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froztbyte

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  • rolls 1, 1

    I behold the paperclip calculator, and tremble in fear

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  • the only revolutions these people are capable of is spinning their office chairs

    .....when it's one on a swivel instead of some fixed-position ergo thing they acquired after reading a thotleader blogpost

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  • I regret to inform you that the promptfans have a new fucked up way to thotpost:

    screenshot from twitter. the search bar has the following search terms in it: "BC" "before claude" a tweet body by @Jason_Dean reads: "I was born in 23 BC (Before"

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/

    Other than that, I find this whole thing mostly very saddening. Not because some company used my diagram. As I said, it's been everywhere for 15 years and I've always been fine with that. What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own.

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  • So take your codebase, compress it as a zip at normal compression level, and then think how large the output problem space is, shrink it down quadratically, and you have a good estimate of how much ctx you need for LLMs to solve the hardest problems in your codebase at any given point during token generation

    wat

    I can see what they're going for but that seems .... wildly guess-y?

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  • Something like “innovations in parasitic enclosure” may perhaps be a phrase that can give a handle on it, yeah

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  • ime much like the SAFe diagrams, this diagram is all over a certain type of “this is how your corporation should be developing software” thotleader posts

    (although I imagine the lag 2~3y all those heads have pivoted to promptpraise)

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  • I guess that doesn’t emphasise the “innovation” aspect much

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  • parasitech?

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  • okay I can't argue with that outcome

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  • morgin' all muh featues

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  • Timn

    yes, I certainly do know how to handle software development over Timn

    it is actually kinda incredible that this shit has invented a way to be terrible that we can't actually easily riff off by what's expressable in unicode. an unholy clusterfuck of what would otherwise be be joked about as keming (but isn't because it's straight-up an artefact of the process used to encode visual data from source data, badly), a mindless automaton outputting garbage, and then also the shitty model

    and people keep telling me this shit is good

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  • in today's news about magical prompts that super totes give you superpowers:

    We introduced SKILLSBENCH, the first benchmark to systematically evaluate Agent Skills as first-class artifacts. Across 84 tasks, 7 agent-model configurations, and 7,308 trajectories under three conditions (no Skills, curated Skills, self-generated Skills), our evaluation yields four key findings: (1) curated Skills provide substantial but variable benefit (+16.2 percentage points average, with high variance across domains and configurations); (2) self-generated Skills provide negligible or negative benefit (–1.3pp average), demonstrating that effective Skills require human-curated domain expertise

    I am jack's surprised face

    ...and given I have other yaks, I shall not step on my "software and tools don't have to suck" soapbox right now

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  • they’ve jumped the shark a while back. ptorrone is relatively widely documented to go around harassing people (often using his partner as a shield excuse for doing so, just like this time), and a couple months back they sold to qualcomm

    This person “Charlie Stross”

    ah yes, that absolutely must be a pseudonym, and absolutely couldn’t be a real person

    such a fucking weird bit

    anyway yeah fuck adafruit. don’t buy their shit, there are other options (and often cheaper)

    e: I derped on the who-sold, conflated the two for dipshittery. see subthread

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  • I guess my youtube allergy is even stronger than I thought!

    (I don’t log in, and I keep it in entirely stateless windows)

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  • til that youtube now features "posts"

    ....sigh

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  • time to try prompt injections?

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  • Yeah, I’m aware :)

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    ethical Ai alliance, clause 0

    ethicalaialliance.org /clause-0
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    community lego mindbricks project looking for help

    pybricks.com /project/saving-lego-mindstorms/
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    London permacomputing club

    london.permacomputing.net
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    revisiiiioooooon!

    2025.revision-party.net /events/timetable/
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    seeking input - android apps for things

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    new oscilloscope music from jerobeam and hansi3d out

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 27 October 2024

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    hands up anyone else who wants one

    ideas.lego.com /projects/10a3239f-4562-4d23-ba8e-f4fc94eef5c7
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 18 August 2024

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    accidental time capsules in winamp skins

    jordaneldredge.com /notes/corrupted-skins/
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    Quelle surprise

    fortune.com /2024/04/01/ai-crypto-deepmind-google-demis-hassabis-chatbot-hype-grifting/