I think writers are the profession I singularly feel the worst about (ie I have the most sympathy for) given the path through which we arrived at LLMs and what it does structurally and economically to them.
They've gotten fucked over worse than graphic artists and musicians. It's understandable.
Up until I had the side-thread comment a few minutes ago, I was completely unaware that there was a browser-based solution. I don't know how it gets that some people get that and some people get "here's an installer, you'll disappoint the person you've scheduled to meet if you rock the boat, gl"
sshot from linked post upthread. Contents: they scheduled a meeting with me to connect. the meeting was on ms teams. the meeting had what seemed to be a group of people that were involved. the meeting said something on my system was out of date. i installed the missing item as i presumed it was something to do with teams, and this was the RAT.
That's 100% not the happy path of "click link, do what the link tells you" that I've experienced in the last 6 months
Lentils, jasmine rice, rolled oats. This is the way
Louisville bsky pds: clean up your act, FFS.
Bsky folks: you’ll need to come up with better fundamentals. The third-party pds scams are getting really grating
That’s my read too. This is on MS teams hostile posture towards non-teams using people. Google meet eg goes through chrome which is fundamentally safer.
TLDR: Microsoft Teams trained everyone to install things they don’t really trust on their machine. Bad actors learned how to leverage that into a globe-spanning fuckup
But the actor that has most resources, should know better, and doesn’t, is clearly the ms teams product team. Shame on them.
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
also explains a number of observations we’ve all seen, eg if you speak calmly to the hungry ghost, it works better!
This is independent of “yes emotions” or “no, only output faker”. It behaves as if it has them, and it’s a predictable useful thing to know. That’s enough!
Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.
the context is that we need to know that a checkout is about to happen to ensure that some file system watching stuff understands what's about to happen. There's no signal from git outside of actually watching the filesystem, but in that case there are no sufficiently strong ordering guarantees
Ugh, I meant `pre-checkout`, not `pre-commit`.
Ahhhh sorry, I meant `pre-checkout`, not `pre-commit`
... my bad internet skills, most likely.
if `pre-commit` turns out to work, you're getting an ack on this thing!
2026 and we still don't have `pre-commit` git hooks, huh? Weirdly, that's a very sharp problem for one of the cooler features we are trying to build in the next gen of Quarto.
I think it's totally reasonable to have discussions about the best use of NASA funding or priorities we should have as a society but if you come into my mentions with lazy cynicism & dismissiveness about space exploration or science, you're just going to have a bad time & so will I! So maybe don't!
How do you know one from the other? It's often not clear!
Thanks! That's close to how I see it too. I can't imagine bringing myself to do it in other people's threads! But I guess that's why there's so much gray hair on my beard 💀
In a much smaller setting, we're seeing similar benefits in Quarto as well. It's a lot easier to do the following two important things:
- improve a suboptimal issue report into an actionable one
- provide an LLM issue-creation workflow that's usable by people filing bug reports for you
two big awoooos every month, as is the custom of these lands
Specifically, I'm asking about norms around people posting drive-by replies that feel to me a bit too much like cruising the firehose for keyword hits and advertising the blog
I'm not sure I follow
What's everyone's thoughts on "here's a link to my blog post" drive-bys here on bsky?
AI can't write novel code!
and if it could write novel code, it's slower than writing the code yourself
and if it was faster than writing the code yourself, then it's producing low-quality code
and if it was producing high-quality code, then it's accumulating comprehension debt ←[we are here]
When it comes to #Python type checkers and LSPs, we had a lot of options for what to bundle in Positron, our data science IDE! 🤯
Read through how we evaluated Pyrefly, ty, Basedpyright, and Zuban, and what we ended up deciding to use by default:
positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...
My regent win involved that power that makes the big sword swing twice + replay on the power. Hit for 500+ in the final fight lol.
Yeah, I noticed that issue right away, but didn't expect the downside to be so huge. There's two rares that kind of kill with Doom right away, but it feels like it makes the builds fragile.
I ended up building around the uncommon power that damages on debuff, and so doom hits coming and going
last spirepost for a while.
Finally beat the base game with new classes. The Regent feels doable, but I still haven't really figured out how to scale up damage with the Necrobinder. I think I got pretty lucky on the run.
I'll wait for updates before trying ascensions
I continue to wish for a ranked list of accounts most directly blocked by my followers. I’m intentionally trigger happy about blocks and would love for us all to share the burden
