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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

followup, here's a real substack interview with one of the originators of the collab novel

https://afraw.substack.com/p/first-dig-the-latrines

to be honest sounds like semi-fascist shit to me.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

A LWer is super-impressed by the time travel fantasy Illumine Lingao (an example of Chuanyue)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YiRsCfkJ2ERGpRpen/leogao-s-shortform?commentId=J4YGrY26Ezt5oMsot

Listen to this pitch:

the vast majority of the book is devoted to discussing every single technical aspect in excruciating well-researched detail. you don't simply have a paragraph about them deciding to buy guns, you get an entire chapter of different gun experts arguing back and forth about exactly which gun to buy based on maintainability, range, differences between civilian and military models, semi automatic vs fully automatic.

Apparently they're quite unaware of the extensive number of works in Russian with similar themes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_travel#In_Russian_fiction

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

maybe someone with a camera in SF can pop downtown and document this gathering

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HZ7CWfo4tGDAS3wEg/michael-trazzi-s-shortform?commentId=yq38DLKfe7EMciyAB

apply exposure comp b/c everyone will be pasty white

The Effective Altruism community inherits the problems of the economics profession in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago

Rats: our ideals are universal and rooted in pure reason, discoverable through intense study and thought

Also rats: only males have the brains to understand this.

The Effective Altruism community inherits the problems of the economics profession in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 16 points 4 days ago

EA as a whole are apologetics for eugenicist billionaires, so them not giving a shit about what eugenicist billionaires don't care about is just goal-fitting behavior.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I think it's a specific genre of reportage where you objectively[1] report what you observe and let the reader draw their own conclusions.

[1] problematic term, engage!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

"Judges love this one weird trick!"

Aella's Influence on Rationalist Kink Practices (cursed phrase) in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Come now, we all want to be the Rat's Enemy #1, and are secretly mad you got the top spot.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

Don't knock scaffolding, at least it has everyday uses.

Aella's Influence on Rationalist Kink Practices (cursed phrase) in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Computer-Numerical Control controlled Consensual-Non-Consensual sex, for max brain damage

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago (5 children)

cue a thriller where a disgraced techbro billionaire is hunted by the surveillance system he gleefully created

scratch that, that will be a popular reality TV show enjoyed by millions

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

but but but blockchain

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Advent of Code 2024 - the home stretch - it's been an aMAZEing year (awful.systems)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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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
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Advent of Code Week 3 - you're lost in a maze of twisty mazes, all alike (awful.systems)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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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
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Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time (awful.systems)
 

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

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Person who exercises her free association rights at conferences incites ire in Jameson Lopp (protos.com)
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Butters do a 180 regarding statism as Daddy Trump promises to use filthy Fed FIAT to buy and hodl BTC (www.marketwatch.com)
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Martin Shkreli claims to have been behind a Donald Trump memecoin (www.web3isgoinggreat.com)
 

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

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In an attempt to secure the libertarian vote, Trump promises to pardon Dread Pirate Roberts (while calling for the death penalty for other drug dealers) (www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
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Looking for: random raytracing program (awful.systems)
 

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?

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The official awful.systems Advent of Code 2023 thread (awful.systems)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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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.

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Any interest in an Advent of Code thread? (awful.systems)
 

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?

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ScottA is annoyed EA has a bad name now (www.astralcodexten.com)
 

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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