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tofu means you fade the taco

10.03.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The mission has been accomplished but we have yet to accomplish the mission.

09.03.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like she beat me by a couple weeks

09.03.2026 00:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

oh sorry, the scammers!

08.03.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A chargeback hurts them in all scenarios. Merchant pays a flat fee regardless of outcome, and too many get your merchant account nuked.

08.03.2026 16:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

trump l'oeil

08.03.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

rounding is acceptable in this situation!

08.03.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

would bet there's a high correlation between companies who judge their developers on lines of code written and companies that think LLMs are great coders.

07.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And why dissonance is such a unhelpful word to describe the concept.

07.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

call me when they can reproduce themselves!

07.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Not invented here - Wikipedia

If LLM code is useful to an org, they're probably suffering from NIH syndrome. Another code smell.

07.03.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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CNCF Landscape The CNCF Cloud Native Landscape is intended as a map through the previously uncharted terrain of Cloud Native technologies. It attempts to categorize projects and products in the Cloud Native space.

Or that "coding" is nowhere near the primary challenge of software engineering. Like these projects are all *free*, not to mention the thousands of rock-solid libraries available in all languages.

So, it's good writing code that already exists, ie. code that need not be written again.

07.03.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Challenge for those who are very confident that Clod isn't a real person: Explain why it says so in the dictionary.

07.03.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Evangelicals Chriatianity is a death cult dedicated to bringing about Armageddon so they can ascend to Heaven without the pain of death

The rest of us are brutally oppressed if not slaughtered

This belief is pervasive in the federal government and military due to a decades long infiltration plan

07.03.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Disney's Animatronics: A Living History
Disney's Animatronics: A Living History YouTube video by Defunctland

and this type of thinking thousands of years older than computers!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNc...

07.03.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a much different outlook. Because LLMs will prove to be (architecturally!) incapable of producing original work, the true value of creative humans will be revealed. Originality will be revered.

02.09.2025 07:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Disney's Animatronics: A Living History
Disney's Animatronics: A Living History YouTube video by Defunctland

If you're worried about LLMs replacing your unique human abilities, watch this long Defunctland about the failure to achieve this exact thing for literally thousands of years. But this time will be different.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNc...

10.09.2025 03:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

god, no better argument for the humanities than to see the techbros get absolutely wrecked over the consciousness question. buddy, descartes was doing this shit four hundred years ago

07.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

the wisdom of 17c sailors

07.03.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
screenshot of paragraph:

"It seems likely that the (highly suspect) story of Rene Descartes’s robot daughter has its origins in the middle third of the 18th century β€” post-dating the philosopher’s death by a considerable margin, and evidently part of more general Enlightenment polemics over materialism, libertinage, and the embattled pieties of conventional religion. The tale itself? Multiple versions are known, but the core of the scandal goes like this: sailors aboard a vessel bearing Descartes to Sweden in 1649 are said to have discovered, in his luggage, a disorienting lifelike girl-doll; when she sat up and moved about they fell upon her and β€” decrying witchcraft β€” hurled her into the sea. The backstory to the legend is sad..."

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/some-remarks-on-the-legacy-of-madame-francine-descartes/

screenshot of paragraph: "It seems likely that the (highly suspect) story of Rene Descartes’s robot daughter has its origins in the middle third of the 18th century β€” post-dating the philosopher’s death by a considerable margin, and evidently part of more general Enlightenment polemics over materialism, libertinage, and the embattled pieties of conventional religion. The tale itself? Multiple versions are known, but the core of the scandal goes like this: sailors aboard a vessel bearing Descartes to Sweden in 1649 are said to have discovered, in his luggage, a disorienting lifelike girl-doll; when she sat up and moved about they fell upon her and β€” decrying witchcraft β€” hurled her into the sea. The backstory to the legend is sad..." https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/some-remarks-on-the-legacy-of-madame-francine-descartes/

i bet they'll even be surprised when their little invention gets thrown into the sea

07.03.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

we're not doing a standard 300x revenue anymore?

07.03.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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DSAC - Home Page | DSAC The Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC) is a strategic partnership between the U.S. government and the U.S. private industry that enhances communication and promotes the timely and effective exc...

Indeed

07.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I get what you're saying but how is that good for ExxonMobil?

07.03.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Free Off Grid Energy | Wood Gasifier Step 1: The Retort
Free Off Grid Energy | Wood Gasifier Step 1: The Retort YouTube video by Greenhill Forge

Solar panels aren't super easy to make at home! But fr this mulleted American lives in the UK and the king should ordain him as the earl of alternative energy, or however it works.

07.03.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

solar panels are incredible, but when you think about it they're really just shitty trees

07.03.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

this is why weed isn't sold in thirds of ounces

07.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

The Pictures Under Glass rant was absolutely correct 15 years ago.

07.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Explore Opportunities | Mercor Explore remote opportunities with top companies worldwide. Find roles that match your skills and work preferences.

The reason LLMs are getting better at certain tasks is simply because they're spending a fuckton of money on human labor in those specific areas. The models themselves aren't improving.

work.mercor.com/explore

07.03.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mercor, the company that hires experts for fine-tuning LLMs, had a call out for experts in "Optimal Character Recognition" lol.

07.03.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i'm extremely good with integers (data type)

07.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0