I didn’t start using AI (the LLM kind) until this year.

I use AltTexty.org sometimes for making alt-text of images that are text dense.

Aside from that, I use a chatbot (copilot at work, Kagi at home) for some information retrieval, mostly on things related to programming, but I don’t use it to “vibe” code. Like I’ll ask it for general programming examples, and to compile reference manuals on the basics of this or that programming language that I’m learning, and to help out with error messages that have me stumped, but I don’t have it generate whole programs for me (I did that once, felt gross, then asked it to teach me how it works in the form of a tutorial; I didn’t use the program until I felt like I understood it).

Edit: Regarding my view of AI, I’m pretty conflicted. I’m trying to use it just as a reference tool to help me learn, and not a replacement for thinking and creativity. I think that’s what I’m doing with it? But maybe I’m deluding myself.

I hate the environmental impacts though from what I’ve read it’s image and video generation which are the energy hogs and I never use it for those. In any case I intend to try local LLM for my narrow use cases once I learn how.

This is why Atari’s consoles are still the most advanced consoles to date.

If only the thread weren’t locked. Someone could warn them.

Whenever one of my relatives says something really ignorant to me (which is often), instead of getting into a pointless argument, I just blow it off by imagining them like a yapping little dog behind a fence.

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There was a little movie about the 18th century baroque composer Vivaldi. From my memory (like 20 years ago) it showed him using a modern violin bow. And the music played was from recordings using modern instruments. My area of expertise is early music so it pissed me off.

This is why cargo pants were so popular in that decade.

You used a pan instead of a pot. No wonder.

Snake oil salesmen drinking their own snake oil.

Oh. I think then the table would benefit from an additional row up top of subheading columns featuring step numbers (1, 2, 3, etc) to make that clearer.

Why is mix included twice?

From my understanding it’s not that they left the jungle, rather the jungle dried up around them over time.

We need more memes in papyrus font.

In America it’s considered rude not to have diarrhea after Taco Bell.

I read these magazines as a kid in the late 90s. I loved them. Every magazine exposed the manipulative psychological tactics that advertisers use on the public. It taught me basic skepticism at a young age.

How did they manage to keep these cats still long enough to get a good picture? I thought old cameras required you to be still for several seconds?

I had that poster on my wall once.

There’s a car shop near me that still has one of these in use.

Clean your car before whatever is growing in it becomes sentient.

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