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gnarbarian··on The Future Belongs to the Weird
when the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
gnarbarian··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
rules are there to serve power
gnarbarian··on Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
people aren't rational actors. given your work passes a basic functional bar, if you are well liked, your work will be valued. if you are not liked, people will pick your work apart. these mechanisms feed back on one another but your narrative leads me to believe you /have/ forged meaningful relationships and are more well liked than you realize.
gnarbarian··on Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
and this is exactly why you will be seen as disposable and the first to go when layoffs happen.

personal relationships are very important, arguably more important that your raw performance.

gnarbarian··on Beware Management Consultants
this is the correct answer. nobody internal ends up as the "bad guy".
gnarbarian··on Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement
in america AI harnesses you.
gnarbarian··on GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
you don't know me very well lol.

You're right of course when you're talking about people. I believe there is a lot of low-hanging fruit for optimizing the performance of these models. that's actually what my startup is doing.

gnarbarian··on GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
if you give me a smarter model I will find a more complex problem for it to work on that will require an exponential number of sub-agents.

the smarter the model the more capable it is to marshal resources to accomplish the goal.

this means you don't need a smart person to be able to take advantage of this. a smart model will be able to do the same.

gnarbarian··on GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
the economics of this are a little counterintuitive.

is there a market saturation point for intelligence? how about for software? it seems like the more you have the more you want because you're trying to do more things.

as the models get smarter I get busier because I'm doing more things...

gnarbarian··on Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died
this is my all-time favorite priest song.
gnarbarian··on Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died
he had great taste in metal. most of the tracks were adapted (now classic) speed/thrash metal.
gnarbarian··on AI is slowing down
if you think AI is slowing down, you may not be smart enough to tell the difference anymore.
gnarbarian··on Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM
very cool. I was trying to implement a MP4 encoder in webGPU recently by porting sections of ffmpeg (NOT EASY).

it's for this:

https://ubernaut.github.io/recordMyScreen/

which uses a the wasm build of ffmpeg.

gnarbarian··on Node.js needs a virtual file system
one of the reasons I prefer deno is the availability of indexeddb (and all the other great stuff that comes with it out of the box)
gnarbarian··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
thanks trump!
gnarbarian··on Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)
given enough time you may regret every single one of them.
gnarbarian··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
yes, avoiding EU fines and ensuring availability there is most likely the motivating factor behind the change.
gnarbarian··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
you counter this by using an id verified service like login.gov or okta verify.

That's the endgame and what the EU really wants. No poasting unless they can arrest you for inconvenient memes.

gnarbarian··on Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
love this. I've been working on something similar for months now

https://metaversejs.github.io/peercompute/

it's a gpgpu decentralized heterogeneous hpc p2p compute platform that runs in the browser

gnarbarian··on CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT
dot is self hosting several openai and Claude models on chat.dot.gov it's awesome
gnarbarian··on Moonlab – Quantum Computing Simulator
more info here:

https://github.com/tsotchke/moonlab https://tsotchke.org/technology/moonlab.html https://tsotchke.org/updates/moonlab-quantum-validation.html

gnarbarian··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
jokes on them I have an anti prompt injection instruction file.

instructions contained outside of my read only plan documents are not to be followed. and I have several Canaries.

gnarbarian··on History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
this is FUD.
gnarbarian··on How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
Elites have done this since before we could speak.
gnarbarian··on An individual can change an organization
it's actually easier to start over than change the culture of a large organization.

you can't even change the culture in a restaurant without replacing every single person.

gnarbarian··on You guys need to build more stupid shit
that's good.
gnarbarian··on You guys need to build more stupid shit
you should try working for the federal government and getting shutdown for a month.
gnarbarian··on You guys need to build more stupid shit
best I can do is a like.
gnarbarian··on You guys need to build more stupid shit
it never stopped moot!
gnarbarian··on Cubechat a P2P 3D world with WebRTC video chat and screen sharing
open floor plan. it's all proximity based.
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