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That reminds me, I never got back my copy of that book...

Wow, Perl users!

A philosophical conlang! That's been a while.

As always, Prof. Mickens' presents a very fun and very insightful, animated rant on computing today. The full title being "Happiness Nullification, Intergalactic Carnage and the Release of Multiple Frost Giants: A Sober Analysis of AI Impact" which isn't that hyperbolic after having listened.

I agree with the commenters who were jarred by the heavy use of LLMisms -- the writing was genuinely painful to read. What a really fun project though!

Props for seeing it through a debugging phase, it can really be worrying when you get your boards and they just don't work.

I've ended up alternating between "the LLM can write the awful glue code I'm too lazy to hand wring for my proof of concept" and "ooh, what if this was in Fortran _and_ JavaScript?"

Dark times.

My editor (emacs) shows how I close the scopes and it is easy enough. I'm not sure why writing

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would be so much better.

trademarks? Nintendo is still protected as Nintendo with its logo and all. We'd start seeing Nintendo's Super Mario and be all "ahh, great, the fun one!"

A bit further up there's a really nice comment about how those studies are just garbage.

our ad-tech monopolist and burgeoining retail overlords control so much information on our behavioural patterns that they can probably see a crunch coming before anyone else, if they would really want to get in that game.

I used to believe that but having seen repeatedly what happens when small decentralised groups get to decide (cf. HOAs in the US, housing cooperatives in Sweden), it's clear that there are too many nutters in society that seek power for power's sake and adding 20 levels of decentralized decision-making only means we'll have NIMBYs everywhere for anything new.

Having seen government work from the inside, what we need is clearer processes and _more_ centralisation - computers today enable the processing of amazing amounts of data in an extremely short time. Why do we need fourteen regional authorities to handle forms filed in triplicate?

Fable 5 has for me, been surprisingly effective at generalizing and removing duplicate solutions/approaches - things I'd been noting along as my mental TODO once Opus finished generating them, Fable also saw them and prepared a plan to correct them.

Worked pretty well. Also writes lisp a lot better without getting lost in parentheses! I do keep hitting the limit regularly but it is doing a lot of work that would have taken me a long time to write by hand even if per se not super complex.

For the record: you basically take a stick blender, the container that came with it, crack an egg, pour over some lemon juice, then blend while pouring in hot butter (use the microwave!). Takes ca 2 minutes, including the 1 minute 30s of microwaving the butter.

Instant _real_ sauce hollandaise as the stick blender creates a vortex that emulsifies it. No need to hand whisk it over a bain-marie at careful temperatures.