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They're referring to Berkeley, not Iosevka.

Yeah, have the "experts" permitted your usage of this parable to illustrate your point? We must know this.

It's equally fallacious to assume that the curve continues. It may well be a sigmoid-like progress curve.

You had to prompt it to do that before it considered it, though.

Same here. I have a feeling that once the AI hype cycle blows over to a degree (not that it will go away, just calm down), we'll be left with an enhanced version of pre-boom development. LLMs are hitting a dead end. I'm not convinced they can be bandaid-fixed to become AGI or SI or whatever the cool new trendy term is. They're good at many things, but sustaining a lean and directed software project's architecture over long periods of time doesn't seem to be one of them. That still remains to be further proven over time, but I've already seen plenty of examples of this.

Also, "esoteric abandonware" is a great way to put it. I keep looking for solutions to problems, finding dead projects that haven't been committed to in months, they have all the indicators of AI slopification (the primary one for me being emoji-filled READMEs). I don't think these types of projects will be around for the long-haul. These projects are just as much about community and people as they are about code. And people are much less likely to care about a short-lived project that doesn't have the backing of people that intuitively understand the internals of it. It's like building on sand.

Personally, I've decided that allowing the "agents" (these buzzwords are quickly becoming pet peeves of mine) to write the code for me is a bad idea, because the faster the LLM constructs architecture than I can, the less I'm absorbing the details of it, and the less likely I am to intuit obvious shortcomings. They do help me work much faster than before though, because I still use them like a research/learning assistant chatbot. Learning what I'm doing wrong faster, while still being the one putting the pieces together, is very great.

While it may as well be the same thing, the Anthropic acquisition isn't what turned me off of Bun, it was the vibe-coded Rust refactor. As soon as that happened I dropped Bun. Deno was what I ended up more interested in (Deno Fresh seemed really cool too), but I guess it's just back to Node/PNPM for me now as well. What is going on anymore...

This was my first thought as well. Yikes.

This really is a terrible timeline.

Yeah I'm switching from Spotify to building my library manually now. I like having the full control, personal choice of music app/client for each platform I listen on, the ability to individually adjust tracks to my personal liking (some songs need manual ReplayGain adjustments to sound correct), being able to have my favorite albums be in FLAC and the rest be good quality Vorbis... it's all just better, except for discoverability. I've found so much good music through Spotify's algorithms that I probably never would have found otherwise. I wish a good FOSS alternative for that existed.

I've been fairly impressed by DDG for a few years now. I find everything I'm looking for just fine, and the AI summaries are actually helpful on occasion.

Firefly especially, for me.

It's definitely helpful. It just seems that people think more highly of its capabilities than the reality of it.

It's not the same at all though. Google indexes the original content, hosted at the original location. It just gives you a way to find it. LLMs ingest the original data, throw it away, and spit it back out in whatever form they like back to the user. And since it's gotten so popular, many peoples' interactions with the content are no longer in the original form at all; their site traffic / book sales diminished.

I've never run into a generic "filter" function which keeps only the non-matching elements.

And brute forcing solutions within well-understood constraints.

You're downvoted, but it's true. Some places just mask it with fancy processes and manners a bit better.

At least there's still hope. It would be weird that this would be allowed to stand, with first-class GOS in the picture now.

> 2. requires online connection and account to unlock bootloader

That's horrible. I'm surprised the GOS team is okay with this.

We have proof he fucked kids now?

Breaking news: a machine can do a tedious repetitive task faster than a human.

I don't want to rehash the content of the Zen of Reticulum which explains the concept rather well, which is ironic because you're claiming tautology, when to rehash the content of the Zen of Reticulum would, itself, be tautological. What's the problem here?

> but I didn't think it'd solve maths problems

Finding counterexamples is low-hanging fruit, the automation of which isn't shocking.

Read the Zen of Reticulum and you'll understand the point.

Because more fasterer and more cheaperer.

I hope Reticulum gains traction.

We still have the ability to use a different platform though. It's entirely up to the users to choose which services and programs to use to accomplish their goal. With consoles, you just get what you get, and have the privilege of paying a monthly subscription just to play multiplayer. When the demand for an alternative gets high enough, one will appear, because we have that ability.

Do you know of any good alternatives to Nexus Mods? A peer-to-peer system would be really cool. Mod hosting over something like Reticulum, with mod manager integration, sounds like a dream.

Plus a lot of the advanced graph-related algorithms were discovered by the 80s.

There's that, and the fact that the "town square" for my city ended up being a city citizens page on Facebook. So we've got the city government and the sheriff's office posting updates to X and/or Facebook, and anything coming from the residents can only really be seen on Facebook. I don't want an X or Facebook account. I guess I'm just supposed to remain in the dark if I don't submit to corpos. The merger of corporation and state is very real, and I guess it often arrives unintentionally rather than intentionally.

I actually like that reality better

> The concept you’re likely actually interested in is whether or not the human brain can fully be emulated in a computer. The answer is that with enough computing power, yes.

That's kind of begging the question, because we don't actually know that, and I'm personally not sufficiently convinced of it.