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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I think Trash Future had a great statement when Richard Dawkins was going on about Claudia that applies to this, which was "you don't have put in the the newspaper that you hug your stuffed animals and tell them good night."
The rsync slop-code scandal (mentioned here earlier) has now blown up in rsync's github issues tab. And of course on the orange site.
The "C is too hard for the AI so have the AI rewrite it in Rust" take is just so galaxy-brained.
I strongly suspect there are an uncomfortably large number of Rust enthusiasts who tacitly assume that all the type-checking/borrow-checking/object lifetime tracking are primarily enabling features for AI coding.
i have already seen ai enthusiasts make quite clear that they imagine the purpose of formal theorem verification is to act as a bolt on for llms
I want to believe that's next-level trolling. It's too funny to be true.
The manager of the store says:
"Stop. You know nothing. You have baked 0 bread loaves by hand. No one has ever depended on your bread. You are a finger-wagging "they put dog poo in my bread" type in an era where you hide in plain sight coasting on the moral high ground of baking homemade bread from scratch at home without poo. You can't ship bread, can't adapt, can't even realize that a bread shop is not the place for this kind of attitude."
dogshit bread is the future, so you better get over it.
@TinyTimmyTokyo @BlueMonday1984
> OP's language seems as if it belongs to someone who trains their children that gender and sex are different and sincerely hopes his son will play with dolls
Says Mx. keysmash username, as if it was a bad thing 🧐
A detailed look at what kind of slop code is being added to rsync and how exactly slop codes does, allegedly, "tests". Somehow it's just what I expected and worse than I thought.
OK sysadmin question: how can I “pin” a last-known good version in apt?
https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration#Using_pinning
Beware that down the line you may run into dependency resolution issues (but hopefully the upstream situation is resolved by then)
If you ignore the AI images (not sure how much of an excuse 'it was a joke' is but whatever) an interesting take on AI shit from an economic perspective: https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory
our favorite techno-fascist hacker has posted a plea for money to buy a house in the most expensive place in the world and to exclusively fly around in private jets because she's the best at writing code to multiple matrices and everyone has been so unjustly mean to her. https://justine.lol/animus/
I'm pretty sure that this was triggered by Rich Felker (musl) telling her to go away last week. She's finally asked a search engine for her legacy; previously, on Awful, we discussed the degree to which she's done this to herself by loudly espousing corporate fascism.
Why doesn't she just ring up Peter Thiel. She seems like just the type of person he'd love to donate some Thiel bucks to.
EDIT: I just went to her linked GitHub sponsors page. I was surprised to find Simon Willison there, but maybe I shouldn't have been. It certainly gave me another reason to look sideways at him.
He probably hates trans people.
Does not seem uncommon under a subset of very privileged white gay men. So not shocked if Thiel does.
by "culture wars" she means she's a fucking nazi
This was the reason Wendy Hanamura cited when she canceled my invitation to speak at the Internet Archive.
hmm, looking at the text you link it says "your past statements in Twitter" first. could it be they found out you're a fucking nazi
also you're shocked, shocked to find that 4chan people are assholes. you hang out there for hours at a time. probably just coincidence.
Tunney has deleted the post already! But there's an archive and another one
i don't think she should be allowed to say "the ghetto." doesn't matter whether it's problematic when someone else says it, she definitely doesn't get to
The first technologist was Prometheus who took fire from the gods and gave it away to humanity.
"This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
I need you to donate money to me, and I mean you, as in literally you. You couldn't have read this far unless you are someone who legitimately cares
I have been helpless with giggles for five fuckin' minutes.
she badly underestimates my capacities as a hater
Prometheus a technologist? No he was a social media user.
"prometheus: hot take,
the greek gods: no give that back"
https://modmad.tumblr.com/post/758625466711228416
Also you do care just not in the way she hopes.
Gestural Bayesianism!
I am the intersection of so many unliked groups whose minds I've come to understand. If you were to use bayesian inference to compute the probability that I'm a good person, it would underflow a double.
Hold on whilst I update towards the hypothesis that bayes for these people is just a syllable they emit when they talk about forming opinions.
From the linked post:
Hacker News is my favorite place on the web, because it's the last bastion of curiosity online.
Fuuuuck off
I need you to donate publicly under your real name and I want you to tell your friends how much money you gave me, since that's the best way to show that you're serious.
This improves dramatically if you read it in the voice of Wayne Newton's televangelist character from License to Kill (1989).
I want to travel around the world and experience the cosmopolitan lifestyle my project is named after, using only private aviation, so that I won't be molested or risk being detained each time I fly.
Grifting off the United States' escalating institutional abuse of trans people is a special kind of ghoulish.
I need you to donate publicly under your real name and I want you to tell your friends how much money you gave me, since that’s the best way to show that you’re serious.
Thats a trap if I ever saw it.
Hacker News is my favorite place on the web, because it's the last bastion of curiosity online.
Speaking of HN, here's the discussion there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314875
btw, when normal people read that someone has a lien on their income from the state of New York, they don't assume it's because she's a brave truth-talker being oppressed by the Man, they assume she can't fucking handle her finances and they should be really careful donating money to her.
There's gold in them comments:
The fundamental tension here is between pre-Christian and post-Christian worldview. Are you allowed to be great, or do you have to apologize for your greatness? Justine refuses to apologize, which is the cardinal sin.
Ha ha no it's because she went fash, you credulous dork
Friedrich Nietzche has been a disaster for the human species.
If you want to witness a bunch of emotionally stunted clanker fondlers totally missing the point, check out the comments on this orange site thread.
Related:
Paul Graham: "You're holding it the wrong way."
I was surprised in a good way see nearly every single comment call him out. Of course, some of those comments (maybe even the majority) are probably boosters mad that he is skipping the slop emails in his inbox. I guess Paul Graham found an angle of hypocrisy that both AI boosters and realists can unite in mocking. Quite an accomplishment.