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I've heard there's this amendment all about giving individuals and their state the freedom to bear arms in case there's a rogue federal government infringing on their rights. surely its supporters are now are up in arms and standing up for states rights in this moment, right?

i watched someone stream "vibecoding" a multiplayer game. they spent a few hours writing a wall of text describing it in great detail

at the end they had an enterprise grade echo server that didn't work. a few lines of functionality

but it *is* amazing they didn't have to learn anything

thinking of Bret Victors "The Future of Programming" and other artifacts from when we believed not writing code would be a good thing

it's challenging to come up with a more misguided abstraction as english text

the most likely outcome from all this is a local model gets released that can take a header file and spit out the rest, but that nothing else improves beyond that point. the companies burn up but there are a lot of bad outcomes in the fallout.

i have no solutions

watching hackers being radicalized to the right of larry ellison by LLMs is maybe not ideal

You cannot technically explain yourself out of UX issues, please stop trying.

So often I see users bring up UX issues, and programmers then tell them how much work it was to create their product.

It doesn't matter how much work it was!! What matters is if your target audience uses it or not.

the code is bad... really bad... but not worse than algorithms I've seen mindlessly laundered out of Graphics Gems without explanation. oh, and it seems to work about as well.

which really is the most one can hope for

sufficiently spicy autocomplete

ok. I gave someone else who uses Claude a 1 sentence problem involving Bezier curves in simple language that is obscure enough libraries don't bother with.

~30min I get back a 500 line numerical solution in js matching a recent-ish pure math paper that I can't find an implementation for anywhere.

this should be true, but then nearly every marketer and prominent AI artists sells on the idea the machines act fully anonymously.

when the prompters or anyone deciding what the preconditions and capabilities get confronted it becomes "don't they know Claude sent that email of their own freewill?"

one increases the amount of whimsy in the world the other is destroying it. these are not comparable except in isolation.

if you had a million mark shaney's spamming everything everywhere all the time then yes that would be annoying.

it would no longer a funny prank anymore. it'd be time to stop.

the creator of Mark V. Shaney shitting on you and your text generator should be the last sign you need to know something has gone profoundly awry

unreadably "fancy" chart from dec '89 macworld made in "Foxgraph"

this is why computing is bad now. why can i no longer make a chart that surpasses the limits of good taste

it's always DNS but sometimes we hold out hope that it can be regex again too. go on, let the LLM near the firewall rules.

Douglas Adams was a true visionary for realizing that if doors could talk, that would actually be really terrible.

randomly decided to check back in on my old counter-strike skins for the first time in years a few weeks ago during the steam sale. very funny looking numbers. completely cleared out my wish list of mostly cat and fox platformers.

silliest and cutest trade i'll ever make. 10/10

Ok this is actually good and extremely funny

Yes this is bad in the context of the greater We're Already In A Mild Recession And The Bubble Hasn't Even Burst Yet (bsky.app/profile/carl...) but

this, in isolation, is Extremely funny

a lot of vampires out today

who called it buying silksong and not shawshank redemption

rise little one

ah, well, hmm... is this a package deal or...

stealthiness came mostly from being called something no network engineer would ever question having near their systems. the perfect disguise

ChatGPT Staining

A diagram of a complicated-looking polyhedron, with the caption “You are not expected to understand this diagram, but to marvel at its complexity.”

YouTube video by Max Cooper Max Cooper - True Under Certain Conditions (official video by Frederik Vanhoutte)

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!!! i was just wondering a few weeks ago when we were going to see this! congrats!

here is a high resolution (4kx4k) render of the cube monument. for all your cube monument needs. no orbs. rendering took about 120 minutes on 32 cores (64 threads) in my custom rayracer.

link: inconvergent.net/code/no-orbs...

The rise of Whatever This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of eve...

down with Whatever eev.ee/blog/2025/07...