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Sysadmin In The LLM Age

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@Lady i fear i may be forging memories out of thin air now that you ask, but i could swear i have a historical frustration with the archetype. might either be saying something about me, or it might be saying something about like, the kinds of stock characters i remember from shit i watched as a kid?

@Breakfast a friend used to endorse the phrase “werewolf transgenderism wednesday” from a friend of fær’s, which i feel like counts as at least a subset of this category. you can of course decide whether it’s relevant to you today or not

chihayafuru is an abnormal viewing experience fur me in that i don’t find the bimbo character annoying, but rather adore her

which is good that it pulled this off, as she’s the main character

@wallhackio @monorail a variation with Falco as the captain. “god, what a week.” “captain, it’s tuesday”

i almost hope she doesn’t have an editor (in the sense of writing) because that would be an embarrassing miss fur them. but also i think she might need an editor

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i agree with her ideological bias, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a pretty clear example imo of ideological bias distorting her read of the article in question

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honestly the latest angela collier video stands out to me as kind of weird and uncomfurtable, because the entire purremise of the video, the point she is trying to make, is that a guy “getting warned about pressing the delete button and then being shocked it deleted things” stands as an effective warning about what AI does to your brain

but like

that’s literally just not a fair reading of what the article said happened. he toggled a data collection opt out button and without warning lost all his data. that’s a VERY diffurent thing from what she said he said was happening. it’s imo a pretty blatant example of Collier’s (correct) bias in action: she misread the article in such a misleading way that it made her find the character to be much more ridiculous looking than you can actually say. the blatant ignoring of a warning simply did not happen. that ruins the entire point of the video

it’s a bad video?

@vaporeon_ ime “programmer” as a job title is extremely rare; the only time i think i’ve ever seen a job listing with that title was fur a job that seemed like all you do is grunt work to implement somebody else’s ideas

i’m really not exactly sure what the diffurence is between a software “developer” and “engineer” are other than that the latter title seems to have a higher upside on pay, and maybe more involvement in design decisions. (granted, my furmal title is Web Developer II but i have a lot of agency over design decisions on account of us being constantly understaffed and requesting people to just completely take over purrojects they work on with too little oversight)

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