Lately, I’ve become more and more concerned that “systemd free” is shifting from a thoughtful objection to an outright crank signifier

Fantastic bit. I wonder if the Computer History Museum will eventually be able to replicate this as the peak of the “gen-AI” era.

The whole culture of writing “system prompts” seems utterly a cargo-cult to me. Like if the ST: Voyager episode “Tuvix” was instead about Lt. Barclay and Picard accidentally getting combined in the transporter, and the resulting sadboy Barcard spent the rest of his existence neurotically shouting his intricately detailed demands at the holodeck in an authoritative British tone.

If inference is all about taking derivatives in a vector space, surely there should be some marginally more deterministic method for constraining those vectors that could be readily proceduralized, instead of apparent subject-matter experts being reduced to wheedling with an imaginary friend. But I have been repeatedly assured by sane, sober experts that it is just simply is not so

Maybe if we’re lucky, Alvin Meshits can team up wtih https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bum_Farto for the feel-good buddy comedy of the summer. Remember, the more you toot, the better you feel!

Vacuum-driven total intestinal eversion, nobody’s ever seen anything like it

Don’t worry, I’m sure Lemmy is perfectly capable of tail call optimization at scale

I have always felt like NeXT/OS X Interface Builder has serious “path not taken” energy, but the fact that OpenStep/Cocoa failed to become a generalized multiplatform API, as well as the version control issues for the .nib format (never gave much thought to that, but it makes sense) sadly doomed it. And most mobile apps are glorified web pages, each with their own bespoke interface to maintain “brand identity,” so it could be argued there’s less than zero demand there for the flexibility (and complexity!) that Interface Builder could enable.

I am only mildly concerned that rapidly scaling this particular posting gimmick will cause our usually benevolent and forebearing mods to become fed up at scale

If you want a warm and fuzzy Christmas contemplation, imagine turducken production at scale

Hmm, sounds like you are suggesting proper static analysis, at scale

Not just pinkies, my friend, we are promising with all fingers, at scale!

so what you’re saying is undead kaiju, at scale

Our algorithmic infrastructure creates a scalable graph over source code at scale.

There’s a lot going on here, but I started by trying to parse this sentence (assuming it wasn’t barfed out by an LLM). I’ve become dissatisfied lately with my own writing being too redundancy-filled and overwrought, showing I’m probably too far out of practice at serious writing, but what is this future Microsoft Fellow even trying to describe here?

at scale

Does Checkmarx have any relation to infamous ring-destroying pro wrestler Cheex? https://prowrestling.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Staples

If not, perhaps they should seek an endorsement deal!

Made all the funnier by the fact that probably my favorite Hacker News thread of all time is on Tivy’s article about how he abandoned his job to “court” his wife:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29830743

If even the orange site is willing to roast you this hard, I guess your only response has to be pulling up stakes to go live in a neofascist social bubble instead.

“Brutalist” is the only architectural style they ever learned about, because the name implies violence

Obviously, if they’ve got magnesium alloy to divert into Game Boy ripoffs, the attack drone contract must not be going particularly well

Shit like Palladium is going to be absolutely hilarious to dig up in the back of a used bookstore 20 years from now

He knows the promo rate on the maximum, unbounded scale subscription is gonna run out eventually, right?