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[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

your periodic reminder: don't listen to Garry Tan, unless maybe he's doing a tequila review

[–] istewart@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Classical liberal" usually registers to me as a libertarian/paleoconservative trying to mainstream themselves.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Only had to scroll about halfway through the replies before I found somebody suggesting an SPAC

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

Puts their being a Thiel media op in an even more pathetic light.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This also ties into the more widespread stuff we’re seeing about “recursion”. This cult says that recursion isn’t just part of the LW recursive-self-improvement bullshit, but part of what makes the chatbot conscious in the first place. Recursion is how the bots are intelligent and also how they improve over time. More recursion means more intelligence.

Hmm, is it better or worse that they're now officially treating SICP as a literal holy book?

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Automobile advertising

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The point about a static site generator being an ideal intro project is well-taken. I'm working my way through Practical Common Lisp right now, as it's recommended as one of the best CL intro books, and its intro project of an MP3 database is only barely relevant to me because I still have a stash of MP3s I started building up around the time of the book's original publication.

I struggle to imagine what might supplant the HTML generator suggestion in the future. If anything, its desirability is made more apparent by the proliferation of JS monoliths all over the Web. You can show students how quickly it renders compared to a corporate website or heavyweight social-media feed, use that as an introduction to performance considerations and profiling, introduce modularity by bolting on a more dynamic framework piece-by-piece...

[–] istewart@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Wronger explaining human sexual attraction

Are we sure this isn't an SCP entry?

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

Unironically, this was surely the primary design brief.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TI-89 Unobtanium Sparkle Emoji Edition, featuring a revolutionary 68k core with a fat chunk of matmul units grafted on

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

What do we imagine that's going to end up smelling like? Especially if Peter really works up a lather, like he's done in his last couple of media hits

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The requisite refrigeration equipment causes "shrinkage," just like George suffers in that one Seinfeld episode, bing bong so simple

Now, getting the quantum hardware to the point of service, so to speak, is the obvious challenge, and that's why I'm seeking funding for multiple container trucks so we can realize Uber for QC

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