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by alchemism 7mo ago
Well….they tended to collapse after a couple centuries.
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by alchemism 7mo ago
How does that compare with putting hundreds of thousands of people into cages for arbitrary reasons, I wonder. Or depositing them in random countries to be killed because they are e.g. homosexual.
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by alchemism 7mo ago
L-L-Mms
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by alchemism 7mo ago
Switching one good synonym can send the model off an entirely different direction in response, or so I’ve observed.
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by alchemism 7mo ago
San Francisco, 1849.
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by alchemism 7mo ago
Fake It ‘Till You Make It.
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by alchemism 8mo ago
Murdering heads of state and their families is cool as Judge, Jury, and Executioner if no soldiers are hurt in the process, is that where we are now?
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by alchemism 8mo ago
Claude coincidentally is now at the top of the Apple App Store, as of two days ago.
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by alchemism 8mo ago
Long live the Yankee Empire. The world will learn to lick its boots.
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by alchemism 8mo ago
I've successfully spec-coded a functional iOS terminal app for proxying Claude Code (and family) from an owned system. It was easy - even the icon and slick splash screen. An Apple Developer Account would be required to deploy it. A fr
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by alchemism 8mo ago
With this one, small tweak it is perfect: osascript << 'EOF' use framework "Foundation" use framework "AppKit" set ghosttyIconPath to "/Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/Resources
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by alchemism 8mo ago
If every person is now a captain, with their own ship, the harbor may become rather crowded.
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by alchemism 8mo ago
As predicted in The Diamond Age.
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by alchemism 9mo ago
When was the last time you passed a Voight-Kampff test, friend?
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by alchemism 9mo ago
Yet most organizations in existence pay the people “who hasn’t touched a computer in 30 years” quite a large amount of money to continue to solve problems, for some inscrutable reason… =)
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by alchemism 10mo ago
They generously offer you a free SIM card when going through passport control in Dubai. I can’t think of any other reason to do that, besides pure benevolence.
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by alchemism 10mo ago
Very Zen of you to say
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by alchemism 10mo ago
I've done professional ghostreading for published nonfiction authors. Many such titles are literally a synthesis of x-number of published papers and books. It is all an industry of sorts.
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by alchemism 10mo ago
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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by alchemism 11mo ago
If you include all pre-industrial people in history, then yes enslavement of outside groups is very much the norm not the exception.
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by alchemism 11mo ago
Welcome to engineering management.
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by alchemism 11mo ago
Business software that is responsible for millions in revenue tends to resemble an ETL shell script more than a 3D game engine.
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by alchemism 11mo ago
The kids went out and found the “cheating engines” for themselves. There was no plot from Big Tech, and believe me academia does not like them either. They have, believe it or not, very little power to stop kids from choosing to use cheatin
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by alchemism 11mo ago
I might dryly suggest that it is prudent preparation for the computing environments they will encounter in their future jobs. Like the way expensive prep schools have children wearing business casual...
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by alchemism 11mo ago
AWS Bedrock of course
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by alchemism 11mo ago
I'm also in the quaint demographic that believes WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS was the apex of distraction-free writing. Switching disks to change the application was just the right amount of intentional friction to stay in the zone.
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by alchemism 11mo ago
My first experiments with LLM chat was to ask to produce text mimicking the style of a distinct, well-known author. It was also quite good at producing hybrid fusions of unique fictional styles, A + B = AB.
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by alchemism 11mo ago
The ground damage in the recent North Philadelphia Airport crash was only due to a chartered jet, but it practically wiped out a residential city block.
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by alchemism 1y ago
AWS often deploys its new platform products and latest hardware (think GPUs) into us-east-1, so everyone has to maintain a footprint in us-east-1 to use any of it. So as a result, everyone keeps production in us-east-1. =)
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by alchemism 1y ago
It would not be called "The Paradox of Saving" if that statement was true! =)

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