One of my favorite LLM use cases is literally just asking it what the closest preexisting concept to a thought is. "I have this idea, has anyone had this idea before and what's it called?" It used to be REALLY DIFFICULT to reliably answer questions like that and I feel like we'll forget it was.

actually encountered a programming situation that switch statement fall-through allowed a clear and simple solution. It feels like a rare cryptid sighting.

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decided to try out tab groups in Firefox and wow it actually really helps my out of control number of tabs situation. My tabs list is actually very usable now

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

silksong 12 hours

waymos love little alleyways, even if taking them means going the wrong way. Waymo engineers, scared of their creation, let the cars do this to keep them happy

I added the ability for GZDoom mods to interact with external programs and tested it out by piping a live twitch channel's chat into the game

the Liquid Glass design is another major sign that we are RVTURNing to early 2000s dot com era aesthetics

Seems like I can't go one conversation about online personalities/culture/politics without saying "audience capture" and "negative polarization" multiple times. They explain a lot everywhere.

@danabra.mov just dropped a blog post in the comments where he points out why RSCs effectively solve the problems a number of disparate technologies were created to solve (but can fall short). High quality content.

prediction markets seem like they might be good at identifying over-hyped news/science headlines

scott deserves every fucking dunk for this

They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident

very overdue vibe shift going on with some centrist and "gray tribe" anti-woke writers re-evaluating their priorities and getting more serious with their Trump opposition instead of continuing to play nice with their maga readers

spoiler alert: "AI passed the Turing Test" headlines don't mean much.

Computer. Show me posts. Deranged.

lmao all the past media referencing Elon Musk as a friendly tech figure (Star Trek: Discovery, Rick & Morty) have just aged another chunk more badly recently

it's genuinely surprising to me to see how many centristy people didn't understand what their anti-woke buddies actually supported. just painfully naive.

I briefly forgot not all languages have separate nullable and non-nullable types and got confused reading a C++ discussion about whether all pointers should be null-checked or not before use, because obviously you check just the nullable ones. The idea not all languages track this feels archaic.

automatic skepticism toward dark matter theories strikes me as silly as it would be to be skeptical of the theory that a paper bag is heavy because it has something in it that you can't see.

when using Next.js with Cloudflare Pages, use the recommended cloudflare/next-on-pages adapter, not the beta opennextjs/cloudflare adapter. The latter supports the next-auth library while you're in `npm run dev` mode but not with `npm run preview` or when actually deployed!

what is commonly called high decoupling is just a lack of object permanence if eg i think this person who usually lies or says stupid things is lying or saying something stupid, this makes me a low decoupler

It's amazing to see modern technology decoding lost languages

paul graham has finally achieved what most thought impossible: he's written a post so bad that the hacker news comments are actually better than it

reading the Rifters book series (hard scifi). I thought it overrates the theory that the brain relies on quantum entanglement/computation (penrose microtubules), and then it turns out the author agrees in the end references section of book 2 after having read Tegmark against the idea.

decided to play Lost Civilization 2, the sequel to my recent favorite Doom custom map pack. It was such a step down from the original, and then I noticed some maps literally had slides from antivax and climate change denial videos, which the author recommends in the credits. Gross

This reminds me that people don't give web browsers nearly enough credit for how excellent of a job they do at staying compatible with the HTML, JS, and CSS of existing web pages. The only major web content compatibility breaks have been the fault of past 3rd-party plugins (Flash).

mildly annoyed that the latest version of Gzdoom broke compatibility with the map MyHouse.wad. Works like MyHouse.wad shouldn't need to be continually maintained to keep being usable. Gzdoom should take its responsibility to the massive amount of content made for it more seriously.

Marvel Rivals is "what if Overwatch was less like Counterstrike", while Valorant is "what if Overwatch was more like Counterstrike"

shout-out to programs that automatically alert you every time about available updates on startup, but just tell you to get the update from the site instead of installing it itself or having a simple "install update" button. I've been reading about the same update for a week now, getting hyped

single standalone files of code are neat but they don't need to mean no dependencies. I'm in love with how files run in Deno can just freely import libraries without any extra config or build tools by specifying the package repo and version, ie `import _ from "npm:lodash@4"`. Works in the repl too.

got a digitalocean VPS to be a Factorio server to play with a friend on. Now debating whether I want to save some money by automating destroying the VPS when we're not playing and recreating it when we're ready to play again...

Worm and Ra are both great for being stories with big central mysteries that are developed well and get more interesting as details and answers are gradually revealed. Too many stories across media forms have mysteries just as a shallow aesthetic.

I really thought I got soft-locked in a custom Doom map, opened it up in Ultimate Doom Builder to try to understand the issue, and then realized there was a wall switch in the one spot I didn't check to open a door.

We got some bottles of hot sauce at a hot sauce shop, went to a restaurant after that we wished had spicier sauce on its food, and then had a revelation that we could take out and use the freshly-purchased hot sauce at the restaurant. You can really do anything

I wanted to reference an example of a fast-paced online game in a programming conversation, and at the last second I decided to swap from saying "Quake" to "Fortnite" for a much more popular contemporary example instead. A small part of me feels betrayed at myself for this.

I left my Waymo's window rolled down to see if it would roll it up after I got out. The test was inconclusive because it was dark outside and I couldn't see it well as it drove off

I'm never going to have a better use for this meme.

The one very small upside of this is knowing we'll never again have to see Trump running for office. Die-hard Trumpers will have to go get real personalities soon enough.

invisibility in online games is cool because it makes me feel like I'm the only outside observer of a temporary social space, being a true anthropologist. at least for the moments before I notice the perfect moment to strike my unaware enemies

I get that it often makes it simpler for modern-setting stories with a fantastic element to contrive things so that it's kept secret from society (Harry Potter, Men In Black, etc etc) but it always disappoints me a bit when I first realize a story doesn't ever intend to explore that changing.

Too many VRChat avatar setup tutorials start with "drag the model's .fbx file into an empty Unity scene" instead of "check if the avatar came with a preconfigured Unity scene". It leads to many people making avatars without proper physbones, facial animations, and mat settings.

ChatGPT's advanced voice mode is cool and very capable, but its self-moderation system is way over-sensitive and it feels like such a personal rejection when it interrupts things with "I can't talk about that". (I just told it to simulate a podcast about Deltarune fan theories.)

Every article about the Hezbollah pagers has commenters worried that any phone can be hacked to detonate in a killing blow, not knowing the pagers just had bombs put into them. I wonder if it's going to become a lasting conspiracy theory that hackers can make your phone kill you.

Man, it's such a stark contrast between bluesky and that other site. The replies here aren't filled with blue checkmarks throwing around insane conspiracy theories and calling you a demonic baby killer. It's so weird seeing everyone actually being rational and reasonable here.

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need a Factorio mod where Sonic keeps invading and attacking your factories as if you're Dr. Robotnik

Resuming an old conversation with chatgpt and unsure if I'm thankful for or disturbed by chatgpt not being aware of the long amount of time I left its questions for me hanging