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good morning awful, I found you the first thing you’ll want to scream at today

palantir and others offering free addictions, all in the name of “productivity”

ah, a fellow 1937 poster that gets it

(I still don’t understand how people that post on/across the modern internet haven’t picked up the habit)

In my experience even simple LLM changes are wrong somewhere around half the time. Often in disturbingly subtle ways that take an expert to spot.

I just want to add: sailor’s reference to “expert” here is no joke. the amount of wild and subtle UB (undefined behaviour) you get in the C family is extremely high-knowledge stuff. it’s the sort of stuff that has in recent years become fashionable to describe as “cursed”, and often with good reason

LLMs being bad at precision and detail is as perfect an antithesis in that picture as I am capable of conceiving. so any thought of a project like this that pairs LLMs (or, more broadly, any of the current generative family of nonsense) as a dependency in it’s implementation is just damn wild to me

(and just incase: this post is not an opportunity to quibble about PLT and about what be or become possible.)

so, ever watched Godzilla? and then did a twofer with a zombie movie? I think that’s essentially the plot here

Chlorofox (the oxidized version)

while wikipedia-diving the other day I learned about Basilisk

so, y’know, why not this too

bring back vrml and the browser can become a room you can diy on

I’m sure this plan will go perfectly with absolutely no issues

I became a member this year! and then immediately got to notice how it’s oozing out every pore

what’s kinda wild for me is that there’s also an ethics pledge involved, and I do not understand how they square that with the mass theft all LLM services and progress are/is based on

them automatically fucking with authors’ papers….ew

….this made me twitch

……snrk

iykyk. this comment is sublime

just came across a wild banger:

(An aside — In their official docs, Apple refers to the menu bar always in lowercase, because it’s just a menu bar. The ‘desktop’ is the same way. This is interesting, because we live in an era where everything is a branded product whose name is a proper noun– see the Dock– and we are not allowed to merely use things, we are forced to experience using them and you legally can’t ‘experience’ a regular ‘ol noun. Everybody knows it’s gotta be a proper noun in order to be experienced. The Las Vegas Demon Orb Experience. The Microsoft Windows Desktop Experience. The ESPN Experience Brought To You By Sports Gambling. The 6th Street Hostel Bathroom Experience. But our friends “menu bar” and “desktop” are just two things, average, normal, unobtrusive. This says something about how the people who created these things thought about them.)

I learned yesterday that Helsinki’s uni is also on the list: prompts not only tolerated, but encouraged

been starting to wonder whether these are like the google etc plays there: “suuuuure you can get a sweetheart deal for our systems” [5y later and much storage on the expensive rentabox] “hey btw we’re renewing prices, your contracts are going up 400%. oh and also taking data out of the system is $20/TB. just..in case you wanted to try”