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by bitwize 3d ago
Another fictional example: Mr. Meeseeks. Especially when the agent starts recruiting other agents.
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by bitwize 4d ago
The idea has been to get the nerds out of computing since 1971. Milt Bryce and his son Tim were pretty much the inventors of modern information-systems management[0]. And they were open in their hatred of and contempt for programmers and ho
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by bitwize 4d ago
Sam: OK, Dario, you win. We're pacing the frontier. This is what you wanted. Dario: All right, frontier is paced! From now on, AI moves forward at a rate WE decide! [Kwindla Kramer bursts into the apartment] Kramer: You guys might want
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by bitwize 4d ago
I was just thinking of this today. AI is pretty much precisely a Theranos style grift, but unlike Theranos, who were shooting for something outright impossible, Dario and Sam may be running the biggest "fake it till you make it" s
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by bitwize 4d ago
I lived in the same building with a bloke who did dangerous construction type work in the Pacific NW. Sawing branches on high cliffs, that sort of thing. He'd make a grip on a job, come back home and spend it all on booze, weed, and wo
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by bitwize 4d ago
Finest Buggywhip Maker in the Land Whinges About Those New-Fangled Automobubbles, Take #7642 It's over. AI is here, and it's so vastly better than any tooling we've produced before, that you have to be really stupidly stubb
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by bitwize 4d ago
I want to see one of those AI-generated Seinfeld episodes with Dario as George and Sam Altman as Jerry, respectively. Dario: We gotta pace the frontier! Sam: How do you pace a frontier? The frontier's not goin' anywhere. It&#x27
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by bitwize 4d ago
This is why I say that those who say "AI is a tool" don't quite have it right. AI is a service . Your power saw doesn't cut the wood for you while you go do something else, and then ask if you would like it planed nex
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by bitwize 5d ago
The on-screen "turtle" made famous by microcomputer Logos was originally just such a robot: a wheeled dome with a pen inside that you could program by giving commands written in Logo. Papert reasoned that you could get kids intere
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by bitwize 5d ago
Because it's a movie
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by bitwize 6d ago
NT kernel rewrite when?
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by bitwize 6d ago
> Software Bill of Materials Yet another thing that came from PRIDE, despite that PRIDE itself is little known in today's software industry.
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by bitwize 7d ago
Models are the worst now that they ever will be. Frontier models do a phenomenal job of employing good engineering practices and code style compared to where they were mere months ago. Unassisted programming is dead. Programming as a human
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by bitwize 7d ago
I learned to hate corpo jobs less by thinking of them as "farming gold out of a megacorp". Of course I'm losing my ability to do even that, as sloppotrons beat half-century-old grognards every damn time.
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by bitwize 7d ago
The economics of it are such that writing code is, for humans, a handicraft to be indulged in out of idle curiosity. When it comes to actually useful software, for personal or industrial use, that is better off produced by machine; it'
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by bitwize 8d ago
The Hunting for More Money
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by bitwize 8d ago
We know that they're trying to invent a machine god, and if they're even partway successful shit's gonna get real, real fast.
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by bitwize 8d ago
If reality plays out like the novel series, the rational thing is to accept the rule of our machine overlords, for they will protect us from even bigger threats.
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by bitwize 8d ago
Yes, it's fine to run a model on bare metal. The model is just a token predictor. Leave out the fine semantics about this; it's a function taking a set of input tokens to output tokens. It can't mess with your computer or fil
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by bitwize 8d ago
That's going way back, and was portable enough to be used on a variety of operating systems. There was a package of it for the HP Integral! An early version of Xlisp was used as the basis for Autolisp, but Autolisp wasn't updated
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by bitwize 8d ago
At the former apartment, my office/work area had an opening to the living area high on the wall that might've been for a window, or something. My cat spent a lot of time staring at that opening. Not just the opening itself, but he
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by bitwize 8d ago
I booted my MiSTer into TI-99/4A mode a week or so ago and started writing little programs in TI BASIC. TI BASIC sucked. It was slow, due to being written in a form of bytecode which had to be interpreted (and it would in turn interpre
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by bitwize 9d ago
Sceptre dumb TV bros still winning
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by bitwize 9d ago
I find it fascinating that the Persian word for "foreign"/"Western", farangi , actually means "Frankish", which gives some idea of the "compressed geography" people experience regarding faraway
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by bitwize 9d ago
Fantastic to see the DOS Lisp scene revived again. Back in the day there was PC-Scheme from Texas Instruments, which I believe was R3RS-compliant.
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by bitwize 9d ago
There is a bird native to the Americas which in English is called the turkey, from its original name "Turkey fowl", because it was thought to come from "the east" of which Türkiye is the country with which most Europeans
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by bitwize 9d ago
This is going to last longer. The economics of owning your own powerful hardware make sense less and less with each passing year. Compute that's rented from the cloud gets far more utilization per dollar spent, and that's just on
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by bitwize 10d ago
> All that’s left is the dumbest workflow possible: I fire up the debug viewer myself, look around for weird mistakes, then take a screenshot and tell the language model how badly it messed up this time. Eventually I just decided to do a
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by bitwize 10d ago
The other open question is, will there still be operational 3c509s 100 years from now? Another way I put it, with a heavy sigh, is: "There will come a day—and odds are, it's not far off now—when the last working real Amiga will st
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by bitwize 10d ago
There is another theory which states that this has already happened: https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/8/3/1312

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