Prior to modern technology, wealthy patrons had to pay actual artists to create grotesque charicatures using religious imagery to valorize themselves.
Prior to modern technology Dan Lyke / comment 0
Prior to modern technology, wealthy patrons had to pay actual artists to create grotesque charicatures using religious imagery to valorize themselves.
Just pondering about what's easy with Dan Lyke / comment 0
Just pondering about what's "easy" with an LLM coding assistant, and what's hard, and how the languages I've used have influenced the kinds of code I've written, and how the use of an LLM assistant is going to change what our software looks like.
Like: If we can't get our LLM assistant to fix a UI issue, are we just gonna abandon that interface mode?
Slammers Dan Lyke / comment 0
Fascinating article on people deliberately colliding automobiles into trucks for the insurance payout: New Yorker: Letter from New Orleans: The Car-Crash Conspiracy — High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.
Via.
sectarian Dracula Dan Lyke / comment 0
Neville Park @nev@status.nevillepark.ca
ahem In the original novel Dracula, it must be a crucifix (that is, a fancy schmancy cross with Jesus on it) to properly repel Dracula. In later works, a simple cross suffices. This implies Dracula is getting more Protestant over time. In this essay I will
Oh Dan Lyke / comment 0
Oh, yes, this object has the method as_secs_f64(), that's definitely letting me abstract out the code to the appropriate floating point size for whatever target platform this ends up running on.
When Jewishness Means Genocide Dan Lyke / comment 0
Jewish Currents: When Jewishness Means Genocide
My partner and I were hiking recently on an international trail in Spain. People passing each other on the trail would say hello in different languages. I was joking about the possibility of saying “shalom” to people. And it immediately became clear to both of us that today saying “shalom” would be provocative. I was thinking about how the word “shalom,” which is a nice word, a word of greeting, opening, peace, has become a marker of hate, in a sense. And then it dawned on me that there was a different but comparable process with the word “heil.” In German, it basically means holiness, peace, wholesomeness— good things. But it became the word for evil. You would not utter it today, in Germany or anywhere. And the comparison between these two words was very heavy, but it was there. It was not an intellectual process. It was kind of an instinctive feeling.
yiff-raff Dan Lyke / comment 0
Soatok Dreamseeker @soatok@furry.engineer
Some furries: "hehe I'm furry trash"
Me: "yiff-raff"
Meta testing virtual Zuck Dan Lyke / comment 0
Finally, we've found the corporate role that AI can replace: Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees
The Meta chief is personally involved in training and testing his animated AI.
Have a project that might be good for Dan Lyke / comment 1
Have a project that might be good for Rust. People like libcosmic. Fix the issues with dependencies and architecture, run:
cargo generate gh:pop-os/cosmic-app-template
Get to where it asks for a "Repository URL", and:
⚠️ Sorry, "ssh://danlyke@www.flutterby.com/home/danlyke/var/git/squareplay2" is not a valid value for repository-url
Does everything have to suck? Can't anything just work?