vector-of-bool.bsky.social
C++ librarian, programming blogger, meme enjoyer.
I write code and sometimes I actually publish it.
Creator of http://bpt.pizza
Don't let your memes be dreams!
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I would hazard a guess that Match Group could be as societally destructive as DuPont, entirely via software.
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Urbit shows some amount of CS smarts. There's a kernel of something interesting there, but it's muddled in layers of opaque nonsense and gross ideological design decisions. He's needlessly clever and obtuse just for the sake of being obtuse.
Also: The Urbit C code is AWFUL
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Ten blocks a day keeps the dark thoughts at bay!
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"Person/group X maybe did thing Y"
(Ten minutes/hours/days later)
"X denies having done Y"
Everyone: "X got caught doing Y and is trying to save face!"
Is there a name for this effect? It's not even specific to Dem politicians. People just assume denial implies dishonesty.
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Imagining a package of Oreos that's actually just three long cylinders of filling with a cookie on each end. I'd buy that.
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Yes! If you ran an instance, your user identity was a "ship" in a shared global namespace. If you wanted a nicer user ID, you had to register for a "destroyer."
I believe the maritime theme replaced an earlier theme of feudalism/nobility (unsurprisingly, people tended to find that off-putting).
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urbit's pissing failure vs. rust's incredible success is the real triumph of degenerate furry cybertrans uwu liberalism over innumerate right-wing hacker larping
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For maximal Fun™, I recommend reading Yarvin's original docs pages. bsky.app/profile/vect...
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I misremembered: Files had at most *4* letters, and variables had longer names, but they were still gibberish. Random file: github.com/urbit/vere/b...
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Despite his command of English, Yarvin's original Urbit docs are still the most wildly bizarre technical writing I've ever seen. It was well-formed English, but it's r/iamverysmart technobabble madness posing as meaningful computer science.
My circle still quotes it at each other as an inside joke
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It's so bad, man. This guy writes the most unmaintainable code you've ever seen outside of excessively optimized old-timey spaghetti code monstrosities from the days when every little bit was worth its weight in gold (and at least those had a mad lad charm to them).
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Some days I feel like a twig that creates a blank default example of a tile's icon, but right now I'm feeling more like an odor span. Just one of those days, I guess.
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It took me a bit, but I dug up a Wayback for the original documentation: web.archive.org/web/20140424...
It starts out normal enough, but soon becomes inscrutable. The biggest sin is inventing new obtuse names for established CS concepts and insisting on using them the whole time.
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It took me a bit, but I dug up a Wayback for the original documentation: web.archive.org/web/20140424...
It starts out normal enough, but soon becomes inscrutable. The biggest sin is inventing new obtuse names for established CS concepts and insisting on using them the whole time.
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The Urbit code, on the other hand, was not well-written C. It was completely illegible to the highest order. Every file, function, variable was spelled with at most 3 arbitrary letters with no rhyme or reason.
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Despite his command of English, Yarvin's original Urbit docs are still the most wildly bizarre technical writing I've ever seen. It was well-formed English, but it's r/iamverysmart technobabble madness posing as meaningful computer science.
My circle still quotes it at each other as an inside joke
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I used to agree that "AI is a bad search tool," but then I recall that web search has been awful for at least a decade! LLMs are great at sifting through SEO spam and undisclosed ads.
Is it as good as Google c. 2009? No, but that's an attribute of the web at large. It's full of more spam than ever.
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A popular YouTube science channel had an excellent video about the use of diffusion models in effectively solving protein folding.
The video ended with a sincere comment about how the AI might end up killing us all. I largely soured on the whole video in those final 4 seconds. Why include that??
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There were jokes about them possibly "raw-dogging the prod database over SSH," and I think that's a plausible explanation of how they could screw up THIS BAD.
Some over-eager Musk acolyte script kiddie with illegal prod access did a bad UPDATE and Oops! Grandma got run over by a DOGEr!
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I love to see his poll numbers go down, but my fear is that voters will simply forget by election time. Not great!
The tire fire would need to continue to burn for at least another year to stay fresh in people's minds, but we'd all be choking on toxic fumes the entire time. Also not great!
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Tire fires also contain a lot of energy.
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I know someone who is *frequently* confidently incorrect, but he doesn't pretend to be an authority on the things he talks about.
Unfortunately, people naively treat an LLM as an authority rather than a random talkative guy you met on a train who likes to read the encyclopedia in his free time.
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Most people, especially educated, will hedge or refuse to answer questions when they lack confidence.
There are definitely experts who assert falsehoods outside of their field of expertise, and it's more insidious since those come from "a person of authority".
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This got me thinking about human mistakes, and it seems that any given person, will either (A) hedge "I'm not sure, but I think…", or (B) Leroy Jenkins into saying something totally wrong. Whether a person does (A) or (B) seems intrinsic to their personality. With LLMs exclusively in camp (B).
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For such a hot stove, it is a surprisingly Cool Zone.
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It also frames the discussion as if fibers and coroutines are in conflict with each other, when they're not. They solve different problems.
It's like calling an airplane a "skyfull boat."
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At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised by a Blutah in 2028. Anything is on the table at this point.
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I'm also very disappointed by this feature. CMake already had some powerful turnkey automation with CTest scripts, but those are very under-documented and fragile. I would have preferred improving CTest scripting rather than having Yet Another Lukewarm JSON-Shaped Programming Language.
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But then what do I do with my stockpile of Luigi memes? /s
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It feels like a newly blooming conspiracy theory that this is all a plot to make a quick buck, but no one has articulated how this situation benefits anyone. The *best* I've seen is "they're driving stock prices down so that they can buy the dip" but I don't find that particularly compelling.
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I often think back to the "Death Valley Germans". It starts out as a fascinating mystery, but it ends up being just plain tragic. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_V...