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We still have the endash!

Dang?

In regards to the vast majority of reddit moderators:

_how_?

Fascinating! First time seeing/reading Tyranny of Structurelessness

Was Pivotal Labs built with this in mind? A lot of their core principals seem to overlap with with seven principals prposed at the end (https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm for the curious)

Reinventing the plan file!

I mostly do this too for personal stuff. Although on solo projects I have a neverending TODO.md I check in...

...and on multi-person projects I end up using github issues/projects and/or Forgejo's equivalent

Well, these numbers _are_ from 2023. Things seem to have shifted (especially for the new grads) in the past 2 years...

(We'll know when new numbers come out of the feeling is correct?)

Andy Schatz, the independent game creator of Monaco, said something at a GDC talk that really resonated with me along these lines

I'm paraphrasing but -

"Do the hard work that you need to do, but always give yourself an hour a day for the bullshit 'i don't have time for this but I want to do it' stuff.

It'll keep you happy, which will keep you productive through the slog... and those little touches will stand out and make SOME people happy"

For the unfamiliar (the man, not the talk): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Schatz

DP2e is one of the reasons I still use DOSBox

Probably not

Many old monitoring programs just literally generated graphs like these using input data and outputted a static image on a cron/tick. "Expensive" once, then cached... in the form of the image

I'm guessing this is that sort of tech

what do you mean by "squat on"?

The ethics of individual employees only lasts until the next firing, unfortunately.

To the un-sticking point: it's also great at letting people ask questions without being perceived as dumb

Tragically - admitting ignorance, even with the desire to learn, often has negative social reprocussions

Adding this to my smallweb collection!

Blocked reddit a few days back. Been looking for more idle exploring like the old days while relaxing, instead of that endless algorithm trawl...

LLM Garak

Elim Garak

That's some good software naming punning right there

The salient passage seems to be:

Quite simply, we are talking about bullshit. Philosopher Harry Frankfurt, in his classic text _On Bullshit_, explains that the bullshitter “does not reject the authority of truth, as the liar does […] He pays no attention to it at all.” This is exactly what senior AI researchers such as Brooks, Bender, Shanahan and Hinton are telling us, when they explain how ChatGPT works. The problem, as Frankfurt explains, is that “[b]y virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.” (p. 61). At a time when a public enquiry is reporting the astonishing behaviour of our most senior leaders during the Covid pandemic, the British people wonder how we came to elect such such bullshitters to lead us. But as Frankfurt observes, “Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about” (p.63)

The part about the modern (read: far future) calendar being commonly thought to be based on mankind's first moon landing but ACTUALLY being based on the Unix Epoch is a favorite amoungst engineers I know that love Vinge

Still is. And there's little to be done about it.

Unless you can stop cosmic rays.

Luckily it doesn't happen THAT often. I forget the exact metric but I recall various Google Engineers saying that something like one out of a million test run failures is a random bitflip?

Is this the same Lit that started at Material at Google? Not seeing easily accessed references.

Is it maybe no longer associated?

My only note: state the year (and month if possible) in the first paragraph of a story like this.

It helps for readers now, and archaeologists later!

Have you tried Torchlight?

I dislike the entire Genre EXCEPT Torchlight 1&2

And I've never really been able to put my finger on why

The only thing I've learned from this comment thread is sbuk REALLY stans for apple.

Autocomplete: The Only Reason We Know What A Trie Is(tm)!

Yeah, the cadence of the article also felt AI-ey to me.

The "Irish Wake" is this... but _before_ the funeral.

And Ireland is VERY Catholic.

This was also the name of the awesome downtown Berkeley gaming store that recently closed down.

RIP

Almost certainly a play on the Twitter space.

Driven by some exec or PM.

The numeric distinguisher was good, actually.

Imagine the savings on having a beard!

A $30 Wahl Peanut with a few guides, and 5-10 less minutes wasted in the morning per trim... and you get a beard!

This was Brie Bunge from AirBNB at JSConf Hawaii this past weekend, btw.

Great talk, should be online in a few weeks.

https://www.jsconfhi.com/schedule/ for reference.

Can you point to anything scholarly about Holotropic Breathwork? I'm curious, but my searches turn up very... "crystal woo-woo" stuff. :(

This is accurate. I see a lot of my twitter-employee friend network represented here.

(Also, this feels like it even started as a twitter thread.)