lime with barcode

im reading about corps using "lines of code" as a "productivity" metric to justify shipping LLM slop, and i'm horrified that we seemingly have a whole industry that doesn't understand code is generally a liability not an asset.

subtitles that pop in sync with each word should be illegal

every day i need to know exactly when it's lunchtime. i commissioned the world's most expensive and accurate clock. i'm sure it works well: every day I check it at noon, and it reads exactly 12:00.

celebrate earth day by destroying a computer

"computers are fast" is my favorite anti-optimization argument to encounter, because it feels like the same root cause as the "AI" and cryptocurrency bubbles: you assume that if a demo works, there must be no reason it couldn't be infinitely large, without ever seeing evidence of how a thing actually scales as the inputs change.

the year is 20XX and everyone in the resistance memorizes a pocket bible full of optimized adversarial prompts

ouch. i set up a local llm thing on my gaming laptop to describe photos and the descriptions are often wrong but good enough to be one component of a search index. i did not expect this gut punch of a floppy disk being described as an "antique recording device".

jensen huang's leather jacket is the new generation's steven ballmer forehead sweat

taking stock of my coworkers' LLM use impacting my mental health, and weighing that against having a consistent direct deposit 😑

i want devices i rely on to only allocate memory at compile time

i love when animal cartoon characters wear headphones correctly

1. we used the Foo model
2. model: we used the Blah dataset
3. dataset: read our paper on arxiv
4. abstract: data was collected "in-the-wild"
5. buried in paper: we just scraped all the podcasts and videos we could find

some coworkers seem to approach this product like we have infinite resources, but i keep looking into things where we do actually only have the hardware resources for N of this and N is less than 20. not exactly a microcontroller, but incompatible with carelessness.

epic handshake between "taking a walk in spring" and "sneezing while eating salad": "aerosolized plant matter"

the year is 20XX and computer science has been extinct for hundreds of years

perhaps one of the thousand monkeys will specialize in typewriter repair

love to work on a careful paragraphs-long comment for a 16-bit-long patch, assuming my coworkers will feed it to a llm instead of reading it

every computer program as memcpy + sleep

about to take some time off work and my manager wants me to rush through a huge kernel change that hasnt been reviewed. this alone is reason to quit.

world-scale dehydrated water industry

i love my 300ft cardboard dispenser box of 1" diameter nylon corrugated split tubing

i might be the last person to buy an air fryer

good vibes only
- birds in trees
- cat friend
- bagel
- friendly bugs
- thinking about trains
- hoodie
- no noises
- no computer

@joshg@mathstodon.xyz seriously. i really can't tell what people are supposed to do with these except try to break em.

not even noon on a monday and i want to be as distant from my coworkers as possible

i turned off external web access to diode zone's storage until folks settle down $$$