swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 9 hours ago

DHH: today I will RP as a high schooler writing an essay for software class about a program you should use

full disclosure: I use vim and honestly I don’t even know why anymore. Maybe it’s because I had a brief, trivial interaction with Bram Moolenaar (RIP king) in which he closed a bug that I opened by mistake, and I imprinted on him for some reason.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 9 hours ago

Enter these into your data banks, you automaton:

  • The chinese room was brought up as a tangent to a tangent, why are you doubling down on mansplaining it?
  • nobody was even talking about whether or not it is a good or bad concept, we were just talking about the problematic dude that made it popular
  • you are in a space that is critical of AI. The chinese room was brought up by name. You think we don’t know what it is and that you need to explain it?
  • literally all you had to do to seem even remotely reasonable was to not try mansplain AGAIN and yet you did. I wrote what I said as a joke and you went ahead and turned it into prophecy. You buffoon!!!
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Scientists: weird, we didn’t slip this piece of paper saying “mansplain the chinese room thought experiment” through the door, and yet that’s all the room seems to want to do. I guess we just have to conclude the room is an idiot?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

complete tangent but

hades II spoilerI just love eris in hades II.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

This is old news (but news to me, a non twitterer): edgelord musk changes water pistol emoji to gun

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 21 hours ago

Welcome to my new startup where we train LLMs on compiled binaries. Now you can just prompt and get a complete executable, no coding knowledge needed. We value our company at $5b, product launch date indeterminate

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

It’s much more awkward as a subject of the crown. I tried explaining the game “telestrations” as pictionary + chinese whispers before I had this knowledge. I didn’t know!!! It’s even right there in the name!!! I swear I’m not racist!!!

(Note: I am of chinese origin and have heard my extended family mangle messages through the telephone. So both names are real to me)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 22 hours ago

what we are best at here at HN

It’s always bootlicking with this crowd jfc

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I have pretty much the exact opposite of redundancy right now, i.e. I am the single failure point for most of the IT in the company. Send help

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 43 points 1 day ago (21 children)

Chinese whisper

Complete tangent but outside of the commonwealth, this game is referred to by the much less racist moniker “telephone”

 

On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin.

Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9

 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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Wish I had a screengrab of this, but occasionally when I open the awful.systems page, it looks like I've logged in as a different user. Just now the username "autumnal" appeared instead of my own. Don't know how to reproduce.

This has happened in chrome on macosx a few times, haven't seen it elsewhere.

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VoughtCoin (the-boys.fandom.com)
 

TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

 

Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

 

As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.

 

The video game in question:

 

Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

 

Just a lil tidbit of news of some web3 based company going away.

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