Notices by Nate Vack 🍴 (njvack@ruby.social)

@MisterWanko @anildash my man, we were all beginners once

@b0rk I always forget `cmd < file.txt` and use `cat file.txt | cmd` which I suspect is different in subtle but occasionally important ways

@mhoye @mekkaokereke @molly0xfff Yeah, the whole zero-trust computing world is like if you took a cute mathematical theory and then built a religion around it

@mekkaokereke Every single time I see Jackson do the moonwalk it is as amazing as the first time I saw it. A magical dance move for a ridiculously awesome song.

@zenhob Let he who has never made explicit statements in support of necrophilia cast the first stone

wait, what's this

where are all these rocks coming from

@thomasfuchs And sometimes bullshit is what you need! The bad things happen when people believe they can generate better stuff, or think "real intelligence is just around the corner."

And: It might be! Even two years ago, I didn't think they'd be generating text as parsable as they're generating now. I remain genuinely surprised.

But I also suspect there's something much more going on in humans and training more parameters on more data is likely to yield diminishing returns.

@thomasfuchs I mean they definitionally are good at generating *some* things

they are extremely bad at writing useful summaries though. Like, even worse at summarizing a meeting than I am, and that is saying something

@thomasfuchs more than once I have convinced myself the sound was coming from my laptop and had a slight freakout at the library

@thomasfuchs https://laamaa.bandcamp.com

@thomasfuchs also https://bleepstreet.bandcamp.com/album/a-for-amiga

@jlendino @thomasfuchs we had that version when I was a kid, the keyboard was fine. No Type M, but fine.

@thomasfuchs Sometimes this turns into "launch the garlic across the kitchen" for me. The trick I've found more effective is to shake the garlic vigorously in a hard container for 5-10 seconds (think "cocktail shaker with garlic cloves")

When you're done, the garlic comes out of the shell trivially.

@dheadshot @thomasfuchs to be fair, if you’re a real web programmer on linux, ed is there for you too