Finally got around to reading @cwebber@social.coop 's https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/
... and yeah, that's exactly what it feels like. I think she nailed it.
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Grant Gould
@nonnihil@hachyderm.io
mastodon 4.7.3Roboticist, meticulous software dead-ender, Im in ur C++ objecting to ur barepointers.
Cambridge, MA; he/him; grumpy but anarchist-ish.
No time for:
* LaTeX in code comments
* Default-case Turing completeness
* Hegel
* Plantigrade bipedalism
* XML for data-at-rest
* Political legitimacy
* Avocados
* Software-in-the-loop eStops
* ISObus
* Implicit mutability
* Reference semantics punning
* Nations
* Especially Hegel
* cmake
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@nikitonsky@mastodon.online If you move in any way near it, a poster unfurls over the whole front reading "subscribe now for your free article!"
If you attempt to interact with that, a second, smaller poster unfurls at the bottom asking if you want cookies. All of the drawers then lock.
Seems like you can equally read this as "air purifiers don't work WHEN people turn them off" or "air purifiers don't work BECAUSE people turn them off" depending on whom you consider to have more agency, researchers or patients.
Sichuan peppercorn + Dr Pepper is an amazing flavor combination and the DrPepper people should buy this idea from me for infinity dollars.
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@sofia@chaos.social Plus in the post-red world you'd be stuck with only red-button-pushers. Seems like a really unpleasant place to live.
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@esther_alter
If you have any robotics experience, my employer ( https://tri.global ): we're desperately hiring a research engineer role, there's AI going on but barely any LLM, humanely sourced data, and it's not commercial hyperscale glurge.
If you don't mind a bit more AI in the company mission, our recent "too commercial for a research lab" spinoff is also hiring https://ats.rippling.com/walden-robotics/jobs ; again, it's not LLM glurge sort of AI, but it is supporting the gradient descent of tensors. Their job descriptions are less "already know about robotics" I think but also as a new startup their pants are on fire all the time.
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The dog is the perfect subject to showcase Ring's power -- it has no consent to give, nor would anyone think twice or have the least scruple about tracking it. It is a small thing, an owned thing.
But it gives away just how Ring means to treat anyone who crosses the range of one of their cameras: Like a dog.
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@frogglin I love the term "portal litter". Early 2000s enterprise web aesthetic was 100% portal litter.
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@ZachWeinersmith (The exception here is obviously Larry Ellison who already does have a classic volcano + megayacht supervillain lair. Credit to Larry, he has always known exactly what he is.)
Okay, I had radically misunderstood how to score optimize this game. I get it a little better now.