It’s cold and terrible weather here, I am now experiencing asthma from the exhaust emissions of vehicles on my commute, I can’t use deodorants, I can’t be around colleagues who use parfumes or stronger deodorants and I can’t use fabric softeners when washing my clothes.

Theoretically I only have seasonal allergies…

Also I am allergic to dogs, but I am not giving up my doggo!

That’s a felony though isn’t it? While a fake plastic coin likely no one will care.

Gold is nothing but an uncertainty indicator proxy, if gold price goes up, people are unsure in the market and future returns and thus buy gold, if the price is low the market and economy feels stable and people don’t buy gold

XD

Lmao

Ai summary:

The heart surgeon in

Scrubs who is based on a real-life friend and medical advisor to showrunner Bill Lawrence is Dr. Jon Turk, who inspired the character of Christopher Turk.

Here are the key details regarding this connection:

• Real-Life Basis: The character of Dr. Christopher Turk (played by Donald Faison) is based on Dr. Jon Turk, a real-life physician who served as a medical consultant for the show.
• The Name: The character’s name “Turk” is derived directly from Jon Turk.
• Character Role: In the show, Turk is the best friend of protagonist J.D. and becomes the Chief of Surgery at Sacred Heart Hospital.
• Context: Bill Lawrence often utilized real doctors to advise on the show, which helped maintain medical accuracy alongside the comedy.

Note: The main character J.D.'s name is also based on a real person, Dr. Jonathan Doris, who was a college friend of Bill Lawrence and served as a medical adviser to the show.

Isn’t the quote: No, I am your father!

???

Oh

Ai slop from google

A genetically modified Cavendish banana (specifically the QCAV-4 line) has been developed with high resistance to the devastating

Panama disease Tropical Race 4 (TR4) fungus. The resistance is achieved by inserting a specific gene, RGA2, derived from the wild banana Musa acuminata ssp. malaccensis, which helps the plant defend against the soil-borne wilt fungus.

Key details about the resistant gene and modification:

• The Gene (RGA2): While the Cavendish already has the RGA2 gene, it is largely inactive or expressed at very low levels in conventional Cavendish bananas. The modified version (QCAV-4) uses a highly active version of this gene from a wild, resistant banana.
• Effectiveness: Field trials showed that QCAV-4 was highly resistant to TR4, with only 2% of plants infected, compared to 66% in non-GM control plants.
• Development: The modification was developed by researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
• Approval: In February 2024, the Australian government approved this genetically modified banana for commercial release.
• Future Development: Researchers are also using CRISPR gene-editing technology in partnership with Fresh Del Monte to potentially activate the banana’s own existing RGA2 gene, rather than introducing one from a wild source.

There is already a cavendish variety that resists the fungus or what is it attacking it, but it was created using gene manipulation so it’s not allowed in the EU

Oh yeah for sure, I have seen tests that are pretty useless, for me the way I do it is I write the first one or two tests then instruct copilot to follow the patterns and then it does well, ofc I have to double check it, but reading is easier than having to write it.

Putting Descartes before the whores was an all timer reddit comment

Based on my lived experience I don’t think it’s as much as the brand as it is the horsepower available to you, I have owned a Kia Stinger briefly, that’s a fucking Kia, even though Albert Biermann former head of BMW’s M division helped create it, but it had a V6 engine and 370hp stock, if you put your foot down it roared and kept pulling even above 160km/h.

The thing was I bought it as a weekend fun car, but shortly after I had to change work and needed to commute to work and let me tell you, it’s hard to drive a car like that calmly. There was even a psychological effect that “I can’t let this Ford Craprerra overtake me”

And yeah, with that amount of power at your feet, everyone else is in the way and blocking you.

Plus those fast cars are an entirely different feel on the road, my regular A to B car, I can’t go much above 160, because you start to feel it, my parents Euro Econobox Skoda fabia, it feels dangerous when going 120 on the highway, in the Stinger I went 200 kph on the highway and felt nothing, the only thing made me feel dangerous was how fast I was gaining on other cars and that they might unexpectedly pull in front of me

Granted lots of mediocre engineers also use the “freeze the results” method for meaningless test coverage,

I’d be interested what you mean by this? Isn’t all unit tests just freezing the result? A method is an algorithm for certain inputs you expect certain outputs, you unit tests these inputs and matching outputs, and add coverage for edge cases because it’s cheap to do with unit tests and these “freeze the results” or rather lock them in so you know that piece of code always works as expected or it’s “frozen/locked in”

You are presupposing that your opinion about LLMs is absolutely correct and then of course you arrive at your predetermined conclusion.

What about the free LLmodels available out of china and other places that democratizes the LLMs?

Therefore, to strive for a balanced approach towards AI puts you on the wrong side of the battle for humanity, and therefore human history.

Thanks for not being dramatic, lol.

LLMs will generate the tests based on how the code works and not how it is supposed to work.

You can tell it to generate based on how it’s supposed to work you know

I will try to have a balanced take here:

The positives:

• there are some uses for this “AI”
• like an IDE it can help speed up the process of development especially for menial tasks that are important such as unit test coverage.
• it can be useful to reword things to match the corpo slang that will make you puke if you need to use it.
• it is useful as a sort of better google, like for things that are documented but reading the documentation makes your head hurt so you can ask it to dumb it down to get the core concept and go from there

The negatives

• the positives don’t justify the environmental externalities of all these AI companies
• the positives don’t justify the pc hardware/silicone price hikes
• shoehorning this into everything is capital R retarded.
• AI is a fucking bubble keeping the Us economy inflated instead of letting it crash like it should have a while ago
• other than a paid product like copilot there is simply very little commercially viable use-case for all this public cloud infrastructure other than targeting with you more ads, that you can’t block because it’s in the text output of it.

Overall I wish the AI bubble burst already

Don’t forget that Top Gear scene

https://youtube.com/shorts/PP5C-oOwL1w

All fake Makita tools lol

Likely made in the same factory or right next door, lol

It’s a double edged sword in that for some people this is meaningless bullshit, in that they are struggling to pay for groceries, there is nowhere to lower their standards to.

On the other hand I have watched quite a bit of financial audit videos by caleb hammer, and have seen plenty of statistics that shows that simply put lots of people especially Americans are caught up in consumerism and live beyond their means for either status, or because that’s where they get their gratification from.

The solution is to accept that no matter what you buy you will be only happy for a fleeting moment, better to embrace minimalism and fuck consumerism, it’s also better for the planet, not just your wallet.