Couldn’t have happened to a floggier flog.

I worked at a bunch of these places, usually the only person on site. It was near impossible for me to keep toilets clean while also keeping on top of everything else. It got pretty horrific in there at times.

Two huge mistakes, plus an uncountable number of variously sized mistakes…

My current location in rural Tasmania has some advantages. There would likely be a delay in the zombies getting here, so that gives us prep time. Low population density means fewer zombies to deal with when they do. Plenty of natural resources, food, and water.

My main issue is a lack of defensible buildings, but there are lots of wood mills so maybe something could be constructed.

The wildcard is Tassie devils, being a powerful scavenger species. Would they go for the walking corpses? If so, would they end up turning themselves, because I don’t fancy dealing with zombie nocturnal marsupials with a bite that crushes bone.

We never figured out good software productivity metrics, and now we’re supposed to come up with AI effectiveness metrics? Good luck with that.

ASMR texting?

Didn’t his kid also have a lot to do with the transformation?

When I started doing this work it was scary how fast they progressed. I thought I’d be redundant in a few months. Then they hit a wall very hard. The models might even be getting worse now. That could be my perception because a big part of the job is steering them toward failure and correcting the mistakes, so now I’m in the habit of exploiting their weaknesses.

They aren’t going away, but if we can figure out the niches where they’re actually useful, maybe the big AI companies will stop pretending LLMs are a digital panacea.

That’s exactly what my main income is these days. I signed up with DataAnnotation a couple of years ago, chipped away and started getting more access to a bigger pool of higher paying projects. I get online whenever it suits me, do work, claim time, get paid. No meetings or time wasting.

It’s not perfect, feedback is minimal, technical issues exist, but the flexibility is such a huge advantage that it’s hard to give up. It does mean you’re contributing to the whole AI… situation. My moral justification is that we’re actually making the models better at sticking with what they’re good at, and getting more efficient with it.

Specific professional skills like legal seem to be in high demand too. I’m a software engineering specialist, but they keep giving me finance projects just because I have that domain on my resume. They also gave me some referral codes specifically requesting legal, medical, and STEM pros. I don’t know if using my codes would give you an advantage in the application, but I guess it couldn’t hurt. DM me if you want one.

This is the term I’ve been looking for. Too much wealth is a symptom of serious underlying problems.

There was no seating on the car ferries before, right? It’s years since my family was living on the islands, but I recall having to stay in the vehicle if I wanted any kind of comfort.

Compared to newborn marsupials we’re cutie-patooties.

Don’t give them ideas. I can see marketing people getting very excited at the concept of apps with distinct personalities. Suddenly the calculator on your phone is replaced with “Ask Eugene”.

I stopped using Windows on my own machines many years ago. It was probably about the time when the games I was playing ran well enough, so dual booting was just taking up space I could use.

Are we sure they’re destroyed?

That is not dead which can eternal lie,

And with strange aeons even death may die.

I never thought of it this way, because in my mind the arrow points to the cut. Now I’m probably going to start messing it up because deep down I know you’re right.

I never heard of xenoparity before, this is fascinating.

Supposedly it only evolved about 5 million years ago, and some colonies still rely on external populations? Nature is constantly finding new ways to undermine our attempts to think we know how shit works.

Marsha Mathers

I live next to a very popular MTB town. Everywhere I look it’s adults going out on bike adventures. It’s driving half the economy around here.

I was going to say Parabola, but you can get the same effect with DMT.