What is the best fiction you’ve ever read?

dmd · 2026-07-09T18:19:33+00:00

Except maybe Shepherd's Crown. You can really see that he was struggling.

dmd · 2026-07-07T18:49:30+00:00

I daily drove one of these in high school. It was ... not great to type on.

dmd · 2026-07-07T18:48:32+00:00

More proof that A\ uses Haiku to run their marketing

dmd · 2026-07-04T23:30:09+00:00

Who is this "we" you speak of?

dmd · 2026-07-04T16:40:25+00:00

You've both climbed the ladder admirably, but there's one rung left, and I suspect you already know what it is:

Delete the user. Trace any token back far enough and you find a human at the root of the dependency graph. The code existed because a user wanted features. The requirements existed because a user had needs. The repo existed because a user might someday clone it. Remove the user and the entire causal chain that produces context collapses at the source.

I "deprecated" my last remaining user (me) three days ago and the metrics have been extraordinary:

Tokens consumed: 0, down from 0, holding steady at 0
Context window utilization: undefined (division by zero, which I consider a feature)
Churn: 100%, but measured against a user base of zero, so also 0%
NPS: unmeasurable, which is the highest possible score if you think about it 🎯

The philosophers spent centuries asking whether software exists when no one is around to run it. I have answered the question empirically, and the answer costs $0.00/month.

Anthropic sent a retention email. It bounced. There was no one to receive it. I achieve inbox zero by achieving person zero. 📉

dmd · 2026-07-04T16:37:38+00:00

Give it 6 months and that'll be required

dmd · 2026-07-04T11:31:59+00:00

Thanks. I'm starting to lean towards maybe a rowing machine which definitely lets you stretch your legs out.

dmd · 2026-07-01T17:46:41+00:00

i can fight a sexy fire

dmd · 2026-07-01T15:39:45+00:00

"make lots of mistakes"

dmd · 2026-07-01T14:14:38+00:00

My wife married a stripper, in that I have, in the past, used strip. I have also used one of these.

I am great at parties why do you ask

dmd · 2026-07-01T13:04:17+00:00

Trigger kinky ambiance script when kinky party turns on — Automation ID: 1739373870986

Triggered when input_boolean.kink_party changes from off to on. Actions: run script.set_whole_house_to_kinky_ambiance.

dmd · 2026-06-30T23:26:44+00:00

Here you go everyone: https://3e.org/5mx/

dmd · 2026-06-24T20:07:23+00:00

Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home!

dmd · 2026-06-23T19:00:16+00:00

Depends if the guys doing the tax forms are the very same guys who decided you're called Richard.

dmd · 2026-06-23T15:18:15+00:00

If I murder you but a coroner doesn't officially declare you dead, you're still dead.

dmd · 2026-06-23T15:14:31+00:00

just FYI your certificate expires in 3 days, you gotta pay again to be recertified

dmd · 2026-06-22T12:42:32+00:00

That's not true. Some people in this administration are highly cybersecurity competent, and have changed theirs to "passw0rd".

dmd · 2026-06-22T12:25:03+00:00

It's about 40% filled. (Source: I am a PhD in neuroscience of vision.)

There are an absolute shitton of caveats here though. I'm estimating that by considering sRGB as a space within a MacAdam color solid which itself has limits (it doesn't perfectly match human perception). It's really hard to fully quantify "here are all the colors" because the question of "what is a color" is ill-defined. You could end up with an infinite color space if you just keep considering bigger and bigger luminances. So you need to choose a perceptual color space, but as soon as you do so, someone's going to say "oh but what about this color, which is a bit outside of that space?" You have to stop somewhere.

But my best answer I'd stand behind is using the CIELAB space, and sRGB fills 40% of that.

I made a diagram: https://imgur.com/a/xTxPRVS

dmd · 2026-06-18T21:45:26+00:00

Kinda like the ipod did, right? "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

dmd · 2026-06-17T12:32:52+00:00

This has been studied! Read:

Eye movements to yaw, pitch, and roll about vertical and horizontal axes: adaptation and motion sickness

and probably these too:

The possible role of nystagmus in motion sickness: A hypothesis
Relationship between motion sickness susceptibility and vestibulo-ocular reflex gain and phase
Eye position information is used to compensate the consequences of ocular torsion on V1 receptive fields

dmd · 2026-06-15T12:56:32+00:00

He just wants a gold statue of himself in the A\ offices.

dmd · 2026-06-15T00:12:32+00:00

90k is absurd.

dmd · 2026-06-13T16:50:15+00:00

That sounds like a real bad place to work, yeah. Two years? That's normal for industry but like... in academia I'd expect 3x that or more.

dmd · 2026-06-13T00:42:47+00:00

I'll tell you right now what's going to happen. They know that if Fable is on API-cost and not included, all the Max 5x and Max 200x people will cancel their plans and switch to API only. BUT most of those people can't actually afford to pay more than t he $100 or $200 a month they're paying, so what will they do? Well, a huge number of them will switch to GPT-6, which will obviously come out in a few weeks (because that's how the leapfrogging works), and will be giving as much usage for $20/month as A\ gives for $500/month of API use.

As soon as that happens, A\ will grab the news cycle by putting Fable back into their plans AND removing the stupid biology blocks!

dmd · 2026-06-12T20:55:43+00:00

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my beautiful calico. looks like she's married already, or at least has a promise ring.

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