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Madopal
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Chicagoan (Portage Park), bungalow owner, recovering gamedev (Jaleco, Mindscape, Midway), data engineer, bike/transit advocate(ish) (former NW MBAC), aspiring historian/baker, White Sox fan (heavy sigh), music nerd, just zis guy, you know? ✶✶✶✶
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
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Know something that’s never down due to AWS? A gosh dang newspaper.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
Yup, same, replied on other reply on thread. Thanks for the tip!
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Auditorium Building, Roosevelt University (1/3) #ohc2025
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With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
Yep, just saw them on WGN, they were covering the express lanes closed. Whew.
Third copter has joined (not the one selected)
Looks like something at the Kennedy/Edens split? I hope it's just traffic, but given [gestures at everything], you know.
Portage Park's turn for helicopters this morning. Anyone got a link to that tracking site so I can find it?
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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
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Oh so it’s exactly like outsourcing
And I 100% knew why: "Developers ended up spending a lot of time checking and redoing the code that AI systems had produced—often more time than it would have taken to simply write it themselves." It's hard enough to troubleshoot, but to find a problem when you didn't write the logic behind it?
"My father taught me the value of hard work and big ideas. But he was in the union, so he grew lazy and was unable to innovate. Uh, he died."
You know, life became Adult Swim gradually, I didn't even notice.
youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ?...
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Why did the Chargers decide to become the Savannah Bananas today
Same, but I heard EVERYTHING. Most of the time if someone was talking, it was almost like they were in the room with me. I actually wondered if somehow the construction was amplifying sounds.
You do have to take the Gulf Coast penalty into account, however. It'll be at least a decade before weight vests and protein supplements supplant golf carts and gumbo
Well, depending on the building. I lived in one for almost a decade, and I have to say...the sound proofing/acoustics leave(s) quite a bit to be desired.
I'm worried that 50 years from now, some anthropologist is going to trace this all back to "fake it 'til you make it" or something silly like that.
So, AI is another example in our times of a bunch of loud, obnoxious people pushing their version of reality as if it's mainstream/popular and everyone else is disagreeing but can't figure out how to change the narrative.
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
Somewhere, an A&R man is furrowing his brow disapprovingly