Fuck "alignment." If I want to make an AI dungeon master, it's almost impossible to do so (at least the way I enjoy tabletop RPGs) because the model can't promote violence or other sorts of evil.

I get it, if you're making a chatbot, you don't want it suggesting wanton murder to fifth graders and grandmothers. But not every valid use of AI falls into the cleanly filtered worldview of Anthropic or OpenAI.

Or maybe I have it backwards. Maybe in the future everyone will flock to porn and ultraviolence because it's the only way to find genuine humanity in an AI-sanitized world.

So reading past all the brain-smegma, he's admitting vaccination would've prevented the outbreak.

I suspect except if we go in our sleep, we all die alone. I watched my grandma drown in her own lungs for hours as her family all stood around telling her she'd done a good job and she could let go.

I don't know if it gave her any comfort in the end, but to me it felt like everyone telling her to hurry up and die. Then everyone went home and she died in the middle of the night. Maybe my uncle was there.

Sorry, my mistake. I know they are running against Mike Rogers and I just assumed he was running as incumbent, but it looks like he's been fucking off for the last decade and failed his comeback against Slotkin last election.

If one of them is less bad, fuck yes.

Only because they are constantly wrong. Generally just in a professional capacity, though. Otherwise, not my circus, not my monkey.

I guarantee you Stevens will be better than the incumbent, even if we wish for better still. Even liberal Democrats increase the sway of progressives compared to Republicans.

Still, I'm voting for Abdul in the primary.

I just add .5oz of jalapeño brine to a dirty martini. It gives it just enough zing. Sometimes I lean towards .75oz. And throw one or two rings in the glass with the olives.

If you come up with a better recipe, let me know.

I can't really provide a better answer — I would've recommended Playwright — but I will say this:

I really don't like sharing classes across UI elements. I know that bridge is likely crossed for you, but it violates separation of concerns. When I worked at a big automaker, instead of setting sizes on elements, we used a standard class like size-3, where everything computed to size value *4 pixels. It was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. The only thing you could do if you wanted to change element size or positioning is change the base value across the entire web UI. Or change the class. Just like you could change the size on the element itself.

Standards like this are why I left "full stack" for back-end only. I can do everything on the client end, but I can't stand how front ends are built.

I'm hoping for an Everything Everywhere All At Once Cinematic Universe, because I like my originality to feel familiar.

I'm just not wired that way. I've achieved my career goals — any further and I get further from what I enjoy about building software. I just want to help everyone achieve their best at this point.

More money is always nice, but I have enough to enjoy life, and what I really enjoy is helping others and the best way I can do that is share my thirty years of experience. But people come with their egos and ambition and I'm not about that.

I'm on my deck with a cigar and jalapeño martini and the love of my life at my side and no one can take any of that from me, so I'm not in competition with anyone.

Thank you for the perspective, though. I chose not to be so cynical because I don't want to live in that world, but when I am confronted with such disappointment, it is a bit of a shock.