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   Future Sprog (futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 05:26:16 JST Future Sprog

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   We've been given paid API keys to various AI products at work.

   I was told, "try this out, maybe it'll help with that thorny problem".

   After spending some time rephrasing and reformulating my query I realised I was getting pretty close to just reimplementing my original 200+ lines of Python with extensive comments but this time entirely in English and the results were worse.

   So I stopped using it.

   How are those ostriches looking? Ever get a pink one on a suspension bridge?

   @chris

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   :pdx_elk: (rose@503junk.house)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 00:26:41 JST :pdx_elk:

   Democracy is a tool. Voting is one action of use of that tool. The tool can fit one use case and not another. Tools, including democracy, aren't sacred institutions or panaceas that fix all.

   A hammer is a tool. It can be used to build a wall. You can hammer a nail to help make a wall stronger. When the building you are in is on fire hammering that nail to build a wall to slow the fires spread to you does something. It's not the same as welcoming the fire in. But it won't magically save the building through participation. Building more and more firewalls doesn't stop the situation from continually getting worse.

   So, hammering your one nail (or voting) might be one action in an effective strategy to deal with an issue, but it can't be the whole solution and only action.