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@glyph Gallows humor isn't as funny if you don't think about the gallows frequently enough to be a point of reference.
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@datarama yeah while this may be (I hope?) amusingly phrased, it is not a joke. this is actually a pretty serious emotional and executive regulation problem for me right now
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@glyph itâs kinda the 3am of the year, ya know? Hang in there, the light is about to start coming back.
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@glyph I approve of this message.
(Not that you need or asked for my approval. It's just another thing you have.)
@xgranade @glyph I gave a talk a couple months back where I updated "A Modest Proposal" to illustrate the rather alarming state we're in re: AI Industry.
This was within a conference where several talks, including a keynote, were focused on how to implement LLM tools into your workflows.
The response I received was surprising to me. It was overwhelmingly positive from the attendees, a standing ovation if I remember correctly (maybe a couple hundred in the room).
It feels like, inherently, many developers have some pent up/repressed feelings toward the situation we're in ... but also, maybe they feel resistance is futile... I really can't say. I observe a lot of cognitive dissonance.
I really do think that in the end, it'd be great if, regardless of where we stand on the "usefulness" debate, we could at least agree on the need for accountability and consequences. (i.e. as Cassandra noted elsewhere, having any sort of useful regulation that's enforceable and pro-worker)
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@glyph itâs kinda the 3am of the year, ya know? Hang in there, the light is about to start coming back.
@genehack I am cautiously optimistic for the next couple of weeks. kid is on break, we have no travel plans, I have either completed or failed all my various important short-term projects, we have less social contact and will therefore hopefully not be sick with mysterious (not flu/not covid) respiratory illness for the THIRD time, there are no deeply consequential administrative tasks for another 2-3 monthsâŠ
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@xgranade @glyph I gave a talk a couple months back where I updated "A Modest Proposal" to illustrate the rather alarming state we're in re: AI Industry.
This was within a conference where several talks, including a keynote, were focused on how to implement LLM tools into your workflows.
The response I received was surprising to me. It was overwhelmingly positive from the attendees, a standing ovation if I remember correctly (maybe a couple hundred in the room).
It feels like, inherently, many developers have some pent up/repressed feelings toward the situation we're in ... but also, maybe they feel resistance is futile... I really can't say. I observe a lot of cognitive dissonance.
I really do think that in the end, it'd be great if, regardless of where we stand on the "usefulness" debate, we could at least agree on the need for accountability and consequences. (i.e. as Cassandra noted elsewhere, having any sort of useful regulation that's enforceable and pro-worker)
@xgranade @glyph
(this is the talk in question)
https://pythonbynight.com/talks/ai-modest-proposal -
@xgranade @glyph I gave a talk a couple months back where I updated "A Modest Proposal" to illustrate the rather alarming state we're in re: AI Industry.
This was within a conference where several talks, including a keynote, were focused on how to implement LLM tools into your workflows.
The response I received was surprising to me. It was overwhelmingly positive from the attendees, a standing ovation if I remember correctly (maybe a couple hundred in the room).
It feels like, inherently, many developers have some pent up/repressed feelings toward the situation we're in ... but also, maybe they feel resistance is futile... I really can't say. I observe a lot of cognitive dissonance.
I really do think that in the end, it'd be great if, regardless of where we stand on the "usefulness" debate, we could at least agree on the need for accountability and consequences. (i.e. as Cassandra noted elsewhere, having any sort of useful regulation that's enforceable and pro-worker)
@pythonbynight @xgranade this is legitimately extremely encouraging. thank you for having the courage to deliver that talk, given the context that you probably did not expect that response.
I am a little surprised, but it does *somewhat* match my experience, that so much of the supposed "enthusiasm" for these tools seems to be a reaction to their perceived inevitability rather than any genuine personal excitement for using them
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@genehack I am cautiously optimistic for the next couple of weeks. kid is on break, we have no travel plans, I have either completed or failed all my various important short-term projects, we have less social contact and will therefore hopefully not be sick with mysterious (not flu/not covid) respiratory illness for the THIRD time, there are no deeply consequential administrative tasks for another 2-3 monthsâŠ
@genehack so while I expect the quite serious and real trends in the broader geopolitical situation to get much worse, my personal ability to cope and productively react may still be improving in the near term
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@pythonbynight @xgranade this is legitimately extremely encouraging. thank you for having the courage to deliver that talk, given the context that you probably did not expect that response.
I am a little surprised, but it does *somewhat* match my experience, that so much of the supposed "enthusiasm" for these tools seems to be a reaction to their perceived inevitability rather than any genuine personal excitement for using them
@glyph @xgranade I admit, I was extremely nervous, but felt it was an important talk to give. Not because I feel like I am a definitive voice or hold the "correct" view, but because I think it's worth examining motivations. The stated goals of those in charge are alarming enough.... That's without even starting to consider the actual externalities...
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@glyph @xgranade I admit, I was extremely nervous, but felt it was an important talk to give. Not because I feel like I am a definitive voice or hold the "correct" view, but because I think it's worth examining motivations. The stated goals of those in charge are alarming enough.... That's without even starting to consider the actual externalities...
@pythonbynight @glyph @xgranade very interesting to consider this anecdote from the perspective of working-class solidatrity, too, considering who holds the proverbial keys to these systems (leaving aside local-model whataboutism)
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@genehack so while I expect the quite serious and real trends in the broader geopolitical situation to get much worse, my personal ability to cope and productively react may still be improving in the near term
@glyph yeah, our kid is home, which is great, weâre mostly off work for a couple weeks, and Iâm planning on going pretty hermit.
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@glyph absolutely Microsoft-coded tip here
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@glyph absolutely Microsoft-coded tip here
@glyph Installing MSVC Runtime... (threat)
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@glyph but good bait - the desire to reply remains STRONK
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@glyph but good bait - the desire to reply remains STRONK
@mikeymikey that is a lot of achievements
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@glyph Installing MSVC Runtime... (threat)
@SnoopJ I donât really understand what is happening with this. I could swear this bottle (I have one large bottle for steam) already has a zillion redists in it. the game pops up a dialog box at launch saying it needs to install the redist, as many have before it: when I click Ok, it crashes. the dedicated âinstall softwareâ menu has all the redists listed, but it pops up an error dialog saying the install didnât work, at the end. the redists from the website similarly exit with error.
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@SnoopJ I donât really understand what is happening with this. I could swear this bottle (I have one large bottle for steam) already has a zillion redists in it. the game pops up a dialog box at launch saying it needs to install the redist, as many have before it: when I click Ok, it crashes. the dedicated âinstall softwareâ menu has all the redists listed, but it pops up an error dialog saying the install didnât work, at the end. the redists from the website similarly exit with error.
@SnoopJ but the manual library redirects work fine, upon selecting them it says âbuilt inâ as if wine expected this, and then the game launches and works surprisingly well. including providing working support for multiple upscaler things (although fsr is still the only one worth a damn)
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@mikeymikey that is a lot of achievements
@mikeymikey so I am earnestly not aware of any vampires in the game, unless you are referencing the technically maybe olrox in the castlevania dlc? is there some finale I am unaware of? by the time I was surviving 60+ minutes with queen sigma I had assumed that I had more or less seen everything plot wise
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@SnoopJ but the manual library redirects work fine, upon selecting them it says âbuilt inâ as if wine expected this, and then the game launches and works surprisingly well. including providing working support for multiple upscaler things (although fsr is still the only one worth a damn)
@glyph man, I barely can keep track of the stuff *on* Windows, I don't even wanna know how cursed things get when doing compat
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@glyph man, I barely can keep track of the stuff *on* Windows, I don't even wanna know how cursed things get when doing compat
@SnoopJ I don't have a native x86 machine but it's surprising how the reliability of games is like:
1. proton
2. codeweavers
3. windows/arm VM on parallelsthere are things that run on one that don't run on the other two, but proton runs substantially *more* software than real Windows-on-ARM does
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âcuba vive e resisteâ: contro lâattacco imperialista costruiamo la solidarietaâ popolare. iniziativa a brescia venerdi 27 febbraio
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La presidente messicana, Claudia Sheinbaum, sta valutando la ripresa delle spedizioni di petrolio verso Cuba. La decisione giunge dopo la sentenza della Corte Suprema degli
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The support for #MathML in browser is often poor. The fact that instead of improving it the developers seem to be instead pressuring the standard bodies to impoverish the language only makes this worse.
(I am aware of #MathJax. We shouldn't need a heavy-duty #JavaScript library to solve typesetting problems. That's exactly what browser engines are there fore.)
I weep for the status of scientific publishing in the modern world.
(This rant is offered by my experience looking for options to make the SPHERIC newsletter available both in PDF and in HTML form. I don't even need complex math usually,, we try to avoid it in contributions because it's hard to typeset math outside of the TeX world. But the fact that in 2026 online the only safe way seems to be to typeset everything manually or rely on huge JavaScript libraries is a little depressing.)
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Ogni ho fatto una sostituzione in un paese non lontano da casa, paese che conosco bene. E non potevo non fare la foto alla chiesa principale che ogni volta mi ricorda il prete robot di Futurama (e potrebbe anche concorrere per il prossimo calendario di @ChieseBrutte )
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