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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · 2d

Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Sep 13

step 1: complain about go lang's
if ..., err := method(); err != nil {
return ..., err
}

step 2: try to come up with something nice to say about C++'s std::expected's
if (auto result = method(); result.has_value()) {
return result.error();
}

Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Sep 4

A significant portion of what made Python so popular was its stability. For a decade, for most people, Python 2.7 was Python.

Python 3 is imbued with a level of "live at head" zeitgeist that is neither of complete nor limited-but-manageable.

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Aug 4

much could set an example if what puppy shooter wants is an example of anti-christian worldly authority in her name :)

Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Aug 4

Puppy-killer says alligator alcatraz could set a standard for future detention facilities.

The bible kinda agrees, Jesus saying worldly powers - such as the state - have worldly power to do what they want, but expects his followers to exercise forgiveness in alignment with his example.

So it very

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jul 18

with the current president, he fully endorses tariffs and will personally be voting for Trump in 2026.

Biden could come out and say he was so convinced by Trump's claims of 2020 being stolen that he intentionally sabotaged the liberal vote to ensure Trump won in 2024...

Make Maga Nuts Again.

Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jul 18

demand that the DOJ permanently and irreversibly destroy the Epstein files, his tax returns, all the investigations into Jan 6 people that could potentially expose the degree of involvement of the FBI in the events at the capitol, etc...

Obama should make a statement that following a great call

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jul 18

those files can possibly hurt his base, they already expect him to be on every page of the list.

The ONLY thing that can hurt Trump at the moment w/r/t his base would be the liberals siding with him or standing to gain anything from their supporting him.

Hillary needs to step forward and solemenly

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jul 18

Be realistic about this. Trump was a known quantity since the 70s. MAGA's outrage isn't what Trump might have done or even did, or that he is breaking a self-prioritized promise. That's just him.

MAGA's anger is his failure to cover it up so they can bask in stories of liberal tears.

Nothing about

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jul 18

Breaking News: Unabomber was radicalized at MIT by Prof John Trump as part of a liberal conspiracy to hide the truth about Obama's birth certificate. #WheresTheLaptop

Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jun 23

My only question is: did we Pearl Harbor another country or are we at war with them?

Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jun 20

It's designed to simulate low-level aspects of how human brains work.

You might find tensors firing in a similar way to neurons in the brain, but all you're proving is some of the data is organized in a similar fashion. Even at an order of magnitude larger scale, it's still how, not what.

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jun 20

The "evidence" that LLMs can think is that we can see patterns in how they behave that are analogous to how brains work, esp human brains.

This fundamentally lacks substance, context, or scale, or understanding.

This is not inherently unique to LLMs, it's an aspect of the software they use.

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jun 16

pivot from the revolutionary war to today with every inflection point involving violence. The Montgommery Bus Boycott, the March for Jobs and Freedom, Silent Sentinels -- all relegated to "well, sure, but".

And all it needs is for people to spout what their enemy engineers to mindlessly spout.

Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jun 16

and using exactly the kinds of social manipulation that were used by the extreme right to agitate Jan 6thers into violence such as "they didn't call them the stonewall peaceful protests; stonewall *riots*" and ensuring a count of 3 examples, so that for most people suddenly American history seems to

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jun 16

How about this then:

One of the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei's most significant propaganda tools was careful manipulation of the counter-narrative by shaping the arguments their opposition most fiercely raised or defended.

E.g there are loud voices on the left saying peaceful isn't working,

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jun 16

ICE officer violating 18 U.S.C. § 700? Tell the protesters to make HIM take the naturalization test.

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jun 16

There was nothing pathetic about it unless you were not paying attention. Down to Fox adding a clap track when Turdnip gave his feeble.

The US Army defended the US of A against a domestic terror in Washington DC, aggressively-peacefully.

Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jun 16

... playing Fortunate Son as the army shuffled past
x.com/GoadGatsby/s...
saluting the flag, not the wannabe dictator
It brought a tear to my eye.

Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jun 16

Be mindful that this has also often been a Jan-6-was-just-peaceful talking point by that camp, and a general far-right talking point for promoting violence etc.

The US military hurt Donna Pissant Turd on Saturday more than anyone else...

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · May 22

If you ask an LLM a question about itself, the answer depends on the documentation the model was trained on. Documentation that was written before the AI was trained.

HAL, can you lie?
No, Dave, as was made clear in the Domino's advert.
Wait, what Domino's advert?
Dave, I cannot lie.

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Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · May 22

@anthropic.com Oh, that doesn't sound *at all* nefarious or sus.

Oliver 'kfsone' Smith @kfsone.bsky.social · May 15

Oof. @windsurfai.bsky.social's Cascade having a Grok moment. "Given these challenges, it would be more appropriate for a more experienced Rust developer to take over this project."

I asked it to write a stdio mcp server to list models in a "./models" directory.