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  • Still don't know what that is.

  • What is your favorite smell?

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  • Skin after the swimming pool (gentle chlorine smell), flourine, curry, my wife's hair, freshly baked bread, roast chicken, clothes that have been dried outside.

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  • That's what I thought, so I investigated.

    The base of the log can be accounted for by a constant scale factor, because, for example, if n is the number of bison,

    log10(n)= log10(e^ln(n))= ln(n) log10(e) and log10(e) is a constant.This change of base is a linear scale on the logs.

    Hence we can just take log 10 of the numbers of bison, and scale the answer by a constant factor which is log10(correct base), getting7.778, 2.477 and 4.477Scale that by about 2 = log10(100) to match the 5 bison in the middle pictogram, and there should be16, 5, 9 bison on a logarithmic scale.

    The diagram is also wrong if it's logarithmic.

  • Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company

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  • And which vehicle you go to work in dwarfs them both. Two things can be true at the same time.

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  • Let’s hope the winners are slightly less ghoulish than our Oil barons.

    What a foolish hope!

    $200,000,000,000 debt.Who well pay it?You talk like gravity doesn't exist!

    You're wrong if you think that it won't be heavily reliant AI customers like software companies who spend five years removing codewriting skills from their workforce and building up technical debt in their codebase because no one has to understand it in those five years and there's a lot of subtle, hard to spot bugs that got through code review because humans simply don't make those kinds of errors and no one ever had to spot one in their life before claude came along.

    Did you think that enshitification wouldn't affect the product? Yesterday's computers and cars were easy to disassemble to replace parts. Now it's much, much harder, and it's very common to void your warranty if you do that. Today's ai generated code is easy to tinker with and you can do what you like with your end product. Why would it stay that way? Why wouldn't they engineer it to make that harder? It's not difficult to make code confusing by changing variable names. I could fuck up your codebase for humans by simply swapping names like productSKU and customerID, let alone writing obfuscated code for any purpose whatsoever and with whatever variable names I like.

    Some software companies are outsourcing their talent to AI behemoths with mountains of debt to recoup. Guess who's going to pay the debt! And what's the point of such a company in the long run? Why are you speedrunning paying to replace yourself?

    There will be an AI crash and "consolidation", meaning a switch to monopolies or near monopolies. Some companies are shedding institutional knowledge and programming skill like it was waste water. Once dependence comes, value extraction will follow it like disease follows unvaccinated infection.

    There is already $200bn in debt and growing rapidly. The shareholders aren't going to be paying it. The ai customers are.

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  • There was an article a bit ago explaining that most AI companies are making a 95% loss. You know, spending 100, receiving 5 loss. All that debt is going to mean the price for AI is about 20 times lower than it needs to be just to break even. The software teams that came to rely on AI to save costs will soon enough find themselves on the hook for this mountain of debt. Enshitification is real. Enshitification is coming. AI will not stay cheap, convenient and free of advertising.

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  • How else are they going to begin to recap their billions and billions of debt? Someone has to pay for all those data centres, all that hardware, all that power, etc etc etc. It will be the companies that have come to rely on AI.

    Sure, for now, AI is a lot cheaper than an intern, but it doesn't become an expert like a human does. And Amazon used to be cheaper than other retailers right up until they had achieved vast market share.

    This cannot be the last 10x price multiplier they pull. Not even close. Firstly they're way, way, way off from recouping their costs, and secondly, they're still way, way off market value for an incompetent human intern who isn't learning much.

    Uber didn't enter the market to open up taxis to new drivers and bring down prices, that was marketing. They entered the market to take a cut out of ever taxi fare in the world, and drive up prices at peak times to many times the agreed fares, especially in regulated areas.

    Similarly, AI didn't enter the coding market to drive down prices and enable greater access for folk to generate code. They entered the coding market to receive the wages of programmers and drive up prices in in-demand fields. They are not unaware of how much companies pay devs. Why else would they have spent all those billions in advance? Where is the payback coming from?

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  • Your brain.

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  • I assume those costs are closer to the real cost to provide the service, ouch!

    Not even close. Most AI companies are making something like 95% loss according to an article here a bit ago. So if you're an AI provider, you need to multiply prices by 25 before you even begin to eat into your insane levels of debt.

  • Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

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  • AI has the same relationship to truth and trust that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has: truth is absolutely not part of the equation whatsoever, except in as much as it may be necessary to say some true things in order to establish trust.

    Giving such an entity executive power is to ignore a vast and ever growing body of information that you ought not to trust, yet here you are, hanging over the keys to the plausible-sounding nonsense monger.

    What about Nigel Farage? Well of course, he's an absolute liar, a man who chose the dark side decades ago, who knows he's in the wrong but strangely thinks it's somehow bad to try to do good.

    Boris isn't a liar or evil in the conventional sense, it's just that he absolutely wouldn't dream of letting whether something is true or good be part of decision-making any more than he would lock himself in a cage in public for the week, consult with ants about his route to work or hop on one leg all the time.

    So it is with AI.

  • Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

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  • I enjoyed these two sentences so much.

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  • you aren’t allowed to talk about it.

    And yet here we all are, talking about it.

  • Energy efficiency of various transport modes

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  • Yeah for the diesel/petrol/gasoline ones they've excluded energy wastage at the extraction point (eg if they have a flare), moving the oil to the oil refinery (from wherever in the world it came from), during the refining process (definitely a lot of energy used there), transporting the end product to wherever the filling station is, and finally pumping it into the vehicle.

    But they included all the comparable costs for electricity. They wanted fossil fuels to look as good as possible. I'm extremely skeptical about data that suggests air travel is efficient when people have been talking for years about how wasteful and environmentally damaging it is.

  • People who play piano, how did you learn to sight read proficiently?

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  • I read the music through first, slowly, imagining pressing the notes. It's like having a mental practice or two. It doesn't work unless I genuinely imagine my fingers moving.

    Over years and years I got very good at sight reading the styles of music I play a lot, but I still find it hard to sight read music that's in a different style.

  • RFK Jr cut off dead raccoon's penis on family vacation 'to study later'

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  • TOTALLY NORMAL.

    WE'VE ALL HAD HOLIDAYS LIKE THAT.

    TOTALLY REGULAR URGE TO KEEP THE PENISES OF ROADKILL FOR CLOSER STUDY LATER.

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  • I wandered in the fediverseTo brighten up my day;I found a funny story whereA turd won't flush away.

    It made me laugh, it made me cry:The cleaner had to watch him try,But while she gazed, it was then provedThe crap was easily removed.

    And senseless, she would think it wasFor her to have to see, becauseHis Swedish language really wasQuite useless, and we see that itDid not explain this hapless gitOr why he showed her this big shit.

    So mystified she still will beAnd puzzzled for eternity:This stranger and the giant pooHe weirdly showed her in the loo.

    I laughed and chuckled, then I seeThe person posting next to me -A Poem_for_your_sprog is here!A legend! - wow! - from yesteryear!

    I'll take this chance to tell you howYour random poems, then and now,Have brought me joy. And that is why,Without help from LLMs, IHave tried to say in silly rhymesA thank you for the happy timesYou've brought me.

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  • What must she think?! 🤣

    Thank you so much for my best laugh in a long while.

  • Haskellers when someone boasts about Typescript's fake type system.

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  • Same goes for rust and memory safety. What's your point?

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  • Elm for ever!