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Mike Lynch 
@fsvo@old.mermaid.town
hometown 4.6.8+hometown-1.3.0Code, research infra, music. Avatar is a line drawing of a white guy with a beard and glasses. Header is an illustration of rolling waves
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Joined November 08, 2022
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The UX of LEGO interface panels
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@nev I love it when my fedi friends discover this. It was taken one suburb away from where I live. I heard one calling last night!
New bot: @rogueai@llull.club posts scenarios about AI going rogue. Inspired by the gullible tech journalists at absolutely everywhere
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@glyph what gets me is that when the singularity first appeared in sf (yes I am that old) even then it felt like a literary device to get around how many earlier sf predictions hadn't delivered. It's always been an impossibility machine
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@daedalus I was thinking just this morning that we now have the answer to the "are we engineers" debate
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@liamvhogan I have gone down a bit of a rabbit hole of commercial nang websites thanks to this
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Live, animated version of my fibonacci-mod-n visualisation. Hit the up and down keys for different versions of n.
https://etc.mikelynch.org/fibomod-wasm/
Built with @spritely@social.coop 's Hoot (a Scheme to wasm compiler) as a warm-up for the Lisp Game Jam coming up
Principia Softwarica - an attempt to use Plan 9 as a resource for teaching the full stack of an OS
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@liamvhogan@aus.social the idea that all sublunary things are subject to decay was received wisdom for such a long time, you have to be drunk on California juice to think it's novel enough to need a new word
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@akent lol at the semifinal between OK Computer and the one hip hop album from this century that every white boy has heard
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as always, a key issue in AI ethics remains that people have a great deal of trouble remaining honest in the presence of this technology
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@glyph@mastodon.social one of the things I'm saddest about is that we seem to be abandoning the goal of making code and platforms which are better to work with (in the sense of being psychologically good and also rigorous and reliable)
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@sargoth@mastodon.social by chance I just read this passage in an article about Schubert (referring to early 19th C fortepianos)
Big Dumb Objects and Cosmic Enigmas: The Love Affair between Space Fiction and the Transcendental (Peter Nicholls talk/essay from 1997 which somehow I've never read till this morning)