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Software developer by day, insomniac by night. Send me pictures of baby bats to make my day.

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Cake day: March 20th, 2025

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  • the US isn’t a good example of a democracy

    This is true. I’ve never been a fan of the U.S. and their notion of democracy and freedom has always been gross to me.

    you live in the US.

    Big assumption.

    By that logic, you have to defy all orders instead of question them (because you either obey or defy at all times)

    I never said this. If more cops questioned orders, that’d be a good thing. Unquestioningly obeying is part of the problem.


    Honestly. I’m too tired to reply to you. You’ve clearly got a bunch of ideas about who I am and what I think, and I’ve no idea where you got these ideas from but it sure as heck wasn’t my comment. Have a good night.





  • Well, no. There are no good cops because they work within and prop up a broken and corrupt system. How many cops are you seeing stopping the vanishing of civilians and tourists, for example? If you were to step in and try to stop it yourself, how many cops would be by your side, defending you?

    It works because these heinous ideas are boiled down into simple orders, and people follow orders. There were well-meaning people within the nazi party as well. I’m sure there were even well-meaning people in the concentration camps, leading people to their deaths, but they weren’t good.

    That’s why all cops are bastards.






  • Here in Sweden you have loads of languages on packages, but the only time you mix languages mid sentence is when you’re trying to save space in the instructions/information label. You’ll often see Norwegian, Danish, and sometimes Swedish mashed together because we share a lot of words.

    So you’ll see like

    Ingredienser
    Vatten/vann, socker/sokker, kakao, smör/smør

    What you generally don’t see is product names that are a mashup of two languages. You do sometimes, and generally my knee-jerk reaction is also that it’s a bit obnoxious.

    I think that really only applies when they hamfistedly mash Swedish and English together. Worst I’ve ever seen was “pullad pork.” It’s like they attempted to make “pulled” sound Swedish, but somehow forgot that “pullad” already is a word. Thus making it sound like someone has sexually assaulted a pig.

    Eugh.




  • During a meeting not too long ago someone was like “we’re looking into using AI to generate these reports.”

    So they have a dude who gets requests to generate reports. It’s not the same reports, but rather custom reports from scattered bits of data throughout a huge database. Ergo you can’t really create a program to extract these reports on demand, a person actually has to sit and piece these together.

    Now they want to use LLMs to alleviate him, as this isn’t technically his role.

    They scoffed at me when I asked about how important it is that these reports are accurate, but I mean, it’s a valid concern. Best case you get sometimes-hallucinated reports, worst case you get something that wreaks havoc on the database because it just spits out garbage SQL.

    I’m very glad that my role doesn’t involve that BS.