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We've already ceded so much public space to vehicles and now we must give up the last walkable slivers to commercial robots. Fuck them.

But where is the cachet in that? I want people to know I'm better than they are.

It exists! https://flattened.net/

I preferred the AI 4 out of 5 times. That's a little confronting. And judging by the amount of cope in the comments section, others found it the same. I guess it is a small test, but I think it successfully makes it's point.

"That is a profound observation, and you are absolutely right..."

With all the money you will save on subscription fees you should be able to afford treatment for your psychosis!

I think it might depend on where you live. In Australia, tradies make bank.

Are you sure this is AI? Normally when I read AI written stuff I zone out because it can go entire paragraphs without saying anything. The sentences here seem short and to the point.

Their previous posts published before ChatGPT seem similar enough. Although, they have way more em dashes and this one has none, almost like they were removed on purpose... lol

I don't know what is real anymore.

I don't particularly care if vibe coding and the like are used for web apps and mobile apps. The quality there has always been poor and gets worse over time. AI slopware is just the new low and in a few years time I'm sure they will find a way to make things even worse.

But for software infrastructure; Kernels, operating systems, compilers, browsers, etc, it is crazy we are even considering AI at it's current ability. If we are going to do that, we need to switch to Ada/SPARK or some other type of formally verifiable system.

Maybe I'm overreacting, but all I want to do right now is escape. It horrifies me to think that one day I may be driving a car with a braking system vibe coded in C++.

I won't hate you for downvoting me, but this is heroin-grade schadenfreude.

> The hype about vibe coding lets everyone think they can now be an engineer.

Programmers are just jealous that they are no longer the only ones that get to play pretend.

I don't know anything about you personally, but most "software engineers" are anything but.

> humans cope pretty well over a wide variety of temperatures.

That's not the problem, though. The problem is almost nothing else can. Livestock, staple crops, pollinating insects, etc.

I only just learned about SunCable. I think using our vast swathes of empty, sun-drenched land to provide power to our Southeast Asian allies is a great idea.

I think most engineer types avoid that kind of analysis on purpose.

Lots of workshops, factories, university research labs, etc. still use old machinery that would be a huge waste of money to replace just because the computer that controls it runs Windows 95. In some cases it can't be replaced because the company that created the software, drivers, or IO cards is long gone.

PUC Lua is supposedly a bit of a pain for ffi, but I havent tried it myself. Luajit is some kind of crazy magic. You can (almost) just copy and paste the c header file into the ffi.cdef function and then start using c functions as if they were lua functions.

Maybe you don't read much, but it's obvious they weren't making some universal statement about code. They are referring to the code you write when you are just experimenting by yourself, for yourself. The point is to not let irrelevant things like usefulness, quality, conventions, etc. limit just tinkering and learning.

Wonderful site. How are they sneaking in the auto-playing music? Firefox even displays a little icon saying audio is being blocked.

> I’m sure Rust started out as something intended to help with their browser work.

It started out as something to make elevators more reliable. Not even joking (mostly).

I have IBS. Sometimes the consistency is like mud/tar. It's completely impossible to get clean without moisture. After a trip to Japan, I swore that if I ever manage to own my own home, I will install a Japanese toilet. I started to wonder how we in the west have accepted for so long that abrading skin with dry paper is cleaning.

> You're implying it's somehow normal to bury it? That sounds like it would be expensive, both to build and to maintain.

Yes, it's normal. It's called undergrounding.

PowerShell is sort of two languages, and it looks weird because they are often used together. But if you see them separate first, there isn't much there that is surprising. I do somewhat share your concern about it being built on dotnet, but one advantage is you have access to everything in dotnet, including building GUI apps (Windows only). Though, at that point the syntax does get kinda weird.

Something similar was done for the 1996 game Creatures. A part of the diorama still survives and is on display at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge (https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/42694/Creatures-Deve...).

I really like their ideas, and I love that they follow through with actual implementation.

Given the restrictions on the VM, like 64K of memory, are they going to have issues with more complex written languages like Japanese or Arabic?

Cool! LSL is such an interesting language. Having an explicit state with entry and exit functions is quite unique I think, and seems like it could be useful outside of SL. Given that scripts are isolated and communicate via messaging over channels (IIRC), was there ever any interest in executing it on the BEAM virtual machine?

I have some "pattern glare" issues. I find monospace fonts harder to read because it shimmers and glows. It happens with proportional fonts as well, just not as bad.

The very first line is "Sometimes using Windows is inevitable."

In the Creatures artificial life / virtual pet series, the creatures have about 900 (maybe more in later versions) or so neurons. Each neuron is a little virtual machine that is designed in such a way that programs remain valid even with random mutation.

I love this stuff. Some other greats:

Doot doot: https://youtu.be/ZYcHOEjGzPA?si=_TP90YX-p5PkKdim

Michaelsoft Binbows: https://youtu.be/yDzAAjzbV5g?si=A2HTyCM8IU2MJHVQ

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Works on Google and Youtube