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yes. and that identification would have contained the current outbreak, to some degree, or at least mitigated it.

Claude's affected my language in two ways. one is that, for a long time, Claude in particular responded more to feedback if I swore at it, which caused me to swear at it more. this vicious cycle generalized to the point where I now have to consciously remind myself not to swear when doing something as simple as buying a coffee or asking somebody what time it is. it was difficult to even write that sentence without throwing in an F-bomb just to emphasize the silliness of the problem.

anyway, the other way is I found it's helpful when prompting LLMs to use the same "it's not delivery, it's DiGiorno's" pattern that they're all so obsessed with. especially when the thing's misapprehended some concept, so you need to clarify. this hasn't yet generalized from the fake "conversations" I have with chatbots into my conversational style out in the real world, but the risk is fully there. (it's not an inevitability -- it's an occupational hazard.)

no, 95% of dogs are not okay with it.

95% of the dogs in your home are okay with it.

this study from Psychology Today finds that 83% of dogs freak out when they hear loud noises:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/canine-corner/202202...

AI's not a technology, though. LLMs are a technology. AI is a marketing term.

this is false

but we need to have some sort of law that creates a Chinese firewall between these mass surveillance data and the government

technically we have one, the Fourth Amendment, but SCOTUS defanged it completely, years ago.

seeing a theme here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45121617

no, they're (illegally) using a private intake system to bypass the courts.

no, they're serious, but they're not sincere.

once this system is up and running, they can use it to harass and "deport" (rendition) anybody they want based on what tax-deductible contributions they've made to various non-profits.

(it's rendition because a lot of these people are being sent to countries they're not even citizens of. obviously that pertains when sending people to prisons in El Salvador and Sudan. also, when deporting immigrant parents, they've "deported" US citizens who are children or infants to the countries of their parents' citizenship.)

even a swarm of satellites has risk factors. we treat space as if it were empty (it's in the name) but there's debris left over from previous missions. this stuff orbits at a very high velocity, so if an object greater than 10cm is projected to get within a couple kilometers of the ISS, they move the ISS out of the way. they did this in April and it happens about once a year.

the more satellites you put up there, the more it happens, and the greater the risk that the immediate orbital zone around Earth devolves into an impenetrable whirlwind of space trash, aka Kessler Syndrome.

Since I had to google it, Metcalfe was one of the inventors of Ethernet.

Fun fact, he predicted in 1995 that the internet would collapse entirely within the following year, and said he would eat his words if it didn't. In 1997, at a web conference, he put a printed copy of the words into a blender and drank a smoothie made with that paper.

yeah, it's a good post overall, but the humblebrag factor undermines it

sorry but you’re underestimating the number of people who come here, and the range of backgrounds (and interests) they have

yeah, that’s what works for me also. LLMs are a nightmare for debugging but a breeze for this.

another good use case: have it read a ton of code and summarize it. if you’re dealing with a new (to you) area in a legacy application, and trying to fix a problem in how it interacts with a complex open-source library, have the LLM read them both and summarize how they work. (while fact-checking it along the way.)

The problem with Lisp (or at least Clojure) is that abstracting away the boilerplate requires you to correctly identify the boilerplate.

It’s nontrivial to structure your entire AST so that the parts you abstract away are the parts you’re not going to need direct access to three months later. And I never really figured out, or saw anyone else figure out, how to do that in a way which establishes a clear pattern for the rest of your team to follow.

Especially when it comes to that last part, I’ve found pragmatic OOP with functional elements, like Ruby, or task-specific FP, like Elm, to be more useful than Clojure at work or various Lisps for hobby projects. Because patterns for identifying boilerplate are built in. Personal opinion, of course.

Since I had to Google it, 3Com was the company behind Ethernet, a wired networking standard that revolutionized offices in the days before remote work. Like with GUIs, the work started at Xerox PARC.

The EPA is currently reviewing its ban on asbestos.

this is correct, because "enemy" starts with a vowel, but it's a fairly gratuitous translation either way, since "know your enemy" comes from Sun Tzu

I found the Wii U joystick too springy to win OOT or even play much of Twilight Princess. I was able to compensate for the springiness until the penultimate fight with Ganondorf at the top of the castle in OOT, at which point it got too annoying and I just gave up, but with Twilight Princess, I hit that threshold in the fire temple's boss fight. Possibly even just a miniboss.

It's possible I just had a Wii U with an unusually tight joystick or something.

One of the interesting pieces of science that I think a lot of people don't think about is strategic investment.

the Internet itself began with DARPA. the web at CERN. both came from publicly-funded research.

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Having a car that mostly drives itself is the best purchase I’ve ever made.

ok, you can get that with a Hyundai though.

higher-quality, too, yet the Tesla costs more.

ironically, this itself is gaslighting

If somebody wanted to be... not president, but authoritarian leader of a post-democracy, Musk would be well positioned technologically.

of course, that was his very explicit goal. Thiel backed Curtis Yarvin, who came up for the plan for this and called it RAGE. google it, it's all written down. they hoped to put in Bezos or Zuckerberg and have a more efficiently-run dictatorship replacing our democracy. because they didn't understand politics, they got the ketamine addict instead, who renamed RAGE to DOGE so he could also use it to power a crypto pump-and-dump.

*edit: and because it was never a realistic plan. because they didn't understand politics

how do you feel about Talespire? it allows pretty fast on-the-fly map-making as long you’re not dealing with significant vertical distances, although it’s got very little in common with LambdaMOO. but MUDs generally seem to be MMRPG precursors at this point, unless there’s an underground community I’m unaware of.

it was severely overused in the late 90s. its versatility made it very bad for large projects, but people used it anyway because it handled CGI easily. people who were there still bear the scars, and language hipsters know it isn’t popular, even if they don’t know why.

it’s not entirely fair, but on the bright side, at least there’s a kind of logic to it.

spoiler alert: this always happens with new technologies, to some extent. the possibilities that materialize are always an odd subset of the possibilities that people envision when the tech is new. you can get better at predicting that subset by studying economics or the humanities, but randomness also plays a crucial role.

I didn't know him well, but I interacted with him a few times. I liked him, and I enjoyed his book Rebuilding Rails.

that’s bonkers. “philosophers and other wordcels” not only insults Borges but the entire world of philosophy. the arrogance and the nonsense in that phrasing are both off the charts.

Elm does something similr. Neither elm/regex nor elm/parser are built-in, but elm/regex encourages you to use elm/parser instead.

btw, I like the namesake, but a language named Janet is pretty much obligated to also prioritize control.