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If I get one more "That's a key insight!"<--- that everything prior to this sentence was totally made up... tonight, I swear...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

The way the world is going these days, I’m glad my kids know me well enough to have bought me my favorite coffee mug

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So obviously super concerning that AI's don't particularly highly value "black people". OTOH: AI's not valuing sex, and totally being into Fully Automated Luxury Communism, is: duh! That humans undervalue Boygenius and Charlie Munger relative to how AI's think about them... people have no taste?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It's exchanges like this that make me wonder how bsky is still so "arrggggg LLMs are so dumb and teh woorrst!!1!" and I'm like... yeah, it's definitely the AI's that suck. Not these horrible meatbags with the IQ of a bag of doorknobs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

An example of how a bishop's diagonal movement allows for attacks from unexpected angles

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

In case you were wondering about the state of print media, the cover stories, in this “slow news month” of Time and Life magazines are “Cats” and “Birds”, respectively. In case you were unfamiliar with these genera of animal species, presumably.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I have a modest proposal: no masks for protesters, and no masks for ICE. Deal? No? Hmm, curious.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Oh man, You really gotta be careful with vibe-coding. Coax Claude into finally actually implementing all the cool ideas which were initially mocked out, be happy with your tests (which in true LLM-style, come with emoji-laden print(f"✅ Success ...) proclamations)... then...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

So in the olden days, we had to have our .bash_profile refer to setup we packed into our .zshrc or elsewhere, and invariably duplicated half of it, overrode a third, and were always confused. Now, I've got half of my instructions in CLAUDE.md, another half in .cursorrules, and around we go... :(

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I've gotta say, I hadn't been on deadbirdsite in a while, but it's absolutely hilarious to see how many blue-checkmark folks ask Grok to back-up their preconceived notions, only to get sorely disappointed.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I try not to indulge in schadenfreude, but...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments