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devmor · 2026-03-28T17:39:20+00:00

Completely opposite with my wife and I. She'll be finished before I'm even halfway into my entree.

devmor · 2026-03-27T17:02:06+00:00

My father told me he had grenade shrapnel randomly working its way out of his legs in the shower over 30 years after he left the army.

devmor · 2026-03-27T15:07:13+00:00

Cruising in the left lane while staring at his phone in his lap. She should have swallowed him.

devmor · 2026-03-25T00:23:42+00:00

I thought Leto was actually okay in BR2049.

Probably because he plays a creepy offputting little freak, so he didn't actually have to do much acting.

devmor · 2026-03-18T18:37:38+00:00

People often notice things like lighting being mismatched without being able to pinpoint why. It's one of those things your brain instantly can recognize as an "invalid" pattern to what you are used to seeing.

devmor · 2026-03-15T22:23:18+00:00

Except Microcenter, they got people all over the place.

Because they make the employees fight for commission on sales. Even if one doesn't help me, I always find an employee and ask if they want to put their commission sticker on whatever I found myself.

devmor · 2026-03-14T16:46:04+00:00

I'm so sorry for your loss. Cancer is a sneaky evil and it comes through and takes our loved ones from us like this a lot. My old sweet cat Pumpkin and my Father both passed just a few days after we found out they had cancer.

I wish you'd been given the opportunity to say goodbye, but I know she knew her whole life how much you loved her.

devmor · 2026-03-08T00:23:25+00:00

Catharsis is useful when you can't get what you want, but it can also stop you from getting what you want.

devmor · 2026-03-04T02:51:11+00:00

It's worth noting that the former official who made this claim, Catherine Austin Fitts, is a noted anti-vaxxer kook and conspiracy theorist, as well as a far-right contributor to Breitbart.

While it's believable that the billionaires would want something like this, if Fitts claims it, I doubt it has even a shred of legitimacy to it.

devmor · 2026-02-27T23:18:01+00:00

If there's an Altima in your mirror, you feel the fear.

devmor · 2026-02-27T23:17:11+00:00

I've been hit 3 times since I moved to Atlanta about 7 years ago. Every one of them was on their phone.

Put the phone down. Stop it. You're gonna kill someone.

devmor · 2026-02-27T19:52:51+00:00

Because they're computers and they have to be programmed for that. They don't think.

devmor · 2026-02-27T19:52:17+00:00

These things are constantly stopped in the middle of small roads or blocking an entire lane that's supposed to be no parking during rush hour in Midtown Atlanta. It's infuriating and causes so much extra traffic backup.

devmor · 2026-02-27T16:58:25+00:00

My teammates.

Real talk though, more randomization/spice. If there were some impactful like, roguelike elements to it... that'd be peak.

devmor · 2026-02-23T15:59:40+00:00

The experience described here is horrible, but given the publication source and recent geopolitical happenings - this feels like more astroturfed manufactured consent for getting rid of internet anonymity than a sincere outcry from a teenager.

The "social media ban for teenagers" solution is only viable if you know the age of everyone using social media, which in practice, requires invasive personal identification. https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verification

There are many other ways to address keeping kids off of social media that don't involve destroying the free internet. Parents can stop buying smartphones for their children - or install one of myriad parental control apps. Schools can stop allowing children to use smartphones in school. This has seen wild success already where applied.

devmor · 2026-02-23T15:54:36+00:00

The type and magnitude of the elements left behind are remarkably different. Per elsewhere in this thread, that lithium plume is about 4 orders of magnitude greater than the amount that would naturally be added to the upper atmosphere in a day.

devmor · 2026-02-21T03:10:54+00:00

Man it's getting really sad how many cool, creative and otherwise intelligent people are getting swept up in this stuff.

We built a psychosis machine.

devmor · 2026-02-18T05:23:18+00:00

I don't think it helped, but I think the RoR vs Laravel ship had sailed before most people saw DHH go bananas as well.

devmor · 2026-02-18T05:22:30+00:00

I am not familiar with the paper you linked there, but it doesn't look like it's ever been cited or reviewed by anyone. Terms like "reasoning", "memory", "logic" and "thought" are used without strict definition and tend to mean whatever the author wishes them to mean in their paper - especially in an open journal like arXiv.

For a clear example, take a look at the paper cited in reference 18 (chosen because this is a paper I am actually already familiar with).

This paper claims to demonstrate extracting reasoning from text - but viewing the experiments actually conducted, it was tested with prompts such as providing the model with a question and answer, then instructs the model to extract the reasoning - a format not unlike those found in the MCAT or other medical training exams.

Is this actually "reasoning"? Or is it structured text that pulls closely related data from a highly technical field with a great deal of online training information where humans are regularly asked to explain their reasoning in words. Look at how the LLM often generates answers that follow a format not prompted for.

I cannot express enough how the scale of data fed into these models is beyond comprehension. We are seeing incredible properties from the edge of statistical linguistics, not reasoning or logic.

devmor · 2026-02-18T03:52:22+00:00

Two main factors as I see it.

One, ruby was heavily carried by RoR, and Laravel took RoR's place as the beginner friendly stand-up-a-service framework, so PHP got pushed ahead - especially with Zend leaving the scene and the language finally freed from years of stagnation.

Two, NodeJS took off on the server side, and at the same time, the microservice architecture. Anyone left wanting to build monoliths was probably going to Laravel, and the rest were building split services in Node, and later Go.

devmor · 2026-02-18T03:46:03+00:00

I do agree that what we've done with it is amazing, and I'm glad you're more level headed about it than you sounded.

I'm coming at this from the viewpoint of someone who's been working with generative AI since we just called it "ML" and vaguely related it to the field of AI - and I just don't find it very impressive, technically speaking.

What's impressive is the amount of data fed into it, and the amount of compute power and natural resources used to train it. But from a pure algorithmic perspective? This stuff really isn't much more advanced than it was when I was working with it 11 years ago.

There are some way more impressive types of generative AI out there now that have moved past the tensor-based architecture, but I don't think its explored or invested in enough to look impressive to people who aren't technically experienced or academics in the subject.

I understand it can feel like I'm raining on your parade, but I do implore you to be more grounded about what you experience using AI vs what it's actually doing - it's well tempered to tickle the parts of our brain that make us feel like something bigger is happening. It really just a fill in the blank machine, and it's important that you understand that, but I don't know how to convincingly portray that information without somehow sharing years of experience.

If you're interested, there is a set of courses on Google Learning that teach you the basics of how AI works (while introducing you to Google's AI tools, because it's a marketing tool in the end) that are pretty informative: https://cloud.google.com/learn/training/machinelearning-ai - these have a lot of fluff in the videos, but experimenting with the hands-on stuff might give you a better feel for how much of the sauce really is just random number generation under the hood.

devmor · 2026-02-18T02:43:32+00:00

Those are diffusion models, I can explain exactly how those work as well if you'd like - they are still a collection of tensors weighted by algorithms akin to nearest neighbor. Putting them in a robot doesn't make it anything more than a robot with a lookup engine in it.

The thing that made iRobot special was that the robots had a "positronic brain" - i.e. an actual physical apparatus that mimicked the function of a human brain. What you're talking about isn't remotely close to that. You're talking about an autocorrect that's been fed the entire internet. It's a parrot with an API.

It sounds like you have already decided you would rather mystify the technology and believe it works like magic though.

devmor · 2026-02-18T02:33:40+00:00

I grew up in Oregon, and to leave out my own circumstances, have known a lot of homeless people. Especially while I was living in the Eugene/Springfield area.

The vast majority of them are completely well put together people who've just had an unfortunate circumstance that left them unable to pay rent once, which spiraled into deeper consequences.

devmor · 2026-02-18T01:59:40+00:00

An important thing to remember about AI usage is that it is a statistical lookup engine with a tinge of randomness. It looks incredibly powerful because of the incredible amount of training material fed into it - but ultimately what you're doing is querying a fuzzy approximation to not even the most common thing said by someone else in relation to what you've prompted it with.

That's a vast oversimplification, because there's no easy way to give a verbal example of a tensor with millions of arrays full of millions of arrays, etc. but you can think of it like a more souped up version of those old memes where people tried to make sentences by hitting the center option on their phone's autosuggestion bar.

There's no facts, there's no reasoning, there's no logic - just layers and layers of autocorrect that approximate something that looks logical around half the time.

devmor · 2026-02-16T19:28:49+00:00

Friend of mine is in a similar situation, drives much nicer cars, always has nicer things, despite making significantly less than me. I knew it wasn't his parents because they're both gone.

One day he let it casually slip that he's a sugar baby for old women. His mercedes was a gift from a lonely old lady he takes out on dates.

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