Something something when a metric becomes a target something something it ceases to be a useful metric. Only in this case the metric is fungible and can be traded for almost anything else in the world. No wonder it became the target.

The older I get, the more I think Tolkien and Herbert had it right (despite disagreeing with much of their politics); gift economies, subsistence farming, and self-reliance are the way to go to prevent us from destroying ourselves.

Salesforce also recently admitted they were too hasty when they tried to replace humans with ais: https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/salesforce-now-admits-its-ai-agents-were-unreliable-after-cutting-4000-jobs/

Then I guess it’s time to put “AI” (actually 3 if-statements in a trench coat) into all my software projects so they can legally jailbreak corporate software!

The author showed up in the hackernews comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367475 for the post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372060 for the author’s comment.

Apparently their corporate context is inside kubernetes and prevents UDP. Personally I don’t know enough to say whether they’re just ignorant, lazy, or they have “valid” constraints.

But yeah, didn’t tmux solve this problem a few decades ago, already?

Also, no federation on the NodeBB/piefed unless/until the users overwhelmingly ask for it.

NodeBB or maybe piefed to host announcements and provide a place for questions and feedback.

Consider creating an account for each household with a “correct horse battery staple” style password that’s easy to input on mobile, print out a little slip of paper with an explanation blurb and account name & password, and deposit in their mailbox.

Do not expect any users until you’ve hosted several game nights that had multiple attendees. From what you say you are the events committee, not the online life committee. I would thus recommend to stay focused on events until people bring up, unprompted, a desire for more casual day-to-day interactions. You want to be integrating into their existing habits, not trying to replace them. Let the “switching” happen on their own initiative lest they feel like they’re being co-opted for your own personal agenda.

Damn, and anthropic is supposed to be the least shitty of the western LLM actors.

I heard an interview with one of the victim’s family’s lawyers on the radio last week. They described going from incredulity to shock and outrage as each case was examined in court and the defense’s tone and arguments got more and more accusatory and belligerent. The anesthetist is apparently the one common factor in all the deaths.

Of course, it’s part of their job to garner sympathy in whatever way possible.

Scary stuff all around.

Interesting read, but I’m perhaps even less convinced than before that chat-oriented programming is a better use of my time than learning to write the thing myself. Especially having to work about token quotas is frightening; I don’t have to spend any money to think for as long as the problem requires me to, but each “thought” you make the LLM agent do is cents if not dollars up in flames.

I’ll continue to play around with self-hosted, local models for now.

Well, that (surprisingly) didn’t last long.

I dislike yaml as much as the next person, but you can always “just” write Jason JSON (lol autocorrect). Unless I’m misunderstanding your criticism?

Forgejo has their own runner: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/actions/runner-installation/

I’ve used it on my personal machine, was very easy to setup and mostly compatible with GitHub actions out-of-the-box (including things like actions/checkout@v4).

I dunno if you’re referencing The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant or if you just happened to have a similar train of thought as it’s author.

As well as 200 miles from every international airport inside the US.

Good thing I never deleted my linkedin, that should be much cleaner than fediverse accounts

Given the stochastic nature of LLMs and the pseudo-darwinian nature of their training process, I sometimes wonder if geneticists wouldn’t be more suited to interpreting LLM output than programmers.

According to this article written in July, it’s a bit more dire than that if you take a step or two back. Basically, openai and their copycats/derivatives are being held up by investments from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta, who in turn are being held up by investments from Nvidia. If/when the whole chain collapses it’ll be more than 0.5% of earnings that disappear.

Not that I disagree, just as someone who loves computers and programming it really feels like throwing out the baby along with the bathwater.

We could (should imo) be planning a sort of overthrow of the rich assholes who don’t share; make sure everyone has access to a computer, the electricity need to run it, and the knowledge to use it to their own benefit.

The second, longer quote in my previous comment is from the intro to a computer self-help/“how-to” book, Without Me You Are Nothing (pdf link).

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” – Frank Herbert

"Right now there is an explosive growth of the number of computers and things they can do. Not only are their numbers increasing at a dazzling rate, but the storage of information in giant data banks is growing in the same explosive way.

We have no way to control this now and none in sight. In fact, the very nature of this growth says that all controls will lag far behind computer developments. Any attempt to ban them will only drive com- puters underground. Never lose sight of the fact that computers “crunch time.” The speed at which computers can operate tells us that laws cannot keep up with them. The person with a computer can dance rings around you while you react as though you were embedded in molasses.

What can you do?

Get your own computer. Learn how to use it. We are here to help you make that first step: how to find the one that fits your needs and your pocketbook, where to put it, how to program it-all of the essentials. If you don’t do this, the Bill of Rights is dead and your individual liberties will go the way of the dodo." – also Frank Herbert

I hate how much we seem to be slowly careening towards Frank Herbert’s vision like the worse case of collective target fixation.

https://learn.dvorak.nl/ <- used this to learn dvorak. I really liked how I didn’t need to switch my layout at the computer level just to learn.

https://zty.pe/ <- used this to practice and get my speed up, regardless of dvorak/qwerty/azerty. The way it plays, the ramping up of word length and frequency, I find more effective for “locking in” the positions in my mind and fingers. Especially once there are several words on-screen; you need to actively choose which one you’re going to type next instead of the program choosing for you. In my experience, that added active part of the process really helps expedite the formation of muscle memory.