Serious question: Why would I want to read something with this title? Is this some much more abstract form of a "How Not To" article?

As stated in the article, it's a reference to a piece by James Iry on programming languages. From the title I expect something wrong, funny, but mildly insightful.

And it delivers.

Unfortunately I don't know robotics history as much as I know PL history, so I'm sure I missed most of the references.

It's humor, a robotiscist joking about their field.

If you are interested in robotics, you'll find it funny. If not, you will be confused.

Just stand in front of a mirror.

Not all solutions are perfect.

We have other devices we are strapped to at sleep time to monitor our sleep data.

Why was there a pronounced dip right before it exploded? It’s like watching the tide roll way out before a tsunami hits.

It might be just a quirk with the corpus Google uses.

If it's not a quirk, then it is probably due to one usage of the words (eg: "So you got this angry customer, see?") peaking in the 1940s, and a different usage (eg: "You can do it... you got this!") rising in the 2000s.

Then you risk going to jail.

I saw a seagull sneak up to and scream at a guy to make him drop his fish and chips and all his seagull buddies swooped in and took it.

Seagulls, magpie and ibis (im not being fun or joking here) have evolved to exhibit cooperative traits and behaviours to get food, including tricking, diverting, cooperating and most annoying literally staunching people.

I was having a burrito on manly wharf a long while back, a seagull just lands on the table and death stares me...i felt uncomfortable and moved, because i know they will try and take my food off me!

I haven't ever seen Brisbane's beloved bin chickens (ibis) cooperating, but they're pretty good at getting into any bin to scavenge food.

Cockatoos are worse and will flip the lid of a wheelie bin if in the mood. Crows will as well if you overfill and the lid is not shut properly.

I saw an ibis and magpie work on opening a macdonalds bin, take out the black rubbish bag, tear it, splay its contents and fish for paper macdonalds bags!

I'm running llama3.2 out of the box on my 2013 Mac Pro, the low end quad core Xeon one, with 64GB of RAM.

It's slow-ish but still useful, getting 5-10 tokens per second.

Too loud

So we're going to have fewer sky is falling junk studies to hear about?

Absolutely. These sorts of studies provide testable mechanistic models rather than epidemiological studies than only provide qualitative associations.