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Elucidating

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Uninteresting. Genderfluid. No interest in performing for you. Was KirinDave on 🐦. Still KirinDave on YouTube.

$megacorp SRE. ML/Art/Software.

Not a fan of this capitalism. I am a fan of biocosmism, anarchism, distributed and robust systems, and economics when decoupled from capitalists and oligarchy.

ML models must be fully open sourced, including the training data! We deserve the right to audit.

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Migueldeicaza, to random
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I love that WebAssembly is becoming a bytecode for Swift tooling.

Pure, unadulterated, high-octane fuel for a he swift ecosystem:

https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/73031

Elucidating,
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@Migueldeicaza You love to see most of it, but I don't see why an ad hoc ABI is a future proof choice...

Elucidating,
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@Migueldeicaza I understand and agree with the dependency concerns, but I think it's just making a lot more work to make an ad hoc abi. That's 100% throwaway work for everyone.

Elucidating,
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@Migueldeicaza I'm curious to see how the Swift community overcomes the situation then. You say it's possible, but I sure don't know how they will.

Elucidating, to random
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Oh he also thinks GraphQL is good. Oh no. He's gone.

Elucidating,
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@mattly Did you write your own from-scratch implementation of GraphQL?

Elucidating,
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@mattly How did the architecture do failure domain isolation in the presence of these servers?

Elucidating, to random
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Nostr is fucking insane. I'm shocked to see Rabble into it. I worked with him for awhile (and he was unimpressed with my driving).

I thought maybe peeking into a project he endorsed would be interesting. But it's not. Not only is Nostr's protocol boring and subject to some of same attacks Tor suffers from, it's 100% cryptobugs with stupid micro-transactions everywhere.

Elucidating,
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Oh he's a cryptobug now.

Elucidating, to random
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Rofl.

chris__martin, to random
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Most of the US population wants to be a nation consisting of only the cities. The surrounding territories in this system would send food, operate mines, truck goods between the imperial cities, and have no input in their colonial ruler's government.

Elucidating,
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@chris__martin The problem with this is that if you look at the actual resource production and where it's done in the US, you realize that those graphs don't really line up with this assertion.

Part of this is that the center of the US has been hollowed out and hyper-optimized for government subsidy alignment and cheap land for corporations looking to build big complexes, not for building sustainable populations.

Elucidating,
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@chris__martin If you look at like, where edible food production is in the US, you realize that most of it doesn't come from those red zones in the middle of the US.

Which is crazy, but it's true, just because those regions are either hyper-optimized for pointless subsidy alignment (e.g., inedible corn) or they lack the regional development to compete with Florida, California's highly industrialized efforts etc.

jonoabroad, to random
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@yakmoose do you have solar or know folks with solar?

TELL ME WHO TO BUY SOLAR THROUGH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT MAKE ME BE AN ADULT

Elucidating,
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@jonoabroad @yakmoose Do not use BetterEarth.

When you sign with someone ask them, "Are you selling my job to BetterEarth? Is BetterEarth going to be involved?" If they won't answer, don't use them. If they say yes, find someone else.

BetterEarth is worse than SolarCity. I'm over a year into my install and it still isn't done. I had to have a lawyer call them. There are class action lawsuits for fraud.

Elucidating, to random
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I don't mean to be rude, but have you considered that rather than just the search engines getting worse over time, it's also the web itself that sucks more and more over time as folks make an endless slew of decisions to permit data harvesting, monetization and lowering of their quality in a hope of getting higher volume of traffic?

This creates a negative cycle: Search engines and ad systems encourage you to be shitty. You act shitty. This makes search shittier, etc...

bitprophet, to random
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What's the 2024 state of the art for local macOS+arm64 development nonsense?

Without spending TOO much time combing my (halfhearted because I've been developing via headless Linux since 2020 & it's actually very nice) notes, the last I recall hearing is:

  • Homebrew still "is what it is” & its entire world has since been updated for arm64?
  • Actual-Docker works now, but still via a (Virtualization.framework? emulating Intel??) Linux VM?
  • ISTR other non-Docker VM/container tools exist?
  • ???
Elucidating,
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@bitprophet I don't think "actual docker" works.

Elucidating,
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@bitprophet Using docker on OSX is like installing a battery assassin.

Elucidating,
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@daaain @bitprophet even with that feature it just halves battery life though.

My lousy framework+linux battery life exceeds a modern M3 Air if I run a docker container that just leaves a socket open.

Elucidating,
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@daaain @bitprophet This methodology is ridiculous and irrelevant because it doesn't measure overall draw.

Even trivial loads can increase power draw substantially because of how the kernel reacts to them.

hazelweakly, to random
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"The most valuable code in the world is often glue code" -- Ok yeah, so then why are we so fucking bad at it, huh?

Seriously. You know what would make my whole life right now? A flow chart. With a sarcastic paperclip or a snarky stapler or some other anthropomorphic substitute for soulless capitalism.

"Hey! Listen! What do you wanna build?"
Door 1: A CRUD server
Door 2: A CRUD client
Door 3: A CRUD to CRUD pipe

"Well you came to the right place! How much CRUD are we talkin'?"

[[ etc etc ]]

Elucidating,
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@renegadejade @irenes @hazelweakly I want to be the first person in this thread to say "we respect comonadic programming models, HOWEVER perhaps the are over-applied."

Elucidating, to random
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The American tech scene would explode in a second Renaissance if the US got basic universal health care as a public right.

Elucidating,
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@khionu Yes I bet a bunch of people would do something they'd instantly regret. But that would be good for the industry. Get the folks who are only here for the cash out.

Those folks aren't always bad, just to be clear. But I'd like to imagine a world where people like their work.

Elucidating,
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@khionu As someone who grew up on a farm, it is my duty to just laugh at folks who think it's the simple life and wish them luck. They need it.

danilo, to random
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knocking over the hornet's nest here to observe that indulging programmers on "ban LLMs” is about as sensible as handing a veto on the internet to legacy newspaper publishers

do not cry about this in the mentions, I assure you I do not care

your problem is not with applied statistics, SIMD workloads, or even energy consumption, because you loved that shit when it was making YOU money

your problem is with capitalism and the more you waste time avoiding that monster, the more it'll get your ass

Elucidating,
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@danilo I think it's even more elemental than that. AI is not any more corrosive or enclosing than anything else any tech company does. In fact, unlike most tech ventures at least AI has donated a ton of public research that is useful.

The problem is the animating forces that enable these companies to have this amazing power. We could undermine them in numerous ways, but liberals of this age group don't want to threaten their retirement.

Elucidating,
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@glyph @danilo We could have all the postivie things without the capitalism. You're describing market effects. Capitalism parasitizes those to capture them.

It isn't AI, or a growing market, or a glut of labor that caused human-devaluing systems like Fiver, Uber etc to exist. Those systems seek to destroy markets.

Elucidating, to random
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If you genuinely believe you have the power to ban the development of LLMs, but then you do not believe you have the power to regulate capitalism such that LLMs wouldn't instantly become irrelevant, then you've broken down somewhere along the trail and a squirrel has hid an acorn in your skull.

Elucidating, to random
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People continuously give video games a kind of supernatural power to change hearts and minds. They've never been much more than a mirror tho.

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