It’s a mantra about teaching people and then expecting them to forget it. Doesn’t work. They’ll default to what they already know.

My freshman English teacher got married in October and I called her by her maiden name the entire year.

Like all programming mantras, it’s not universally true, but it’s annoyingly reliable. It reflects the shape of the human brain.

First learning is last learning.

Same reason we still do console.log("FUCK").

They are cats. If you see that butt wiggle, prepare to dodge.

Damning comments from 2023.

I do not need lossless copies of an image someone didn’t even draw.

Wanking is about the emotional connection to a JPG, said someone I deeply pity.

Everyone’s convinced their thing is special, but everyone else’s is a done deal.

Meanwhile the only task where current AI seems truly competitive is porn.

Splitting hairs, but a green card only means permanent residency.

Relevant XKCD.

The premise is sort of hilarious. “Everybody’s just blindly copying this one kind of network. We made the bold decision to copy the other one.”

“Show the cow a picture of fire.”

The lobster is a choice.

Before? What, in primary school?

Backing up my Saved page from reddit, I found that Dall-E post from four years ago. It is buck-wild how far all of this has come… in image generators. Text still fundamentally sucks because people keep trying to use an improv partner as an oracle. And its artistic uses are of low value because text was always dead easy to crank out.

And all I though to comment was “generate nude Tayne,” about four hours before the American coup.

Moderation is a necessary evil. Otherwise everything becomes /r/Funny with different decor.

No, that’s trolling. It’s an ad hominem phrased to sound polite to other people but infuriating to whoever you’re talking to, no matter what they said. An all-purpose no-effort nuh-uh.

David Graeber called this the triangular dynamic of bullying: it creates a moral drama in which the manner of the victim’s reaction to an act of aggression can be used as retrospective justification for the original act of aggression itself.

Like telling someone “calm down, honey.” The right response is fuck off. But you have to build up to it by explaining basically this comment, to prevent the asshole making you mad from going “see, I knew you were mad.”

What’s the use case for case insensitive file names?

Human comprehension.

Readme, readme, README, and ReadMe are not meaningfully different to the average user.

And for dorks like us - oh my god, tab completion, you know I mean Documents, just take the fucking d!

__MACOSX folders hither and yon.

Would you recognize irony if you sat on it?

Right, never start complaining about someone until they rule the world.