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minterpunct@gamemaking.social ("Sleepius Raccoonus") wrote:

How come it's called "D&D night" and not "THAC0 Thursday"

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Seems like some big GC behaviour wins between Node 22 and 24. No upside to juicing the generational sizes in my main workloads any more!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

why am I feeling all this torment though? it's a mystery

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

they said not to _invent_ the torment nexus but if somebody did invent one nobody said not to jam both my hands into it for months at a time

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

7500 words. now there's 13 sections, I think. I have been staring directly into the beam a bit too long

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dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

There are people usually tech adjacent but not "engineering" who feel a real sense of empowerment using LLMs.

But these are people who always wanted to make improvements. And these are very capable people who could have made serious improvements. It's not that it's "easier" to make an improvement by vibe coding a thing.

The thing that changed is that all the executives have FOMO and they've written a blank check and aren't saying no as long as the improvement involves "AI".

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

It's bleak, but the fact that Schrödinger was a serial child rapist who came up with the whole cat analogy to try and sow confusion actually works to this joke's favor.

https://beige.party/@StefanThinks/116428002409026120

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Human Brain Enthusiast") wrote:

Everybody knows what a squircle is but did you know sphubes are a thing

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I guess I'm going to go with the original research that I think coined the term, since it at least only broadly gestures at "context engineering" https://www.trychroma.com/research/context-rot

jwz wrote:

Pablo Escobar's Cocaine Hippos Are Doomed.

After two years of failed attempts at relocation and sterilization, Colombia's government has decided it will euthanize 80 of the at least 169 "cocaine hippos" that were once owned by notorious drug...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6e

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this is a really interesting example of the toxic positivity that is pervasive, even in my own writing. everybody wants to have a CTA and a solution at the end of their talk. nobody wants to write a thing that just says "dang this is a big intractable problem" and kind of shrug at the end and look at the audience and say "what do *you* think we should do?" when that is often the state of the art and further claims are unjustified by the evidence

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I really don't want to link to any of these because they give an extremely misleading impression of the state of the art in "context engineering" (to wit: that it exists). has anyone written JUST the "to be sure" part, explaining what context is, what context rot is, and why you eventually hit a wall WITHOUT pretending that their non-solution to this is magic pixie dust?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

there are a zillion AI booster blogs that muddle through a big "to be sure" section explaining that context management is functionally impossible, and then introduce the term "context engineering" (a new thing, that the author of the blog thought of all by themselves, and not a thing that every single thinkfluencer in this space has independently invented simultaneously) and that they have now solved this intractable problem (often followed by a link to a github full of markdown files)

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Huh, heuristic for writing rust: if you get fields marked as unused code, that might need to be a separate crate, like a protocol implementation with a published struct as a core object.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

@mdhughes re: Mac IRC clients (a bit late), did you ever try Textual? That was my go-to until I gave up and started using weechat on my VPS.

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

For a while now, omg.lol has run the Now Garden (https://now.garden), making it easy to discover member /now pages that have been recently updated. Starting today, members can link to /now pages that are hosted elsewhere (not on omg.lol) in the Now Garden! Just pull up your omg.lol Now Page settings and drop the URL to your external /now page there. Have fun! :prami_happy:

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helielo wrote:

@sabik @zzt @jwz “He also hacked his own machines, reprogramming them so that they’d never punch information from Column 11 [where citizens were asked to indicate their religion] onto any census card”

People who make software have a duty to follow his example.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
blakespot@oldbytes.space ("Blake Patterson") wrote:

Bad Apple running on a Minitel terminal. Lovely, quaint composition.

https://youtu.be/I8l8mTLzrCY?si=o2qWqnHirffR4xxI

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #Minitel #terminal #serialterminal #BadApple #video #YouTube #terminals #retrocomputers #CRT #demoscene #demo #scenedemo

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
nielsa@mas.to ("Niels Abildgaard") wrote:

The world is this amazing place full of human creation and care, but are caught in structures pushing us to passively observe these things as their facade is sold to us. We deserve better.

I hope you all find ways to bask in the beauty of it all. Engage with the magnificent makings of creative minds, feel all the emotions they may evoke in you. That you try to put something back into the world for others, to feel the spectacle of seeing your creation engaged with in whichever way.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

5000 words. maybe close to done with the first section. just 9 more sections to go

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selectric@tacobelllabs.net ("liz ten eleven") wrote:

i love using the Move Fast And Break Things machine to move fast. sure hope it doesn’t break things

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
al_dente@mastoart.social ("Allan dente") wrote:

Trans flag isopods 🏳️‍⚧️
#crochet #amigurumi #handmade #trans

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nedbat@hachyderm.io ("Ned Batchelder") wrote:

Anyone have a sticker vendor they really like?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

You know, despite my inclination to have music on whenever I can, the whole Spotify algorithmic feed of music never appealed to me. Probably because I'm an old fart that was born well before phones were unwisely allowed to roam free, and I enjoy musical novelty, I always preferred to get music recs from human beings (not associated with corporate labels) who were into all kinds of music and enjoyed sharing their discoveries and lifting up and promoting artists wherever they found them, often surprising and delighting me with their suggestions.

These days that acts as a nice filter allowing me to avoid "AI" slop music without much effort on my part. :D

At least *one* part of my life it's easy to avoid this stuff.

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M0CUV@mastodon.radio ("Matt Gumbley") wrote:

“Dalai Lama’s Five Dollar Mamas I & II”, by Actionfredag should win some kind of prize for being the longest running earworm I’ve ever encountered. Or carry some kind of health warning; it’s continually noodling round my head. Magnificently inventive prog/jazz fusion. I have no idea what a five dollar mama is (is it like Bob Dylan’s “rainy day woman”?) or what the Dalai Lama would be doing with them. #prog https://youtu.be/CC5X8pZCA2w

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

“software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like,” I said, tapping the icon on my phone that summons an unlicensed taxi

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

“software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like,” I said, while employed by a company that pays for residential proxies

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

“software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like,” I said, from a linux system that can play and encode MP3s

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

:forgejo: source.tube has been upgraded to Forgejo 15.0.0.

:forgejo: runner-1.source.tube upgraded to forgejo-runner version 12.8.2.

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/15.0.0.md

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

@NfNitLoop yeah i had a quick look but it seems to make some odd choices i'm not entirely behind