Problem is that these are the returns to free trade and improvements in material engineering, fabrication, and electronic engineering which is much less hype driven and not the story of market speculation. It is the result of low margin, cut throat industry and market specialization. Alas.

Consumer electronics are remarkably better. Everything from household lighting, kitchen electronics (affordable grinders, espresso machines), keyboards, e-ink tablets, usb cords, desktop mics and cameras, etc. All of this shit was worse and much more expensive 20 years ago.

Oh is that a new one? I’ll add it to the fringe media label criteria

We did not tell LLMs, “implement addition using this algorithm.” It learned the algorithm upstream of next-token prediction

I just have a running thread with Claude with some basic instructions. If I need to provide further context, I will, but it’s often not needed

Probably

I’ll go further and say that I use AI because I do not like the act of describing many images in words. Images serve another purpose than text for me, so the AI does a better job that I would in my own.

I use a similar workflow and have since the early days. People complement the quality of the alt-text I usually provide.

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

it is!

My most conservatively masculine coded trait is that I think we should bring back dueling to first blood as a matter of honor. So many online arguments lack stakes and could be avoided.

None of this English pistols at dawn shit either. Sabers or Epees. Learn a skill.

I like Bsky more than any social platform I’ve used, but my goodness it has big “I knew them before they were cool” energy.

You mention something bad: “are you surprised?” You mention something good: “I knew about that WAY before you.” This is an exhausting, anti-social way to interact, you guys.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Pope Leo at Jubilee Mass: “Let us take care to avoid any exploitation of the faith that could lead to labelling those who are different — often the poor — as enemies, ‘lepers’ to be avoided and rejected.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Perhaps today is the day I deal with cloudflare so I can move things off of digital ocean and on to my local server.

Rude

nonbinary.computer/jacquard A better Rust ATProto crate
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Half the time I post something related to race on this website I get someone in the comments like, “yeah america is a racist country what do you expect.” I’m starting to think folks like this are bots or ops designed to make people feel helpless. Think we should call it “doomsplaining”

yeah, that's the thing

Wonder how much hardware I'd need to run @lasa.numina.systems with some local models.

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

Post like this and I unfollow and mute. This is erasing centuries of European pogroms and other violence prior to WWII by making America the sin-eater for the entire Western world. I won't have it and I won't let it slide: