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Cake day: April 5th, 2024

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  • Stop me if this doesn’t make any sense at all but I’m not a proponent of AI I don’t really support it because of it’s associations and the goals of the people in charge of it. That said I will occasionally play with an AI just to see what it’s capable of and how it’s development is coming along because unfortunately I can’t just make the technology go away.

    I’ve arrived at the conclusion that it’s pretty terrible for most things. I asked it how I could make my copy of Minecraft always open to a certain Port when I hit the open to LAN button.

    It literally made up a jvm argument that wasn’t real and then later admitted that it just guessed.

    My point is I’ll mess with it a little but it’s kind of a know your enemy thing.

    One thing I do like about it is that it’s better at analyzing than generating which is a common theme. If I feed it a big long crash log it can usually tell me what happened reasonably well or enough that I don’t have to spend as much time f****** around digging through the logs, also if I’m getting obscure Windows errors it can generally comb through shitloads of Random microsoft support form b******* and point me in the right direction. I think the technology has uses it’s just that they’re different from what everyone is trying to use it for and that’s a real damn shame isn’t it



  • I wouldn’t be caught dead ordering food from a service like uber eats. The amount of distress that you would have to inflict upon me for me to even consider Uber Eats would be insane.

    Purchasing a meal from ubereats means suffering an obscene markup that means it will always make more sense for me to go myself.

    Here’s a hypothetical scenario to illustrate:

    In-store price for a meal: $20

    On Uber Eats:

    Restaurant might mark it up 15-30% → $23-$26 just for the food, that’s not so bad, buuuut…

    Plus delivery fee (say $4) + service fee (say $3) + tip (say $3) → total $33-$36

    That means you’re paying ~60-80% more than going to the restaurant or picking up.

    In some cases (especially for smaller meals or chain fast-food), the total jump can exceed 100% more just because you don’t want to drive ten minutes down the road.

    Oh and that’s ignoring the fact that they might do something insane like eat your food or throw it into the bushes or drive around in a circle serving other people and wait for you until the end so by the time you get it your food is stone cold.

    Basically the only excuse that I will accept for Uber Eats is if you suffer from some kind of physical disability that actually prevents you from leaving your home.