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I'd hate to talk to you or be looked at by you.

I enjoyed the 2001 forum post style of this.

Here's another one of my favorites: pulling a huge weed out of soft, loose soil and hearing the crackle of the roots as they come up out of the earth.

Who would pay you? OpenAI has between $600 billion and $1.4 trillion in debt, and no hope for profitability. Anthropic, who have a much more modest $35 billion in debt (by using Sa…

I'm glad I'm not the only weirdo like this. I dropped an unfathomable $800 on a Jetson AGX Xavier in early 2020 simply because I was obsessed with SBCs at the time and couldn't sto…

"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting for you."

I have offered you a theological counterpoint to your claim, and you may take it or leave it, but you may not call me names and continue in any kind of meaningful dialogue here. It…

Allow me to restate my point: human beings and AI both create via synthesis, but we are the only ones capable of what we could categorize as true original thought or creativity. It…

I could make a robotic picture coloring machine with truly superhuman capabilities - picking only the most beautiful color combinations and staying 100% in the lines while finishin…

You forget that these models are still only interpolating between human-generated datapoints fed to them. They cannot reason beyond the data they've been given, so unless everythin…

As outlined in John 1:1, Jesus is in fact God himself, and God is something far greater and more magnificent than a humanist. The message of the Bible is a total inversion of human…

Might be an interesting read for you: https://www.gregorygaines.com/blog/emulating-ps2-floating-po...

This doesn't account for the potential instability of modern technology. If you have an efficient electric range and your neighbors are still burning wood when the power goes out, …

I daily drove my Raspberry Pi 5 for all of 2024. It primarily compiled tons of C++ and served 1080p video via Jellyfin, and it did so flawlessly.

The anti-master position also willfully disregards synonymy. Just because I have mastered the English language does not mean it belongs to me. Master Splinter does not own the Ninj…

Is the market so bad that non-exec-level new hires are making the news?

`sudo cpupower frequency-set -g conservative` might help a bit with battery life.

> I've recently heard that using Linux is an excuse to spend the day tinkering and ricing and do no productive work. This is why, despite 20 years of using Linux with many successf…

It was a dream relative to anything else on the market (until 2001, when the Xbox and GameCube were released), made even easier for some titles due to the optional Windows CE SDK. …

It's almost as if we desire each other.

What happens when you want to do something very new, or very specific?

As bearish as I am on AI, outside of the agent deciding it only wants to play "Semi Charmed Life" and nothing else, I fail to see how this is a nightmarish hellscape in and of itse…

What motivated you to move from Mercurial? I'm still using HG for personal projects because it's so easy to self-host on a Raspberry Pi. Just `hg serve -p 8001` or whatever and I'm…

Who allocates the allocator?

Python has been massive since the 2000s. When AI rolled around, it was already there, a bunch of people knew it, and it was Good Enough (tm).