Entertainment Porpoises OnlyINTERCAL: We have keywords like PLEASE and IGNORE because we think it's funny
Anthropic: We have PLEASE and IGNORE *baked into our source-code* because we have no fucking idea how this thing works
MattChippyteaAnthropic: "You have no idea what's coming. And neither do we. We literally have no idea how any of this works. Our source-code looks like something you'd be embarrassed to present as a GCSE assignment"
This shambolic dogshit is coming for your white-collar job in 12-18 months*
At least the machine looms fucking WORKED
*12-18 month rolling window, as ever
When this all comes crashing down, remember how little the Epstein Class valued you and your labour
Patrick@pikesley I remember when they decided that it was better to boil the Earth and everyone living on it instead of lower consumption just even a little bit. Seems rather par for the course right now.
grob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@PatrickoftheG @pikesley I really need to use "par for the course" more often. It is such a good phrase with indifferent disdain baked into it 
The Orange Theme@pikesley And 90% of my colleagues, apparently.
Mrs.Malice ❤️🔥✨@theorangetheme @pikesley Oof, the colleagues. That part right there has hurt the most in all this, at least for me.
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Emma needs ☕️ and paying work@pikesley AGI and fusion are always 20 years away.
@emma and a cure for my Type-1 Diabetes (although that's sometimes 10 years)
Cap Ybarra@pikesley goal posts have shifted, it now doesn't work but that's ok and things have always not worked and you should keep paying the same amount of money anyways
Andrea (Drea) Tamar Pinski@pikesley There was no GCSE for computer science when I was in secondary school :(. If there was I definitely would have taken it.
4 years after my GCSEs (well I only got a maths one but that is a different story) I was contributing to GCC even.
4 years after my GCSEs (well I only got a maths one but that is a different story) I was contributing to GCC even.
@robinadams @pinskia I have a GCSE in Computing from 1990 (we were the third GCSE cohort I think)
@pikesley @robinadams So maybe the secondary school I went to didn't offer it at that time which was expected from a school is a poor working class neighborhood of Coventry. They had acorn machines though which gave me a good introduction into that :).
Jez Higgins@pinskia @pikesley @robinadams There were CSEs in Computer studies, which involved a decent amount of project work) and O levels in Computer Science (which I think were just exams) prior to to the GCSE.
No idea how widely available they were.
The CSE was pretty easy. I got a grade 1 with things I learned from Your Computer and Popular Computing Weekly magazines. (I'm not exaggerating - I did it as an extra off timetable, so did no lessons)