In the end, crypto is either used as a currency for criminals, or as an investment, where profit is financed by the bigger idiots and hype.

When some other criminals step in that are smaller idiots, well, thats where the money flows to.

Somehow I can’t find the Gulf of Mexico anymore.

Seriously, I’ve kost the last bit of trust and respect for when Google changed that name,

What used to be their motto? “Don’t be evil” or something?
Google makes Microsoft look like a trustworthy company with good intentions.

That’s how we get high app ratings:

Carefully select who you include in the statistics.

Wait for a moment where the user is likely to be happy. So, don’t ask in the few 2 minutes, it’s unlikely for them to be super enthusiastic already.
Give them a free reward, or wait until they’ve successfully completed an important operation.

Then ask (in the app!) if they like the app,
Yes? Great! Redirect to the AppStore to rate.
No?: Ask for feedback (in the app, not in the AppStore!), and hide it from other users.

Low quality or unsuitable code is undeniably a problem with AI assisted programming. But developers not fully understanding the code that’s being used is nothing extraordinary. How many of us fully know or understand which machine instructions our compiler or JIT generated? Or which specific sorting algorithm is applied when we call x.sort()? Or which specific checks the OS does when we create a new file? Or how an external API works internally? We program against black boxes all the time. It’s not a problem. To the contrary: relying on others to solve our sub-problems is what allows us to solve more complex problems.

I want one hundred thousand dollars! Muhahaha. No, wait.. I want 3453453457532342352463462452453467753345346 quadrillion dollars. Muhahaha.

I’m a tech nerd. I’m curious ans like gadgets and 3D. I don’t hate apple. And I can easily afford spending 4000. Yet, I’m not interested in buying this. I’ve seen the videos, I’ve played with the Oculus, and well meh. It’s kind of anti-social to wear these things. Others in the room don’t see what you’re experiencing. So this is only usable for people that are alone in a room,

Yesterday, ChatGPT refuses even a poem about farts for my kids. As long as generative AI is restricted to an annoying level of political correctness and prudishness, any form of porn will be excluded. I give OpenAI 0% chance of survival on the long term. Their death sentence will be the moment that some other company comes along and does AI porn right.

I initially read that that Japan was going to laser-shoot down junk food.
A bit like my teachers used to at school.

You can fuck with Americans with nuclear threats, ignore international trade agreements, spy openly, form oil cartels, shout “death to America” with a crowd of a millions people. Whatever. They don’t bend.

But this one would mean WW III the same second.

There are limits that people don’t seem to talk about much.

If an LLM is trained on human language. It won’t automatically surpass the capabilities of human intelligence.

Try training a LLM on what kindergarten kids tell each other. No amount of additional computing power will make it start saying sensible things about economy or physics.

The best we can do is provide a wide variety of scientific papers, but ithe LLM won’t start talking and thinking like a somebody with an IQ of 500.
And if it did, we wouldn’t be able to fully understand.

Exactly which problem does this solve for me?

If it was launched together with the rest of the world I would’ve tried and it back then; out of curiosity,

But by now I’ve already seen that it’s a failure elsewhere, so I’m not going to bother investing time in it now.

Itâ(TM)s funny how people confirm their own bias by looking for oddities in weather patterns.

I see front page news articles about âoewarmest two-day streak in first week of august everâ.

Turned out there were many days with higher temperatures, and hotter two day streaks before and afterwards, and it was in a single weather station in the Netherlands, and the second highest streak was only 0.5 degrees colder, somewhere in the 60s.

You can find oddities and records in weather data all the time.

Not saying there are no global trends, but these small anecdotes are meaningless.

This talk about âoejust let me programâ smells like junior behavior to me. If you just want to program and not think about priorities, collaboration and planning, then youâ(TM)re just a code monkey, doing what other people decided decided is necessary. It also means your job can much easier be outsourced or automated by AI, so be careful when this is your mindset.

Scrum is not just a waste of time or a useless toy for managers.

Daily standups are useful to sync with fellow devs about the work, to see whoâ(TM)s stuck and needs help, and if weâ(TM)re making good progress.

Retrospectives are useful to learn about whatâ(TM)s working for us and whatâ(TM)s not.

Refinements force us to think about stories. Do we fully understand the request, do we know how to solve it, and do we have a rough idea about the efforts and complexity.

Sprint planning helps us to think about a logical order to pick stories up, and think about what we can achieve in the coming days two weeks. Devs like to know whatâ(TM)s ahead, and the rest of the business likes to know what we plan to pick up.

You’ve never heard of it, but if you were here, most likely most of your payments were processed via Adyen. Perhaps you’ve paid using your debit card on an Adyen pin terminal, or your payments were processed in the backoffice via Adyen.

Adyen makes life really easy for webshops too, by supporting all sorts of payment methods, security checks and refunds, all via the same interface.

So, it might not be very visible, but its everywhere.

Thanks for the small dataset you’ve provided,

I’ll include it in my calculations whilst picking the ideal packaging material,

This could’ve been automated a long time ago

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