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If it'd be any consolation, I for one find it interesting, even if you don't. I like to keep my AI writing detector honed, and others' opinions help. Even if I clicked figuring I wouldn't necessarily find the article all that interesting, I might end up reading it anyway just to see what I think of the writing style.

If installing 11 Pro by hand, you can also tell it you're going to do a domain login later, and it'll let you create a local only account.

If facing the wrong way, regular lights can shine at least a bit into oncoming traffic, as they're set up to illuminate the pavement or verge when driving on the normal side.

This works well with an ordinary allocator too. At a previous place i worked, we had an allocate high option for the ordinary memory manager, that would find the highest possible address rather than the lowest. Pretty good for situations where you needed to allocate some transient data while creating some persistent data, without introducing unnecessary fragmentation.

The UK doesn't really rely on industrial growth for the economic growth it has.

At the bottom:

> This article was originally published in German. It was translated with technical assistance and editorially reviewed before publication.

Presumably "technical assistance" covers just about everything.

They probably fell foul of some browser text box auto-correct.

Sure, and perhaps one might end up producing output more useful to you than the other, but that doesn't make either one cruel or mean, because it's only the word machine. The rules you might use when talking to, say, your dog, don't apply!

Meanness and cruelty are irrelevant concepts when you're addressing the chatbot. It is just a machine that generates sequences of words.

Yeah, my thoughts too. Though, I will admit: I have never read a number of these. So, perhaps, the author is more perspicacious than we think.

Apple's UK layout is annoyingly slightly different from the usual PC one: https://www.thecandidstartup.org/2022/10/07/mac-british-keyb...

He's always come across to me as at least a little bit like this! His AI stuff doesn't feel enormously out of character to me. (If you hadn't encountered him before Gas Town - he's been posting online for like 20+ years, got a Wikipedia page and everything, so you can find his back catalogue and judge for yourself.)

The RPG long predates Gas Town.

Regarding Gas Town, see also https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/ :

> Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more things" tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always wanted to fiddle with Gas Town itself. The Opus tic never went away, so Gas Town effectively burned down. It had other problems, too, but 4.7 was the final straw

I hadn't seen the $122K figure mentioned previously. $87K for API-style pricing was mentioned in the above post, and ~$2,800/mo for multiple Claude Max accounts:

> My solution has been to create a token tap on $200 Max accounts, which for me work out to ~30x the list-price equivalent. So in reality I'm only spending about $2800/month out of pocket for my $87k "worth" of tokens. Though that number keeps growing alarmingly.

(He never seemed to provide numbers for Gas Town initially, whether what he paid, or what the API-style pricing would have charged, so it was interesting to get some actual figures. Sounds like a lot to me, but if he's genuinely getting multiple people's-worth of work out of it, then...)

(Also in the article: a little morsel of Emacs content, which was nice to see.)

I like to think that "probably" covers this well enough, but, yes, you're right.

Exactly!

It would probably have been safer for the author to explicitly point out that this is true for them specifically, rather than a general rule, because this way they run the risk of never hearing the end of it.

If it's 90 CD-R discs then it'll be ~63 GBytes at most, as the max CD-R capacity is ~700 MBytes. But you don't have to fill each one completely full (and the .iso file size will reflect that).

Try to do an emergency power-off on any of the above, using just your bare hands?

Say what you like about the random word sequence generation machine, but it does actually seem to be usefully good at generating sequences of random words that correspond to problems in your software. And if you're inclined to write the code by hand, it's probably going to be easier to fix up your existing shit than rewrite it all. (And if you're going to use AI, then you're hardly going to listen to me.)

I feel like I lost several IQ points just reading the headline. Thank goodness the paywall prevented me from reading any further!

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/say-i-am-alive

(How you know Claude isn't conscious: it never manages to be quite as moronic as this.)

> The English draft accurately matches the Korean source with correct numbers, headings, footnotes, and links. No Hangul remains. No corrections needed.

Good to hear!

Yeah, the subject is AI, so you try to get a crashingly obvious AI trope in there somewhere. Those are the rules.

(Disclaimer: didn't read the article. It's paywalled.)

Well done on getting that far. I noped out after the first sentence, and kicked myself for not realising it just based on the title.

EDIT: oh, hang on, I read some other comments, and it turns out there's an AI disclaimer - and, now I check again, it's true! There is! Well, fair enough then, but I think this disclaimer should come literally right at the start

You heard correctly. This discussion is about C++ though.

But sometimes you do just want the same answer each time. Not this human woo crap, where the answer depends on god knows what, but a deterministic function of some kind, reliably producing a given output for a given input according to a fixed set of rules.

Computers can do that!

"The money train". Very good. If AI ever takes your job, might I suggest a second career as a comedian.

But we already have a folder for docs? It's called "docs". If the docs are the source code, that's fine, but that doesn't mean we have to move them into the source code folder. We already have somewhere to put them! The end goal should be for the source code folder to be in the .gitignore, same as you would with object files... but if the docs are in there, now you're stuck.

They've been selling phones for less than 20 years at this point? Though I suppose 1.9 is not equal to 1, so it gets the plural.

I just got served a big chunk of JSON, not even pretty-printed, with the text in there... somewhere. Difficulty level: quite high, even in reader mode.

(same on macOS+Firefox and iPhone+Safari)

I for one always appreciate it. The comments help me judge whether I'm right or wrong in my own opinion.