The second one was very clear and to the point. Parsing it was rewarded with instant understanding and I enjoyed the word choice. The first one was just annoying; I could tell it was just listing a bunch of pointless analogies to try to make its point sound more grandiose so I immediately started skimming, and didn't come away feeling like it meant much other than "we all die in the end". The second one made an actual point and was the one that made me want to read it. The first one was the chore for me.
I can't see how you could apply "minimalist" to that excerpt. It's maximalist, hammering the same point over and over and over when one or two examples with a little more worldbuilding per example would have done better if they were going for "evocative".
If I had to pin a subjective experience to reading it, it would be that of being stuck in a car as a teenager with a parent who's ranting about whatever set them off that day and won't move on from repeating their grievance in different words when you got the point five minutes ago. In contrast, the second feels like having an enjoyable and productive level-headed conversation with someone who respects you and trusts you to understand the words.
Just watched the mother's interview where she presented an independently conducted investigation report on Tucker's show. Doesn't appear remotely close to a suicide.
Guy was hit in the head while brushing his teeth, sat in a sitting position and shot from above. Wonder how they can get to so many peeps in positions of authority. Coroner, local PD, attorneys were all compromised.
It's possible a large amount of people in the SF government are complicit in a coverup of a company-initiated murder. Or, alternatively, a grieving mother is an unreliable narrator and cherry-picking facts while being egged on by a sensationalist, anti-SF talking head.
I can't say for certain there's not more to this story. But I'd wait for more objective sources before I start to decide.
I feel like it's also important to remember that the truth may be something else completely.
I'm reminded of Bob Lee's killing, when many initial reactions assumed it was a random act of violence and blamed city leaders for progressive policies and decarceration, but it later turned out to be personally motivated [1][2].
Similarly, in this case, the truth may not be suicide nor company-initiated morder, but something else entirely.
Adding to the list of possibilities, it's also possible that a large amount of people in the SF government are just desensitized and jaded and have a thousand-yard-PTSD-stare from seeing so much death and despair and overdoses and crimes on a daily basis, and don't really have energy or capacity to accept that this case might not be more of the same.
During the mother's interview, she kept saying that it seemed unusual that the medical examiner only looked at the scene for a relatively short amount of time. But having lived in SF, and seeing the city services operate, it just seems completely expected to me.
The answer is that they didn't, and conspiracy theories like this are essentially always false. Try to imagine that it was a suicide, and then you'll realize that everything makes perfect sense.
Not very good experience after opening a simple Python script with no external dependencies in zed for linux. They use Pyright and there was an error and warning that were both incorrect. VSCode uses Pylance IIRC and it's not complaining.
I had a decent experience with a service recently that used a ChatGPT powered support agent, it couldn't deal with my situation but I was surprised by how quickly it knew its own limitations and handed me to an actual human who helped me out.
Edit: The chatbot in question was not powered by ChatGPT a few months ago and it was pretty bad, a few canned QAs and really weird loops to get to a human agent. Before that the same service had direct human support. But as someone who has worked in a support capacity myself I will take the nice middle ground with a decent LLM that can quickly dispatch me to a human agent should it not be able to solve the issue.
I feel that's the best case, a smart conversational system that knows its limit and can off-ramp you to a human if need be. In addition, I don't _want_ to talk to a human, via phone or otherwise. We all had horrendous CS experiences ("are the lights on you router blinking?" - "yes! I just told you that there is packet loss, arghhh" so I actually prefer a smart non-human system in the vast majority of cases.
This should become the normal case. With the automated chatbots handling all the common or known problems and solutions, fewer humans are needed and can then be better trained to handle the more complex cases (with an AI assistant at their disposal). This improvement in support could possibly be achieved at lower cost (to the company).
AI chatbots aren't the future, AI everything is. I'm far more concerned about some parts of the everything else, starting with automated warfare.
Incredible! I wonder how much delay there is between the sensor data coming in to ISS, being relayed to NASA, fetched by these guys and forwarded to their model's actuators.
Good that I don't have to worry about things like this when downloading from official OpenSuse repos. Are they allowed to bundle adware into flatpaks and AppImages?
Does that make sense?
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