l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org
- Monad m
- m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
- Previously
- https://mastodon.social/@dpwiz
- Making games
- https://haskell-game.dev
- Games made
- https://icrbow.itch.io
Toots as he pleases.
Joined Apr 2022
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@darius I think about the NHS digital. design standards all the time, where the standard is functionally "your target audience is a fifteen-year-old for whom english is a second language. They're using a 6 year old android phone that's been handed down twice, and they are sitting in an hospital emergency waiting room trying to look up information in the middle of the the most terrifying night they have ever had. Your site must work for that person, at that moment."
https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/standards-for-web-products#using-valid-html
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The previous one was more close and more nasty, in a blackmirroresque way.
It was about proliferation of generative models and commercial companies eager to fullfil any request for text, images, music, games etc regardless of the theme.
No editor in the loop to guide the generation according to their own tastes in art. It all feels like a median mishmash of the source material without any integration, interpretation, and/or “reimagining”. Which it really is, being an high dimensional interpolation of source material.
It’s like watching an endless stream of clumsily targeted banners/commercials, or browsing a mobile games catalogue infested by 1.47 dollar match3 clones from match3 sweatshop.
I’ve read/seen a fair amount of generated stuff, and this incident seems to cement in the nausea associated with this kind of “content” 
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Whoa, another “future” dream. Two civilizations have put brakes on expansion before they find solution to, basically, finiteness of resources.
One of them is running (which I inhabit there) a simulation of a Babylon 5 character which is doing research, having guests from outside and forks.
Despite expansion being forbidden (they have immense resources available in their borders already) one of the civs have found some glitches which it exploits to sneak out their borders and slowly tilt the balance in their favor. Maybe the others doing the same, but the economics readouts say that they’re slowly decaying, not just falling behind.
And then the simulated dude found killed in it’s home by a feral intruder.
(Here I was catapulted back into RL with a pang of sadness)
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Activity Pub? Like, there's coloring books and shit to do while you drink? I'm in.
The Fediverse is not forever, at least not in its current form. ActivityPub is but a waypoint before another protocol crops up and we will walk away again. Pack light and let them have the dusty husks of uncool.
And so I’m okay with @dansup and @Gargron signing whatever they want to sign and talking about whatever they want to talk in the valley of the shadow of greed.
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have you heard of this new programming language called "forth"? big upgrade over the third one
Don’t be that person when the shit hits the fan
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I've read multiple times that Reddit 1.0 was written in Lisp. I didn't realize the source is public.
It's amazing. You can read the whole thing in one sitting. Even an undergrad could. It's like the essence of a…Reddit.
We took a wrong turn w/ software.
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0
Total mass of 3,291 kg (GPUs only;
3 tons of low-grade computronium for lease: https://andromedacluster.com/
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We are OpenAI.
Lower your paywalls and surrender your content.
We will add your cultural and technological distinctiveness to our own.
Your societies will adapt to service us.
Regulation is futile.
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re: life tips of how not to die
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what is gender but genres for people
-11 kardashev scale: a civilisation that maintains a limited degree of control over the energy of burning firewood from around one particular cave
With the amount of sex-related scandals in politics it’s like becoming an eunuch should be a prerequisite for taking office. Or any leadership position whatsoever, where a single drop of drama can dismantle the entire movement.
Why people can’t keep it in their pants? 
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One of the reasons I stopped making client apps for corporate platforms is because "filling in the gaps" of someone else's platform usually resolves itself poorly. Either the platform holder fills in the gap, they decide the gap goes against their corporate interests, or the gap is itself meaningless and nobody wants a fix for it.
For any young devs out there making a client app for some corpo's API, I strongly recommend not doing that, except for fun projects or things that get you headlines.
LLMs doing that “garbage in - garbage out” thing…
https://nitter.it/goodside/status/1666982386683334656
(… and the “garbage” is you)
It is ridiculous how “agile” means “mandatory synchronous reading out loud microblog posts that nobody did write in advance”.
Should’ve stopped with just the “microblog” part.
- Monad m
- m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b
- Previously
- https://mastodon.social/@dpwiz
- Making games
- https://haskell-game.dev
- Games made
- https://icrbow.itch.io
Toots as he pleases.
Joined Apr 2022
