AlienRobot

What difference does 24 make when nobody is even sure what is being charged and some of these products burn thousands of tokens just to display a status message.

I just think it sounds better. Kilotokens, megatokens, gigatokens, teratokens, petatokens.

The worst thing about tokens is that they call it "millions of tokens."

It should be megatokens.

I guess this is the new normal.

The tests aren't reliable if the entire codebase was rewritten, including the tests, and then nobody read the tests.

A browser does not send 10k requests per minute to open a webpage. Even in the most and modern bloated webpages. And even if it did it wouldn't be to a single website.

A user operating a scraper or a crawler IS operating a scraper or a crawler.

Google overview frequently cites webpages that don't include the keywords of a query.

This is Google, the most used search engine in the world, made by a company that is at the forefront of AI development.

ChatGPT, Claude, etc,. constantly generate answers without sources and rarely cite anything verbatim. I'm not sure if they could cite something verbatim even if they wanted.

Essentially none of these tools are appropriate for information.

To put things in perspective, I used to dunk on crypto because of how dysfunctional and how people kept losing money in scams, hacks, or even by accident.

I no longer dunk on crypto.

Not because crypto got better, but because the joke got old. I got tired of dunking on it.

The words you are using are very confusing.

You can't "move money into an offline crypto wallet that is not online at all."

If "money" i.e. crypto "currency" is in a crypto "wallet" then it is online. Anyone with the key and an Internet connection can transfer it at any time.

The wording is confusing because to someone who doesn't know how cryptocurrencies work it sounds like you can simply "take the crypto offline and put it into a physical device" as if it was a file. But that's not how it works. The physical key merely contains the actual key for the always-online wallet.

You are wrong. Search is already profitable. It doesn't need to become more profitable. The profits can simply be used to improve the profitability of other offerings like Google Cloud.

"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."

s/time/effort

Everyone already uses Google, so every quarter the revenue goes up it's definitely not because of a higher market share...

Why does it even need to keep going up anyway? Is 60 billion not enough?

I had forgotten about that. I also had some of my questions rewritten by other users. That felt so ridiculous. If there is something to add, add in a comment? Why is anyone even able to rewrite what others wrote? Who thought this was a good idea?

But who is reading those tests? Tests to code LOC was 0.15:1 because humans only tested that 0.15. Now you are assuming that the test the machine wrote actually covers the features that should be tested.

Depending on machine-generated tests that nobody reads isn't better than having poorer coverage. The only thing that is guaranteed is that that mass of code returns "true" with the current implementation and "false" if the implementation changes in some ways. Unless people actually read the LLM-generated code, it's impossible to know if it tests anything that actually matters or just tests the same code path that would never be actually used in production in 5 different ways.

That's just your opinion.

I wonder why would anyone write a book if an LLM company can just buy 1 copy and reproduce it forever?

>Just because these businesses don't charge you a fee doesn't mean they shouldn't be customer support

Isn't there customer support for their actual customers, who buy ads?

I think that is a misleading way to put it.

Someone who makes youtube videos about Foo belongs to the Foo community, but they can't post on /r/Foo. Why? Because /r/Foo isn't the community of "Foo."

The "community" in this case refers specifically to a group of people on Reddit.

That is, the guy will never belong to the "community" because he is busy making videos on Youtube instead of posting comments on Reddit. And you can replace that with anything else. Someone who writes their own blog, or own books, or has an Instagram, TikTok, or even a Facebook page.

He would be considered a "high effort" OC creator in /r/foo if his videos were hosted on Reddit instead of on Youtube. That's how silly this whole thing is. This is not about "the community." This is about someone's personal Reddit group that they're moderator of.

It's ironic that Reddit started as a place to share links, and then every community banned sharing links.

You can't share your own videos on /r/youtube, your own projects on /r/opensource, etc.

And the weird thing is that normally you would think this would be an overarching strategy by Reddit admins to keep users on site, like Facebook penalizes outbound links, but it's unpaid moderators unconsciously furthering Reddit's agenda.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't every PHP RCE... 2 shell?

"I'm building a model with no off switch"

"Tremendous ambition"

"We're building a system to stop models like that"

"Equally tremendous ambition"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlTNN0gvkLM

I wonder if we'll see more of this thanks to AI. Extremely complex features that nobody uses and that were easy to add, which incidentally tremendously expand the attack surface. One would hope that maintainer would be wise to avoid that, but for how long?

To be fair, Inform7 can't succeed, generally, because there is no market for the kind of games that you create with Inform7. Even if I was going to create a game like the kind you can make in Inform7 today from scratch while trying to keep more or less the same UI, I'd still want to add things that the emulators don't support natively, like some way to quickly tell which commands you can type.

That's not even considering the fact that in practice if you were to make a proper game like that today, you wouldn't choose text input because of mobile. You would have some sort of touch input instead.

I do want to say that I like the fact that a game made in Inform7 is a file that runs on a separate emulator, and some browser-based implementation even exist. It's kind of like Java, or kind of like a webpage.

I wish there was something like that for small games in general. An application that you can download to your computer that runs a game file sandboxed, so you can safely play random games that aren't browser games because the environment doesn't provide an API for arbitrary file access. That's pretty much what I wish Flash was, as well.

I've tried Inform 7 before for fun and one thing that struck with me is how incompetent I was with it. I was never sure if something was written right or not because of how free the syntax was. The practical effect of the English syntax was that instead of memorizing just the function an argument order, you had to memorize an arbitrary number of prepositions. And you couldn't even tell what a piece of "code" was doing just from looking at it since you need to parse the grammar with your brain first instead of just looking at the function name.

Yet.

But it's more readable, and that's what matters.

Reddit used to be a place you posted links.

Then images.

Then videos.

Now there is games in it.

And you can follow users instead of communities now.

And instagram has videos.

And pinterest has videos.

And imgur has videos.

And youtube has games.

And tiktok has longer videos.

And twitter also added images, videos, and then longer posts.

And tumblr has added videos, then communities that you can follow instead of users.

It feels like if a social media survives long enough it just turns into facebook.

This is one of the things I like about Rust. You can have both.

    let foo = {
        if bar {
            1
        } else if baz {
            2
        } else {
            3
        }
    };

Unfortunately not all languages are Rust.

I wrote in my AGENTS.md "do not use chained ternary operators." I'm still waiting for it to work.

The account isn't the software. Software are files.