@kobenz Critically it means two things 1. no updates that break backward compat, 2. no updates that fix critical bugs.

Take the good with the bad I suppose.

Consider it a going away present.

Or maybe they were trying to convince you to stay!

Once worked in an office where they kept nerf guns on a dozen desks. Sometimes we had a stand up meeting where everyone would collectively shoot each other, or if one person was being annoying and obstructing the meeting, they'd say "jason, you're being annoying", we'd all point our nerf guns at the person and shoot them. Many eye rolls would follow, the message recieved, and we'd get back to business.

Then one girl in HR got a complaint because someone got hit in the eye, and the following day the boss's assistant went around to collect the nerf guns in a black trash bag.

He took em home to his kid, so not a total loss.

Someone had an early christmas.

I didn't end up joining. Shame on me. Family called me away to play scrabble!

@scor "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" intensifies.

relevant:

https://youtube.com/watch/...

Get a cat poster that says "hang in there". You'll make it through. Remember to celebrate when you do. 🎉󠄹󠅤󠄗󠅣󠄐󠅑󠅜󠅜󠄐󠅗󠅟󠅙󠅞󠅗󠄐󠅤󠅟󠄐󠅣󠅘󠅙󠅤󠄐󠅑󠅞󠅔󠄐󠅣󠅟󠅝󠅕󠄐󠅠󠅕󠅟󠅠󠅜󠅕󠄐󠅟󠅞󠄐󠅒󠅟󠅤󠅘󠄐󠅣󠅙󠅔󠅕󠅣󠄐󠅑󠅢󠅕󠄐󠅤󠅢󠅩󠅙󠅞󠅗󠄐󠅤󠅟󠄐󠅝󠅑󠅛󠅕󠄐󠅙󠅤󠄐󠅘󠅑󠅠󠅠󠅕󠅞󠄞󠄐󠄿󠅞󠅜󠅩󠄐󠅧󠅘󠅕󠅞󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅕󠄐󠅣󠅘󠅤󠅖󠄐󠅓󠅑󠅞󠄐󠅑󠅞󠅩󠅤󠅘󠅙󠅞󠅗󠄐󠅒󠅕󠄐󠅢󠅕󠅒󠅥󠅙󠅜󠅤󠄞

As they say, from your lips to God's ears.

@iiii on a long enough timeline, the survival rate drops to zero.

@iiii "but black outs are good for the environment!"

@wojtek322 Praise zeus!

Thank you. Gonna join tonight and shitpost.

@lungdart I'll take another anti-dry rant please.

Holy shit.

Fucking knew it was gonna happen.

Congratulations.

Never been this stoked for a cartoon avatar of a giant boa constrictor and his pet, a guy with yellow hair in a white shirt!

@atheist And on that note, if you ever do build out a platform, I'll come post content, and comment on new users posts like crazy to keep people around and engaged.

I've been wanting for a while now to do both more long form and short form content, with more variety than math shitposts and hottakes. Just haven't found the right platform for it. DevRant was, and is great, but I knew from the day I joined that it was a cooling ember of a 'community' (too many people use that word), but of all the platforms it came the closest to actually achieving what that word means.

Almost felt like an insiders club that was semi-open.

And unlike sites like say reddit, content was mostly unmoderated, and unlike sites like substack, it was always two-way communications where everyone was supporting and engaging with each others comments and posts, not just one-to-many relationships.

@atheist I'm completely useless as far as technical help, but I think it'd be cool to see a few regular DR people like you, retoor, and a couple others build out a full successor.

It wouldn't be DR, but it'd be the next best thing seeing as DR is slowly fading. But I think too what made Devrant what it is, is the people to begin with.

It made the post/thread content highly visible, like it was some site-endorsed level post, instead of just another blog post, it made looking up users who responded and voted easy, so you could reward engagement by going through their own stuff and co-comment and support good posts and have people keep coming back.

It kept advertising tasteful (and minimal, maybe too minimal for a site trying to support itself).

It didn't have too many frills, just the right kinds, like identifiable avatars.

Voting was designed to minimize bullshit and mostly worked for a while.

Honestly theres been some solid attempts to build lua-like languages and improvements to lua.

I like wren a lot, keeps the smallness, but adds some much needed affordances.

Moonscript is cool too but is definitely abandoned.

From a technical perspective they give you very few things in the way of maintainability (but what scripting language doesn't). But for what they are, they're genuine if small improvements to lua.

A proper language building on lua's bones, keeping all its constraints in mind, could go a long way in the same way the erlang vm now gets more use than erlang.

@Lensflare walk it off!

"Them selling it as it being like the fucking newest invention. "

Like all the startups announcing new battery tech once a month, and saying "still needs research", and its essentially (or sometimes actually) just a straight repost of a science post from the previous month, ad infinitum.

@jestdotty linux master bait.

@atheist probably retoor.

@jestdotty "have you ever chaos magic."

Can't sell a soul that you don't have.

But self-depreciating humor aside, thats a cogent and interesting comparison.

"will" might be a harder thing to algorithmically define, but could also be an emergent capability.

Most developers that have thought about it long enough, if they aren't in the "no free will camp", have concluded at minimum that we at least have "free won't", which reduces to a utility problem.

For example it is reasonably hypothesized that the part of the brain known as the PMC, or premotor cortex, is at all times, generating potential movement plans for different parts of the body, and then actively filtering out the ones that don't match certain criteria and higher level constraints.

Which is why (most of the time), we don't walk backwards to get anywhere, its severely suboptimal. But for the higher level goal of being funny, someone might just walk backwards for that very purpose.

@atheist thread content, username, comment.

Flawless combo. Perfect timing. S rank.

@jestdotty who the fuck steals someones cat and uses it for extortion?

What a piece of shit.

I'd push the guy in front of a moving bus and thoroughly enjoy it, just on principle.

Every time the power goes out:

"Dear god, the apocalypse has begun."

"Thank god."

The lights come back on eventually.

"God dammit."

While attention (for a variety of reasons) is probably really "all you need", language can only ever impute intention, and therefore approximate the distribution of language, because motive and intention supervene language, rather than being, as the LLM builders believe, capable of emerging from it.

It's not a hard cap on what these probabilistic "AI" can do, but does put a limit and diminishing returns on complexity and future capabilities.

Essentially its a data problem, not an architectural or algorithmic problem.

We should get to a level of data quantity, and quality, that synthetic training data's diminishing returns effect starts to ease, then vanishes.

Pour a little out for another one that has gone to the great offline-cloud in the sky.

In any organization, the bigger it grows, the less capable it becomes of creating new things competently, and the more it shifts to maintenance.

@SidTheITGuy like making friends with a moody or hungry lion.

Some people are just built different.

You're like "you okay bro?"

And he launches into the whole history of the 1930s.

And you're like "brooooooooo. you got damage. take a nap"

And hes like "yes but wait, we haven't covered the 1940s yet."

100% agree that video comments could and should be a feature.

Someone else said the same to me like two years ago.

Nothing new under the sun.

@jestdotty "my cat was great tho"

was? You lose your fuzzy murder machine?

@BordedDev "And you can mouw at so you get more food. And when they die you can eat them"

Recycling if you will.