After Bacon’s Rebellion, they created the concepts of black and white to sow division and prevent another uprising where a unified underclass would threaten the aristocracy

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/inventing-black-white

It’s wild to me because the Green Party in America is (obviously) quite different, but they share the same name.

Sara Nanni, the German Green Party defence spokesman, said one clear lesson is that the country simply needs to have more systems available. “We can no longer think in such small quantities. We have to assume that vehicles have a long downtime after they’re damaged and simply need to be serviced.”

Jesus Christ. I knew the German Green party was flawed because of the anti-nuclear stuff but to also find out they’re MIC shills. Fucked.

Put as much of your testing in shell scripts, or even better, Ansible playbooks, so that you can run them locally. That way your CI system just does ansible-playbook

There’s a very good Ansible collection for podman, so you can orchestrate the unit tests to run inside a container for full isolation

We are so far from automated luxury communism, and the idea that this technology would actually move us closer, is laughable. I honestly don’t believe that any technology has actually moved us closer to Communism. They seem to actually just concentrate more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.

Look if you want your fun little tech fetish, go right ahead, but don’t claim that LLMs are making the world better.

I watched the “Computer Revolution” and how it was going to fix EVERYTHING. It was going to transform the world.

All it did was just make a couple thousand people, more rich than was possible before.

All we are going to see is this buggy, hallucinating, flawed God take over everything, and like a mad God, it will make incomprehensible demands and pronouncements, and we’ll all be forced to obey them, while a handful of billionaires cook the planet and extract all the value, then we all die.

It’s the stupidest fucking outcome, and every person who keeps being a booster for LLMs and masks their little freakish obsession with them with flowerly marxist language makes me sick.

“actually it’s good that artists, programmers, and writers are being proletarianized, replaced with a shitty hallucinatin LLM that can’t actually do the work, but can bullshit it enough that management thinks they can layoff everyone and just pocket the savings”

Jesus Christ.

“Yes but we need the LLMs to destroy everyone’s livelihoods so that we can have our secular version of a Rapture (violent revolution where a bunch of people who never fucking shoot guns (the SRA is a joke) win against a superior force) and finally achieve fully automated luxury Communism”

Completely delusional

I have a background in virtual screening software, where we just brute forced every compound that was commercially viable to produce (ZINC database) to see if it would bind to a cell receptor.

Having a new way to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks does not impress me.

Based on all the discourse recently, my position that AI and LLMs should be outlawed.

I am an unapologetic Butlerian Jihadist

I purchased and read Uncharted. It sucked, because it pulled all its punches when it came to the Biden administration. Like, they never ask WHY all these freaks in the administration kept hiding Biden. Just that they did. No discussion of motives.

No discussion of how Kamala was a fucking terrible choice, only the most minimal discussion of Gaza that they could get away with.

Just excuses

This is a bad take but I don’t have the energy to argue

Django, Flask, FastAPI

This might be unpopular because I’m an old head, when jQuery was a must because of IE6, but I would maybe start out learning vanilla Javascript first, at least a little bit, before diving into React, just so that you have more background about Javascript rather than just experience in a single framework. I’m not saying do an entire application in vanilla JS first, but maybe do a simple TODO app or something very small with Flask (or equivalent) and some light JS on the frontend.

I see you used Django recently, the one thing about Django’s Form classes and Views is that it does a lot of the heavy lifting around form processing for you. Its super super awesome and gets all that annoying shit out of the way so you can deal just with application logic, but it might be worth dropping down to Flask or Node or something else where you don’t have form processing and building done for you, and do vanilla JS with that.

Then again I hate javascript and do almost all server side rendering in Python or Zig so take what I say with a grain of salt.

I’ve been writing web applications and just sprinking a tiny bit of JS in the apps, and have generally avoided the whole JS framework mess.

Art of Unix Programming

https://archive.org/details/ost-computer-science-the_art_of_unix_programming-1

Dropbear got em

Golden throne, thousands of psykers sacrificed to keep the Emperor alive, etc etc

Pre-market has S&P down ~3%. I think we’re going to hit the 7% circuit breaker today

I have been to Taiwan. It is a beautiful place and the people are wonderful. I don’t want them to be a political football kicked back and forth by the US and China, so my hope is that it can be resolved peacefully in a way that the majority of the people vote to decide. If that means reunification with the mainland, then so be it.

Never let a crisis go to waste. The different factions within the Trump administration are using the signal controversy to get rid of people and take power

So literally the moment you get a better job, they call the FBI and try to rendition you to a black site for torture?

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