gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 3 hours ago

Yeah. Behind all the hype about percieved productivity etc., there's really only one benchmark - will GenAI help produce better software, faster, and at less cost? So far this doesn't seem to be happening.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

I was going to offer this up as a sneer but I think the author is probably feeling very unwell and upset

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wpwQtRwcKsbd4wxXf/my-ai-slavery-interviews-are-censored-on-lw-by-default

also using LLMs is probably not helping their case

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three depicts a generation ship that's

spoilerchock full of weaponry to basically sterilize any promising planet to ensure the cargo it carries is able to survive

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

guys, the reason Codeberg decided to ban "AI" is because they host the "open slopware" list, and that inspires "meatpuppets"!

https://lobste.rs/c/u4idgu

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Now I'm no anarcho-libertarian, but I'd have thought basing my weird school/cult in a semi-authoritarian state like Malaysia would be a bit dumb.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

Le Guin deserves credit for responding to her earlier work without denigrating it.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

Was probably too much to hope for that he'd make any sort of break with current neoliberal-pilled Labour.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The Earthsea novels are not to be missed either. Maybe pass on the fifth.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If the queer experience on the 90s island of Harris intrigues you, we're halfway through Douglas Stuart's John of John and really enjoy it. Narrator has a Scots accent though, if you find that hard to deal with.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

even his AI-generated profile pic is punchable

 

current difficulties

  1. Day 21 - Keypad Conundrum: 01h01m23s
  2. Day 17 - Chronospatial Computer: 44m39s
  3. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  4. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  5. Day 20 - Race Condition: 15m58s
  6. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  7. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  8. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  9. Day 22 - Monkey Market: 12m15s
  10. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  11. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  12. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  13. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  14. Day 18 - RAM Run: 05m55s
  15. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  16. Day 23 - LAN Party: 05m07s
  17. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  18. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  19. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  20. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  21. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  22. Day 19 - Linen Layout: 03m16s
  23. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
 

Problem difficulty so far (up to day 16)

  1. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
  2. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
  3. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
  4. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  5. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
  6. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
  7. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  8. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  9. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
  10. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  11. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  12. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  13. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  14. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  15. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  16. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
 

The previous thread has fallen off the front page, feel free to use this for discussions on current problems

Rules: no spoilers, use the handy dandy spoiler preset to mark discussions as spoilers

 

This season's showrunners are so lazy, just re-using the same old plots and antagonists.

 

Years ago (we're talking decades) I ran into a small program that randomly generated raytraced images (think transparent orbs, lens flares, reflection etc), suitable for saving as wallpapers. It was a C/C++ program that ran on Linux. I've long since lost the name and the source code, and I wonder if there's anything like that out there now?

 

Rules: no spoilers.

The other rules are made up as we go along.

Share code by link to a forge, home page, pastebin (Eric Wastl has one here) or code section in a comment.

 

The wider community is still on Reddit, I wonder if there’s an interest to have a small alternative?

If not, what’s a good Lemmy instance for these things?

 

In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote

For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.

Looks like great minds think alike! The EA's need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!

The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence

I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it's like the HackerNews comment section but in person.

What's the German term for a recommendation that's the exact opposite?

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