Some innocent people died so it’s sad stuff, but I can’t get past the fact that they named a top heavy weirdly balanced yacht the Bayesian.

Well on the bright side naval engineers will be able to update their drivers priors after this perfectly engineered unsinkable sink sa–

“This boat had definite shortcomings that kind of uniquely made it vulnerable to what happened.”

“people would take photos of it constantly because it was so crazy-looking in comparison to other boats.”

Philipp Luke, a Dutch naval architect, started violently shaking his head. “No, no, no,” he said. “You don’t do that.”

“When I first saw this, I couldn’t believe it,” said Mr. Roberts, the naval architect. “It made no sense to me.”

“Technology moved on,” Mr. Costantino said.

Oh.

A woman was scheduled to give a talk at an AI conference. The organizers run her photo through an AI image expansion program to get the aspect-ratio right (how did we ever manage to show photos of speakers before AI existed?).

The AI image expansion invents a bra / undershirt which wasn’t visible in the original photo.

https://xcancel.com/elizlaraki/status/1846252781851890026

OpenAI is in the position of constantly working on newer bigger shinier models, while saying every model they do release will be the one.

AGI is just around the corner and we promise 3, 4, 4-Scarlett-Johansson, o1, 5 is the one that will be good enough to help you with your homework and legal letters and medical questions and remove the loneliness from your life!

Would be funny if they manage to pop the bubble in the process of trying to go for-profit.

Sshh don’t tell the investors, I’ve managed to be paid for a decade by updating my code to work with other people updating their code to work with other people updating their code, all without actually doing anything new.

We as a profession have developed a careful balancing act where we’re always busy doing nothing. If the balance was off just a little someone might actually have to think about new features instead of, say, migrating from CGI to PHP to JavaScript to jQuery to AngularJS to Angular to React to ???, rejecting LLM generated changes, “fixing” the same bug year after year, or reverting reverts of reverts of reverts of reverts of changes.

And thinking is hard.

not much emphasis on boring normal “L” and “G”

“Look I’m not really saying G-word and L-word are normal, but I might be willing to invite them to my BBQs if they never mention it, hate rainbows, and allow straight people to cut in line ahead of them as a civic duty.”

Also wait is not even “B” ‘normal’ enough for this guy?

one sort by controversial later and they are indeed a culture war person

Instant regret.

This is asked in all sincerity: Why is there a coherent “community” of lesbians, gays, and transgender people? What is the important linking commonality that makes those groups into a community?

Gee I wonder. Also new rule whenever someone posts that they’re asking something in sincerity or just wanting to understand or “confused”, you’re allowed to laugh in their face before they can finish. Seriously does anyone even fall for this anymore? It’s so obvious.

Does a kernel that crashes itself before it can process any malicious inputs count as secure?

Alternative headline for this Washington Post opinion piece from Jeff Bezos: We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!

^{more US politics I know. There is sadly no escape from the fiery vortex that is the U.S. election.}

His comment history is a weird mix of programming language discussion, terrible takes, simping for Musk, simping for Musk even harder (just in case you didn’t realize how much he liked Musk the first time).

Musk is the sane one. It’s the rest of us that are insane.

Holy hell.

I see RicksCEO.eth has since quietly removed the “.eth” part of his name. Presumably it was way more embarrassing than being a strip club tycoon.

Introducing Chat-GPT version EATERY SHORTAGE

I had a mini identity crisis when i realized I’m more aware of techno-fascist writing than Elon Musk of all people.

That anti David Gerard Wikipedia nontroversy from awhile back has made it to Elon Musk’s twitter feed: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1849862303614894223

Excuse me but my aunt’s friend’s daughter’s boyfriend personally witnessed antifa refill a slurpee without paying and dump it all over a hard-working American CyberTruck for TikTok views while streaming as the vtuber personification of California High Speed Rail to an audience of hactivist furries.

Vivaldi Browser has an important teaser AI announcement: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/113351393167122198

GATTACATS would be the most cursed musical possible and every day I give thanks that we live in a world where it doesn’t exist.

It really is incredible how bad twitter got to make me root for the company that thinks DID is good protocol design and that was started by Jack Dorsey.

But heck it I’m (cautiously) rooting for Bluesky.

Molly White reports on Kamala Harris’s recent remarks about Cryptocurrency being a cool opportunity for black men.

VP Harris’s press release (someone remind me to archive this once internet archive is up). Most of the rest of it is reasonable, but it paints cryptocurrency in a cautiously positive light.

Supporting a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency and other digital assets so Black men who invest in and own these assets are protected

[…]

Enabling Black men who hold digital assets to benefit from financial innovation.

More than 20% of Black Americans own or have owned cryptocurrency assets. Vice President Harris appreciates the ways in which new technologies can broaden access to banking and financial services. She will make sure owners of and investors in digital assets benefit from a regulatory framework so that Black men and others who participate in this market are protected.

Overall there has been a lot of cryptocurrency money in this US election on both sides of the aisle, which Molly White has also reported extensively on. I kind of hate it.

“regulation” here is left (deliberately) vague. Regulation should start with calling out all the scammers, shutting down cryptocurrency ATMs, prohibiting noise pollution, and going from there; but we clearly don’t live in a sensible world.

Presented, without comment, this book cover:

(found on the social medias, the books’ website)

I mean as long as all the passengers can escape from the flames in time and the manufacturer didn’t do something silly like use “bulletproof” glass for the windshields or make the regular door handles inoperable without power. Haha but surely no one would design a car that way!

*What’s

For the sin of making a grammar error in a post criticizing grammar you must now do ten push-ups.