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debo_··on Generative AI Vegetarianism
Veg-AI-tarian?
debo_··on Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
> “The raw output of ChatGPT’s proof was actually quite poor. So it required an expert to kind of sift through and actually understand what it was trying to say,” Lichtman says.

This is how I feel when I read any mathematics paper.

debo_··on Trump evacuated from White House Correspondents' Dinner after shots fired
He had ad-Vance notice.
debo_··on South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
Not pedanticism. Pedantry.

/joke

debo_··on I am building a cloud
Are you sure they're not just being German and you are misinterpreting what they are saying?
debo_··on Website streamed live directly from a model
I queried "your mom" and it created a historical social timeline of motherhood superimposed with a placenta. I approve
debo_··on Making RAM at Home [video]
Mom: We have RAM at home!

RAM at home:

debo_··on I learned Unity the wrong way
Don't worry, blogpost author. We think you're a Queue<T> and that's all that matters.
debo_··on Do you even need a database?
It has been a long time, but I think we were reading out of various editions of the Red Book

http://www.redbook.io/

debo_··on Do you even need a database?
Michael Stonebraker used to write long, scathing critiques of modern data storage/retrieval fads, and how they were forgetting important historical lessons.

They were terrific reads; his writing on object-oriented databases was the most fun technical reading I did in grad school. And I even learned a lot!

debo_··on Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)
Remember the "degauss" button? I had no idea what it did, but the sound it made sure was satisfying.

https://youtube.com/shorts/R0OhD2Bc6FY

debo_··on A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears
The first question a robotics investor will ask themselves is "will people want to have sex with it?"
debo_··on Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
Because they are doing it for fun?
debo_··on They See Your Photos
Me too, but I'd be curious to see what it does with an entire library, as the website suggests. I found the demonstration of the intent to be interesting, regardless.
debo_··on Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use
Ice cream tends not to sell well in winter.
debo_··on The Mechanics of Steins Gate (2023) [pdf]
~tuturuu~
debo_··on Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
I'm not even Finnish and I came here to post this.
debo_··on Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go
Nim looks a lot like Python with a first-class type system and compiles to many different targets, including wasm and C.
debo_··on Apple Just Lost Me
I would not even have noticed it if not for visiting this website. It's possibly worse on iOS than on MacOS, but I don't have an iPhone.

Now, if I was developing software for MacOS and it broke all my UIs, I would be at least as irritated as the author.

debo_··on Apple Just Lost Me
You conveniently left this part out:

> First it attempted to check my Apple Wallet, it failed even though I have five cards in it and am able to use the App Store fine.

> Then it moved onto wanting me to manually add a card to verify myself. It failed with all my five cards. Four were debit cards, and one was a credit card from another country, cause you know I am an immigrant who has accounts still in my own original birth place.

debo_··on The Dude
The first time I saw the Big Lebowski, I was a very high teenager watching it through the glass of a smoking area. Notably, there was no sound. It was a heck of a way to see the movie for the first time.
debo_··on Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?
We had a version of this called "carbon pricing" that didn't involve wanton murder.
debo_··on Chuck Norris has died
I watched it all the time in Canada.
debo_··on Afroman found not liable in defamation case
Is the NY Post some kind of National Enquirer analogue? This article reads like it was written by a grade school child trying to emulate the voice of an villainous news reporter.
debo_··on Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc
This is literally how pretty much every conversation goes when you work with people close to the metal. It's a stylistic thing at this point.

For what it's worth, 20 years ago all programming newsgroups were like this. I grew my thick skin on alt.lang.perl lol

debo_··on RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
Can you just follow me around and do this to all my one-liner posts?
debo_··on RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
We should call the fake stick "NAM" for "no access memory." Then you can tell your kids that they couldn't possibly understand, man, because they weren't _there_.
debo_··on I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
Look man, people are going to talk they way they talk. Just let them do it and deal with it for God's sake.

This reminds me of a front-page post a little while ago where someone wrote how much it stressed them out when people routinely apologized for delayed responses. Get over it.

I also sometimes wonder if folks writing these articles have had to work closely with people from culturally different places. I've had coworkers that literally could not be direct if their life depended on it for that reason, and I learned to deal with it.

debo_··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
I personally think people who jog with anything more intrusive than earbuds are bonkers.
debo_··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
Same, but I made the switch to usb-c headphones as needed for my phone without complaining about it. I still use 3.5mm headphones on desktop.
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