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Yeah there certainly are good ways to use the network. It's just... a lot of work. I can use that energy to do something else that brings me more joy. I think for many that's neither Twitter nor Bluesky.

I joined the network when it was in referral beta and I really want it to succeed but the posts here just do not bring me joy. I can read other sites that have none of the problems of neither Twitter nor Bluesky. And if you're willing to put up with the Twitter algo, it can be beaten into shape.

I think the reality is users who want neither an algorithmic timeline nor Twitter's ideological bias and mobbing problem just stopped using both websites. If Bluesky is going to keep having these problems, I think it will only ever be a niche network.

The incumbent progressive data has too small data sizes to make any conclusions positive or negative. At 14 / 15, that's max likelihood p = 0.933 at a 95CI (even 90) that's indistinguishable from the moderate rate (95CI - 68%, 90CI - 72%)

Excuse me, I like to think of myself as a Big Decimal

You got this!

fil-c.org

Huh looks like a memory sanitizing runtime on top of various libcs. Looks cool.

I think Doom Emacs is the hot thing these days for emacs distros. I've been told that evil mode (which is default in both Doom and Spacemacs I think) is actually a faithful recreation of vi bindings. Tbh I've been using vanilla emacs since 2004 and with LSP and tree-sitter I see no reason to leave

Yeah I've abortively tried to switch out of emacs over the years, but it's so hard to switch. I guess editors are good examples of the Douglas Adams Tech Reaction meme.

外国人の視点で日本の旅行動画はいつもおもしろい

GitHub - meow-edit/meow: Yet another modal editing on Emacs / 猫态编辑 Yet another modal editing on Emacs / 猫态编辑. Contribute to meow-edit/meow development by creating an account on GitHub.

Come to the emacs side and you can even define your own modal editing mode 😉

github.com/meow-edit/me... is Helix / Kakoune inspired

Claude also sounds more like a STEM person and ChatGPT more like non-STEM.

ChatGPT seems to one-shot stuff occasionally faster than Claude but also goes down paths that I don't want it to go.

ChatGPT 5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.5 w/ Extended Thinking

Thought I'd try ChatGPT again after a long time of using Claude. ChatGPT just feels a lot less steerable. With Claude I know I can get it to search by asking it to. I can generally "guide" Claude down certain ways of thinking or certain idea paths. ChatGPT seems more opaque.

Too much social media posting is how people want the world to be rather than how it is. It's human to want the world to be a certain way but when you get a room of 1000 people who only want to talk about an ideal world and not the real world, you get a lot of the bad stuff of social media.

Yes arxiv.org/html/2310.06... RLHF decreases LLM output diversity. Optimization and safety pressures are a force working against the "usefulness" of LLMs.

Bummed that the interest rate climate being what it is that construction is probably going to be hard to pencil out.

This has long been a cultural gap among software writers. Non-deterministic algorithms have been a thing forever and they often have much better average case bounds than deterministic algorithms but a cultural reluctance with non-determinism has kept a lot of it out of software

I do this a lot with Claude. When I want Claude to calculate something exactly (let's say how many milestones I've finished in Hollow Knight), I ask it to write a script that does the calculation and then give me the answer.

Not only does it work really well but I can audit the code.

I also think it's sad that only the Republicans are trying to win, albeit by lying, liberal votes while it seems like the Dems have abandoned the idea.

At this point I think the Republicans are a large enough set of interest groups that it's hard to say what the Party thinks. I agree the base does think this

And I definitely think there's a bubble going on but if that's the response I get, I'm going to have my doubts whether you actually believe that AI is a bubble or that you *wish* AI we're a bubble so you could relish in some schadenfreude.

There's a lot being shared by the same crowd about how AI is a bubble but when you ask folks about shorting Nvidia they'll say something like "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solve" which is a similar cop out.

I mean Long Puts a year out are actually quite cheap.

The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

Damn, this piece hits hard.

"Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion."

www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

Thanks for writing this article. I've been getting a bit down on this place for various reasons but I really hope your great post brings new folks to the fold.

Big for Schemes and any other languages that depend heavily on this

Tail calls!

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I just figured the spouse contempt stuff comes from a culture that pressured people to get married really early so in your mid-20s realize you and spouse pretty much have nothing in common; taboos on divorce mean you're stuck with them so you use gross humor to cope with being stuck in bad marriage

Have you tried tool calls with it yet?

Reminds me of how I felt when I first encountered the "argmax" operator in a textbook.

"Wait so I just stick an argmax and get the best theta to maximize this function??"