Career software engineer living something approximating the dream he had as a kid.
"Your Honor, will the court steganographer please read back the secret message encoded in the blue pixels of the courtroom sketch from yesterday."
"This episode of Bluey is called A MEDITATION ON THE HISTORY OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET, PERSPECTIVE ON OUR PLACE IN IT, THE BREADTH OF LONG TIME VS THE BREVITY OF ONE LIFE, FINDING PURPOSE IN EXISTENCE, THE IMMORTALITY OF CONTINUITY, AND SOME POSTULATION ON THE NATURE OF POTENTIAL AFTERLIFE."
"Oh, sorry, I got carried away. 'Flat Pack.' It's called 'Flat Pack.'"
The only downside to having a novel series you like is the feeling after you rip through the last book and you've run out of book. #murderbot
Plugged a raspberry pi into my TV with HDMI and sound doesn't work.
I'm tired, boss.
Well, it finally happened.
Re-bought a game on Steam that I bought on the Epic store ages ago because Epic is just... Not worth launching.
They had a good go of it, but my patience for them to at least get reliability-parity of the UI with Steam ran out.
"Dad just went out for a quick war. He'll be back any day now."
~Telemachus
My sun? Fire.
My sky? Ice.
My body? Tired.
My TV? Copaganda.
My door? Open.
My floor? On it.
... let's walk.
Reading Steve Yegge's article on how he uses AI to program, and one thing that stands out starkly to me: he's spending about $2800 a month in tokens by buying multiple Claude Max accounts.
There's a somewhat un-remarked-upon aspect of the hacking experience, culture, lifestyle, what have you... The tools are cheap. Yes, the computer itself is a base cost to get involved, but we've driven the price of having a computer into the ground by ubiquity. And once you have one, traditionally... The world is your oyster. Outside of some esoteric spaces, if you want to program something, the barrier to entry is knowledge, not money, and that matters, both to the things people do and the self-image of the hacker. Even commercial tools frequently have cheaper open source counterparts, even if they're crummier.
An approach that requires $3,000 a month isn't that, and if that becomes mainstream for programming that will change the flavor of the experience.
In the short run, this makes me more excited to see what can be done with models that can fit on a graphics card, even if we aren't orchestrating then to code while we sleep.
Hm. "Jellicles ask because Jellicles dare." I wonder what's 'daring' about asking who is going to the Heaviside Layer?
... I mean, it's cat heaven.
So you get there by dying...
... and the candidates are a lazy house cat, a couple of strays who would get killed on sight if they got caught raiding people's stuff, a cat on the verge of death due to age, a cat who can't stop eating, the mouser at the local theater with a neurological condition, a cat who gets used in magic shows, a cat who spends all day running around trains... and Rum Tum Tugger (who knows what he did).
... oh my God. CATS is a musical about a bunch of scraggly alley cats conducting a dead pool. They're arguing over which one of them is probably gonna die next.
Respect to the Chicxulub impactor.
Still the world record holder for killing the most birds with one stone.
Disney dodging exactly zero "making content mostly for furries" allegations.
What the news is saying: "WE WILL NEVER TRANSLATE LINEAR A BECAUSE ANTHROPIC GROUND THE ROSETTA STONE INTO A FINE POWDER."
What is actually happening: "We took one of the 3,987 copies of 'Head First Git' that Borders failed to sell before they went out of business and pulped it, and now Claude is slightly better at merging repositories."
AITA for still being frustrated at HDMI?
This is the standard that displaced all the other alternatives and... It sucks. It sucks on toast. The wires are bulky and break all the time, and we decided we'd plug laptops in with it when nudging the wire the wrong way can just completely wreck up the system's ability to establish a video feed.
For those who forgot to call their mothers yesterday...
I find fascinating the process of anthropomorphizing large language model AI from a human behavior standpoint and, having both watched people interact with it and interacting with it myself, I would even say it's kind of the right approach as long as you remember that it is fundamentally not human.
What it is, fundamentally, is a very complicated mathematical formula recursively operating on its own output given a seed input and feedback on whether its output is correct as per a human observer. As that observer, you do not have the capacity to understand every step of the formula, even if you could see it, which you can't, because it is a black box.
We have, as humans, a mechanism in our psychology to handle systems that act that way. It's called theory of mind. And we use it when interacting with other humans because we have the same constraints on predicting their behavior.
So people who deal with AI by pretending it's a human are using the right tool for the job, as long as they remember that they're using a tool, they're not interacting with a person.
"That was a weird dream. I dreamed Nintendo decided to remake Star Fox 64 on the switch 2 for some reason. Not a re-release, a ground-up remake."
Opens YouTube
"OH NO I WASN'T DREAMING I WAS BROWSING AT 3:00 A.M. LAST NIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!"
In which I build @dpsbot@mastodon.fixermark.com, a Mastodon bot to report random die rolls and the damage you take.
I'm not sure I know what non-toxic masculinity is, but I'm pretty sure it's whatever happens on dropout TVs Make Some Noise every season when they team up Josh, Zach, and Brennan.
🎶 Sometimes the doing it sounds like ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
Sometimes the song it sounds like 'la-la'...
