oi no spoilers ;p

I’ve learned so much langdesign and stuff over the years simply by hanging around plt nerds, didn’t even need to spend for a single dragon book!

(although I probably have a samizdat copy of it somewhere)

which naturally leads us to: having to fix a portage overlay ~= “compiler engineer”

wonder what simonw’s total spend (direct and indirect) in this shit has been to date. maybe sunk cost fallacy is an unstated/un(der?)accounted part in his True Believer thing?

I was curious so I dug up the post and then checked property prices for the neighbourhood

$2.6~4.8m

being thiel’s idea guy seems to pay pretty well

customer: “why is my FSD not working? I’ve got my hands off the wheel but I’m stuck in a parking spot”

tesla support: “nono, you misheard, it’s Fool Self Driving!”

(source (archive))

gigabyte selling shovels (and not even just random shovels, specialty shovels that need a fixed type of mobo to use)

not gonna spend much effort on it now but if someone runs into an actual worthwhile review showing training performance numbers I’d be keen to see (my expectations are that it still does not do very much, and that runtime quality still underperforms relative to VC-subsidised platforms)

irl winced at this

yep, I was seeing some folks reckon it might be 20~30x what they’d make in later royalties. I’m not knocking the suit or the value to authors - mostly just wishing it were more so it might cause an even sharper effect

given the run rates all these fuckers have, I half expect they feel glad it’s “as low as it is”. couple of the authors I’ve seen speak about it reckon pay out better to them (once off) than they tend to get from book royalties (I saw chisnall and some others post around it earlier). precedent from this is probably a good thing, even if I wish it went harder (esp given how likely “a fine you can afford is just a tax” is to develop as a normal situation)

re burn rates: openai confirmed in the last day or so that it expects a $118b burn through 2028. fucking obscene

snore

flashbacks

it’s deeply upsetting how far that rotten idea has spread

oh absolutely no intention of listening to the dork, just had to share the suffering once I saw the tweet

I am extremely, extremely sickos.png for having all these weird little fucks find out that all this nonsense is heavily subsidised by VCs

after that Flock shit that got announced recently, looks like garry tan is currently doing his damnedest to ensure people know he’s absolutely full of it

thread starts here, features bangers like this

You’re thinking Chinese surveillance

US-based surveillance helps victims and prevents more victims

“nooooo, we’re the good kind of boot to have on your face! we’re the boot from the same country as you!” says the boot in the rising fascist upswing

if one person came out and spilled the beans, it’d suggest that there might be more people who didn’t

keep in mind these mails are years-disclosed by now - at least a few of them will have learned a lesson and gotten more careful

(I’m constantly glad that as many of them do not)

in which business continues cosying up to fash

“Qnx is hard and expensive, I’m sure we could get a production quality thing out with the esp-idf arduino target!!~ You devs so like to blow things out of proportion”

(while not an exact quote, extremely close to some shit I’ve heard from some people before)

really leaning into the pivot theme

imma hazard a guess and bet David doesn’t want to do nearly that much work

ran across this

Kaminski told SiliconANGLE in an interview he was inspired to launch the company after seeing how long and difficult it was for medical technology firms to bring innovations to market.

“Everything that’s meaningful is regulated,” Kaminski said. “I didn’t even comprehend how hard it could be.”

“I could code that in a weekend” techbro meets decades-grown safety nets, is very surprised at complexity

I haven’t dug deeper into their thing yet but some of the claims are a bit 🤨 too