Notices by Chris [list of emoji] (suetanvil@freeradical.zone), page 2

@evan

I lol'd at the third choice.

@BethanyBlack

In Canada, we have butter *tarts*. They are extremely different things. ("Butter" is a euphemism for sugar, AFAICT.)

@mcc

I hate to be That Guy, but every time I've bought a laptop, I've managed to get it to sufficient usefulness within a couple of weeks of tinkering. Which is a pain but I typically then get 3-5 years of (mostly) trouble-free operation out of it, so it seems like a worthwhile deal.

That being said, NVIDIA GPUs are a huge headache and my Linux experience is a lot better with AMD or Intel. Since I don't do GPU intensive stuff, YMMV.

@jerry

"Say you're new to the Internet without saying you're new to the Internet."

(Facebook doesn't really qualify as Internet.)

@LilahTovMoon

Ah, no, that's a common misunderstanding. BSD actually stands for Berkeley Standard (Linux) Distribution.

Also, the "Free" is for "free as in free speech", as Stallman put it.

@thomasfuchs

So a thing that I've realized from thinking about the Yegge essay is that the way I use Stack Overflow is fundamentally different from what "AI" does for me.

I don't look to SO for *answers*. I look for strategies ("use this API/algorithm"), pointers to existing documentation, and examples of things I've already read the docs for and am having trouble seeing idiomatic uses of.

@thomasfuchs

What I really want from "AI" (or just AI) is something that will find the website(s) containing the information I'm looking for, not just a contextless "answer" that may or may not be correct.

Someone should really try making a good search engine.

@thomasfuchs

- Lisp Machines (*sigh*)
- Prolog and other 4GLs (*sigh*)
- Expert systems