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re: open·a·i, apparently news 

“actually i thought sam altman was a great guy and the board just picked this random day to suddenly be super afraid of his vision for artificial intelligence”

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open·a·i, apparently news 

« The complaints about Altman’s alleged behavior, which have not previously been reported, were a major factor in the board’s abrupt decision to fire Altman on Nov. 17, according to the people. Initially cast as a clash over the safe development of artificial intelligence, Altman’s firing was at least partially motivated by the sense that his behavior would make it impossible for the board to oversee the CEO. » ok but like, everybody knew this

re: “ontologies” 

somebody bothered to formalize this when they could have been fucking

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“ontologies” 

• If a process is an instance of curing food,
• then there exist an entity, another process and another entity such that the entity is an instance of food and the entity is a patient of the process and the other process is an instance of putting and the other process is a subprocess of the process and the other entity is an instance of salt and the other entity is a patient of the other process and the other process ends up at the entity

Plums and peaches are
closely related and they've
made hybrids before

libxslt 

(there is no way to make a non-recursive parser in xslt 1.0)

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libxslt 

does anybody know if it implements tail call recursion optimizations? or will recursive parsers just inherently be limited by the maximum stack depth

re: music 

oh, i put off listening to the new Holly Humberstone album because i was worried it wouldn’t hold up but the first few songs are at least passable

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re: music 

can already honourable mention ‘In My Car’ by Rat Tally which won’t make the cut on account of having been released in 2022

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music 

need to listen to more from this year or i’m not going to have enough songs for my year-end playlist

@coriander if eggs come out of it i don't think it's a mouth

@coriander wanna go up to these bros and say “language is a religion because it depends on faith in a shared understanding of words” so that they shut up forever

prrgrrmmng 

“instead of making a solution i actually like, why don’t i just use this existing software that comes pre·installed on like every machine”

the existing software installed on every machine :⁠—
• GNU Make
• libxslt

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prrgrrmmng 

which is more cursed: my incredibly long‐running projects (that do nothing) where i spend months making negligible changes to increase the exactness of the test suite, or my quick hacked‐together solutions born from impatience that are written entirely in Makefile or XSLT

writing 

what if you didn’t explain your word choice, and just did it anyway

apple (not real) 

had a dream that steve jobs unveiled a new imac which was boxy and had a builtin electric pencil sharpener

@coriander he does a really great analysis and takedown of the liberalism inherent in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen tho, it’s choice

@coriander to be clear marx’s argument re: the jews in “On the Jewish Question” is that if America can be a Christian country despite abolishing state religion, then clearly political emancipation from religion is not the same thing as universal human emancipation, and the jews are not special in this regard and should be treated no differently from christians

but in the second part he digresses to say “hey antisemites, you may think you hate the jews, but the jewishness you claim to hate is actually just capitalism!!”, and does so by leaning hard into the antisemitic tropes of his presumed audience, and really like nobody needs to read that in 2023

@coriander read uh, the first part of “On the Jewish Question”

but not the second part, don't go there

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