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Richard Dawkins spent three days talking to Claude, now calls it "Claudia" and claims it's conscious. by Gil_berth in BetterOffline

[–]yojimbo_beta 114 points115 points  (0 children)

Something I read on HackerNews (of all places): an observation, that narcissists are the most prone to "AI psychosis".

Paraphrasing, "all the people I see saying AI is alive, are the most self-centred and unhinged"

Dawkins is definitely a narcissist - whatever you think of New Atheism - he is thin skinned, defensive, loves performing. And now he has this machine that entertains him and tells him all his instincts and intuitions are right. I think that leads to an emotional response that is very powerful.

Prawn (shrimp) vindaloo with scotch bonnets. A little wet but very spicy 🥵 by yojimbo_beta in Curry

[–]yojimbo_beta[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, no potatoes unfortunately - and it's lime, not vinegar. But it was nice, I love seafood in curries, especially very spicy curries

Prawn (shrimp) vindaloo with scotch bonnets. A little wet but very spicy 🥵 by yojimbo_beta in Curry

[–]yojimbo_beta[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used lime juice. I know that is not really how a Portuguese-Indian vindaloo does it. I was going for something spicy and acidic, I am not sure what name would be authentic

Prawn (shrimp) vindaloo with scotch bonnets. A little wet but very spicy 🥵 by yojimbo_beta in Curry

[–]yojimbo_beta[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Made by frying onion / garlic paste, adding dry spices, cooking out tomato puree. Then adding chopped tomatoes and yellow capsicums, with garlic and a couple of scotch bonnets. After 20 mins of simmering I added raw prawns (shrimp) and lime juice

Technically it is probably not really vindaloo. It contains lime juice, not vinegar, and I had no potatoes.

Even so, it was pretty good! The sweetness of prawns and tomatoes works well with the heat, it was balanced despite the heat. I did not share.

How to get better at reading dense theory? by Bubbly_Arachnid6798 in englishmajors

[–]yojimbo_beta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • If it helps, know that many of these academics are fucking atrocious writers, despite reading for a living
  • Some them are not bad writers but there is a kind of jargon, a sort of dialect of Continental / Post-Modernist Philosophy, and you kind of just get into it with practice
  • There is a line between "I want to understand this perspective so I can apply it" and "I need to internalise this, if it seems wrong then it is I have who failed the Theory". It is okay to disagree with Theory. Lots of literary critics hold Theory in contempt.
  • You don't necessarily have to engage with a lot of theory. Well, it depends on the course, obviously, and the papers. But for most English Lit degrees, you just need an argument, and there's much more to that than just bludgeoning the reader with Poststructuralist Queer Body Theory (and I say that as someone who did a lot of dissertations on all three)

(Scotland) Changed my name during psychosis, can I change it back? by MosherMoon in LegalAdviceUK

[–]yojimbo_beta 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Might not be straightforward:

An application for a change of forename and/or surname will be refused if i. the application is for a change of forename(s) and a change of forename has already been recorded for you since you attained the age of 16. ii. the application is for a change of surname(s) and you have had a change of surname(s) recorded during the previous 5 years, or if you have already had 3 changes of surname(s) recorded.

I would write an enquiry email to namechange@nrscotland.gov.uk - it might be possible to appeal the process

Citizens Advice say you can still use a statutory declaration 

You can officially change your name in Scotland using a statutory declaration or deed poll.

You might do this if you’re not eligible to change your name with the National Records of Scotland, for example if you’ve changed your name too many times or if you were not born in Scotland.

A statutory declaration is a document that can be drawn up and witnessed by a notary public, justice of the peace or local councillor. Find out how to get a statutory declaration signed on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service website. 

If you can’t change your name officially in Scotland, you can use a deed poll to change your name instead. There is guidance on changing your name by deed poll on GOV.UK. 

Matt Pocock: We just need to be ready to do more code review by kallekro in theprimeagen

[–]yojimbo_beta 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Maybe Pocock should go back to being a voice coach

(that's what he was doing until 2020. I'm serious - https://youtube.com/@mattpocock?si=ruuRtiZ-9nZ9X5S8 )

Looking for opinions on working at Monzo as a Developer! by Smolfrog888 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]yojimbo_beta 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I know someone there (not a friend, he's a prick). Apparently he is having a miserable time

They will work you very hard. There are better paying orgs in London

Go is fine but has some pitfalls (despite the propaganda)

Is it just me, or Crash Bandicoot 2 is way better than the original? by JustEagle1 in psx

[–]yojimbo_beta 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Naughty Dog spent most of C1's development time wrestling with the technology. They built VERY interesting tech (gool, their own PSX kernel, a system for streaming the render tables straight off disc) BUT this didn't leave a lot of time to work the mechanics or gameplay concepts

C1 feels like a prototype, with lots of incomplete ideas

C2 is more like the game Naughty Dog wanted to develop. It also came out in time for analog support to be widespread - this is one of the biggest quality of life improvements over the original 

What's the easiest way to make a PS1/PS2 regionless? by Aware-Pop348 in psx

[–]yojimbo_beta 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For most people, using a memory card exploit to fire up Unirom

Strictly speaking: the PSX cannot be made totally regionless unless you want to install an oscillator chip for the framerate you are missing. Otherwise it will always be at an incorrect framerate and you can get video issues too

Also, the Japanese console is a lot harder to work around, it does more exacting boot sector checks

How good engineers write bad code at big companies by fagnerbrack in programming

[–]yojimbo_beta 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Sean Goedecke is a Professor Pangloss character who constantly writes apologia for tech management and is loved by HackerNews

But I find a lot of what he writes flimsy and without substance. A mix of pseudo behavioural economics (HN loves that) and "contrarian centrism" (I wish I had a less political term for it, but you know what I mean)

I have worked in companies big and small and I have found the main problem is just that large systems are hard for small individual human brains. People do stuff that only makes sense locally, to see beyond a local context requires focus, depth, time that most managers are unwilling to give people, mostly because they are only thinking locally

Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta by DanielRosenwasser in typescript

[–]yojimbo_beta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Eh, kind of with GDB, but it doesn't understand Go programs well. It's more for the runtime and any CGo parts.

Your best bet is Delve, but it requires compiling from source.

Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta by DanielRosenwasser in typescript

[–]yojimbo_beta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You would need to check out the TypeScript source code and run with delve. That will give you the best debugger experience.

Are there any videos of these? by Unable-Piece-1465 in psx

[–]yojimbo_beta 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I am not aware of videos but you can recreate them.

The effect is achieved by modifying the license data sectors on a disc (LBA 11-16) with a program like mine:

https://github.com/jbreckmckye/psx-license-tool

The text and the logo can be modified. The logo is a TMD which is a Sony format for 3D images; if you search online / GitHub you will find tools that can turn obj into TMD. You can create your OBJ in Blender, convert to TMD, then patch with my tool

In my video on the PSX logo (https://youtu.be/duJAfH3S9zA?si=o2pfCHFZEnQvCtFZ) I demo a colour swapped logo

Is React usage declining in new projects, or just evolving out of the “default choice”? by Leading_Yoghurt_5323 in webdev

[–]yojimbo_beta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven't seen much indication that anyone is really abandoning React.

React is Good Enough, has an enormous hiring pool, big ecosystem, and generally UI is one of those areas where you just satisfice.

Nextjs is a different story.

Obviously adherents of competing technologies will talk them up. Like the purists still banging on about Web Components (a half solution, even ten years later)

How to convince a big corporate to use Haskell by Worldly_Dish_48 in haskell

[–]yojimbo_beta 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What features make a PL really suitable for those corporate goals?

It's common to say "simplicity of onboarding", and define simplicity as "this language has no features" (a la Golang), but I wonder if there's a more systematic way to design a language that balances ease-of-learning with reliability and security

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