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Didn’t Steve Jobs use that formula as well? The most powerful thing we released compared to last year’s thing we released?

It was, I have one.

Don't you think those companies are mostly correcting for their massive covid overhiring + zero rate bonanza coming to its end?

Also, back when elon had bought twitter and had been firing people left and right, it was prophesied that with such inept management the company was going to collapse very soon. I thought it was obvious it would collapse. But that has not happened (yet, but it's been quite some years), and the service seems to be holding up after some initial shakiness.

I wager that maybe, probably, possibly, perhaps the GUI of this thing looks like ass and feels even worse. There used to be screenshots, you can google them. But maybe don’t.

Boar leading load bearing bear loading.

Also misimprovement.

„Verschlimbesserung” is what your spouse thinks about each of your improvements to the home automation setup, or, indeed, the whole idea of home automation.

Would there be a semantic difference between Verschlimmbesserung and Verbesserschlimmung?

There are levels to that:

1) don’t need to sleep, be able to sleep: the coolest thing in the universe.

2) don’t need to sleep, be unable to sleep: you would likely cope. Also, be an irreplaceable shift worker.

3) need to sleep, be able to sleep: this is where most of us are now, nothing to write home about.

4) need to sleep, be unable to sleep: the rest of your life is short and full of exponentially growing suffering.

By „don’t need to sleep” I mean that the body refreshes itself by different means and you still reap the benefits.

I can’t really imagine how it would feel, much like I can’t imagine being immortal. Most fiction describing those phenomena as „nightmare” usually is about a character who gains the ability but none of the protective mechanisms.

Since we’re talking narcolepsy here, your passengers might disagree

Command-line tools are fine like this; a full-fledged GUI apps, not so much on account of how Cocoa/AppKit/UIKit evolved. Your x86_64 slice would have to deal with all shenanigans between 10.7 and 26, and I suspect it’s not fun at all.

Unfortunately, each time a new log analyzer appears, it seems to only be analyzing web access logs in combined format.

> I could've sworn the cook put something in it because i am not sure i've ever had a better night of sleep since.

I think the calories combined with

> a long day of hiking

could have played a part.

> An LLM is not a person. Do not humanise it. Do not personalise it. Do not treat it as more than a glorified autocorrect—that’s what it really is.

On the other hand, what an LLM is trying to autocomplete is a story of a conversation between its user and a helpful assistant, so maintaining the decorum of office politeness will align more with how it's fine-tuned and produce higher quality output.

"Daddy, vodka got more expensive now, does it mean you will be drinking less?"

"No, kids, it means you will be eating less."

Oh, I know what happens: most will fail to reinvent themselves and will spiral themselves into drugs or alcoholism.

Seen that happen once before.

Would be ever so awesome if the keyboard had feet.

As far as ergonomics go, I don't care too much about split layouts and similar nonsense, but my wrists start to hurt really fast when the keyboard is lying flat on the desk.

I've bought adhesive folding feet for my laptops. They are awesome. I used a pair for my B104 (a reproduction of IBM beam spring switches in a modern keyboard). I still wish I didn't have to glue any contraptions to devices I type on.

Nobody argues with that. But it's helpful to know right from the title that it's the original Casey's work and not something newer.

Who cares, as long as number go up?

> Every build starts from a clean room. You can never get a different result because someone installed something on the builder last week.

At least 6 years ago, this was not entirely true: a package happened to build only because, by happy accident, the builder had a dependency installed by something else. Since the dependency was not in its Build-Requires:, the build would fail in COPR, which really used a clean room. A case of being saved by the alphabetic order, I guess?

Maybe they have updated Koji since.

Passkeys do have drawbacks and tradeoffs, as has everything, but my god did I feel the energy of „lol I’m so bad at math” in that tweet and a lot of „lol smelly nerds” in replies.

Oh, forgot about that one. However, note that it's also "parasocial" in the way that the young female fans think the musicians care about them more than they actually do, by orders of magnitude.

Streamers have this feature called "chat", which feeds into the illusion. With rockstars, interactions are more limited, which is a sort of reality check.

Reddit has quite a bit of drama that their favorite youtuber, it turns out, is a flawed person! And these subscribers disagree with them! Unsubscription "breakups" ensue.

They, however, can easily find another influencer that is gonna be more "convenient" to them. Can't say it's a healthy pattern, but guess what many people will do instead of, I dunno, some introspection, reflection, habits changes?

But hey, in this day and age, people are very impatient about anything at all. Dating has become a shitshow for more than a decade now, people are looking for someone who will tick all the checkboxes, or it's a no-go. The dating apps play quite a role in this. Online discussions are a shitshow. Guess it's the zetigeist.

So are parasocial relationships with influencers or streamers. I'm not trying to relativize this, but those phenomena are in the same zip code. With the latter, though, at least there are other people who may create a community, but still it's a facet of the loneliness epidemic.

The Red Queen's Race is real, though. Compilers keep moving, platforms keep moving, users of the library (I mean programs importing/linking them) keep moving, assumptions keep moving.

One can argue that some algorithm library written in the early 1980s using F77 is as good as it was at the time of writing, but I highly doubt anyone is using it as it is.

The expectation of ongoing maintenance for oneshotted LLM rewrites is zero or negative.

Unfortunately, antivaxxers mostly go unharmed while their children suffer.

It’s almost like Nature doesn’t expect its readers to know who this Max Planck guy is. :-)

Good, but the number of internet stinks about this particular cultural appropriation I have encountered so far is zero. But I have encountered multiple dramas from people offended on behalf of the people who never asked them to whiteknight for them.