Fan-Service Rocks!, episode 6
Just noticed that Crunchyroll has a PG rating for this show, promising nudity and profanity. So not happening.
Anyway, Ruri suffers a brief bout of imposter syndrome, then rereads her notes to discover that she did miss something, and only careful review kept them on the right track. In the end, they not only find the sapphires, but uncover a bit of local lore.
What sort of hills and valleys will they explore next?
…like our primitive ancestors did…
I rearranged things in my office so that the 4K vertical monitor sits between the MacBook Air and the Mini, connected to both. Given that both Macs have widescreen displays, naturally I configured the Dock to appear on the left, as I always do. Except that In Their Infinite Wisdom, Apple has decreed that if the Dock is on the left, it must appear on the left of the leftmost monitor, even if that is not the main monitor. You can force the menu bar to appear on the main monitor regardless of position, but if the Dock is on the side, it must be aaallllllllll the way to that side. Even if that’s literally several feet away from the display that’s right in front of your face.
So I had to move the Dock to the right of my laptop display, like some sort of heathen who eats from a dumpster. It’s quite unnerving. I don’t look there. I never look there. I have over twenty years of practice not looking there.
Someday my prints will come…
Amazon order for $RANDOM_OBJECT placed on September 28. Shipped via UPS on September 29. Until about an hour ago, the last update from UPS had it in Illinois on the 2nd, but now it’s arrived in… California!
I’m old enough to remember when Amazon was good at logistics. Also “packaging items so they don’t get destroyed in transit”.
Bookmarking for later,
OpenAI has discovered that it bought a pig in a poke with Jony Ive’s Mysterious Pocket AI Device. For 6.5 billllllllion dollars. To make it work, whatever “it” is, they not only need more AI server capacity, but also a better-than-their-flagship-chatbot to drive it. And the Ars commentariat will be there to do whatever it is they do.
They really should have asked Grok and Claude if this was a wise investment. Or maybe they did…
Claude dev containers in VS Code
Yeah, there’s a lot of hand-waving involved in how to do this, with no provision for “hey, your official Dockerfile blew chunks”. Meanwhile, I’m not the only person frustrated with Windsurf’s expensive failure policy. It does no good for them to have a polished GUI if it eats up your monthly credit balance in an AI-enhanced “abort, retry, fail” loop.
Not that I actually want to use VS Code with or without a vendor-specific skin on top. The only reason I even tried a pay-to-play “AI” IDE is that it produced a better coding experience for my initial test project (at no cost to me), and all of that goodwill was lost when the second project got bogged down and had to be spoonfed half a dozen screenshots to get it back on track. The vacation scheduler was over 50 passes in when I ran out of trial credits, with some functionality still untested because of blocking bugs, and it might have been able to fix them if it hadn’t eaten a bunch of credits.
Anyway, I bit the bullet and got a paid Claude subscription for a while, and if I can get their Coding UI to work in a secured sandbox, I’ll turn it loose and see what it does to the remaining bugs and feature requests. No chance in hell I’m going to give a Node.js “AI” app direct access to my shell…
(“no, you can’t tempt me; I know there’s node.js under that fur!”)
Wrong model!
I was reviewing image-generation prompts enhanced by an LLM, and ran across something worse than having it randomly switch to Chinese (which it also did):
Note: Please replace “her” with the appropriate pronoun depending on the woman’s gender.
Yeah, that one’s going in the trash heap. The LLM, not just the prompt. (it was a derivative of OpenAI’s free model)
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