this seems counterintuitive but… comments are the best, name of the function but longer are the worst. Plain text summary of a huge chunk of code that I really should have taken the time to break up instead of writing a novella about it are somewhere in the middle.

I feel a lot of bad comment practices are downstream of javascript relying on jsdoc to act like a real language.

Managers gonna manage, but having a term for bad code that works that is more palatable than ‘amateur hour’ isn’t inherently bad imo.

Worst i’ve heard is some company forbidding LINQ in C#, which in python terms is forcing you to always use for-loops in place of filter/map/reduce and comprehensions and other stuff pandas.groupby

My impression from reading the stuff posted here is that omarchy is a nothing project that’s being aggressively astroturfed so a series of increasingly fashy contributors can gain clout and influence in the foss ecosystem.

Definitely, it’s just code for I’m ok with nazis at this point.

pro-AI but only self hosted

Like being pro-corporatism but only with regard to the breadcrumbs that fall off the oligarchs’ tables.

We should start calling so-called open source models trickle-down AI.

and actually use an AI that cites it’s sources

make the hallucinotron useful with this one weird trick

Zitron catching strays in the comments for having too much of a bullying tone, I guess against billionaires and tech writers, and being too insistent on his opinion that the whole thing makes no financial sense. It’s also lamented that the entire field of ML avoids bsky because it has a huge AI hostility problem.

Concern trolling notwithstanding, the eigenrobot stuff is worrisome though, if not specifically for him about how extremely online the ideological core of the administration seems to be, as close to the lunatics running the asylum as you’ll get in a modern political setting.

Micrsosoft will be adding numbers on total meetings summarised, total hours summarised, and various classes of prompts.

So the manager types are also affected? This might be interesting.

Governments are toppled, not opted out of, is all I’m saying.

Also not sure I agree that all consumer activism is inherently in vain.

This wasn’t a pro-spotify post, it was a your government isn’t something you can just boycott away post.

Like, your taxes are already paying for ICE directly.

I feel that if you are an USian who thinks that accepting US government contracts has become morally incorrect then fretting over swedish audio streaming companies is a waste of your time.

edit: free market solutionism as a response to having a dollarstore sturmabteilung running the streets in the USA just rubs me the wrong way. Sorry if the original post reads a bit coy, I just feel it would be incredibly cringe of me to make overt recommendations on how to handle things from the relative safety of living in a first world country on the other side of the world.

Google says it’s giving instructions to LLMs via invisible ascii characters.

So much psychic damage (and also /r/brandnewsentence material) in that thread…

The problem is solved by pairing those who wish to live longer at personal cost to themselves with virtuous pedophiles.

edit: That’s not the alluded Yud’s solution btw

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I still wouldn’t be all that tempted in his place, if pedophilia is merely a positive description. There’s little advantage in not being a pedophile.

Man rationalists from back when they didn’t worry about being youtube-ready were something else.

The reflective altruism guy has an ongoing series on hbd in the rat community that includes a bunch of that, you should check him out.

For example https://reflectivealtruism.com/2025/04/18/human-biodiversity-part-7-lesswrong/

That’s easy, it’s because LLM output is a reasonable simulation of sounding like a person. Fooling people’s consciousness detector is just about their whole thing at this point.

Crabs should look into learning to recite the pledge of allegiance in the style of Lady GaGa.

Airlock can be a verb.