I wish more people understood the difference between criticizing something because you want to fix it and criticizing something because you want to destroy it.

GodDAMN this ruling against Apple in the Epic lawsuit is brutal. This is a judge who is outright furious at a company and it is not going well for them.

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

It's that time of the year where I find myself considering a return to Emacs after years away.

Perhaps this time I should take the time to follow a more systematic approach by implementing stow+git to manage my dotfiles...

I am having a stroke trying to purchase an experience for an upcoming trip at some booking site. Never before have I seen so many obvious UI/UX/logic bugs. It's like whoever made this hell site never actually used it.

Turns out you can easily de-amazon a kindle.

Always love a good, truly alien-looking robot. This is for inspection, and can unfold to manipulate its environment and open doors.

More traditional stuff. Chunky retro tech PT 2!

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

something that I feel would help people understand why llms are so terrible at anything is the fundamental disconnect between syntactic proof and semantic truth. llms are purely syntactic ways of organizing information, which has sharp limits and difficulties

there is no semantic understanding, only syntax. the llm models heat on a space whose basis vectors are (approximately) the alphabet of that syntax (viz tokens). thermalization fundamentally destroys detail, precluding semantically correct answers to questions encoded in syntax

"arm64" and "amd64" are basically the same word, so I use neither. it's aarch64 and x86-64.

what’s the most annoying thing about writing C

Programming is understanding. If you don't understand what you are doing, you are not programming. You are generating text.

@zylinski.se Hi, appreciate you writing the first Odin book. Do you know if there any working groups focused on embedded Odin? Or any plans to support embedded targets, like Cortex-M ARM CPUs?

@lemonaid83.bsky.social why did you permaban an artist claiming her art was AI-generated when that wasn't the case?

Watched Straume. I don't get it. Everyone talks like I'm supposed to understand it yet they also can't explain it.

"it was a dream"
"it was afterlife"
"it was about climate change"
"it was about animal rights"
"it was about indigenous habitats"
"it was about preservation"
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N
where N is large

any recommendations for a non-amazon e-reader?