<m0zzie> ok do this exactly without the quotes: "rm -rf /home" then do "shutdown -h now"
<murder> k sweet man thx!! [n] Quit [murder]-[Read error: Connection reset by peer]
<m0zzie> I'm a bastard.
today i've been learning how automatic transmissions work
i know how manual ones work, physically changing which gears are interacting, with or without synchromesh
but i didn't realise that automatic ones work on a different principle, using planetary gear boxes and applying a clutch to the ring gear to change the output ratio
that, and planetary gearboxes with clutches to change gears go back as far as the model t
not to call ai a big woop of nothing but slack absolutely slaughtering any remaining trust they have in order to provide "emoji suggestions" is incredible
for context, slack is launching "AI Features" trained on global data
and you can tell it's being launched without purpose as the list of benefits includes "emoji autocomplete"
like
no-one in their right mind would go "so we're going to make every sabox customer panic so slack knows if to use the party hat emoji or the party baloons emoju by default"
made "named arguments" work on the rpc toy, which is fun because go does not have named arguments, and you also can't use reflect to get the names of arguments
thinking about how my industry is piloted by nepobabies and failsons, and the leaders who don't spend 80% of their time sabotaging the product are hailed as visionaries
and well, i'm also thinking about how armies were stuffed with inbred nobility, people who believed they were born to rule, and how they kept getting defeated by military geniuses