Also you get to call yourself a Ziguana, which is on par with Rustacean in terms of demonym coolness

rust is good but this is the exact 180 degree opposite of why

Nah. Rust is challenging to write because Rust is challenging to learn. There are a lot of concepts that exist in few if any other programming languages that you have to get your head around before you can write really any nontrivial Rust code.

When I started learning Lua, I already knew Python and Java. It took me about a week to pick it up before I was writing proper coroutines. When I started learning Rust, I really struggled, for over a month – Rust is a lot – but then everything just kinda clicked, and I got it, and suddenly the borrow checker was a wind at my back instead of something I would do daily battle with.

I am a twink, but I think that is entirely orthogonal to me being good at Rust. Anyone can pick it up. You just have to be very patient and very eager to learn.

Porque no los dos?

wait what’s the thumb thing

(not the same person btw)

Poe’s law.

I’ve seen tech bros unironically argue that

• The sole purpose of art is the end product
• The objectively correct thing to do with a piece of human-made art that is not up to your standard of quality is to feed it through an image to image model to “improve” it so that it is up to a publishable standard
• Their LLM is better than them at their day job
• Resolving marital disputes by asking ChatGPT who’s right is an appropriate thing to do
• Letting an LLM answer every single email you get eliminates the need to read them yourself
• An LLM is sapient and has its own thoughts and opinions
• Making and eating food is a waste of time, and eliminating it from their day using meal replacement shakes feels “liberating”

In light of that, this isn’t too farfetched.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-ballot-is-a-doorstop-not-a-love-letter/

Cute! Looks like a visual novel character

when will people stop believing that llms are or could become sentient it’s getting tiring explaining the same thing over and over

feelin a little called out rn

I went through twelve years of school without learning a single one of those lessons. And I really am not convinced that the only reason there are counselors is because people are trained to wait to be told what to do. People recognize when they’re out of their depth.

Free software as a concept is cool. The FSF are nutjobs.

AI could be the best thing that ever happens to humanity. It could also be the last.

What if we marketed so hard that the only thing our detractors were worried about was that our products were too good? What would happen to our shareholder profits then?

Remember, kids, there’s no such thing as defense, only offense. The only thing you can do to stop yourself being bombed is threaten to send anyone who upsets you back to the stone age 👍

And you gotta be scared of Taiwan. It’s a real scary threat. A tiny island nation with a military budget nearly 2% the size of ours! There’s no such thing as radar and anti-missile countermeasures, you know. If we don’t have enough bombs to drop on children to make a worldwide show out of what happens to anyone who offends us, there’s absolutely nothing stopping a country like Taiwan from wiping our biggest cities off the map!

Oh what’s that? Taiwan makes most of our semiconductors and all they would have to do to cripple our economy is stop selling them to us? Well that’s all the more reason to need bombs then, isn’t it? Just as as something to… how you say… “align incentives”.

HOW COULD YOU RAINBOW DASH I THOUGHT WE HAD A CONNECTION

Just looked up the trailer and uh… wow. Major Jazzpunk vibes. According to the developer’s description it shouldn’t be anything like Jazzpunk, which is good, because one game that was That was enough imo

Very cute fanart!

No, you see, we need to design new and exciting kinds of bombs for the country with a larger military budget than the next ten largest national military budgets on Earth put together which we know they will drop on children, because if we don’t, you see, then another country like China with a fifth of our defense spending might build a newer bomb and drop it on someone we do like. Which we would be powerless to prevent.

i swear to god if that resolves

clicks

phew