This is pretty cool!

Unsure where you are but if it’s winter there’s a good chance these girls aren’t going to make it.

If it’s summer, then they’ll probably have a good nest. This is going to be filled with comb, honey, and larva before they’re done with it. (It can happen really fast). Since it doesn’t look like a large spot, I’d expect them to throw off another swarm before the season is out.

The downside is that bees have a tough time without treatment for mites… which means this colony might make it through this year but will likely start having some issues after that.

I’m interested in other people’s personal experiences, even if they’re mundane. Everyone approaches situations slightly differently and learning about that is entertaining to me.

The thing I dislike is when people parrot whatever shit they read on the internet or some academic theory without any first hand experience to back it up.

This is a long way of saying… there are people out there that will enjoy hearing what you have to say.

I’m not sure this level of drop shows much of anything.

You’re right. It’s plausible that this is a big impact for them, but until someone releases actual numbers… I’m heavily suspicious. For whatever reason, these services often get a bump in subscribers when they’re constantly in the news like this.

I’ve seen some behind the scenes numbers for a different streaming service when “people are canceling in droves”. For every article I saw, I never once saw a significant number of cancellations.

So, I would take these articles with a grain of salt

That sounds like a parent issue not so much a state issue. I guess you could argue that maybe both the kids parents are working too much and are too tired to parent… which could be considered a state issue.

Anyone know why we keep building schools instead of hiring teachers? I swear every school near me has gotten replaced but the class size is 30 to 1.

Until I read your comment, I thought this was satire and not the actual tweet. What in the fuck

I think you’re onto something where a lot of this AI mess is going to have to be fixed by actual engineers. If folks blindly copied from stackoverflow without any understanding, they’re gonna have a bad time and that seems equivalent to what we’re seeing here.

I think the AI hate is overblown and I tend to treat it more like a search engine than something that actually does my work for me. With how bad Google has gotten, some of these models have been a blessing.

My hope is that the models remain useful, but the bubble of treating them like a competent engineer bursts.

The folks I know at both OpenAI and Anthropic don’t share your belief.

Also, anecdotally, I’m only seeing more and more push for LLM use at work.

I have friends who sleep on a pile of wires…

Lamar has a Pulitzer!

I asked o4-mini and it said Marcus Aurelius!

You’re not wrong, but often I’m just trying to do something I’ve done a thousand times before and I already know the pitfalls. Also, I’m sure I’ve copied code from stackoverflow before.

I’ve been in the industry awhile and your assessment is dead on.

As long as you’re not blindly committing the code, it’s a huge time saver for a number of mundane tasks.

It’s especially fantastic for writing throwaway tooling. Need data massaged a specific way? Ez pz. Need a script to execute an api call on each entry in a spreadsheet? No problem.

The guy above you is a nutter. Not sure if people haven’t tried leveraging LLMs or what. It has a ton of faults, but it really does speed up the mundane work. Also, clearly the person is either brand new to the field or doesn’t even work in it. Otherwise they would have seen the barely functional shite that actual humans churn out.

Part of me wonders if code organization is going to start optimizing for interpretation by these models rather than humans.

Thanks for the explanation!

Thanks! Your last argument was a pretty clear and good argument for why it feels a bit icky. I think it’s most convincing when comparing against the developers personal site.

It’s less clearly bad (to me) when comparing epic games vs steam or some other storefront. In what is probably a bad move, I mostly use Steam for gaming. It’s convenient and just works. Having a game available for less on a different, but considerably worse, platform would be a hassle.(because the platform has a better kickback for that developer as a temporary way to boost their platform) At least this way, they’ll have to offer it for the same price on Steam in most cases.

I’m a dumb dumb. Can someone explain why this is bad?

I’m sure there’s some reason. I’m just missing it. Wouldn’t this mean that steam will always have the lowest/same price as other storefronts and I’m most likely to pick the storefront that I prefer?

I assume this doesn’t apply to temporary sales?

I mean I guess I could have left it empty while I myself rented from someone? I don’t see how that’d make me a better person though.

I’m not really buying your argument. You’re not making any real argument of how I hurt anyone or even caused a net negative on society. You’re speculating that because I didn’t hand the house to someone “who needed it”, that I somehow did wrong. I didn’t price gouge. I didn’t raise the rent. I repair things in a timely manner. The renter pays less than they would if they bought the house, aren’t responsible for anything major, and can leave at just about anytime. Seems like a net positive in my book? Sure, they paid me… but am I supposed to give it away for free? Selling it probably would have landed me more money. Are you pitching a world where everyone has to lock in to a 30 year loan and be stuck there? Or is this an argument where housing should be free or something? (Sure, whatever… but that’s a different topic)

You aren’t saving people money by taking rental payments, you aren’t a hero for potentially stopping someone from using the property as an airbnb, you are a landlord.

I don’t think I’m a hero. I do think I’m saving them money. They could have foregone a rental and bought a house. They chose not to to save money for a business.

Had to move for my job, but didn’t want to sell our house.

Decided to rent it. Lucked into some awesome renters.

We haven’t raised the rent on them in 7 years. We fix things when they ask. They respect the property.

If they moved or bought a house they’d be paying significantly more monthly. Instead they’re using their extra money to save for their own house and to get their business off the ground.

This feels like a win win? If we had sold, it’d probably be an AirBnB now. How does this make me shit?

You forgot healthcare!