Notices by LR (lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 5

@dalias idk. rust strikes me as the fisher-price of systems programming languages. just ban the unsafe token

@hipsterelectron posting screenshots is always advertising

On April 19, source control tool Mercurial turns 20!

A huge thank you to Olivia Mackall for writing this amazing piece of software, and to Pierre-Yves David for maintaining it! 😊

(Note: this is a Mercurial appreciation thread. Please direct all git appreciation elsewhere.)

@nyanide overblown

client feature: autogenerate CW from hashtags #VPofIdeas

@dalias @michiel @flancian @eARCwelder ok. totally understand. i'm just a curious newb. i don't care about EA at all.

@dalias @michiel @flancian @eARCwelder always has been? got receipts?

@eARCwelder i understand the connection to roko's basilisk, and i agree with your assessment there, but what is the connection to effective altruism?

i only just now looked it up on wikipedia; the pitch seems harmless enough, but it seems the people involved in it twisted it into something else. i found this paragraph which is perhaps the connection you allude to?

@RamenCatholic i watched this one secretly when i was in hospital as a kid. another patient in the room watched it on TV. told me i was supposed to sleep. but how could i. the TV was above me, so i flipped my position under the sheet and watched this way. i remember wooly balls with teeth and two bounty hunters (one faceless one not?) demolish a family's house. unforgettable.

coping.

until today i thought the displacement of thousands of illustrators and writers through automation was an accident. it did not occur to me that someone might be waging war on us. i completely forgot about the very real scenario that we artists could be victims of Operation Entartete Kunst 2.0. how naive of me.

sure, SD and LLM did not start out this way. but they sure as shoecream found their sugar daddies.

@tagesschau hitler und stalin teilen sich polen auf

@neauoire federal executive power. that still leaves local state authorities.

(it is my personal conviction that the US is fundamentally too big to be governable - particularly by a central organ, and that this nazi shit might work with 65 million people distributed over 357 thousand km², but not with 334 million over 9 million km²)

master: welcome to my Smart Home

student: wow. how is the light controlled?

master: with this on-off switch

student: i don't see a motor to close the blinds

master: there is none

student: where is the server located?

master: it is not needed

student: excuse me but what is "Smart" about all of this?

master: everything.

in this moment, the student was enlightened

if you're asking me, having your consciousness located *precisely* within a single body, forced to experience everything that exists only through this transient interface, with no mathematical explanation of how that is even *remotely logically possible*, is mighty suspicious. something doesn't add up here.

and sometimes it feels like reality does a lot of hullabaloo to distract you from this tiny but fundamental logical incongruity.

It's the only thing that stops me from becoming a mathematical realist. I can't figure out how this is supposed to work.

Illusion of Separation: It sounds like a dis/provable proposition. If it is an illusion, you should theoretically then be able to extend the boundary of self and gain greater cognitive perception and influence; or, going the other way, limit your sense of self further and lose control over some of your limbs. But I have never heard of such things occurring. Hence I believe Separation is no illusion at all, but fact, and any experience of greater or smaller consciousness is in fact the illusion.

@regehr i disagree with the premise that this is bad. tools that can be used from scratch have just baked in defaults that happen to match. but defaults are subject to fashion, and as it changes, so grows the boilerplate. so you make a new tool to hide the boilerplate. will the situation ever settle?

@Doomed_Daniel @regehr "However, at the point of design, this suggests a tool design (or tool application) that is flawed" <- this i disagree with. this situation is inevitable the longer you use a tool. you can not fix it.

@gamingonlinux those fruit must be made of wax. that's surely it. that's the secret.