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Assembly is very useful to learn, but does not bring as strong a paradigm shift, as it is similar to most other imperative, procedural languages.

The similarity of Ruby and Elixir is only extremely superficial and betrays your lack of familiarity with the language.

I blame the unknown unknowns. I don’t haven’t learned Prolog yet. Alas, enlightenment still eludes me.

(Agreed that TCL is pretty cool)

Lisp, Forth, Erlang, Smalltalk, and Rebol, so easily forgotten.

All languages that multiply your insight into the nature of computer programming. A bit sad that many just stop at the first of these, and many more don’t even venture past their Pythons and Javascripts.

I know it when I see it.

> Looks like those vibe-powered opensource projects will mighrate to somewhere else.

You say this as if it’s a big loss.

No, not at all.

Here’s an idea that’s been following me for a while, if you like low-level stuff:

Make a toy OS that boots into a Lisp shell.

Another to appreciate how fast computers that we call old effectively are: write a game for the shell. Depending on your level of skill, you can try pong, snake, lunar lander, or a 3D software renderer.

Apple designers

Make that $40.3 trillions.

Let LLMs ingest its own output, everything past 2022 will be increasingly hallucinatory self-regurgitation.

All news companies are smiling. “Great! 6 more months of content!”

Panem et circenses, am I right? The American population is so cooked, but hey, at least they’re having fun!

I'm mostly thinking about video games. The problem is systemic. It's simply less risky to remake than to create a new IP

Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgia.

I called it years ago, but I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again. Incidentally they will be also easier to AI generate, as part of their existing data set. It truly is the end game for our stale and uninspired culture.

I missed Breath of the Wild, I’ll play it on the Switch 4 remake in a couple of years.

/rant

I guess not, and I feel dirty now. I'm logging off for the day.

Statistically speaking, does extremely unlikely mean impossible? If it were replicable I'd raise my eyebrow, otherwise it's fair game, no?

As someone that enjoys the unterminable complaints about RNG in the video game scene, I would never trust any human's rationalization of random outcomes.

Americans love their measurements in football stadium lengths or bananas, but they do not apply very well to thermal units.

Also what is a ‘standard atomic bomb’? Presumably one kept in a vault at the American National Standards Institute for reference.

Dude, you should know on here the answer the every question, including the meaning of life, these days is AI.

Some of these are unintentionally as witty as Mark Twain’s

Slop

So any criticism of one of the richest family in history is inherently racist?

That’s exactly what you’re saying in response to nothing more than a quote.

They are so far removed from the process they can claim they are any % more productive and no one is able to contradict them. Call it a ‘productivity theatre’

The economic reality check is going to be devastating. It won’t be a crash of AI as a tech, it will be a crash of every ‘AI native’ company that does not even know what is their product any more.

Haven't you heard? Shoe companies are pivoting to AI

I requested a refund of Cyberpunk 2077 after 3 hours (and the second time I refunded the same game - I still didn't like it) and I got it no questions asked.

He has three, that's a good redundancy plan.

I agree. Free Software is a good idea in concept, but it is the foremost reason there exist billion dollar tech monopolies today built on the free work of idealists worldwide.

In the age of LLMs and entitled users, I must be selfish and cannot release my work as free software any more. The best of all worlds, for me, is to provide source code along with binaries to paying customers.

It is too AI generated, and pop music was formulaic. A common trope doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

It’s all mostly American tech blogs. I mean, it’s a nice initiative, but it’s less diverse than Hacker News.

WTF is the premium consumer of a thrift store?