Pretty easy to look at actually-existing instances and note just how laughable "traders trusted us enough for the market to be liquid” is.

This is just another data point begging what I believe to be the most important question an American can ask themselves right now: why be a sucker?

oh no, this whole server rack is pentafected with daemons

$14,000 could probably still buy you a lesser Porsche in decent shape, but we should praise this brave pioneer for valuing experiences over things, especially at the all-important boundary of human/machine integration!

(no, I’m not bitter at missing the depreciation nadir for 996-era 911s, what are you talking about)

You don’t have endless agency over your impact on the world. Actually, you have vanishingly little control here, and not much more over the contents of your inner life.

That whole paragraph is on the money, really. It dovetails with my perspective that EA, even though it’s billed as a higher calling, is just an extension and redirection of consumerism. As it’s a libertarian ideology, it assumes the primacy and pursuit of more satisfactory “customer service” as the only effective model for societal adaptation. And that carries an implicit demand for an engineered control and feedback loop. It seems to me that EAs like to think they’re avoiding top-down social engineering by states, but really…

Top-tier from Willison himself:

The learning isn’t in studying the finished product, it’s in watching how it gets there.

Mate, if that’s true, my years of Gentoo experience watching compiler commands fly past in the terminal means I’m a senior operating system architect.

Oh, it’s a CXL board, Compute Express Link. Basically a way to attach DRAM to PCI Express. I know some people working on this stuff for one of the big vendors, but in that context it was a rack-scale box capable of handling multiple terabytes’ worth of DIMMs. Having this as a desktop expansion card seems like a bit of a marginal application, but Gigabyte’s done weird shit before. For instance, I have an AMD-compatible Thunderbolt 3 card that was only made in limited quantities by them and ASRock.

I’m fighting an uphill battle, but people in general still need to see it

your periodic reminder: don’t listen to Garry Tan, unless maybe he’s doing a tequila review

“Classical liberal” usually registers to me as a libertarian/paleoconservative trying to mainstream themselves.

Only had to scroll about halfway through the replies before I found somebody suggesting an SPAC

Puts their being a Thiel media op in an even more pathetic light.

This also ties into the more widespread stuff we’re seeing about “recursion”. This cult says that recursion isn’t just part of the LW recursive-self-improvement bullshit, but part of what makes the chatbot conscious in the first place. Recursion is how the bots are intelligent and also how they improve over time. More recursion means more intelligence.

Hmm, is it better or worse that they’re now officially treating SICP as a literal holy book?

Automobile advertising

Of course there has to be a permanent underclass that can only ever aspire to work in the service industry and will never harbor any hope of threatening my highly important thought leader job, that’s the only way the world CAN work

The point about a static site generator being an ideal intro project is well-taken. I’m working my way through Practical Common Lisp right now, as it’s recommended as one of the best CL intro books, and its intro project of an MP3 database is only barely relevant to me because I still have a stash of MP3s I started building up around the time of the book’s original publication.

I struggle to imagine what might supplant the HTML generator suggestion in the future. If anything, its desirability is made more apparent by the proliferation of JS monoliths all over the Web. You can show students how quickly it renders compared to a corporate website or heavyweight social-media feed, use that as an introduction to performance considerations and profiling, introduce modularity by bolting on a more dynamic framework piece-by-piece…

Wronger explaining human sexual attraction

Are we sure this isn’t an SCP entry?

But it’s got what progressive web apps crave… it’s got animations

Unironically, this was surely the primary design brief.

My rule for understanding somebody like Piper is that they will endorse whatever they think will keep Starbucks open, ubiquitous, and relatively inexpensive

TI-89 Unobtanium Sparkle Emoji Edition, featuring a revolutionary 68k core with a fat chunk of matmul units grafted on