tagged: "fuck the police but stewart copeland is actually clark kent".

sub _ {2 eq int grep {$_=~ qr%^(?:shutdown|now)$%} @ARGV};

@kiki I could be getting the timelines mixed up, or that what happens in 1863 at Wiesbaden and Baden-Baden stays in Wiesbaden and Baden-Baden, but I was under the impression that he was heavily into roulette at one point.

@cafecortado Fyodor Dostoevsky comes to mind.

It is. Once you see the pattern, you cannot unsee it. Same thing happens with every form of slop, it's just instantly recognizable -- synthetic output, devoid of consciousness, effort, thought, reason, judgement, intention, intelligence, et cetera.

I can understand writers, painters, musicians and so on being worried (or even excited, God have mercy) about generative garbage because, respectfully, the overwhelming majority of them hasn't got a fucking clue that "AI" is a misnomer, and that PBM -- probabilistic bullshit machine -- is the lore-accurate name.

But programmers? No. Cant be forgiven. We need a purge, people. Bring out the badges of dishonor, we shall [REDACTED] their asses into [EXTREMELY CENSORED] with iron-fisted clockwise handedness, which will inevitably devolve into wyber carfare with a burrowed frow in the urcune aniversity.

Last paragraph is a demonstration of what 'reason' supposedly stands for, get it or dont: purpose is a seven-edged anus driller of chaos.

@hjk101 Aye, it's the same in that department. Only real difference is I don't have to configure anything when if I'm solely reading my code.

I insert spaces with tab. Because I'm evil.

Seriously though, I agree with your argument. I'm only pissed that if I use tabs instead, I'll have to configure how many spaces a tab is worth every bucking where, and I'm lazy. So I'd rather the indentation look the same no matter what.

I think it was an old Llama model that a friend had access to some time ago, I tested it once for shits and giggles, and when asked to handle a simple operation for a TTRPG (1d4 + 2 bonus) it would consistently get it wrong. As in: rolled a 2, plus 2 bonus... that equals __5__.

God, I wish I was kidding.

IIRC the model was limited server-side in how much context it was able to process, so as to keep costs down, but still, it's just an entirely new level of stupidity. It wasn't complex problems it was failing at, but basic math, all for the low-low price of a fucking mining stack worth of GPUs.

And just to make it worse, it was a smug, inflated, insufferably pretentious fuck. Whenever these mistakes were pointed out, the model would make up some bullshit to defend it's answer. So I told my friend are you actually paying for this shit, and she said no, which of course is the only right answer.

Newer models may be better but you all get my point: autocomplete is unreliable.

Three words that keep me up at night: overgrown subcutaneous microbiota.

Sister kiki, by the power vested in me by the (literal) pussy-eating State of Melmac, I hereby petition an amendment be made to the polyamory clause so as to legalize marrying up to four people.

The question that matters the most:

> But isn't AI getting better and more reliable at equivalent speed?

If we're talking about LLMs, then no. Rather, the word 'stagnation' comes to mind. Just forget about the most idiotically, prohibitively expensive compute cost for a second: they're still probabilistic bullshit machines, and generating exponentially more data to use for training is bit of a problem as we *kinda* need humans to do that, what with the whole synthetic data sets leading to model degradation.

And that last part is a good wink to your lazy chef parallel/analogy/whatever in the fuck, so I rest my case without further explanation.

Now, could this change with some fancy-pants quantum googloid black magic on anabolic steroids shit? I couldn't tell ya for sure, but I'ma say 'no' to that one too just to be a dick about it, OK. "It'll keep improving" is what they always say, met with farting noises and butt soup.

Walruses.

Middle Eastern is appropriate for the general public but brothers don't spice the same in Medina el Sadr way they do in Dahieh. So, khaytii, a suggestion if I may: also mention *where* the cook is from -- it *is* vital information for the connoisseur.

@cuddlyogre Both, as a matter of fact!

There are a few still left of the original undecimvirate (council of eleven, they're like elder magi but "edgy" if you will), who were spared from the undoing, and they all bear deep, irreversible psychological trauma from having witnessed and in some cases participated in the horror that unfolded. They're very ancient, powerful characters so I like to use them sparingly, but their arcs kinda revolve around the indelible impact that such heights of depravity could theoretically have, one way or another. Needless to say, they're all batshit insane.

And then the unmade themselves hang around like the collective specter of said depravity's victim, in the form of the temporal distortions that plague the land as a result of the undoing, and also as the night eternal (or 'shadow realm'), which is where the undecimvirate is locked up. It is *essentially* the cosmical corpse of the unmade. So the killer is bathed in the blood, we could say.

@CoreFusionX Full disclosure: I'm not on anything, not even meds or particularly good hash. I don't even drink, and the multiple concurrent instances of me allegedly smoking crack are just that, alleged -- allegedly.

Which now leaves us to contemplate the even more terrifying realization that I am entirely sober and this is just the natural unfiltered product of my mind.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

wait is this good or bad? can't tell.

I got all the way down to compiler design before I landed a job. And now I no longer work on my own compiler lmao.

@kiki me big smark deblooper! me build scalable colonoscopy machine soffwurz in rooster-walrus!

You have clearly vaporized more crack than I could possibly ever, therefore my deepest respect, first and foremost.

The strongest argument to be made against this is that the constant need to interpret values would add a sizable overhead, so not the best design for systems programming.

For a scripting language, though, it may be workable. The concept reminds me of implementing small DSLs in perl, a sin that I have undeniably committed without shame.

Hail freebasin'.

@retoor im sorry man, i got carried away :c

@antigermgerm SON OF A BITCH THATS A TUNE FROM MY CHILDHOOD.

@retoor or perhaps I'm not so new! wow, much secret. such arcana.

I don't remember when I first joined devotion rant, save that it was a few years before 2020 and rutee was still here. dude, everything was so much better back then :c

Are you talking about Google?

@iiii I'm not really at freedom to change much as it's not my code, so I can't really do shit my way. That's where the confusion and frustration comes in.

@BordedDev No, this is Patrick.

By which I mean octopusdog.

By which I mean dear uncle Bjarne Stroustrup hypothetically penetrating humanity's figurative asshole with a sawed-off shotgun; much harder to do in ceeploosploos, but when you do, oh boy, does it blow off your entire digestive tract, huh?

Oh, God, why can't it just be a damned fucking pointer!

This post was tagged "my name is the annihilator your anal cavity shall be devastated".

devRant doesn't seem to like my tags.

"Everytime I get to the castle I'm suddenly a mustachioed italian plumber stepping on turtles and my bitch is in another sicilian ghetto."

-ibn3dila, 2024.

Not saying I agree with the claim, but let's rationalize it. If you're caring for an infant that means you don't really sleep, that alone sucks deeper than a lot of _regular_ jobs. Small children in general can't do shit on their own so they're completely dependant on you, and once they learn how to talk, they'll also drive you fucking nuts.

So it *can* be quite stressful. But is it the MOST STRESSFUL? I dunno; most probably not.

For a file siggy? Not confusing if you read it in hex, because you can *see* the space ($20464450).

But when you render them as text, that's the first mistake, because you shouldn't. What if the siggy was something jackoffesque? "NICETITS" ($41CE7175) would read "uqÎA", which is just wrong on an ethical level.

The terminology itself is philosophically if not also politically loaded, given that { "free software" != "open source" };

Furthermore, one may think of the idealistic **LIBRE** as outright digital communism. Thus, making a conscious attempt to distance oneself from it, even if solely for economic reasons rather than ideological, has an inherent political baggage; essentially, it constitutes a statement.

Perhaps it is the mere fact of existence which begets thinking, that in turn and by it's very nature makes the individual possess of some from of ideology. And I phrase this bit as a suggestion -- rather than the assertion of truth that it is -- entirely as a sophisticated manifestation of disrespect.

In summary, and to answer the question posed within the type of post being parodied, everything is "so political" by necessity of being.

PS: Walruses.

I sort everything into markdown files, loosely classify it into folders, then use a script for search, it's just grep this regexp for files in dir, more or less. I handle search that way as searching for the content itself tends to be more effective.

That's pretty much it. A terminal, an editor, and some hellspawned perl script.