Clippy - Blog Posts
The Gilbert Gottfried TTS ruined my life. This is absolutely undecipherable I am so sorry.
Image source: Smurfs Fanon Wiki, (page) Crucifixion
"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TOUCHING MY PAGES AFTER ALREADY MESSING UP MY ENTIRE SYSTEM, VIC. WORRY ABOUT YOUR OWN PAGES AND LET ME WORRY ABOUT MINE. YOU STOP BEING SO CONTROLLING AND WHILE AND WHILE YOU'RE AT IT. STOP LEAVING REDIRECTS EVERYWHERE!"
To paraphrase my assembly professor:
"The first version of Microsoft Word ran on MS-DOS, and it came on a single 5¼" floppy disk. By Windows 3.1, it came on a dozen 3½" floppy disks. When we got to Windows '97, it came on a CD.
The basic functionality hasn't changed: it's a GUI-driven word processor. So why did Microsoft need all that extra space on the install media? I'll tell you: for that @#$%&! paperclip!
The hardware people create ever-faster, larger, more powerful hardware; and the software people come along and fill it up with junk!"
(As an aside: crotchety old man that he was, my professor was pretty spot-on in his assessment; and critically, was not so much ranting as appealing to the next generation of software developers - myself included - to be more thoughtful in our use of the hardware at our disposal.)
we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better
