Oh yeah awesome, replacing the your account button in the GitHub app with a copilot button is totally not a dark pattern to trick a handful of extra engagements this month. Please can the bubble burst already so that people who actually use LLMs can just go do that on their own?

@attie.ai, for those who wanna press the funny buttons too

We need to return to the golden age of the appliance. Once things get too complicated to come with a **complete** printed manual, it's not a tool anymore it's a job. I'm ok with a couple things in my life being this way, but not everything.

Was watching a CppCon on C++20 modules and how great they are today. While I don't disagree with the benefits modules might bring, it's very telling that once you scroll past the CppCon videos on modules coming soon, YouTube offers years old videos with zero views.

A generic effect system would fill in so many edge cases that are precisely why people find async so complex right now. Allowing async/const/try/etc. to transparently flow through APIs where it makes sense, IMO, would make things so much easier.

Persona 5 with DLSS 5 does look pretty good though...

Oh thank god, maybe this will fix Limbo so I can play it in colour, or add dialogue to Journey! I can't tell you how long I've waited to replace all that art from Hollowknight with characters from Dirt Girl World and Angela Anaconda. /sarcasm

whatever firefly announcement is about to happen: you don’t want it

well if no one else is gonna do it

You'd think Italian gamedevs would imply the existence of Mario games...

Agreed, but I do think there is a paratextual component of this enjoyment too. I have very fond memories of trying to be better at a game by talking about it with my friends, finding guides and forum posts, etc. Gaming chat bots either don't work, or they turn that meta-game into a "press f to win"

Assuming this is in response to the RedoxOS policy announcement, this is pretty disingenuous. You aren't "exposed" to LLMs, you choose to use them. Nobody fell down the stairs and accidentally crafted an LLM-assisted PR on the way down.

I saw someone claiming that this is short-sighted and that someone should fork it without the new policy, since it would develop at "5×" the current rate. Genuinely, if you think you can fork RedoxOS, and long term improve its development by a 5× for more than the attention span of a grifter, do it.

I cannot understand why people give any AI tools any power to do anything. There are no rules, there is no sanitizing, literally anything could happen. That AI tools do anything useful is a hard-fought coincidence. Let alone the insane privacy concern they represent.

The one conspiracy theory I'm ride or die for is that NVidia is directly responsible for all 4 of these hype cycles. Four hype cycles in a row that all happen to be predicated on the sale of more GPUs is just too many to be a coincidence to me.

There will never be a movie that will do the Trump presidency correctly, because it's logistically impossible to fit 2,500+ daily insane headlines into a 2 hour runtime. At some point you need to choose between "president suggests people inject bleach" and "president shits himself" and you can't.

"Anti-woke Sinners" is such a hilarious way to write From Dusk Til Dawn.

The year my partner and I were finally able to buy property after years of saving and failed offers, more people in Australia had bought their 17th home than their first. Finalisation of housing is a massive issue, and is not as simple as supply vs demand.

Genuine question, has there been any effort at bootstrapping LLMs, or is that just totally impractical given the compute required and the foundation including illegally obtained data? I don't think it's cool that we're relying on binary blobs and subscriptions from technocultists.

Am I going insane, or has the world just given up on subtitles for film? Every Ghibli film on Netflix has the wrong subtitle track for the English dub, Predator Badlands spent the first week or two on digital distribution with subtitles that didn't include the main character's dialogue!

To put numbers to scale here, a human consumes about 300GJ of energy over their total lifespan in food and water. Best estimate I could find for training just GPT4o reckons it used 25MJ **per second** for 3 months, equivalent to about 650 total human energy consumptions. 4o was deprecated in 1 year

Sam Altman: i have made AI Devs: you fucked up a perfectly good LSP is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

I imagine one of the things that draws people (technical and non-technical alike) to LLMs is the extreme complexity modern systems try and fail to obfuscate. Whether it's Windows, OAuth2, JS frameworks, or games development, LLMs promise approachability.

I think it's interesting that people can't imagine using a wheelchair in Star Trek because surely they have the technology to eliminate any reason to use a wheelchair, but they can totally imagine walking everywhere in said show that has site to site instant teleportation.

The most evil program since operation sovereign borders. These are slaves who are threatened with MORE poverty if they do not work for free. My partner was the only woman forced to stand on the side of a highway for 8 hours painting a fence with 30 men.

Is that ellipsoidal or cartesian?

One reason I haven't found chat bots as interesting as others, I think, is because I've had an offline copy of Wikipedia on my phone for the last 10 years, and it's just now occurred to me I don't think people realise you can do that. All you nees kiwix.org and ~110GB of free space

I think this is the best argument in favour of LLMs and other AI tools. Right now, today, they give at least some people a measurable productivity boost. My argument against these tools is I feel we could do better without natural language bots.

And how do these numbers compare for publicly educated students instead? Outside speciality schools for students with additional needs, private schooling should be expensive; it's a luxury. What our government should be funding is improving public schooling.

So there are three kinds of people apparently: 1. Billionaire child abuser or friend there of 2. Those who aspire to be in group 1 3. Normal people Type 1 & 2 control at least most of the nuclear weapons in the world as an added bonus.

I've always hated the media's obsession with tiny homes. I know some people love them, and that's great, but acting like paying a premium for compact versions of otherwise normal and inexpensive appliances is somehow economical is just insane. You have a tiny home because it's cute.

Five jobs I've had: - Supermarket shelf stacker - IT support - Lecturer - Chocolate Factory SCADA engineer - (current role) Electrical Engineer/Software Developer/GIS Specialist/IT Support/Guy That Gets the Milk Kinda hoping to slim the last one down a bit this year lol

I don't like LLM tools, but I do agree with this take. But I'd go further and say if we put more effort into open source libraries and tooling the amount of work the LLM would do could drop to near-zero. Arc<Cow<String>>-ish types would allow humans to write fast Rust easier too

#notadatetocelebrate #invasionday

ICE sporadically murdering innocent people is normal and expected while these public officials avoid accountability. These people must face a public trial and impeachment now.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Code is liability. AI allows us to create tremendous amounts of liability very quickly

I guess I should've been more specific to begin with, but what a contrast

Look at this absolute queen

It's times like these that I wish clamp accepted a range-like. Then you could just write x.clamp(..=N), x.clamp(N..), or x.clamp(a..=b). Much clearer IMO

Bevy 0.18 is out now! It features Atmosphere Occlusion and PBR Shading, Generalized Atmospheric Scattering Media, Solari features, PBR Fixes, Font Variations, Automatic Directional Navigation, Fullscreen Materials, Cargo Feature Collections, Camera Controllers, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-...

This visibly gets to him so people should keep doing it.

Software engineers: is_even is an unnecessary supply chain risk. Also software engineers: Ok Gemini imagine you have a number...

Maybe a hot take but "a11y" and "i18n" make me irrationally mad: these abbreviations are only used because because people aren't confident enough to spell accessibility or internationalisation right the first time in EMACS/vim/VSCode/etc. and decided to make it everyone else's problem.

Had a little free time at night this week and finally started looking at hobby programming again. Wanted to play with the Toy Machine, so I decided to make my own virtual machine for it, then an assembler, and finally a macro preprocessor, all in Rust.

Season 1 of The Promised Neverland is easily my favourite show and ending ever made. Season 2 of The Promised Neverland is quite possibly the worst show and ending ever made. Thankfully, season 1 is so well contained I think it's still a fantastic watch.

This is why I subscribe to and highly recommend Ars Technica as a news source for science and Tech subjects. They have fantastic writers who knows what they're talking about. Using this story as an example: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/n...