But the text has em-dashes! Isn't that a signal?! Is "Frank Flight" an AI pseudonym? Is it using the puppy-dog ploy on us? I have so many questions and I am so scared.
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But the text has em-dashes! Isn't that a signal?! Is "Frank Flight" an AI pseudonym? Is it using the puppy-dog ploy on us? I have so many questions and I am so scared.
I updated Racket Mode's in-Emacs documentation browser for the "documentation language family" functionality in upcoming Racket 9.1. Merged to main branch; MELPA and NonGNU ELPA repos should refresh later today. github.com/greghendersh...
There's dignity in almost any job, including a sanitation engineer picking up physical garbage.
And there's dignity working with people to clean up their messy code.
But cleaning up code generated by "AI"...? There will many such opportunities. Under what conditions will it be ethical to help?
Spring is one of those seasons when public companies engage in the courting behavior of yearning calls.
Lexington, Concord mark 250th anniversary of start of Revolutionary War. The minutemen fire back at the advancing British troops on Lexington Battle Green.John Tlumacki/Globe Staff
Local celebration of the decision, 250 years ago today, that we no longer wanted a king with unchecked power. Oops.
In that vein, patriotic investors really ought to be all-in with bonds, not equity. Only Commies buy stonks. 🙄
Then I figured, OK so I'll try searching within a channel.
It gave me search results... for a different channel.
Hard refresh; can't reproduce.
I know caching is hard but sheesh.
Apparently the hardest problem in computer science is scrolling an ostensibly static list of videos?
As high as its pile of nondeterministic shit grows, YouTube continues to find ways to stack it higher. I guess that's some kind of engineering success story?
Keyboard layouts for coding productivity:
Expired: Symbolics with SUPER and HYPER modifiers
Tired: Tenkeyless
Wired: 2 key macropad, TAB and ENTER
@rgoldsto.bsky.social Although I don't recall the organizers, 83 or 84 sounds right (assuming I'm *cough* actually that old).
Dang, it was a GEB honeypot -- a "To Catch an Obie" sting operation. Not saying anything more without a lawyer.
Reading/discussing GEB was a "Winter Term" project at Oberlin. Loved it so much!
He visited us at the end. (My unreliable memory is he mostly complained about some dude who disagreed with him about something none of us understood.)
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The Köln Concert was recorded 50 years ago today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K%C...
Tip: Ever watch 5 minutes of market news and it's nonstop "AI" this, "AI" that? "AI" "AI" "AI"...
Pretend they're pronouncing it like "LA" on Letterkenny.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAbG...
Corollary: "Jensen Huang" => "Bonnie McMurray!".
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