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blarg1··on US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit
computer says no
blarg1··on Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
It would be cool seeing non programmers using it to automate their tasks, maybe using a scratch like language.
blarg1··on Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard
My ears tire when hearing foreign languages spoken, it feels like my ears keep automatically trying to discern each word as if I might understand them.
blarg1··on Your Doctor Won't See You Now–Or Ever Again
I prefer self checkout.
blarg1··on Is English a “creole Language”?
Since we're posting skits, I'll post this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk

blarg1··on Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python
I find lisp horrible for procedural code but fine for functional code for some reason.
blarg1··on Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?
in the supermarket aisle?
blarg1··on Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'
The Sky Crawlers,
blarg1··on Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'
I read 9 or so of the grimgar books, the story became really stupid until I had to give up. The anime ended at the right time.
blarg1··on I nearly died drowning
I still have my first memory of going in a pool, I just jumped straight in and I was doing kind of star jumps with my head popping in and out of the water, while my mum took her sweet arse time fishing me out. I remember being annoyed at that for a while lol.
blarg1··on If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it?
Also a semi religion, I'm always seeing people say before OOP everything was terrible, and everything good thing is due to OOP (eg structs, methods, polymorphism)
blarg1··on The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin
I saw a youtube video recently where the guy believes evolution exists, but doesn't think the brain can evolve since it's not exposed to the air.
blarg1··on Programming Beyond Paradigms
Dynamic dispatch doesn't solely belong to the OOP paradigm.
blarg1··on Last year, an unknown person took nominal control over OpenAI's startup fund
mas namtla
blarg1··on Explorative Programming
> structure of those abstractions was discovered while making the mess

I often feel like the code I write isn't something I came up with, just something I'm discovering as I go.

blarg1··on Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare (2021)
I saw a youtube video the other day about how a wasp sting infects the caterpillar with a virus to modify its behaviour and stop it from turning into a butterfly.
blarg1··on Show HN: 3DGS.cpp – performant, cross platform Gaussian Splatting with Vulkan
Probably, I saw one where they took scenes from movies and recreated 3D versions of them.
blarg1··on Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
Dumb bombs can be aimed accurately.
blarg1··on What if modern appliances were built like the KitchenAid stand mixer?
did you limit the speed to 2? I had to have someone tell me that because I didn't read the manual.
blarg1··on Show HN: Shadeup – A language that makes WebGPU easier
Vulkan is too hard and metal is only for mac.
blarg1··on OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
D++
blarg1··on Hacking my filter coffee machine
Funny caffeine doesn't seem effect me like that.

But sugar does, I can only have a small piece of chocolate a day if I don't want headaches and muscle aches upon stopping.

blarg1··on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
Because some ads are really irritating with loud music and annoying voices, advertising things I have no use for. And they keep playing me the same 2-3 ads over and over.

If they would just advertise things I was interested in, and skip/block the ones I'm not, then I would watch them.

blarg1··on 'This Is a False Advertisement': X Ads Are Being Challenged by Reader Context
I remember gab did this for web pages but google/mozilla banned the browser extension for some reason.

I always thought it was a cool idea to be able to see comments left by other people though.

blarg1··on Smart Programmers Write STUPID Code (2022)
Took me much too long to realise that :(
blarg1··on Smart Programmers Write STUPID Code (2022)
I remember after learning OOP I found myself unable to write any code without violating some principle.

It's like trying to solve a puzzle that doesn't have a solution.

blarg1··on Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools
Reminds me of one I had where it would start clicking and file access froze, so I would turn it side ways and bang it against the table, it seemed to unstick it.
blarg1··on The worst API ever made (2014)
I still remember thinking how weird all the windows stuff was when I was a kid. Not just the windows api, but weird stuff like mfc.
blarg1··on The businessmen broke Hollywood
Recently they were doing a Life of Brian play, where they wanted to cut out a certain scene.
blarg1··on What to do if your house is overflowing with books
I threw my Visual Basics 6 in 24 hours out ages ago, now I wish I still had it for nostalgia.
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