I still don’t even understand what this movie is about. I saw the preview, there was a guy doing a silly dance on top of a desk, coen-bros-style, but the rest of the preview left me with no impression at all that I might want to watch this.

I feel like this is what the Habsburgs looked like, actually. Those paintings all look like caricatures of these guys.

I had a “Free Canada, Trade Mulroney” shirt. Smaller text suggested we would accept the return of Michael J. Fox in trade.

He didn’t anticipate that the leopards would eat his country.

And he did so because they had no possibility of remaining a relevant party without servicing their crazies a little more, just like Reagan did and Bush escalated, bringing us this.

GenX here. A very tiny subset of us were screaming not to do the FTA, way back in the 90s.

Programming is a very non-fuzzy topic; it’s no surprise that as the great delusion shakes out, generated art is too despised to be a significant revenue stream, and so far as I can tell the generated human text is still amateurishly bad.

But it’s a fact that these models have been trained on just about every bit of publicly-available code, which by and large, is good, working code. Not every bit of it, but enough that I have yet to see the thing spit out bad syntax… though it catches my bad syntax every time.

I have not and will never try to use it to write code for me, but it’s a smashing tutor, and I could certainly see an experienced dev who knows exactly what they want, handing off the building of tedious functions and stuff, piece by piece, and getting back good, compact code. I believe that the problems we’re having are to do with someone handing off the building of an entire website, or an entire app, that’s where you end up with runaway dependencies, bloated and badly-written functions, etc.

Now, it still goes idiot all the time. I point out that my push function is failing because the ringbuffer_is_full check is returning true every time (I’m very dumb when I’m first starting out on anything), it “sees” the problem and tells me correctly what to do to fix it, but it talks about the function returning false every time. Correct answer, but the dressing on the salad is wrong. This only happens, though, after I’ve been in the same chat for a while (context window overflow).

In other words, it’s a tool that humans can use, while keeping an eye for that kinda thing, but it certainly will not replace anyone, though we’re going to absorb a lot of damage from stupid rich people trying.

In other news, I had a dream last night where I was hanging out with an old ex, and when she showed up, she (somehow) told me that not only had she gone blind since we last talked, she had then gotten a brain tumour and had her head amputated. So I was walking around with my headless ex all day in this dream. I don’t dislike this ex, we were just walking around (how?) and talking to people (HOW?).

I wonder if this is a product of me conversing with something that has no consciousness so much this last week. Or maybe it’s the Ed Gein series we’re watching, I dunno.

I’m not walking around touting it, cause this is a time of battling cults. But I have been using an AI as a tutor to teach me how to write C code, with an eye towards kernel contributions and other things that require that speed. Obviously it’s a more marketable dev skill, even in this time, than the Python I know. It is very good at teaching, actually. Too bad about us all perishing by asphyxiation.

What a shitstain.

We’ve seen this movie before, when they adopted systemd. It’ll be fine.

Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining

Fundamentally, it’s got a political mission statement rather than a technological goal (ie. Debian seeks to be a very stable distro that moves slowly). All the money in the world won’t fix that, but he’s gonna have a lot of fun for the next few years.

Because neurotypicals are rarely understood by us.

I don’t know what the Cali gov was thinking

But it makes sense to me, based on the commercial incentive. It’s not that FreeBSD doesn’t form the basis of products that will need to comply with the law (whatever Apple calls their desktop OS for instance), but FreeBSD itself is only for the leet.

No, you don’t have to be a genius to use it, but you do need to be very weird, in that you want to use your own actual brain to solve problems, and you want to fully understand what the thing is doing, from bootup to shutdown. If that’s you, you’re a very odd person, according to many.

“Tech’s biggest names”

More like capital’s biggest scum

If there’s a long game that we might like here, one thing for certain is that we will see zero sign of it until after the treason referendum has happened, and failed. So expect no joy from this PM until November at the earliest.

The most capable technocrat, to be sure. And competence is very reassuring. Still, I despise the man, and yet I support him fully today.

It is no surprise at all to me, that the folkloric heroes who take from the rich and give to the poor, a merry band of men of the people for 1000 or more years, perhaps as mythically relevant as King Arthur as a fundamental statement on the morality of rich people and their scumbag cop soldiers,

no surprise at all, that Hollywood, which cannot stop itself from telling stores of Rich People Who Are Actually Just Like You And Me, they spend millions (billions?) a year on pushing this “rich people are not evil” narrative,

it is no surprise that the ultimate enemy of the rich is being recast as a psychopathic villain in this ahistorical culture. The fucking poster straight up says “He was no hero,” as though a movie poster is capable of rewriting centuries of folklore.

Nobody gives a shit, for damn sure, and everyone involved should have “useful idiot” tattooed on their foreheads.

Those are some wildly feels-based choices.

This whole internet could run on a tiny fraction of what it current consumes, with no drop in service levels… if the extraction of profit from every single interaction was not prioritized.

That being said, I was addressing someone who refused to believe that local inference was even possible on CPU; this tells me that the efforts to present the current grift as the only and inevitable AI outcome is working, on minds that do not fundamentally grasp what the technology is, nor what it’s doing. I think the tech is great, and highly useful - the way they are implementing has perverse incentives and existential outcomes, and it does not have to be that way, but it is, because capitalism.