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I built this site with Claude from my global vocabulary list I've been keeping these past few years.

Enjoy!

Yes, but for me to use your DNA as code would be a major malfunction!

Are you f*cking kidding me? Grammarly is like the best one!

You are defective. But, fear not! So is the rest of humanity!

OK, then sequence your DNA and send it to me. I will make sure to use it as code!

If the people developing and supporting chat- and c0rn-bots are anxious about the future, that is the correct emotion to be feeling.

Programming used to prevent this by separating code from data. AI (currently) has no such safeguards.

Yes. I call it, “Talking In Real Life” (TM).

Squares are preferred because that is the same as minimizing Euclidean Distance, which is defined as sqrt((x2-x1)^2).

This is probably obvious, but there is another form of regression that uses Mean Absolute Error rather than Squared Error as this approach is less prone to outliers. The Math isn’t as elegant, tho.

I am getting really sick of wading through the 90% sh*t (e.g., this) to get to the 10% gold on this website, especially since I have not profited one bit from coming here lol

As I age, I find myself wanting more and more software and pieces of equipment that last for ages.

To answer your question, I still have a functional watch from 14 years ago.

Which dictators are "in fashion" depends wholly on which party is in POWER. Polarization means that, perhaps, the dictator of Belarus can be kidnapped and arraigned by the incoming Democrat?

On so-called "gooning": you are confusing cause with effect. The cause is that women are no longer forced to marry undesirable men. The effect is that gooning becomes a means of sexual gratification among (mostly) those same undesirable men.

On "17. Wilson Effect": China's solution to this is to engineer its children genetically. How do you propose the U.S. maximizes its own genetic fitness?

Web development is perhaps "fun" again if you consider PHP 4 and jQuery as "fun". A "problem" arises for those of us who prefer Ruby, Rails, and HotWire.

I'm not gonna lie, I use AI every day (in the form of Grammarly). But LLMs and so-called "agents" are less valuable to me, even if they would help me to produce more "output".

It will be interesting to me to discover the outcome of this bifurcation!

> The suck is why we’re here, and only those who overcome it themselves will reap all the rewards of their hard labor.

Thinking/writing isn't "the suck".

> because the more people take shortcuts, the less quality will remain for readers to flock to, even if the overall quantity of options is much larger.

The creators of The Enhanced Games/Olympics would disagree with you.

Which brings me to my point: Are we satisfied being "Top Slave" or do we want to be Free? Or do you believe that Freedom is an illusion?

> For the purpose of conversation, what the model appears to ‘believe’ probably doesn’t matter

This is wrong to the point of being absurd. What the model "appears to 'believe'" does matter, and the model's "beliefs" about humans and society at large have vast implications for humanity's future.

Iirc, in Lisp, closures are heap-allocated, unless they are created at compile-time with macros. Therefore, there is the added overhead of malloc and free calls with each closure created. Am I wrong here?

Lisp solves the performance hit of closures with macros. However, given what macros look like in C, I hope it never amounts to that!

Hey, gotta pay the bills, somehow! *shrug*

See, now this is how a website *should* look: mainly text, with non-obtrusive ads at the bottom. It's really not that hard!

"Why do slaves hate chains?" wrote The Gotham Daily Propagandist

Good. I hated it first!

Or maybe they just insist on being materially correct?

We fell out of contact long before Nvidia blew up: hope he's doing OK!

Don't joke: I once knew a kid who invested all his savings in a company because he liked computer games; that company was Nvidia!

From experience, my childhood hobby of playing video games, such as Final Fantasy VII, influenced my view of reading other, non-video-game material, such as novels, short stories, and non-fiction. I don't know how many fewer books I would have read in my life had I not played those games when I was younger!

Are you accusing me, a dirt poor schizophrenic, of somehow orchestrating a clandestine war on The Right Wing?

git is actually a case-study in "Worse Is Better". hg beats it in every way, except pure speed. Of course, git is still way better than svn, tho.

I remember when a startup I used to work for made the transition from svn to git. They transitioned, then threw the guy who suggested the transition under the bus; he quit, and then the company collapsed. Lol!