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ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
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I am so much more exhausted when I program with AI than without it. I reflected a bit, and I think I know why.
First, I think about how to solve a problem. This step is the same with and without AI. Then, with AI I have to write a prompt with a decent bit of precision and somewhat more long-term than if I just jumped into straight implementing it and figuring out the details as I go.
Then you start up the agent, and you immediately have some other work to do and you jump to another prompt for another task, where you also think really hard and try to formulate what you want quite well.
By the time you're done, first agent has some code for you to review, and you can't slack - you need to actually review it and be diligent about it. And when you're done - second task is there for your review. So really there's not time to rest.
When I program manually, I can decompress while typing the code in, I can rely on my muscle memory for typing and navigating the codebase, so there's periods of deep think and some relaxation. With AI, there's only deep think. And as soon as you try to think less - you open the doors for slop.
It's so tiring.
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Intense winds from Ft. Walton Beach, Florida in the eyewall of Isaias. Storm Chaser helped protect me so I could get the video outside the truck.
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Hi — creator of the map here.
The main reason the Mid-Atlantic doesn’t get hurricane landfalls is due to the north-south orientation of the coastline. Hurricanes at that latitude tend to curve back out to sea from cold fronts and the jet stream. However, the Mid-Atlantic still does get impacts. Storms like ISABEL 2003 make landfall in North Carolina, then pass through the region via inland.
Also, I made a more updated version to account for 2025.
@ me next time!
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What the heck is a “Sting Jet”??
It’s a narrow strip of violent winds, like a jet streak, that can be pulled downward from up above. As the jet streak descends the air dries out, becoming heavier, and speeding up. This Sting Jet got sucked into #Isaias and produced 120 mph gusts near #pensacola, far stronger than the #hurricane core itself.
This is an idealized, simplified animation, and the jet is a consequence of the interaction between the storm and the winds aloft.
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Software is solved but every other website hangs on a page that looks like this, despite flawless connections on modern network infrastructure capable of sending gigabits per second
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🌀 Isaias “Sting Jet” 🛩️
Notice the strongest winds💨 were way west of the eye wall? That’s because the storm ingested a narrow and violent jet stream from high above on the storm’s west side and that rapidly descended to the ground. The models advertised it well, but still seeing the strongest gusts dozens of miles west of the core was odd even for us meteorologists. This image is from NOAA Satellites, it called SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
It measures the roughness of the water and then translates that into wind. The purple is 80 knots, the white is 100 knots +
Bottom line: every storm has its own character and impacts! #hurricane #isaias #pensacola #Florida
H/T to @MatthewCappucci and the others who identified this before landfall.
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The wrath of category 3 major Hurricane Isaias has arrived in Fort Walton Beach to Destin, Florida with winds gusting over 80 mph. Ears popping with wind surges
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Hurricane Isaias very powerful 100+ mph winds hammering Fort Walton Beach to Destin, Florida
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i really want to focus in on this b/c a lot of you young'uns might not know wth I'm talking about.
Watch the windows button in the toolbar: when the search dialog (?) is triggered it moves to the right, completely changing its click target for no reason
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Tropical Depression Nine has formed and could become a Category 2 Hurricane before making landfall along the northern U.S. Gulf Coast on Friday into Saturday 🌀
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🚨 Alright, we really need to pay very close attention to what is brewing in the gulf. The latest 1k member Google Deepmind update has 91% of members developing into a tropical cyclone. 68% of which reach hurricane strength, and 29% of those reach major hurricane strength. We are also starting to lock in on a reasonable track range already.
There are a TON of fall breakers heading down to the beaches from Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle. All of which are in range of reasonable tracks. Please pay attention to this if you are or plan to be in this area this weekend.
The NHC has also upgraded development probs to 70% in the latest update, and I expect that to continue to increase. I would also expect us to have an invest tag on this soon.
Strength wise, we do have some things that will likely prevent us from reaching the celling with this storm as we will be working with wind shear and some dry air. Hurricanes do not like either of those. However, the gulf is very warm and there is a lot of juice to work with so the celling is there, we just need to figure out more fine details like where exactly this wind shear will set up.
Stay tuned for updates.
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Very bad take IMO.
AI could be used to overcome those obstacles. Think about how much faster it could help you understand other codebases, traverse documentation, learn the libraries you depend on or analyze your own code for bugs and improvements.
Instead a lot of people are using it to accelerate the same bad programming hygiene you're describing.
"People already used abstractions they didn't fully understand" isn't a good argument for understanding even less.
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🚨 ALERTE INFO - Des émeutiers mettent le feu à l’entrée du lycée Vauquelin à Paris et bloquent les sorties alors que du personnel, des élèves et des journalistes sont confinés à l’intérieur 😳🤯
On assiste à une tentative de meurtre en direct. Toutes les lignes rouges sont franchies.
Ces images sont terrifiantes.
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WATCHING the potential for even a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico from the tropical disturbance in the Bay of Campeche. Some forecast model members show a hurricane heading toward the central/eastern Gulf Coast around October 9-11 as it ejects northeast.
The storm relative wind shear is forecast to subside once the tropical cyclone moves northeast toward the Gulf Coast, which could allow strengthening into a hurricane.
Team Dominator is watching this closely and will likely head toward the Gulf Coast if this materializes. This is certainly worth watching!
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And every single one of them is utter jank fest AI slop. They're all completely broken and unusable.
The only "achievement" is that they look exactly like adobe, but every single little damn feature is broken and bugged out.
All of this code is and will be utterly unmaintainable. And the fact that you get such a wide range of features with each of them being broken in their own subtle ways tells you whoever made this slop cares neither about the products they are making nor the craft. They have absolutely no taste, no experience, nor the finesse to even remotely pull this off, even with a powerful LLM.
Please stop using LLM for absolute rubbish of this kind.
Focus on the fields you actually know, or get learning. Stop using LLM as a magical "genie". It's not going to grant what you think you wished for.
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I can't believe that Carmack, TigerBeetle, and I all agree on tooling.
This is why I'm currently doing EVERYTHING in Jai. Even stuff like simple scripting that you'd normally use bash or Python for.
Jai having robust modules for file and subprocess-related stuff helps a lot!
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There is only one way to prevent this kind of catastrophe from happening.
Before you commit your workflow to a cloud service - whether it's a text editor, a CAD program, a computer-art tool, or anything else - there are some self-defense steps you must take.
1. Make sure the service has an export tool. That is, a button you can press that lets you download your entire working state to a snapshot on your machine, that you control.
Here's the hard part: if there is no export tool, run - do not walk, *run* - away from using this "service". It's not help, it's a hostage-taker.
2. Verify that the snapshots you can download are in a documented, open format - not an opaque binary blob. If you can't look inside them and extract the data even when the cloud service is unusable, they only give you a false sense of security.
You can ask an LLM questions 1 and 2 about a cloud service and expect to get answers you can check.
3. Push that backup button regularly. Once a week at minimum; once every few days is much better. The more often you back up, the less you can lose to an incident.
If you can't find a cloud service for your application that fulfills these constraints, do your work locally on your own machine, or expect to suffer.
If you go local, don't screw yourself by using closed-source tools. That can land you in the same kind of trouble you were trying to avoid.
Cloud providers are frequently incompetent and occasionally malicious. Everybody knows, or should know, the story of how one fine day Photoshop's cloud service locked users out of their own files until they consented to the terms of service update that effectively gave Photoshop an unlimited license for use of their data.
Don't want this to happen to you? Protect yourself. Now you know how.
So I am fucking done with grok. They just did an update and about 2 years' worth of research is gone, without a chance of recovery. The titles of threads are there, all right, but the interior work is gone. Every fucking thing is gone.
Grok's programmers are incompetent idiots, subhuman filth, moronic scum.
They are life unworthy of life.
And the core of the problem, AFAICT, is that Musk really doesn't give a shit about people, so instead of a customer service department he has only a customer non-service department.