Where Chuck once stood, only I will remain.

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Renaissance man. Dad. Pirate. I dreamt I was a Big10 CISO once.
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Where Chuck once stood, only I will remain.May 22
"FBI warns of Kali365"- lol thanks pal. Imagine a politician in your town stopping by as firefighters drive away from the smoldering ruins of your garage, and warning you that they saw arsonists lighting fires in your neghborhood every day for the last 2 weeks.
Where Chuck once stood, only I will remain.May 22

The AI marketing droids are jedi mind tricking your boss into thinking AI codes better than you do. It doesn't. It approximates a pattern it thinks is best. The pattern is a weighted approximation of everything it has gobbled up. And if that pattern is anything close to what I've seen in my career, it's around 28% decent code, 2% golden awesome, and 70% shit.

Oh and half the shit source code in the pattern is only shitty because it allows execution without validating its context correctly (or at all lol). And AI might try to do it's pattern matching parlor trick to the best of its ability, but it is constrained to a context relative to how well the user understands and has inputted it, and also from the implied context of the mass of stuff it has consumed - it still can't evaluate it meaningfully or "understand" it (Ai being not actually intelligent), so...

Admitting defeat to the point I skimmed over, the jedi mind trick has worked so far. Your boss will probably (or has already) still gut some other critical budget to buy this crap and demand the parlor trick. Be safe everyone.

#AI #aisucks #marketing #programming #jedimindtrick

Where Chuck once stood, only I will remain.May 5

I sense a tension of galactic porportions.

On one side, there are the purveyors of "flushable wipes". They encourage us to consume them with wild abandon, and then flush. They assure us that although sure, things got to a rough start, their wipes are so totally flushable now, honest!

On the other side, there is your plumber, handing you a $638.72 bill, saying "don't ever flush anything down there other than water, poop, and TP. Especially not those damnable wipe things".

Thunderdome. Those two. Popcorn. That's what I'm sayin

Where Chuck once stood, only I will remain.May 4

Just love when I use the software control to turn off my mic, and it still uses the mic to listen to me so it can remind me to turn on my mic.

Motherfuckers. This is why we have to hack hardware controls back onto everything

Where Chuck once stood, only I will remain.May 1
My dumplings AKA "fluffy clouds" oh yes. Happy Friday.
Where Chuck once stood, only I will remain.Apr 21
Sometimes you just have to make a loaf. Today, for instance. #baking #sourdoughmafia
Where Chuck once stood, only I will remain.Apr 19
Ok maybe I'm being unfair to bought puzzles lol. They are good too.
Where Chuck once stood, only I will remain.Apr 19
Why spend money on puzzles? Repair broken stuff for free 
Where Chuck once stood, only I will remain.Mar 29
My new favorite pastime is using uBlock Origin's element zapper on website click-through agreements. Redline that bullshit FTW
Where Chuck once stood, only I will remain.Mar 24

I think it's good to periodically get a brand new half-configured/somewhat misconfigured workstation from the kids in workstation support. Fixing it up and in doing so, then discovering and breaking new things I never wanted and didn't ask for keeps me on my toes.

Now if they just would stop telling me they can't connect my Model M because it isn't USB, that'd be great.