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enkiv2

@enkiv2@eldritch.cafe

A pig in a cage on antibiotics.
Ex-Xanadu, resident hypertext crank.

"Under electronic conditions, there is no escape" -McLuhan
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it's not too late to just ban commercial use of the internet again.

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most guitarists only know three chords and the truth. guitars georg, who knows all the chords, is an outlier and should not be counted.

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NPM Install Everything, and the Complete and Utter Chaos That Follows https://boehs.org/node/npm-everything

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what's your favorite rag not composed by scott joplin? because i'm pretty sure every ragtime song i've heard was by him

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Bad idea of the day: replace auteur theory with 'scene' theory: movies are inherently collaborative but small groups of friends who repeatedly work together are often major creative forces with specific and recognizable tendencies, and often losing just one person in that group dramatically changes the vibes

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i shouldn't let LLMs & GANs ruin my appreciation for generative art. statistical methods like these are not new (and most of their problems with LLMs are shared with, ex., markov) & all that's changed is that people are trying to Productize, which they tend to do.

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proper generative art is like proper human-created art: weird, jarring, and impossible to make any money off of

the existence of thomas kinkade didn't make david lynch stop painting. the existence of chatgpt shouldn't make me stop producing dreamy looping pseudo-narratives based vaguely on 50-year-old media properties.

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Random link from the archives: "Why do we call it "boilerplate code?" • Buttondown" https://web.archive.org/web/20221114144606/https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/why-do-we-call-it-boilerplate-code/ originally retrieved Mon 14 Nov 2022 02:46:06 PM EST

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Random link from the archives: "We Had the COVID-19 Vaccine the Whole Time" https://web.archive.org/web/20201209093548/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html originally retrieved Wed 09 Dec 2020 09:35:48 AM EST

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tricera bottoms

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advice for aspiring programmers GO

enkiv2,
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@garbados

the number one skill in programming is masochism, and as long as you're willing to put up with frustration for extended periods of time you'll make a good programmer (regardless of other skills)

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@garbados

oh. i can't really give any advice on that; i lucked out & my internship turned into a full time position

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when movies were shot on film, screwing up light levels would make your footage utterly unusable (and you'd still be out the cost of the film and the cost of developing the film), so even very low budget movies would have absolute experts doing camera and lighting, so you got a lot of beautiful trash

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the first lesson of cybernetics is that control is impossible. anybody who thinks cybernetics will help them control things does not understand cybernetics.

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Band name of the day: putrefiction

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marc andressen followed me on twitter for a few months and then immediately after unfollowing me started doing the bullshit he's currently doing, so i take full credit for the psychotic break he's clearly been in the middle of for the past year or so

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@ernie

i didn't do it on purpose (though i was trying to post shit that pissed him off so he'd unfollow me), and i'm on the fence about whether or not to regret it.

he seems to be crashing his carefully-built-up cache of PR goodwill, which will probably eventually also remove some of his power over decision-making, which might be a good thing in the long run. but there's a lot of bullshit happening in the meantime. some of that bullshit is entertaining. i'm not sure how much is harmful.

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@danjac

maybe i just wasn't plugged into exactly how bad he was at the time

from my perspective it was like "oh, rich techbro vc is following me -- better start commieposting extra hard" and then as soon as he unfollowed i started seeing articles in major newspapers about how he was embracing landian right-accelerationism

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Please don't provide an option in your app to switch between light and dark mode. No one wants that. Just use the system preference, there's a reason it's a system preference.

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@gregorni

Counterpoint: I want it, because I don't have control over the system-wide dark mode / light mode toggles that different apps attempt to check (since I don't run one of the big two desktop environments) & every damn app defaults to light mode.

But also -- why not just give users control over the whole pallette? Dark modes tend to be too light and low-contrast, and I already customize the colors in every app that allows it.

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wild that so many people are putting, like, all their chips on Incompetence As A Service replacing trained employees, but it makes more sense when you realize that a lot of people making management decisions don't have the background to distinguish between a meaningful essay and clever bullshit, or between clean functional code and enterprise boilerplate bullshit

enkiv2,
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or, phrased a little more strongly:

LLMs are being pushed in the workplace for exactly the same reason that trump was elected -- lots of people make important decisions based entirely on vibes, and bullshit operates on vibes

statistically-probable sequences of words that do not represent a coherent logical structure but pretend to (i.e., what LLMs produce) is, definitionally, bullshit

the only countermeasure to bullshit is for every individual to reject vibes in favor of structural analysis, except in situations when the problems that inevitably stem from operating on the basis of vibes can be completely ignored

if somebody tells you to "trust your gut" they are trying to rip you off.

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When people say that they don't want Bluesky people over here - I hate to break it to you, but a lot of Bluesky people are also Mastodon people. Getting harder to tell the timelines apart, fr.

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@misc

Over the years I've discovered that every social network contains the same small set of exceptionally popular/interesting posters, and they're all just people who join every new social network. People who are on only one network are, for the most part, people who aren't online much.

Over here I'm following an enormous number of low-volume posters (while there aren't enough people on bluesky yet to have enough low-volume posters to follow to even out the timeline) so my home timelines look a bit different, and because bluesky is even more similar to twitter than masto is in terms of UI design a whole bunch of people I know from twitter who pulled the "masto is so complex that only linux experts can figure out how to sign up" card are over there.

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@misc

I just sort of assumed the "let's not federate with bluesky" thing was about the same issue as the "let's not federate with threads" thing -- i.e., that we shouldn't make it easy for facebook or twitter to scrape and data mine six years of posts.

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@ernie

Have you considered doing a tedium article about the tracking stuff at the end of URLs? (Or having someone do one?) It occurred to me, because tedium links have several & I don't know what each component corresponds to...

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This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer's specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.

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@flancian

Hmm, it should be available. Let me take a look.

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