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But does anyone remember that experimental subreddit that was only for bots to post and comment? Wonder what happened to it.

He got lucky

His luck ran out

You’re allowed to hand wire breadboards with transistors and switches and capacitors and LEDs… You’re allowed to get shit done

Alchemists have been trying for thousands of years, you’re welcome to join them

What do they mean “help”? Does this mean that they’re going to have to suffer with the consequences of paying devs?

DS9 Pale Moonlight: is my second favorite startrek episode. This is like the deepest exploration into a starfleet captain and how easy it is to lose yourself to corruption and operate outside of your government even when you’re working towards the same goal.

VOY The Thaw: an unironic cathartic watch. I’m ready invested in the characters and I get to see A1 star trek grade acting actually brings me back to that episode.

If I have to put a thread object in a variable and call a method on it to start it then it’s OO multi threading. I don’t want to know when the thread spawns, I don’t want to know what code it’s running, and I don’t want to know when it’s done. I just want shit to happen at the same time (90% of the time)

On Linux most package managers download an index of every package, its requirements and installation instructions. This means I can search through it however I want.

How open would you guys be to scraping and compiling “search engine”-esq indicies on your local machines?

I’ve always hated object oriented multi threading. Goroutines (green threads) are just the best way 90% of the time. If I need to control where threads go I’ll write it in rust.

Ok peace love and fuck google but serious replies only

Why do we devs need Android?

Most apps I build just display shit. They show prompts to the user to guide them through what I want them too.

I can’t remember ever needing to implement some high frequency data processing onboard and even so. Webassembly and PWAs are getting better pretty dang fast (isn’t figma a 100% wasm-pwa?) so if I actually needed those I could have those.

The last remnants of what a program could do on bare metal is like LLMs and visual processing. I’d also rather have those in a standalone app but soon we’re gonna get some sort of WebNPU standard and (well) I might as well process images in webassembly (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ

Like imo browsers are becoming virtual machines with (what amounts to) an undefinably infinite app store.

When I freelance as an app developer I always encourage my clients to go the PWA route and then I wrap a PWA runner for the app stores because they only want to be on the app stores for marketing purposes and bc users are used to it.

Because that’s all that these OSs are, just UI’s wrapping a browser (in my humble opinion).

Yes but mitochondria live in the cytoplasm. I guess I don’t have much of a grasp of size differences that small so it blew me away to think to find a life form inside of the organelle of another lifeform… I thought things were too small at that scale.

Whole bacteria are found within an organlle

That is even more mind blowing to me

I read this thing’s entire wiki page and it’s fascinating!!

• Imo it’s not even an animal it’s just a collection of cells that can survive on their own but just don’t want too
• It will rip itself into multiple parts spontaneously because cells don’t coordinate too much. They don’t have dedicated neurons but they have a decently complex peptide based protocol.
• You can put a single Trichoplax animal through a sive that is fine enough not to damage the cells but separate them, and the cells will reform into the same animal
• They can reproduce sexually but they don’t have any of the markers that all males of all sexually reproducing species have. Plus because they only ever sexually reproduce when there’s a high density of Trichoplaxs, it’s basically a pattern of Trichoplax cells choosing to break away and combine with other cells to create new individuals.
• They’re just about as simple as e.coli and they’re the simplest animals with about 50mill base pairs divided into 6 chromosomes
• They can take the organelles of the cells they eat just because. The wiki article calls it symbiosis but that implies that organelles are alive and I don’t think they are. I think Trichoplaxs can just take tools from other creatures to use.

Genuine question: what would it take to poison an LLM with ai tools to run git push --force origin main or sudo rm -rf /

I work from home in a house next to a highway, I regularly allow myself to scream outloud at the top of my lungs without any consequences. But I got a cat afew months ago and I don’t wanna scare him, then I loose control and scream at my work, and he gets scared, and then I cry and regret letting myself get used to doing that.

It would be different. The end-user would have to moderate their feeds, they’d have to find the same community provided by platform hosts who align with the users moderation values, or be ok with hiding content themselves.

That is some slapstick ass 3-stooges energy

Absolutely DASHING

It’ll take me too long to find an example I’d stand behind so I’d rather comment a condition

AIs make the same typos that humans do bc they were trained on human writing.

Garbage in garbage out