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dbt00··on All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes
Tomatoes are high in glutamate, which accentuates beef flavor.
dbt00··on We let AIs run radio stations
Most radio stations are already boring soulless algorithmic slop. They could make it better by curating musical taste.
dbt00··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
If it was wrong in 2019, why did he wait 7 years to do something about it?

The passage of time makes it harder to have a fair trial, as shown by the number of times Elon said I don't know or I don't recall about conversations that would have been recent in 2019 but are now long (or strategically) forgotten.

dbt00··on Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]
If you feel like fucking around with new source control tools, jj (jujutsu)'s megamerge workflow is really good at this.

(If you're not interested, feel free to skip the rest of this).

I have each in process workstream in a commit that is merged at the top level, then I have a new wip commit off of that where stuff I'm typing right now sits.

It's easy to split/squash/absorb parts of that commit into the right destination, but also to introduce parents of the megamerge that will never get merged.

(This is a better/longer writeup of this concept)

https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-an...

dbt00··on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
> The ESA also said the bill would impose unreasonable expectations on publishers regarding licensing rights for music or IP rights, which are often negotiated on a time-limited basis. “A legal requirement to keep games playable indefinitely could place publishers in an impossible position—forcing them to renegotiate licenses indefinitely or alter games in ways that may not be legally or technically feasible,” they wrote.

Wah wah munchie wah.

This would kick in next year. You have time to make contingency plans including a kill switch to put in shitty royalty free music if you need to.

> “Consumers receive a license to access and use a game, not an unrestricted ownership interest in the underlying work,” the ESA wrote. The eventual shutdown of outdated or obsolete games is “a natural feature of modern software,” the group added, especially when that software requires online infrastructure maintenance.

Go fuck yourselves.

dbt00··on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
Joe Lonsdale left Palantir in 2009 and moved on to Formation 8 and then 8vc. He was vocally pro-Palantir and used his co-founder status in the press a lot, but was off the board by 2010 and operationally had nothing to do with them since then.
dbt00··on Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
Honestly, until JJ is 1.0, I wouldn't recommend it for beginners. There's significant changes happening to the interface still.
dbt00··on Jujutsu Megamerges for Fun and Profit
this is great stuff. I've been ad hoc building a version of this workflow, and it is quite fantastic.

I'm still not as smooth at figuring out conflicts on mega-rebase.

dbt00··on What game engines know about data that databases forgot
Many games have obvious inventory dup exploits that this is a very reasonable solution for.
dbt00··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
thousands of people die every year from DHMO toxicity, literal overdoses of DHMO, yet you can still find it in baby food and breast milk.
dbt00··on What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)
an obscure but very powerful matrix-centered programming language usually considered to be "write only", as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.
dbt00··on Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence
FSD still sucks ass compared to Waymo.
dbt00··on Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
2004, actually, with a minor update in 2008. This was the same principle I used coincidentally at the same time to also disbelieve the same thing.
dbt00··on SpaceX files to go public
Yeah, the OEX is a more serious index for more serious people.
dbt00··on AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying
How many American schoolchildren have Iran killed in the last 25 years? How many Iranian schoolchildren have America killed?

Where's your moral justification for this war of choice if "oops, 137 dead kids is a normal expected outcome"?

dbt00··on I quit editing photos
Jewel cases may be fragile but LPs are far more vulnerable to damage than CDs are. There are much better ways to hold a CD collection.
dbt00··on Waymo Safety Impact
Waymo uses remote contractors to hint the Waymo driver when it can't figure out a path forward. They're not being remote piloted.

They are however, very cagy about how often this is necessary.

dbt00··on Waymo Safety Impact
This is like keeping your kids inside in case something bad happens to them.

If your kids never leave the house, something bad definitely happens to them, they stay kids.

dbt00··on Anthropic, please make a new Slack
"A slack that doesn't suck" doesn't exist, and whoever thinks Anthropic of all people are going to build that has no idea how this is going to work.

Slack has massive lock in due to cross-organization connections. The only way you're going to get people off slack is to build a 10x better mode for collaboration than river of shit chat, and while such models probably exist, you also have to convince people that they are better.

I wish whomever tries this the best of luck.

dbt00··on What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state
I think they were already in the async world and needed message passing -- the polling code was also in python async.
dbt00··on What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state
What about a more general message-passing mailbox approach? This works really well in the Erlang/gen_server/gen_fsm world. (and in plenty of other contexts, but Erlang's OTP is still some of the best, simplest incarnation of these things)
dbt00··on Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective
When I was younger I was lucky enough to live somewhere rural where I got into a couple of single car accidents that I walked away from. Now my ADHD hyper focus is super attentive when driving.
dbt00··on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
Who is accountable for the actions of the bot? It's not sentient, and this author is claiming zero accountability -- I just set it up and turned it loose bro, how is what it did next my fault?
dbt00··on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
I sat in the back seat of a model Y with two other adults and it was extremely painful.
dbt00··on The Waymo World Model
(Always worth noting, human depth perception is not just based on stereoscopic vision, but also with focal distance, which is why so many people get simulator sickness from stereoscopic 3d VR)
dbt00··on GPT-5.3-Codex
I can't get over Scam Altman.
dbt00··on Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
I lived through some of the events described therein. It's not satire.
dbt00··on Pre-commit hooks are broken
Came here to mention jj fix. It is a fundamentally more elegant way of doing things.
dbt00··on Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet
A signature on a certificate doesn't allow CA to snoop. They need access to the private key for that, which ACME (and other certificate signing protocols in general) doesn't share with the CA.
dbt00··on 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately
You're not going to to get a good answer to this, because 1) 99% of people here aren't lawyers and 2) the ones who are lawyers or know the law have better things to do than argue with the nonsense machine, certainly not via proxy.

Willful copyright infringement means liability for statutory damages, compensatory damages, claims on all profits, and legal fees (yours and theirs).

(I am not a lawyer, I am not your lawyer, chatgpt is a very bad lawyer).

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