It was uploaded 9 years ago. What sort of AI model was good enough to generate realistic video in 2015? Not to mention it was uploaded by Weird Al’s official YouTube channel.

Oh goddammit, I just got the joke.

“Loco” is Spanish for “crazy,” which is used here to form a pun with “locomotive,” a term for a train.

It’s honestly incredible that Bing even still exists, much less is still being actively being pushed by M$

Good to see they’re branching out with their business model. Can’t just commit to a single strategy these days. Sometimes it helps to rebase your priorities to avoid creating new issues.

Ok, bad jokes aside, how did it taste?

…Why NSFW?

I like the concept here, but I think the presentation could be built up a bit. Something like “What’s the world’s leading cause of dry skin? A towel” perhaps?

Bugs in tests aren’t necessarily exceptions. You could be incorrectly setting up your function inputs, or just making the wrong assertions.

I don’t really get how “overt racism in a job description” is programmer humor, but alright

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No resolution of tech debt, ONLY DELIVER

Then another message popped up. This time with a console.warn() logging level, so I just couldn’t ignore it.

That’s how you know this one’s fake. Most unrealistic part of the whole story.

It does some funky things with type coercion and comparison which I don’t particularly like, but I generally understand why it does things that way.

A lot of the weird quirks of JS come from the desire to avoid completely blowing up and crashing as much as possible, which makes sense in a web dev context. Forcing weird operations to at least return something can prevent an unhandled error state in a single component from causing an entire page to crash, even if that component ends up malfunctioning as a result.