raktheundead

“Berenstein Bear”, but not “Mandala Effect”?

certainly the man is due respect

How about no?

As somebody who fell into the deep end of a pool when I was younger of my own accord and took a decade or so to learn how to swim after that, I can say that’s the sort of thing that’s gonna fuck that kid up badly. Even today, I’m not entirely comfortable in the water.

being as thorough and then some as I could ever hope to be

That’s not the flex you think it is.

Can we get LLMs to design the engine?

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You know, one of the things I resent the most about shits like Thiel and Andreessen and Altman going around with ideas like supervillains from a Saturday morning cartoon is that whenever I try to talk to other people that aren’t familiar with them about their ideas, those ideas are so excessive and ridiculous that I end up looking like a crank and conspiracy theorist just talking about them.

Apparently not; some soldiers appear to have bodged their own safeties by doing things like jamming an expended case underneath the trigger.

I agree, the article is way too credulous about the people working with and associated with OpenAI and doesn’t delve enough early enough into the dangerous weirdness of the organisation or the EA/rationalist crowd that have been leading it.

The ultimate STEMlord misunderstanding of culture; something absolutely rife in the Silicon Valley tech-sphere.

I thought it was the name of a new rapper myself.

I kind of feel like dating apps are sneer-worthy in another context anyway, but this comment does a decent job of summing everything up:

Wow, a new way to rip whatever joy was left in dating through the pursuit of profit!

Ludwig von Mises as well, which I continue to claim was a mistake.

Something I will say about War and Peace that’s rarely mentioned - probably because it is a work that is meant to mark one out as a cultured person - within the first 50 pages of the book, there’s a scene where a group of the main characters tie a policeman to the back of a bear. For some reason, it’s the part of the book that’s stuck with me the longest in association with its story.

The STEMlordery just drips from that statement.

Not using blockchains, for a start. Blockchains centralise by design, because of economies of scale.

You usually only see such aversion to showering in the Super Smash Bros. community.

Every day, we pay the price for embracing a homophobe’s 10-day hack comprising a shittier version of Lisp.

Is that a special case of the trolley problem - sacrificing Silicon Valley for the sake of everybody else that has to live with their decisions?

I’m still struggling through Z80 assembly language myself with an ultimate aim of programming for the Master System and then the Mega Drive using SGDK. But the demoscene regularly delves into the deep magic techniques in getting things done. And programming for the 2600 at the best of times was a whole different beast because of the lack of a framebuffer.

Musk, the boy, loved video games

And so he went on to make one of the worst Sega CD games. Bad show.