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I see this old work project of mine contains the files "prototype" and "prototype (non idiotic version)".

Distressingly, I can't see a problem with the first one.

Working prototype! I'm really excited about this project: I'm learning some interesting stuff, and it's on track to become something very cool we can show off at #emf #arduino
@pozorvlak I love the idea that soap opera script writers might measure their output in megawatts
Project progress! Lots of fiddly soldering later, the DC side is working. Now for the AC connections...
@pozorvlak ...for the limited meaning of "checking" and "makes sense" that can be applied to how these models work, I guess. I'm very ignorant here.

@pozorvlak It matches my experience that chatgpt's image generation is bad at diagrams. I've played with juggling patterns and hobby circuit design: clearly explained in text, nonsense diagrams.

Uninformed guess: text is produced linearly, every token chosen in context of what's already written, creating coherent ideas. Vs images generated all at once, so lots of plausible-looking initial ideas all presented together with no checking whether they make sense in context?

In day 3 of this now, and people are openly trolling. Overnight someone suggested "if you want to unsubscribe, simply reply-all with STOP" and so far twenty people have. Someone else said "for your convenience, I asked Copilot to summarise this email thread" and pasted the output which helpfully suggests "action: review and correct the mailing list membership".

This is a small beacon of untrammeled joy in what's otherwise quite a wearing few days.

One of my favourite things: I'm in a small but perfectly formed reply-all-pocolypse in work. Just 170 people, but so far ~35 increasingly irate replies telling everyone else to stop replying, ~10 demanding to be unsubscribed, and 1 hero who replied-all with "I'm just here for the drama 🍿".

There's something incredible about the thought process "the previous thirty people all telling each other to stop are the problem, but *my* reply-all telling people to stop is the solution we need". Amazing.

Hobby project side-quest: accidentally built a ghost concealment device.
Apparently, it's bad luck to mention a "MacBook" in a software company. You have to call it "the Scottish laptop".