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I did a vanity search with Bing Copilot and apparently I'm an engineer (true) and a racing enthusiast (wtf?)

Google is somehow more aware what I'm trying to find sometimes, like it apparently uses my geolocation for ranking the results. This can be either good or bad depending on what I'm trying to find. So I keep switching between DDG and Google when needed. Bing.. Bing is weird. And now it's pushing Copilot way too hard. I just want the fucking search results not some chatbot. It's just a mess at this point.

Great idea! "Here's my daughter Fruity Loops and my son Fast Tracker the Second"

Bots responding to AI generated content on internet is some weird cyberpunk shit. I find it somehow hilarious. Is the era of social media going to finally end when there's nothing left except AIs talking to each other?

This makes me feel weirdly objectified..

At some point we will have AI bots posting fake videos of themselves doing the "robot" dance. A bot faking a human faking a robot.

I used to listen to this so much about 20 years ago. So nostalgic. Probably going to just grab the remastered digitals.

How it's possible that I have never before realized that there's a silhouette of a bear in the Toblerone mountain logo?

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I read Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled without having any kind of prior knowledge about what kind of book it is and was very confused At about page 200 I started to realize that this isn't just a preface to the actual plot but there is no conventional plot at all. If you've ever had a nightmare where you need to do something important but all kinds of small obstacles just fall into your path to distract you then this is pretty much that in a book form.

Riga and Stockholm look tempting but I have to check closer to the date, if there are any tickets left then..

I dug out my old GameCube from storage and F-Zero GX is such a blast. The best futuristic racing game, maybe? So unforgiving also.. I can't pass all the cups without getting a game over anymore, even on the novice difficulty Also it took me forever to finish the story mode back in the day and I seem to have lost the memory card where that save was.. Practice mode it is then for a while.

Speaking of lots of bang for buck few months ago I also got a Doom bundle for Switch which included Doom I, II, 64, 3 and Doom (2016) and a bunch of expansions.

I've been playing through these. The Dimension of the Machine looks amazing for a Quake 1 expansion.

This seems to be one of those albums that get better on each listening. Holorform and Domelash are my favorites so far. Especially when Domelash goes crazy towards the end. Holorform has some underlying prog-rock vibes, like Pekka Pohjola, maybe? Still not completely sold on the Arkteon tracks, they feel kind of out of place, but alright.

Well, yes, this is kind of what I meant that when you have well defined problems like you would get in a coding challenge or CS class it gives decent answers. But the real world problems when you're developing software and systems are hardly ever so well defined and everything is kind of murky and undocumented and ill-defined, possibly with inaccurate documentation that no one bothered to update. The kind of algorithmic part is usually fairly straightforward, it's all the technical details and buggy hardware and software that are the pain in the ass.

The problems that arise are from undocumented limitations and it seems a lot of times the company who made the system didn't even seem to know they exist. Sometimes they knew but left the limitations undocumented for whatever the reason. Some use cases we have are so exotic that there are zero hits in Google. It might be no one even thought of trying to use it the way we do. It just all comes down to lots of detective work and trying to figure out what happens in the proprietary black box when I feed it different things. I can't use ChatGPT, Co-Pilot or similar open for all AIs at work because of security reasons.

I think probably the AI is mostly going to be used this kind of very low effort stock music, graphics and videos. Like the youtubers are using the same few stock music pieces that you can fucking hear everywhere so if they add a bit of variety with AI, then just go ahead by all means. And quality wise it's not going to be a huge loss if some corporate graphics in a Powerpoint presentation are going to be AI generated instead of the most bland stock photos they could find. Just type in "women eating salads while laughing" or "ethnically diverse group of middle-class people celebrating in an office" to generate the millionth image of that type. I don't think it will have much breakthrough yet as Art that is consumed as Art. Like a music album that someone intentionally enjoys. But who knows? There's already that whole vocaloid scene out there.. As a software engineer I fucking wish I could just let AI generate the code for me by describing the problem, and we actually have an access to to a kind of "corporate" version of an AI at work but it sucks so much at programming. It can only solve the easiest most generic problems you can find in a computer programming class. Like, whoop-de-doo, another implementation of Dijkstra's algorithm but now in Rust. I wish my job was just solving basic programming puzzles all day, but it's actually mostly battling with undocumented idiosyncrasies of different frameworks and systems that the AI has no knowledge of. Well, I can still use it to flesh out bug reports or whatever.

Haven't made much recently but here's one ambient/downtempo track that I have been slowly working on