bits 0x55 - CW 9, 2025 (WIP)
It has been a long time. But I finally got my sanity back (spelt: thesis handed in). Anyways…
§§§ AI create more X-Y problems
So I see people talk on social media :
“I want to remove all blank lines form a text document, AI tools {A,B} don’t work, C works, wow amazing, here is how.”
Honestly if you spare one minute searching the internet:
Search for how to remove blank lines with [editor X], and you will immediately
get a straight-forward solution. (mind you, these are literally the first
entry from google search.
“delete empty lines vim”
:g/^$/d
“delete empty lines vscode”
Ctrl-H -> use regular expressions ->
^$\n-> replace all
“delete empty lines emacs”
M-x flush-lines RET ^$ RET
“delete empty lines notepad++”
edit -> line operations -> remove empty lines
…
See? Instead of these you decide to paste your whole document to a chatbot and let it do it for you. How do you know it only removes the black lines?
So I say it again: AI creates more X-Y problems.
- You have a solid problem
- instead of solving the problem
- you go after “how to prompt the AI to do it for me”.
§§§ shitphone experience
I’m traveling. However my phone has a failing battery and I have no intention to pick a new one as my main phone—the old one can be revived with a new battery. I need some safety for my travel … so I bought a cheap cheap backup phone for 65 euros brand new. To be specific it is a Redmi A3.
I have literally zero expectation from that thing. As long as it connects to the internet I’m happy. But setting it up is absofuckinglutely painful.
It asks you a bunch of questions, as for a google login, as you to agree to tons of stuffs. Fine, I won’t give you sensitive information anyways.
Then it proceeds to “set up your phone”, which is, installing more than 20 of APPs, including shit games, shit social media, shit streaming service. None I’ve ever asked for, or given the option to opt-in/out. And this process takes like an HOUR. Not including me removing those spyware.
I guess installing those sponsored APPs is how they make this phone cheap.
§§§ Good Reads
An Attempt to Catch Up with JIT Compilers—The False Lead of Optimizing Inline
Caches. (Poirier et. al.)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.20547