i’m so old, i remember when computers got cheaper over time

It's very annoying the way I have to get half way through writing a long detailed explanation of why someone is wrong before I figure out why they're right.

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

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A strange and disturbing figure, rendered entirely in dark, dull, monochromatic blue-green against a pale tan background. The figure is lurching forward, the way a zombie would, arms hanging down. One arm is longer than the other. Its legs are oddly thin compared to its upper body. It is wearing a suit coat and tie, but the left arm of the coat is short, like a short-sleeved shirt, and the left side of the coat is higher than the right. Also pinned to the left breast of the coat is what looks like an ID card, although whatever is printed on it is not visible. The figure wears mismatched boots, one of which is open, and appears generally dysfunctional. Where its head would be is a shapeless black smudge; a void that looks like a large ink blot. At the center of the void is a small orange icon of a gas pump—the icon a car displays when it is close to running out of fuel. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

[uneasy music playing]

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Author: Wikimedia Commons user Clemenspool
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#psa

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DO NOT TALK TO COMPUTERS Should you ever find yourself in the company of a computer attempting to communicate, do not engage. Talk to computers damages your health. Educational poster

WSL stands for Windows as a second language

@jsatk I like languages that are *stable* and don't require me to have 7 different versions installed at once.

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

This textbox is a message and part of a system of messages. Java is installed on over three billion devices. Java is found everywhere, even in your car. We thought we were a powerful culture.

It's so weird that a lot of people think the quality of software is measured in how often it gets updated—it's literally the opposite.

[…] I’m anti-the branding of it as “artificial intelligence”, because it’s not intelligent. It’s a form of machine learning. “Generative AI” is just a very good Markov chain that people expect far too much from.

https://localghost.dev/blog/stop-generating-start-thinking/

it has been 0️⃣ days since I had to send a corporation a nastygram about disrespecting my “reduce motion” and “do not autoplay videos” accessibility settings

from an article about the bitcoin crash: “Bitcoin is crashing hard, reaching historic lows of well below the $70,000 mark. At the time of writing, the token is hovering just above $63,000, levels we haven’t seen since October 2024.”

Given that I personally remember people being excited that bitcoin had reached the mark of one (1) dollar, the term “historic lows” to describe returning to the state of things slightly over one year ago is rather telling about the tech industry’s lack of perspective and cultural memory…

(it’s still dropping though 😌)

@rasterweb I'm also trying to stop using "amateur" to mean sloppy and "professional" to mean high quality. That has always been a shitty dichotomy, and deskilling is only going to make it worse.

It doesn't matter whether C is good or not. It matters that if I write code in two languages that aren't C, and I want it to all be part of the same process, I need to care about C. C pervades all. You cannot escape it. C will outlive all of us. The language will die and the ABI will persist. The far future will involve students learning about C just to explain their present day. Our robot overlords will use null terminated strings. C will outlive fungi.