Twice I’ve heard this line. Once, spoken by a criminal who’s trying to make simple murder sound badass and righteous.

The other time it was Samuel L Jackson, and he delivered it better.

DST in (most of? all of?) Western Europe only happened this morning.

Until today, 1 PM Eastern was 10 AM Pacific, 5PM London, 6PM Madrid/Paris/Rome/Berlin. Seems like a recipe for heavy usage.

Obviously tons of tech companies on the West coast, but those regions are like…6 times the population.

That’s amazing. The optimization version of Traveling Salesman isn’t even in NP, I think, but it should be in PSPACE.

Super valid, but the part where he’s saying it from the Native Americans’ homeland is equally wild.

“15-20%” chance X is conscious is not a self-report. It is a bit of speculation that someone on the outside would make, which Claude is doing, because a significant part (but not all) of what it does, is distill ideas from the whole corpus of text given to it.

“I, a possibly conscious being, am 15-20% confident I’m conscious” should raise a lot of questions, but “oh dear, what do we do about the 15-20% chance this being in conscious?” should not be one of them.

Giant hamster ball downhill racing.

I have a half memory that a few heads after the original post saying it doesn’t exist, someone found early citations showing that the IBM study did exist.

But I don’t think they found the actual text of the study.

I think a necessary condition for “an emergency” is that congress ratifies the existence of the emergency and the use of emergency powers by law within 5-10 days.

“But congress might not…”

In an emergency, they would.

Be a captive audience listening to someone drone when the alternative is talking to your friends, vs sitting on your couch when the alternative is some reality TV dreck.

I have a choice, and I choose to read this as implying you will invest all your money in LinkedIn advertising.

The proper response to “I’m not aware of” is always “let’s watch it now” or “review it and return to give your response to us.”

Anything else is depressing accountability theatre.

To function as a safety feature, it would need to be an error that aborts compilation. Undefined behavior lets arbitrarily bad things happen.

If you do a redirect, you can put the data it on GitHub in case the domain ever goes offline.

Of course, Internet Archive could also back up the domain.

Also, let’s be real, you’re keeping that domain indefinitely, this is the kind of thing you do.

I think you can make it work if AI revenue is on the order of $1000 per white collar worker per year (probably even less).

That’s actually a fantastic goal (> $100 billion revenue). It’s beyond what I anticipate happening soon, but it also falls short of “we’ve eliminated 10% of the workforce.”

I think you’ve mixed up ADTs and ADTs.

I knew a dev working on a product where end users could see stack traces. He specifically rewrote null pointer exceptions, because his users were somewhat technical, but not programmers. They would see “null pointer exception” and try to guess what data was missing in lieu of a bug report.

Makes sense.

Question: I’ve always thought I read “High Holy Days.”

Is that a real phrase, is “High Holidays” an alternative, or is that just autocorrect doing its thing?

@tightheadpop.bsky.social If I go a week without saying “the NSA invented Agile” at work, I deserve a medal.

That or “Some sum summations”

Agreed. @aaronrosspowell.com Probably didn’t think about whether his tweet had a “topic sentence”. Yet it led with its thesis, because he intuitively understands how to write in a way that most high school students don’t.

Ok, but what does this do for calculating how many lifehacks you’re going to share?

In all seriousness, it’s pretty clear what happened here. In someone’s head they defined 2010s liberalism = woke = censorship, and now that right wing censorship is in the news, it feels right to them to mock it as “woke.”

The only good clanker is one that warns us about the other clankers.

I wasn’t too sure, but I recently told someone junctions seemed like a miniature array language inside of Raku.

““Hard deadlines⁠—often externally-imposed⁠—requiring work even if something else is nominally “more important.” (e.g. zero-day security patch is not on our list of prioritized strategic work, but must be scheduled immediately.”

Cost of delay is higher for the security patch. So is priority.

I think my reaction to a lot of the examples in this post is “this isn’t compelling if you rank in terms of cost of delay.”

Screenshot of the iOS Screen time display, showing a daily average of 28h 7m.

There are hard bugs, but the fact that it’s possible to see this screen indicates a sort of trivially dumb failure mode.

I saw someone citing a well known philosophy paper to make a point about AI, and I sometimes wish there were disclaimers about which bits of philosophy were real, and which are strike dummies for training undergrads.