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Most of my past roles had very simple code at the important deliverable level, on bizarre and arcane platforms that would have little context for frontier LLMs. Most the creativity…

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And the mechanical correctness is the hazard. To anyone used to essay assignments since time immemorial it feels intuitively done.

Human insight can emerge from attacking the semblance of sense in the LLM's output. Much of the cognitive work in writing emerges in the labor of writing prose and challenging assu…

So you're laundering academic class contempt into a theory of liberation.

I guess we found the target audience for models that slather READMEs in emojis.

Because it's not elitist ivory tower navel gazing with possible 8th order effects or something.

Different meme, about adtech-driven dystopia. See original greentext [0] [0] https://files.catbox.moe/eqg0b2.png

The latter is definitely more colorful, and reflects a parrot's tendency to glom on to patterns. "Not X, but Y" being one of the more infamous ones. Once in frustration I called a …

Tried it for while, works with GrapheneOS and Android Auto well enough. What I absolutely can’t stand is the routing. It once tried to send me through residential Oakland on some M…

EVE to me is an odd duck because it's an explicitly cutthroat universe - many people log on expecting monsters. There are a lot of supportive players out there among the trolls; wh…

No worries, in some languages it is indeed one word - like Luftwaffe . I've seen many native English speakers routinely bang out "airforce", so it's not just an ESL thing.

A lot of floppy-based games have on-disk copy protection patterns that take advantage of undocumented behavior of disk drives at the time. So much so that tools like Greaseweazle […

USAF veteran here. I grew up on F-15 Strike Eagle II, and unfortunately my copy has long since degraded. I am elated to see this project. I do have one teeny, tiny, personal pedant…

As long as the vehicle traveling above Mach 1 remains a ground vehicle, the FAA won't get involved.

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I'm reminded of prepper forum discussions. Where some do little more than hoard supplies, weapons and gadgets yet don't network and build communities. In an actual societal breakdo…

Exactly. So many comments here about technical solutions are missing the underlying government/authority problem, or are actively a part of it.

Online anonymity makes it harder for TPTB to punish dissidents.

It's by no means accurate, but the comparative histories of Ladybird vs. Servo sure has some parallels with Linux vs. GNU Hurd.

Mozilla laid off the Servo team years ago.

I upgraded a ~1992 Dell 486 DX2 to 36MB (original 4MB + 32MB...or was it a pair of 16MB sticks? hard to remember) around 1997 or so.

Just slap a new legally-distinct-but-still-confusing name on your client/server pair, and use it as a marketing tool to sucker in purchasing managers. Like EtherNet/IP, where the I…

The company itself might not discriminate as a policy, but some hiring managers certainly have their preferences. Or exclusively pull talent from their overseas cousin's brother's …

The pelt is what's harvested - the fur is not removed from the skin. In some cases the animal's hair can be cut without harm, like how sheep are shorn for wool.