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It's because it's AI written with all the usual over-the-top grandeur and a ridiculous number of negative parallelisms.

> No regression. No noise. Just compounding.

> the transition is measured in years, not decades.

> not by decree, but by ruthless compounding.

I'm not interested in what an LLM thinks about the social implications of LLMs.

Yep disk space and learning curve are the two major downsides to Nix. The former has never been a problem for me in practice, just run garbage collection once a month. The latter was a big problem, but is now mitigated for most people by LLMs.

LLMs are a real gamechanger for Nix, highly recommend giving it a go again.

Both of the serious ones are not specific to Japan, I got told off in China for standing chopsticks up in rice. I suspect anywhere with a significant Buddhist population will have the same taboo.

The most embarrassing part of that article is the comment section. Not a single dissenting voice.

I’ve been frustrated by this for years, you just know that if there was a mobile data deadzone on a motorway they’d fix it immediately.

Meanwhile on the train 30 miles from London, nothing.

Because people aren’t objects.

Just to play devil’s advocate, I have found prediction markets genuinely useful despite never placing a bet.

In 2024 all of my social media feed was convinced the US election was going to go the other way. I have left wing politics and accordingly the algorithm wraps me in a bubble. It was all videos of empty trump rallies and Kamala hype. Polymarket was the main counter signal I had that the election wasn’t going to go the way I hoped.

Similarly when the room temperature super-conductor hype was happening in 2023, the prediction market for it being real never went above 25%. It’s extremely useful to be able to look at that as a layman and go “ok this probably isn’t real”.

The em dashes are the only thing making it look AI-written. I think it was human written by someone who likes em dashes.

Heavy use of /rewind helps with this - it's much better to remove the bad information from the context entirely instead of trying to tell the model "actually, ignore the previous approach and try this instead"

> All of this just to let Dolphin play online with real Wii consoles in a game whose official servers are since long dead and whose replacement servers have a peak of only 15 concurrent online players.

Knowing there's people out that who have such absurd levels of dedication makes me so happy.

I had a genuine feeling of dread reading that, wow.

This was my experience too. The USA is the only country I've ever been to where random strangers will strike up a conversation with me completely out of the blue, and I've travelled quite a lot.

Using the source code to ask questions about poorly documented features in projects you have no experience is my favourite thing that LLMs make possible (of course you could do this before but it would take way, way more time). There are so many little annoyances that I’ve been able to patch and, thanks to NixOS, have the patched software permanently available to me.

In fact NixOS + LLMs feels like the full promise of open source software is finally available to me. Everything is within reach. If you don’t like something, patch it out. If you want to change a default, patch that in.

No need to know the language, the weird build process, or the custom tooling. Idea to working binary in minutes. I love it so much.

Investor confidence is far more important to them than cashflow, and the best way to shake investor confidence is with the magic words "user numbers are down".

I don’t really understand the point of sandboxing if you’re going to give it access to all your accounts (which it needs to do anything useful). It reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1200/

it'll be interesting to see if people start writing worse as a form of countersignalling. deliberately making spleling mistakes, not caring about capital letters, or punctuation or grammar or proper writing techniques and making really long run-on sentences that don't go anywhere but hey at least the person reading it will know its written by a human right

This has happened to me so much recently that it’s actually pushing me towards reading proper books. I’m so sick of everything sounding the same.

That's irrelevant in the context of GitHub Actions: CI runners clone the repo fresh every run. If someone gets write access to a widely used action, they can force push all tags to point to a malicious commit.

This is even in GitHub's docs: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/security/secure...

> Pinning an action to a full-length commit SHA is currently the only way to use an action as an immutable release. Pinning to a particular SHA helps mitigate the risk of a bad actor adding a backdoor to the action's repository, as they would need to generate a SHA-1 collision for a valid Git object payload.

That’s fair, but GitHub themselves do it with GitHub Actions. Versioning of all official actions is done with git tags, which has always made me uncomfortable.

Do you know about *? It puts the word currently under the cursor into the search history.

So you can do *ciw, type your replacement, then n.n.n. to do the rest.

Obviously LSPs are more powerful though.

> At one point I had the misfortune to be the target audience for a particular stomach churning ear wax removal add.

So isn’t it possible that your friend had the same misfortune? I assume you were similar ages, same gender, same rough geolocation, likely similar interests. It wouldn’t be surprising that you’d both see the same targeted ad campaign.

Plenty of other hints too

> Do anything, do it at scale, and do it today

> It's not just GPUs, it's everything.

> I'm not the first, I'm just the latest.

There was a fun hacker news post a while back [0] about a website that had generated every solvable-without-backtracking 5x5 nonogram. I found it very addictive, and the creator has since released it as a paid mobile app. Highly recommended for commutes!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140918

There’s also an Easter egg if you said sponge before plankton.

I really didn’t expect to get a new favourite game of all time in my 30s, surely the nostalgia factor was too strong, but Outer Wilds was exactly that for me.

It still doesn't sound intentional to me. How many scammers are going around creating useful apps, supporting them, pushing out new features, and then finally doing the rugpull 14 years after release? It feels a lot more likely that the backend servers have fallen down on their own and for whatever reason there's no one around to fix them.

There is pretty much no risk. It’s expected you will use a VPN, you can talk about it openly in public.

Now, if you’re doing something unrelated that the administration doesn’t like, you can expect VPN use to be included in the long list of charges.

Don’t forget EXAPUNKS by the same dev! They really perfected the formula in that one.

That sounds like Flanderization to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanderization

From my experience with LLMs that's a great observation.