Čauky Mňauky

I know entire departments that share the same story.

“Quick, get a prompt engineer on it to fix it.”

- Said nobody ever.

At first, I thought there’s a double meaning there:

Tonight’s English! (as a second language class has been cancelled.)
vs.
Tonight’s “English as a second language” class has been cancelled.

After years of writing many dozens of job applications, and many grueling interviews, some of them in other countries, at long last I’ve scored my dream job, in my dream city.
Several months into this, my partner at the time fell seriously ill, and I had to go job-hunting and eventually uproot again, just to take care of her. All dreams of moving in together, into one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and live there until death do us part were gone.
Not to mention that I went from having the greatest boss you could ever imagine to the worst I’ve ever had, by far.
And it was all for nothing, as a year later, after she had recovered, the relationship fell apart anyway.

Maybe they shouldn’t have put Lord Sugar in charge.

I suppose there was a big fire. Sulfuric acid would have eaten the steel reinforcement, leaving the asphalt alone, more or less.

Fascism.

The cat knows what you are looking at.

Don’t know about the “weight gain,” but as someone who’s been trying for a baby: Yes, the rest of the left panel is spot-on.

So it’s enshittification, but they’ve doused the whole shebang with rocket fuel and set it ablaze.

It’s mainly about gender pay equality, but the EU has been working on that for some decades now. They’re now basically shifting into next gear.
Apart from that, there’s going to be an immediately visible difference for all employees as the average pay of their colleagues as well as the expected development of their own pay will have to be made transparent to them. Also, it will be forbidden to ask for your current/ previous pay during job interviews.

Cool helmets.
What’s all that shit for, though?

Oh. Thanks. I never knew any of this. Also, TIL that the last name of one of my favorite authors, Paulo Coelho, means “rabbit.”

Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?

I used to think “smaller subs can’t be infested with bots, right?” Then, over time, I noticed a slight, but ever-increasing trickle of mistakes a human would never make, often in seemingly well-thought out and empathetic replies. At closer inspection, they turn out to be just very nicely phrased, mundane truisms, or their facade totally falls apart, revealing weird, bland, pointless nonsense.
LLMs seem to be doing very well for English and, I keep reading, Chinese, because there is so much material to train them on. Their quality rapidly decreases with the number of speakers a given language has, though. I’ve learned to quickly spot LLM output (or so I tell myself) in my native language, and it’s always so disappointing.

Years and years before the pandemic, I frequented a popular sort of self-help forum. There was always this one “guy” that had a perfect response for every and any question you threw at him, usually within 30 minutes or so. Always at least one full paragraph. 24/7/365. At one point, I remember seeing that he had given more than a million responses. In hindsight, that’s clearly not human behavior, but at that time, I had no idea what was going on.

For real, though. Or they get houses, kids… Both of these things still happen a lot, regardless of what social media is telling you. Then they just kind of submerge, until the kids start leaving the house. And then things will be similar to how they were before, but never really the same again.

How about 4294967295?