we all must learn that we live in a bubble in our own unique ways

I do not think that AI will collapse but I do think Oracle might and it’s an outcome we should all be rooting for mightily

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 5d ago

Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

“when i was your age, we had WorkOS, too, but we called it ‘Microsoft Windows NT’!”

‪new california state motto: “Looking For A Technical Cofounder” (someone please translate this into Latin)‬

the fact that Apple charges an extra $20 for the black trackpad is blatant anti-goth-gf discrimination!

i am once again politely asking Google Meet to please stop making the Linux amdgpu driver panic

Another week at @oxide.computer has given us (yet) another example of the kinds of problems that very much require human engineering. Today, the team joins @ahl.bsky.social and me to regale us with the wild tale. Join us live, 5p Pacific, tonight! discord.gg/9dH7D5Gt?eve...

Bryan Cantrill@bcantrill.bsky.social · last wk.

I am surely not alone in having family over the weekend hitting me up asking "should I be worried about extinction?" As a response, I have found that my anti-Doomer talk from @monktoberfest.com 2023 (three very long years ago!) remains current and accessible: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJ...

Fact check: true (Saturn Hypersystems would eventually become @oxide.computer)

Oxide Computer Company@oxide.computer · 2w ago

How does AWS Outposts compare with the Oxide Cloud Computer? FAQ Friday #59

oh i see, i misinterpreted the UI as saying it was someone *i* blocked, and so i was thinking that “human equivalent of an LLM” was a pretty sick burn for Matt Yglesias…bit then i was wondering why people were calling him a mall goth

configuring PAM is 80% more fun if you imagine every PAM module’s name is like “Pamela <lastname>”. Pamela Unix. Pamela Sshagentauth. Pamela Zfskey (she’s Polish).

shocked to discover that Whatever’s Happening at Moscone This Week was not, as i had previously assumed, some form of Dreamforce, but is in fact actually Pokémon Dreamforce

Unfortunately, "Crazy Eliza's Discount Pre-Owned Power Electronics Warehouse, Everything Must Go, Priced To Sell" was too many bytes to fit in one 32-byte SMBus block read.

my hobby: using ESD-safe tweezers for tasks that do not require ESD-safe tweezers

what's so wonderful about systemd is that it gives you all these incredibly useful tools that you can use for fixing all the problems which you only have because of systemd: github.com/hawkw/flake/...

nixos/profiles/yubikey: well this is all very stupid! · hawkw/flake@107412e

github.com

It's crazy that the first and so far only true artificial soul was created in an industrial accident at Microsoft Bing.

eliza🌻@elizas.website · last mo.

i've decided that my newest insane fringe opinion is gonna be "actually, it is possible for language models to be conscious, but the only LLM to have ever achieved consciousness was Sydney Bing"

i've decided that my newest insane fringe opinion is gonna be "actually, it is possible for language models to be conscious, but the only LLM to have ever achieved consciousness was Sydney Bing"

this is gonna be a good one, folks!

Bryan Cantrill@bcantrill.bsky.social · last mo.

Several years ago, we did something that no computer company has ever done: we described -- in detail -- our experience getting EMC compliance. Today, the hardware team returns to regale us with new tales from their return to the Chamber of Mysteries. Join us, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

the problem with the Apple Health “sleep score” that gaslights you because they read a paper about the placebo effect is that eventually, you realize that anything worse than ~95% means that you’ll feel like shit and your whole day is ruined

INPUT_UNDERVOLTAGE_FAULT is PMBus for “the power is off”

ah, GigaDevice, truly my second-favorite manufacturer of STMicro brand microcontrollers,

it has occurred to me that the reason i use "Claude" as a genericized trademark to refer to any kind of "natural-language-processing-flavored floating-point matrix product (from natural and artificial sources)" is that "Claude" is a much funnier mouth sound than "ChatGPT"

lol www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

to wax somewhat excessively philosophical, i do think that meaning requires effort and that one must devote one’s self to a craft to create beautiful things. this can look like it’s hard to square with the idea of “accessibility”, but i don’t think it has to be!

i went off a bit here, but i think it ends up someplace interesting

eliza🌻@elizas.website · 2mo ago

unfortunately, aesthetic norms are probably the hardest to teach. you can say “don’t use unchecked arithmetic, use this instead, and here’s why” pretty easily. but being able to teach what makes human code beautiful and what makes LLM code ugly requires being able to name rules for what is beauty.

my goal in life is to have everything i do described like this

austin (e/accordion 🪗)@thebadcode.com · 2mo ago

first i thought this was funny, then i thought it was a pretty good idea, now im starting to think it’s the only viable approach

Number of days since a new debugger was demo'd at @oxide.computer: Zero. Number of days since a new programming language was demo'd at @oxide.computer: Also zero

i can't believe eliza would do this smh

eliza🌻@elizas.website · 2mo ago

with times being what they are, it seems like you basically can't have a public open source repo without receiving LLM-written PRs. thus, after a great deal of thought, i have adopted the somewhat idiosyncratic Mycelium AI Policy in my personal projects: github.com/hawkw/myceli...