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Reading a book is a form of communication between the writers the readers, and literary culture enriches this with the ongoing interactions around texts. The argument voiced by Soc…

The inevitable march of progress.

All the ones trying to do that, yes.

Generally interesting reflections here, yet I see the same kind of myopia and fatalism that is rampant in our (fashion) industry: > yet I have no doubts that this looping future is…

Would be interested in a comparison with https://sourcehut.org/ (which has a comparable minimal aesthetic, but also has the deep benefit of being FOSS.

Good point. We mustn't forget the magical money box: that's where the real value is delivered!

'Long', as in 1-3 years? ( https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/datacenter-g... )

Oh really? A 195% cost to revenue ratio isn't bad at all? I'm not a biz expert, but I spent a few minutes looking this up (e.g., what are usual cost-to-revenue ratios for new lines…

It's not weird if you consider the details and the many ways that the situations are very different. But also, people cared about that other kind of BS too, e.g., https://news.ycom…

Rogue looks like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Rogue_Sc... Brogue looks like this: https://syltefar.com/screenshot/?id=624

> Dear Alan, > > It is with great joy that I have accepted the invitation to write you a personal letter. Even in your scientific writings your presence as a person is very strong,…

The LLMs are training "us" now. First we develop the machines, then we contort the entire social and psychic order to serve their rhythms and facilitate their operation.

I did a few days of AoC in 2020 in λProlog (as a non-expert in the language), using the Elpi implementation. It provides a decent source of relatively digestable toy examples: http…

I find that if I have my rabbit's foot and lucky socks on, I win working code ~1.2x more often.

This will soon be happening with our parents' social security checks, our friend's cancer treatment plan, our international flights logistics, our ISPs routing configurations, ... …

Search should be a public service, open and transparent, funded by tax revenue, and maintained for the public good. It is too important a service these days to leave it up to profi…

For example "cites a different person as an author, who happened to have done all the substantive work on a related code base". ;)

This is great. If you think that the phenomena of human-like text generation evinces human-like intelligence, then this should be taken to evince that the systems likely have demen…

Right? Why would anyone muddy work with morality in this day and age? Morality is so 2010s.