Hah, I had a similar experience recently with a library which had changed its API a while back

Claude suggested doing something with the old methods, which no longer compiled. I told it as much, to which it confidently replied that they do and I must be missing an import. I googled the new way on my own and asked Claude to do what I was asking using that new method. Just as confidently, it claimed that I was wrong, this function doesn't exist in the library, but it could help me implement one that does what the library method already was doing. I thought LLMs were supposed to be sycophants, always agreeing with you even when you're full of baloney?

With the flood of AI slop code now over us, this is only going to get worse. LLM coding has been as good as it was going to get, it's only further downhill from here.

I think that's a big non-sequitur you've produced there.

But it's sure good to see for the rest of us.

No, instead you had much more frequent and distributed outages across every site in existence because there wasn't an easy and well-understood paved road to scalable web infrastructure. Thus the recession and almost-extinction of the "Slashdot Effect" of websites being DDoS'd into oblivion by legitimate traffic.

Time zones are a thing, and have been since the railroads were built in the 19th century.

My favorite haiku:

It's not DNS...
There's no way it can be DNS...
It was DNS.

So increase the fine for driverless vehicles until they get the point. If the fine isn't a deterrent for a bad actor, then increase the fine for that bad actor until it is.

If they're profiting from breaking the law, then change the law to make it unprofitable, and you'll see the behavior change instantly.

I'm doing this, right now, at home. I added a cheap eBay Quadro M4000 card and installed Proxmox with that as the primary GPU for the Linux host, and then used IOMMU to share the Radeon RX6900 XT, sound hardware, and USB keyboard / mouse into the VM, which is backed with ZFS storage for snapshotting.

Fuck your shitty updates - when I see there's an update available, I snapshot the system. If the update fucks the system, I revert to the snapshot and ignore that update.

I see maybe a 1-2% performance hit for a whole lot of DR enablement, I always have a Linux desktop available on a third monitor (the Proxmox host), and two displays running at full hardware speed plugged into the Windows VM.

As it turns out, the way to fix Microsoft products is to put them in an impenetrable box that you can roll back when they break stuff.

Of course you could just create your own version of that by running Linux and creating a Windows VM, which allows you to snapshot and revert. Extra credit if you base your VM storage on a sturdy filesystem with built-in snapshotting like ZFS.

Shitty updates that fuck you over are a VM stop + restore away from not being a problem any more.

Which is why you're insane to run Windows on bare metal if you don't have to.

It's sad when dealing with IOMMU + PCI-E passthrough is more reliable than Windows USB support surviving a patch deployment.

This is the reason I spent time to virtualize Windows via Proxmox with PCI passthrough. Minor overhead increase on the CPU that is never pegged in exchange for a dead-simple way to roll back shitty updates with ZFS snapshots.

The best way to fix Microsoft products is to virtualize them in QEMU / KVM.

Most of MS software is slop though, so if much of it comes from India, then there's a certain correlation there.

It is in my corner of the world! A local restaurant put in two tables, just as a temporary attraction. That was about five years ago now, and they're still there, occasionally swapped out for other tables, as they found that they started making more and more money. Since then, I've discovered three more local places who have set up tables.

Stern is still making some pretty nice new ones. Jaws is my favourite.

I thought the 'Romans were all lead poisoned because pipes!' thing was just people being stupid and not thinking things through?

My latest info on that front is that the pipes soon got a coating of minerals and didn't pose a long-term problem?

China is so heavily subsidized and pressured to create sales that many manufacturers fake sales or just 'buy' their own cars and let them rot in fields.

Not to mention some ride sharing services that didn't pan out. There are thousands upon thousands of barely used EVs rotting over there.

That is as much a bubble over there as AI is in the west. I am confused as to why China is consrantly brought up as a positive example.