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pretty common on twitter, esp these days where there is strong anglo-saxon white nationalism crowd

they do romanticize their ancient past as one of conquest and domination over others.

btw, even without the viking aspect, norse law was pretty strange in that it allowed murder for a fine. there is definitely a savage aspect to white tradition as there is to any modern culture, but there is a lot of whitewashing thats done to present anglo saxons as racially superior, highly civilized culture.

Linux is good now 7 months ago

just bricked my display out after a nvidia driver upgrade attempt. the swapped ctrl and alt (to mimic mac) setting has been reversed.

horrendus ux

  >  if Google and Meta got the best people, what the hell did they do in the last ten years? 
Invented the Transformer, Gemini, TPUs, monetized YT effectively, transitioned to mobile successfully, established GMaps as a foundation of internet etc.,

Google has a dozen services with > 1 billion users a month. Google in 2010 had only one

I wrote a cycle detecting reference counting system and asked Sonnet 3.5 to fix it and it failed.

I hand held it, gave it tests, called out flaws in reasoning.. etc., and it still didn't fix.

The longer the chat the more likely it was Sonnet forgot a clarification I provided.

Overall huge waste of time, lost my train of thought and I was helping an LLM rubber duck and fail repeatedly

Advertising it as Writing a C Compiler is misleading. This is no where near C's speed. It's just an implementation of a C like language. And honestly there are better books or tutorials for something like that.

C's selling point is performance and portability and this book covers neither

It's interesting how any thread critical of OAI or Sam gets shot down from the front page very quickly but anything positive lingers on.

When Google Gemini threads are created on launch days they get merged very slowly and therefore community's upvotes get scattered.

Ofc it's hard to prove any of this. But it almost feels like there's an algorithm with a bias at play