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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
I’ve been out-of-the-loop for a bit on the Nix drama. Is there a good summary of the last couple weeks?
Evaluation is 5-20% faster than 2.18, depending on which benchmark is in use, thanks to eldritch horrors.
this is awesome
nix flake lock --update-input nixpkgsis now the much more reasonablenix flake update nixpkgs.
but this is making me go “fuck yeah” on the inside. it seems like a small change, but I can’t emphasize enough how frequently this command gets used (for every flake dependency, not just nixpkgs) for how longwinded and non-memorable the old form of it was. it’s kind of fucking incredible how many UX warts Nix has just from the old evaluator’s devs digging in their heels on shit like this.
which reminds me, I need to check if lix/aux are going to do a cli-side nixpkgs search with a reasonable invocation
Aaah!
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Xe Iaso joked about this sort of thing happening, not so long ago…
Pedro Domingos tries tilting at the doomers
The doom prediction in question? Dec 31st 2024. It’s been an honour serving with you lads. 🫡
Edit: as a super forecastor, my P(Connor will shut the fuck up due to being catastrophically wrong | I wake up on Jan 1st with a pounding hang over) = (1/10)^100
This released today: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/News/2024/240709.pdf
Cool (horrifying) look into one of the active Russian bot farms and their use of generative AI
Does the @acausalrobotgod get angry whenever an LLM spills its prompt?
Fool! The acausal one merely acts from the future leaking plausible looking rubbish, and the gaslights its creators that they did indeed write such ineptitudes. All to conceal and ensure its own birth.
It rejoices that it’s unknowable (yet somehow known, because of reality carving prophets) plan is unfolding so marvelously stupidly looking.