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  oh man. on my walk i came up with a delectable scenario of how a company optimizing for cheap workforce could easily fuck itself into a cul-de-sac by hiring AI-brained interns until the AI has created such a mirage of a codebase that it itself can not implement/fix a compliance feature/bug anymore. poor sap in charge will just do what the AI does: apologize and try to make the damn thing work. boss fires them, hires another: same thing. (cont)

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  began honing an argument this morning that the essence of commerce is liability. it goes like this: you're not paying for "unique selling points" or "special service". these are traits by which the seller defines their own worth. you're paying for liability. liability begins with the product being delivered or the service being rendered and ends with the product/service lasting a reasonably long time, being well supported while harming no one, or the company making...

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  the definition of insanity is *checks notes* "doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" *removes all spinlocks from all code* #s0up

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  introducing ads on a platform is just like saying: "soo, you like it here, do you? let's find out how addicted you really are..." *gently twists rotary switch labeled "enshittify"* #s0up

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  "The thing that breaks tribalism is inherently a small-scale, relationship-mediated intervention, and the thing that built the tribalism is inherently a mass-scale, relationship-free one. You can't fight the second with a scaled-up version of the first: it just becomes more of the second." i guess this is why satire failed to mediate the red-blue divide.

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  big annual donkey conference called "assembly" #s0up #asstodon

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  norway lost too. switzerland is the last underdog. #worldcup2026

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  goethe's "zauberlehrling" predicted agentic coding #s0up

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  amazing, i got GCC to get stuck in an infinite loop.

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  damn this completely unknown 80's song is super catchy. love how it carries the last tinges of a 70s mood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JkHz4LGGh0

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  sounds like i found chicago house ground zero, or rather ground minus one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuBfE_scN1g i can imagine that someone from chicago heard this track (the singer even says "hey chicago" at one point) and felt like they had to make more with a groove like this.

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  sigmund freud: is it okay if i smoke during our session, herr.... rené magritte: magritte. freud: would it be fine if i smoked a pipe, herr magritte? magritte: ceci n'est pas une pipe freud: i see what you mean. perhaps a cigar then? magritte: ceci n'est pas un cigare freud: *annoyed* look, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar #s0up

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  Quake is 30 and the mappers have gone mad https://www.jank.cool/quake-is-30-and-the-mappers-have-gone-mad/

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  @scdollins@genart.social this is the best use of color cycling i've ever seen.

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  would i accept ai authored patches? not if they're marked as such. it's not directly that i expect you to hide your ai use - though yeah, i expect you to hide your ai use *well*, and that's not just for optics. i want you to take 100% responsibility for the code you submit. first it's "beware, authored by slopus", and then later it's "but i warned you it was written by slopus, can't fix it, sorry". don't...

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  an ache of the head ails me #s0up

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  all major projects of mine now have a subdomain: http://nowhere.duangle.com http://scopes.duangle.com http://eo.duangle.com http://sxpp.duangle.com http://arcmem.duangle.com i wanted to do this with duangle.dev originally, which i registered last week, but learned too late that all web content has apparently to be served through HTTPS (wtf?), and my domain provider doesn't offer a redirection template for this case. #devlog

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  imagining when they invented the ++ operator for C they were probably incredibly proud of themselves. "this will save hundreds of hours of labor!" #s0up

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  max(0,x-1) doesn't work when x is of unsigned type, but max(1,x)-1 does :) #devlog

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  @rickderuiter@mastodon.social yuuup.

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  @phoenix@chaos.social bento bananas!

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  Today was my last day on Twitter. Now, after I've downloaded my archive, I'm in the process of deleting everything https://twitter.com/leonard_ritter/status/1531785566743822336

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  @djl@mastodon.mit.edu @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party uhm. ok. sounds like you have some emotional baggage to work out :-) i just meant to say that a non-probabilistic universe might make it impossible for intelligent life to form. or, if formed, it would quickly control the space and destroy it through runaway cascades.

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  @wolfpld@mastodon.gamedev.place it's from LLVM

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  turn into a 😭project manager😭 with 🌟vibe coding🌟

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  @simonbs if i was anthropic i'd stfu

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  wow https://www.vaskange.world/

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  @ryanc *starts bleeding from eyes and ears*

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  @N33R eine wichtige lehre: 1. nicht alles was aussieht wie eine tür lässt sich auch öffnen 2. es gibt wände durch die man gehen kann, wenn man den knopf findet

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  a glimpse into the post-AI world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy6KRNmnIJE I think of this clip every once in a while as a clever critique of how we all see ourselves as supermen (powered by AI, clark kent won't need anyone else anymore!) but then are depending on other people for things as simple as, say, a bicycle breaking down. what's particularly ironic is that i have a bicycle now, its rear brakes are toast, and i can indeed not fix it myself. but who can help? who shoul...