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Let that sync in

A game where you're narcoleptic and keep falling asleep at random unannounced times. While taking a flight from A to B, you wake up at different times entirely, on the same (or an equivalent) flight, seeing whatever was going on back then. Sometimes it's a flight with the Wright Brothers, sometimes you're flying during WWII, and sometimes you might just be on the plane heading towards the twin towers (right as you wake up back on your own original flight). Maybe even some mini-games where you might have the chance to foil a hijacking in progress, or maybe you need to be "the doctor on the plane", or maybe you wake up as the guy that's carrying the crying baby. You never know when, where, or who you'll wake up as.

The value to Google - sure. But the market value of the exploit itself - the black market I think is a factor in that regardless of what Google offers.

The value of something is dictated by what _the market_ offers, and just because Google throws a lowball price because _they_ don't value it doesn't necessarily mean that the value of the exploit itself is as low as they dictate.

There will always be someone who would screw Google just for the love of the game, and if they got a better price from elsewhere, I don't see why _morality_ would really play that big of a role. It all comes down to incentives, and if Google doesn't incentivize doing the good thing enough, then someone _will_ incentivize them to do the bad thing just a bit more.

I feel like there’s parallels to be made for everything that has potential upside without clarity into the “downsides” unless you yourself get into them. Now when AI can “do everything”, everyone* (exaggeration) wants the potential upside of (1) being a software engineer, (2) being a write, (3) being a solo business owner, etc without wanting to put in the effort to learn how to do it.

No, that I think would be Match.com or something along those lines. This is like the grandfather or grand-grandfather of Tinder, but not even intentionally.

What I find funny is how an Estonian proverb/saying would fit here quite nicely: “don’t try to teach your grandfather how to have sex.” In this case, the grandfather didn’t need teaching - it was molded by the era into what was necessary.

Trending towards the Homo Amens Mechanicus: the mechanical thoughtless human. What a goal

What might the “parameters/layers to gates” ratio look like? My naive and uninformed guess would be that 1B+ parameter would also need a 1B+ gate FPGA, but according to google they typically range from tens of thousands to several million (which would still be a fraction of a billion).

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That’s the thing - his side quests have nothing to do with weed (aside from him occasionally mixing it in) - Twitch streaming, a cooking show with Martha Steward, a kids songs and nursery rhymes channel (Doggyland), and so much more.

And then lizard man is what… going to the gym, grilling in his backyard, and going live on facebook. Essentially just trying to show us that he TOO is a Real Boy

It’s second top, so it’s almost as good, especially considering my lack of meaningful addition to the conversation about Cuckleburger

Yeah, that seems to be the general pattern across vi-emulation. However, back when I was on IntellJ stuff (pre vi-emulation), I was already quite deep into the plethora of keyboard shortcuts within IntelliJ, so although you couldn’t do everything with just vi-emulation, you could still do essentially almost everything without leaving the keyboard. Not the same as full blown vim, but it was a solid workflow in my eyes.

The main reason I switched was because of finances and hardware limitations, as I’m now rocking an 8GB M1 MBP

IntelliJ actually does (did) have quite solid vim emulation, at least from my experience of using it before going full into neovim (now on Emacs, btw)

No, that award will forever be bestowed to Snoop Dogg, at least in my book

I love how the closer we get to “the edge of the Reality”, the more it sounds like the ramblings of someone that got their hands on some of that GOOD stuff

Didn’t the primary maintainer already signal burnout or frustration or something like that? If an AI company actually did port ffmpeg *successfully* (not like claude CC), the dude might get the release he might have been yearning for

On something that is inherently non-deterministic? Something which is also to a great extent distilled from other frontier models, meaning it has the possibility to generate similar outputs to those meaning that just pattern detection might also not be as effective? Easier to ban everything that’s open, than try to figure out which one of them is Chinese

I switched to Emacs. Whatever AI did to TreeSitter caused it to constantly yell at me about errors because of markdown which I do not have the energy to figure out, while losing syntax highlighting and formatting support entirely whenever that happens.

Otherwise though - same as usual, although I do keep my AI agent and my editor separate since I still choose to review, verify, and even write a lot of the code myself (too poor to constantly throw money at an LLM)

The cannabis to cocaine pipeline sadly is real, whether we want to or not. As long as the same people we buy our weed from also have a chance of being the people that have cocaine for you to buy, all that’s left to figure out is the money and the willingness to buy some.

(Sadly speaking from experience)

(As a non American) I remember hearing a joke that goes something like “How do you fix a Chevrolette? Buy a Ford”, but nowadays I guess a bike is a better option

Round it up

Haven’t gotten around to get myself a car yet, but I did have one of those electric scooters (2x900W motors I think, up to 50-60km/h depending on the climb) along with full gear (from moto shoes, gloves, and a helmet, to kevlar pants and an armored jacket). We had “roads” for bicycles and stuff like that, heavily isolated from regular traffic, and maybe having 1-2 people every 500-1000m.

I very often went on a baked circuit there, not as a “let’s get a faster lap time”, but more of a “clear my mind” type of ride. For things like this, I definitely prefer to be baked simply because of how it weirdly helped me disconnect from everything else going on in my life, focusing only on the about 15-20km of quiet, nature-adjacent, 95% empty, smooth bike road.

When I took the same scooter out to ride within traffic (akin to a motorbike, following all traffic rules aside from “vehicle registration” and “a license” because these weren’t and AFAIK still aren’t feasible for these), it was a whole different story. What riding with cannabis showed me was that you need to have trust in both yourself and your surroundings. But riding in traffic, sharing the road with people that aren’t even used to seeing motorbikes on the road that often (let alone electric scooters sharing the road with cars), being baked definitely made things more stressful than it would have needed to be.

Since when is playing a movie off of a projector illegal? Projection is not necessarily distribution, just as playing local media files is not necessarily piracy. I will definitely be grabbing my popcorn for the legal show though

I decided to work towards pivoting away from full stack web and mobile development into something deeper, something closer to the metal, and something that could have a physical end result.

I started programming at 12 because I loved games and wanted to grow up to become a game developer. Then life happened and I had to drop out of high school, find work (in web and mobile), which is what I have now been doing for the past decade.

After just a few years into actually working, I had the thought that maybe the thing I’m passionate in isn’t actually valuable to companies. Getting existential anxiety around the age of 20 is insane. So I instead figured “fuck it, I’ll play this game until I can finance returning to school, continue my education, and go from there.”

Over the years, this sort of existential “this is my passion, but I hate doing it as a job” just grew and grew up until we had AI. That just made things even more unbearable, up until now when I decided that if I’m going to be working in this bullshit industry, I’d rather be doing something which I enjoy.”

Using AI to build software has for me removed nearly everything that has still kept me thinking that maybe I could power through it. So now, I’m going to instead dive into actually learning C, then moving more towards embedded devices, and ultimately trying to pivot (or grow) my skillset towards that area instead. Since I also love to teach, my plan is to start both documenting my journey through videos, and to try to also get my feet wet with trying to make educational content.

For money though, I have no fucking clue what I’ll do. But the important thing for me is that whatever I do, or however much I make - at least I’ll enjoy the journey, instead of waking up miserable.

Or blindly committed

At least it isn’t AI

If I understand GDPR and “the Right to be forgotten” properly, then yes - they would have to actually delete the information.

Edit: at least when it comes to PII, which I presume should include photos of you, or any personal detail of you. The content you may have posted there up until then - that might be a different story

You will own nothing, and you will be greatful for it

If you have real traffic and bot traffic, you still need to identify which is which. On top of that, bots very likely don’t reuse the same IPs over and over again. I assume if we knew all the IPs used only by bots ahead of time, then yeah it would be simple to blacklist them. But although it’s simple in theory, the practice of identifying what to blacklist in the first place is the part that isn’t as simple

I was guessing one of them would be Russia or China or something like that. Wasn’t surprised the other one was the US though

Good thing they were already in the stall, as that coke was bunk, and cut with laxatives