’ve been doing it for over a decade, you notice all of the small inconsistencies and bullshit answers - much quicker than a junior dev who didn’t have that experience yet.

So nowadays I only use Gemini for tool and library research or really simple boilerplate code. For everything else my own brain is the better solution. I am not actively against AI as a technology, but extremely opposed to paying a subscription to some techbro billionaire’s company to keep doing my job. Fuck Altman, Elon, Jensen and the Zuck.

If Ed Zitron is correct in all of his calculations, the frontier models will get so expensive they’ll become unprofitable for a lot of companies, so it would be a stupid decision to rely on them. I am looking forward to one day host good models on my own machine - though that day is not today, when capable GPU’s still cost thousands of dollars.

Thinkpad L390 Yoga. They crammed a 4.6 GHz CPU into a cooling system that was not designed for it, so the machine ran hot and throttled all of the time. The keyboard keys rubbed off after a few months of use. The Thinkpad logo was just a sticker that one day decided to stick to my hand because Lenovo used really cheap glue. It had a MicroEthernet port with a passive adapter that did nothing but break it out to a regular ethernet jack. The adapter cost 30€ and its cable turned into oil after a year.

I was able to undervolt the CPU and make it barely passable, then Microsoft released a Windows update that prevented undervolting. Gave it to a friend afterwards and got myself a GPD Win Max 2.

There isn’t much info yet, besides the trailer. A24 is pretty vague in their video description (and in the newsletter).

I’ve added the synopsis from Wikipedia:

In 1976, a 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain wants to be a writer but takes a summer job at a Cape Cod restaurant, learning under the tutelage of a Brazilian-born restaurateur.

Vielleicht bin ich ein Pleb, aber ich verstehe den Hype um dieses Teil einfach nicht. 😅 Was macht den Dampf-Kontrollierer so besonders?

Ghost Rider. First one was goofy action, but still kinda cool. Second one was boring, confusing and lame. But at least it had an exploding bucket-wheel excavator in it, which was the only good scene.

Ich sehe auch 203.

Vodafone

Bei mir kam der Techniker und hat alles im Verteilerraum angeklemmt. Dann kam am nächsten Tag noch einer, der alles wieder abgeklemmt hat.

Hotline und Shop so: “Joa, wir wissen auch nicht warum das überhaupt passiert ist.” Was für ein Laden. :D

Yep, it feels really fishy. He dropped a whole album and all of these songs sound the same.

Can’t say I didn’t enjoy this one in the moment, but knowing it was probably generated in minutes sucks the joy out of it longterm.

Regeln sind dazu da, um gebrochen zu werden! 😄

Ich dachte eigentlich, er ist mit dem Kopf zuerst reingekrochen und zwar so weit, dass er schon wieder Licht sehen kann.

Were you homeschooled? That’s the only way I can imagine a kid could escape homework

Disclaimer: I’m from the EU, I don’t know if it’s more difficult in the US. But I escaped homework by simply not doing it. I got yelled at, there were a lot of talks between my parents and the school, teachers made fun of me in front of the whole class…but that just made me more angry and more unwilling to do them. :)

Ultimately, there was nothing they could do, except giving me bad grades, but I didn’t much care about those. I’ve been a little shithead.

What also helped was my parents not giving much of a fuck either, they trusted me to do what’s best for me.

I’ve been running some Linux servers for fun, at my last job we also had quite a few. The only admin quit, no documentation. Guess who got a big salary increase because he was the only one with the knowledge required to keep this shitshow running? Yep, that’s me.

Thanks to past me for installing every distro under the sun and sinking years into the commandline, shell scripting, web and mail servers just for the thrill. Linux is awesome.

Hell yeah, brother. I’m in the same boat. Sunk myself into my computer instead of doing boring tasks after school and now it’s my job.

Handlungszwirbler: Timmy will einfach nur seine gottverdammte Ruhe haben.

It was great!