Seems like a situation where more energy needs to be put into preventing screwups than would have been spent just doing the job in the first place. If I hired a human assistant who made such a blatant mistake, and they then turned around and did the thing I just now explicitly told them not to, I would be thinking that they are clearly not cut out for that line of work, and continuing to employ them as an assistant would be foolish. But an “AI” agent does this, and it’s just “Oh, let’s keep trying. It just needs a better model. It just needs better prompts. You just need to watch out for its mistakes.” No thanks.
I mean, you sound like you’re happy using it, and I don’t want to tell you you’re wrong. From a technology design viewpoint, it is a fascinating use case. I just think that for a majority computer users this will only make computers even more frustrating and confusing than they already were. I actually understand how they work, and using this as anything but a stand-alone toy would frustrate the hell out of me.

My high school only had one pay phone. It had a bad connection in the hand set, so sound cut in and out constantly. People rarely ever bothered making calls on it. The coin return also had some sort of obstruction inside it. If you inserted a quarter and then hit the coin return lever, you’d hear it fall, but it didn’t actually come out. When enough quarters built up though, they would all flood out into return tray at once. Naturally, it got used as a slot machine. Drop in a quarter, pull the tiny lever, and see if you hit the jackpot.

It’s a reference to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, the joke being a misunderstanding of this use of the word Trans to be short for transexual, when in this context it’s actually meant to modify Siberian, as the band’s name is a reference to the Trans-Siberian railway.

In win11 some of the control panel links now only open the equivalent page in the settings app, despite the fact that they don’t have feature parity yet. The work around is to type the panel name in the file path bar manually if you want to adjust one of the missing settings. I mention this not because I think people here will want to know it, but because it gives y’all another reason to be glad to have moved off of Windows.

If anyone needs evidence of the above, read his Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress, a letter he wrote to a non-specific younger man advising him on all the ways that an older mistress was superior to a young one. It’s written in a humorous style, but also feels like he means every word.

Exactly. Even aside from Bitlocker’s occasional resemblance to that classic virus, they really have made many people want to cry for many reasons.

I’ve seen people replying to these stories saying it’s impossible for bitlocker to turn itself on when it hasn’t backed up the key to an M$ account, but it can somehow happen. I’ve seen it happen myself.

I was updating a small business’s computers from an old Win 10 legacy boot setup to the (relatively) new Win 11 computers we were selling them. Like many small businesses, they relied on software that was either expensive, difficult or impossible to reinstall, so I was cloning their old setup over and then upgrading from setup.exe. I’ve been doing this on a regular basis since shortly after 11 came out so this is just routine for me.

Boot to R-drive. Old disk was in good condition, so cloned directly to new NVMe disk. Mbr2gpt, boot it on the new hardware still in the USB enclosure so it can automatically load the specialty driver for the NVMe controller. Install NVMe, boot and run the update to 11. After that, a round of updates and a reboot and I should be done.

Nope, on the reboot it asks for the fucking bitlocker key! This setup has never seen an M$ account before. It was setup with a single local administrator account by one of my predecessors. OneDrive was disabled on install, they only browsed in Chrome, and their copy of Office was 2007. I even double checked later (after recloning) with some Nirsoft tools and there was no sign of M$ credentials on that install.

I recloned and redid all my work, this time checking for bitlocker and disabling it immediately on getting into 11 the first time. Yes, whatever caused it to happen, happened again and it was happily encrypting the drive again.

My first guess at the cause is it finding a key in the TPM from a previous owner, but we had done a BIOS update which should have wiped that. Further, why did it lose the key on the first reboot? Well, I guess sometimes no one really knows why their software does what it does, even the folks at Microsoft writing and maintaining it. I’ve only seen this happen a few times since then out of the however many hundreds I’ve done, so it’s a rare bug. Still, I hate that I’ve had to make checking for it part of my procedure.

Grumble grumble Microsoft bullshit…

That was a quote from Fight Club. But yes, Gen X’s contribution to 80s culture should not be forgotten.

If all 6 got the same answer multiple times, then that means that your query very strongly correlated with that reply in the training data used by all of them. Does that mean it’s therefore correct? Well, no. It could mean that there were a bunch of incorrect examples of your query they used to come up with that answer. It could mean that the examples it’s working from seem to follow a pattern that your problem fits into, but the correct answer doesn’t actually fit that seemingly obvious pattern. And yes, there’s a decent chance it could actually be correct. The problem is that the only way to eliminate those other still also likely possibilities is to actually do the problem, at which point asking the LLM accomplished nothing.

Even if the other rooms in the house took up no space at all, that would still only leave around 2.4 square feet per bedroom. Maybe it’s like one of those Japanese capsule hotels.

It’s too bad they only included pics of the 3 main level bedrooms and not the other 800.

With that many bedrooms, they should be asking a lot more though.

Well, yes, someone wires the plugs at the appliance cord factory, but unless you work in appliance cord manufacturing it’s typically not the appliance user. And yes, there are exceptions, such as installing some heavy appliances or replacing damaged plugs, but that shouldn’t be typical for “all” of someone’s appliances.

They were specifically invented to clean ears, but we now know it’s not safe to use them to clean ears. So we added a warning on the package about the danger of using them to clean ears, and continued to sell them to people, most of whom who are definitely still going to use them to clean their ears. Why? Because, aside from the inherent danger of permanent hearing damage, they really are an effective tool for the job.

This is why all capital 'i’s should have bars on the top and bottom. It is my strong opinion that disambiguating serephs should not be considered optional, even in sansereph fonts.

Yeah, I’ve just stopped going to Taco Bell entirely because of this crap. Left an angry Google review about it too, for all the good it might do.

I’m American, and in my experience anyone with actual training on canoeing technique would stay on one side like you’re supposed to, but plenty of people also go canoeing who don’t know any better and switch sides to attempt to steer. I grew up canoeing and immediately was annoyed by the forward turn section of the diagram.

There is no lie. It’s just tough to admit that it’s fairly accurate.

Yes, I just glossed over that detail by saying “similar to”, but that is a more accurate explanation.

Unfortunately the most probable response to a question is an authoritative answer, so that’s what usually comes out of them. They don’t actually know what they do or don’t know. If they happen to describe themselves accurately, it’s only because a similar description was in the training data, or they where specifically instructed to answer that way.

Dumpster concerns aside, I think these count as feral yeast.