Whenever I ask an LLM to do something and it manages to 1-shot something ingenious/perfect, I get this weird feeling of happiness tinged with looming existential dread echoing softly in the background.

Was it 4.5 or 4.6 that started using "load-bearing" all the time? Boy, the first time I saw that I knew immediately that was the Next Big Tic for Claude.

That's like saying "what, it was published in the paper of record in your local area!"

NOTAMs have so many issues it's not even funny. There's so many of them and 9/10 of them are irrelevant for one.

> most vulnerabilities are going to be closed in popular software by mid 2027

I think that's a bit hopeful. I think that as long as imperfect humans continue to exist and we continue to train AI models with data from these imperfect humans that vulnerabilities will always exist.

They knew what they were doing by not including "VIA C3 CPUs" before the fourth paragraph. Come on. It should have been in the title.

The speed with which I can remember some obscure AIX partitioning-related fact during an incident, for example, is orders of magnitude faster than the speed with which I would figure out which of 12 marbles is slightly heavier than the others.

> I can remember some obscure AIX partitioning-related fact

Now you have my attention. I'd love to read about some of these trivia.

Not the GP, but I have one non-partioning AIX trivia I discovered by accident. Turns out that malloc(0) returns NULL on AIX, but non-null on Linux, SunOS, and Irix. (I was surprised multiple ways on that one!)

Sometimes I think "it's a UNIX system, I know this" but I've been caught by subtle differences before too.

killall is very different between Linux and Solaris, for example. I would rather have not found this out on a client machine for the first time.

Another AIX different that caughts folks off guard, it uses COFF primarly, and its dynamic library models is closer to Windows, OS/2, Symbian, than classical UNIX with ELF.

Including the existence of import libraries, linker export files, and lazy dynamic loading of symbols.

Now that you know, can you conceptualize reasons why each pattern might be a correct preference? Among those reasons, which would you prefer as a system?

^^^ THAT is how an Interview Question should work around this factoid.

That one has bitten me more than once

Gah, I can't remember what the specific trivia was now (ironically), just that some disk wasn't mounting and something in the fstab stuck out to me that I then looked up in the manpages and confirmed was wrong. (I wasn't even the AIX guy, I was just the sysadmin of an app that ran on AIX.)

Yes, I love maximally restricting rights of others for unclear reasons.

You can already pretty easily handcuff a drunk person and then draw all over them with a sharpie, and that doesn't take 15 minutes of leaving a patch alone.

There is something unnerving about using an LLM to generate a site...that is a joke about AI embodiment.

Exercise is great on the days I can do it, I love going for a walk. But sometimes when I hear that suggestion - I wonder if those people have ever lain in a totally uncomfortable position in bed for 45 minutes because they felt paralyzed, unable to will their muscles to reposition themselves into something more comfortable. From that perspective, even light exercise seems like walking on the moon; merely a thought, not real.

I appreciate your difficulties but have always wondered at our lack of support for preventative measures as a society here in Australia and possibly worldwide.

Would a personal trainer or paid or not training buddy or something of the sort help your motivation?

It's a good question. I could see it working for some people (accountability, companionship) but at least for me, one of my parents is a certified PT and while she has helped a bit, the problem is just more deeply rooted than that unfortunately, at least for me.

But, again, everyone's experiences are different.