CandleTiger

Every single day for the past 50 years, my father has gotten up in the morning to go get the Washington Post and read it.

And while other people’s parents and siblings have slowly or quickly gone nutso watching Fox News, my father has not, and I could see he’s reading a real news source with real news in it reporting facts about things that happened. Biased, sure, selective, sure, but for all this time it’s been a paper that cares about reporting true things and describing the actual real world.

All I can say now is… fuuuuuuuuuuuck.

My father is not gonna stop reading that paper.

The other guy was more affirming but I’m gonna say yes you’re crazy. Anybody who likes what I hate so much has to be crazy, right?

If you get killed by a particular enemy in a level, the next time you retry the level that enemy will be leveled up some.

It turns “oh this part is hard for me” into “JFCWTF?!” which is good for people who like to be frustrated and hate themselves, and also can make it feel like there’s more story development instead of replaying exactly the same level again and again

Refrigerated fresh vegetables are much better than canned. Somewhere in between the '50s and today refrigerated got common and cheap and there was no excuse anymore for buying that soggy canned shit. I would've said the '90s were well after that point though. Anybody using canned green beans as a side in the '90s was just coasting on momentum and bad choices I think.

(There's reasons to use canned -- they make a good soup ingredient if you're going to boil it to death anyhow, and they store better in your disaster prep bunker. But as a simple side for dinner, not a good choice.)

which tables connect to which other tables

You get no guarantees whatsoever that the database schema actually contains this information.

Some databases are set up with validation rules that an external tool can understand, that column FOO.BAR_ID represents a foreign key for column BAR.ID

But some databases (for example mine) have no such rules and depend on the developers to know this through documentation or occult consultation with the spirits of departed coworkers.

I really enjoyed the first season.

The books were great but they seriously suffered from lack of editing. Example: nobody needed to see that much of Mat whining and being an ass on the barge ride up the river and I’m glad the show left it out. I’m cautiously optimistic that the show will pull off judicious improvements to the storytelling.

The stuff in little cans is tomato paste, not tomato sauce. Maybe if you search that name you’ll get better results

You can try, but you can’t make it correct. My ideal is to write code once that is bug-free. That’s very difficult, but not fundamentally impossible. Especially in small well-scrutinized areas that are critical for security it is possible with enough care and effort to write code with no security bugs. With LLM AI tools that’s not even theoretically possible, let alone practical. You will just need to be forever updating your prompt to mitigate the free latest most fashionable prompt injections.

The problem with LLM AIs Ous that you can’t sanitize the inputs safely. There is no difference between the program (initial prompt from the developer) and the data (your form input)

The dog is cool, but tell us more about the… really big pot? .. in the foreground!

Not so easy to Ignore what you know.

Knowledge is power, but ignorance is bliss.

I follow the news until I can’t take it any more, and take a break until I can again.

No it’s not, it’s just hosted on Oracle-owned servers