David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems Posts 526Comments 1,254Joined 2 yr. ago
https://xcancel.com/GuiveAssadi/status/1920232405324955825
Steven Pinker: I've been part of some not so successful attempts to come up with secular humanist substitutes for religion.
Interviewer: What is the worst one you've been involved in?
Steven Pinker: Probably the rationalist solstice in Berkeley, which included hymns to the benefits of global supply chains. I mean, I actually completely endorse the lyrics of the song, but there's something a bit cringe about the performance.
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTVJjmabaas which nobody should watch, obviously
yeah looks like I'm thankfully wrong!
reheated gaming moments
most, Sony still has them
does anyone know who the company who did the AI video was? This reeks of PR.
it's the button for more RGB
saw a microphone with RGB and i'm like wtf is this thing supposed to do, flash disco lights when you're on stream shouting slurs at your esteemed fellow gamers
oh really? I thought MS had demanded boot locking for the ARM laptops.
The poster has been assigned the complete works of Umberto Eco and escorted to the egress.
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Now it's up to the Linux desktop environments for determining what to do if the new Copilot key is pressed.
launch ELIZA obv
quite annoyed that the Snapdragon laptops are bootlocked cos they'd make great Linux boxes
list them, as far as I can tell NPUs are shitty cut-down GPUs with a few functions much slower
OpenAI admitted that with o1! they included graphs directly showing gains taking exponential effort
remembering fucking stupid flamewars on comp.editors over vi variants, and then there's Sven Guckes (vim) and Thomas Dickey (nvi) having a lovely discussion
Quarterly Driven Development
current thesis is A Guy Instead in the Philippines, dressing up wireframes
Leopard nibbles at venture founders' faces in a new way - OpenAI researcher can't get green card
(will they reconsider their wholehearted support for trump tho? also no)
because if they try to ban accessibility they will get in trouble
oh yeah, none of this is new observation - but now it's the VCs admitting the 2+2 that we can then add to make 4
looking into this, but as far as i can tell the AI here is entirely fake
need more to declare it such
your U Toronto CS degree has been replaced with a colour-in place mat from McDonalds
No, Microsoft did not state ‘strong AI demand’ in Q1 2025 — the FT is wrong
Generative AI: ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’
shocked that anyone could be so uncouth as to accuse our boy Cremieux/Lasker of plagiarism goodness me
Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?
California bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questions
