“Oh bother, I’ve fallen onto another one of these fart-propelled flight platforms and I can’t get up”

Sounds like a marketing tagline for a failed “As Seen on TV” sort of gadget, tbh

This was about where I gave up on Attack on Titan

going thru it myself, can report that non-graded “suggested exercises,” with exams being the only graded material, is not any better

who in the hell would want programmable matter anymore, after they’ve seen what happened to plain ol’ computer programming as already practiced

‘it’ll be Good beyond our wildest imagination’

pumpkin spice season will be permanent

It’s not working, I spotted a probable hackernews all the way out in Modesto last week, they’re like the goddamn nutria now

I would like to announce that I have committed last night’s Taco Bell to the septic system. Please clap

I can’t help but think it’s another instance of the unquestioning Californian Ideology assumption that all new technology is inherently liberatory.

woah damn why does this look exactly like some Kurzweil bullshit

I considered trying to get an account there, but the last ~18 months or so have made me feel the same way about Lobste.rs as I do about Bluesky. If you’re just running a lower-traffic version of the thing you’re trying to “improve” upon with slightly different moderation policies, you’re not going to build a lasting platform or community.

Lobste.rs is analogous to methadone treatment for Hacker News, prove me wrong

vicious traditionalism that refuses to create new things

The “vicious traditionalism” that develops among his fellow travelers, who insist that some form of autonomous, inscrutable AI has to be the next step in technological progress, will be something to see. Religious movements don’t just stop when their central prophecy disappoints.

Yeah this is literally pants-on-head crazy. The explicit business model of the AI companies is rent-seeking on as much human activity as they can figure out how to intermediate. I suspect our friend is having a bit of a dark night of the soul, and trying to cope with it by turning his opposition’s obviously correct argument back on them in slipshod fashion. Dare I say, a typical Republican tactic?

as soon as AI is good enough to discharge feces out of my butt as good as I would if I had enough fiber in my diet, I intend to use AI to do so. I know how I want to poop, and I could poop so much more if I didn’t need to manual labor little clumps out one by one

It’s a bubble in a specific subcategory of commercial real estate, and commercial real estate usually eats shit first when a recession hits. The tech essentially serves the same purpose as American consumer credit did in the runup to 2008, just one step removed.

The saga of DRM/DRI and “open” GPU drivers is one of those topics for which I wish I could hire a historian to write an extensive treatment. The primary sources of how we ended up here, mailing list discussions and the like, are probably mostly publicly available, but unless you were there, who has taken the time to understand how it all happened?

An electrician acquaintance of mine was on a gig early in the year essentially building open-air server racks that were then covered with huge tents, a la Tesla’s long-standing “temporary” structure in Fremont. I would never have believed him if he hadn’t taken pictures and video.

I wonder what answers you would get if you polled these Anthropic people about the Covid lab leak theory

I remember coming across an HN comment a couple years ago from a guy rambling on about how he had a connection for pure uncut cartel meth and consumed mass quantities, and how great it was for his ADHD. I should have bookmarked or screenshotted it.