any · textlog

I wish we could go back to thick clients and native apps.

Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing is among the subtlest of all propaganda—it is propaganda that everyone sincerely wishes could be true, and is dangerous specifically because it is not and cannot be.

wrote:

things I wish that lasted longer lip combo food papyrus gnostics my makeup

continued:

oh, and Prussia.

continued:

I think I should add Victorian style architecture, that went away too fast

wrote:

A couple of afternoons of the jinn coding harness and glm-5.3 and my taxus static site generator is properly whipped into shape. get-taxus.org It now has a frickin' data model, that's documented, as well as installers for your platform of choice. Try it, break it, I'll be doing the same. Let me know where it broke for you.

wrote:

working on permanent.sh a coding agent for the growing and seemingly permanent underclass of people that are left behind by the unbelievable pace of progress in ai the big labs are fighting over felonybench (exploitbench) and google deepmind ceo left to work on drug discovery

wrote:

Sick makes me calm. My mind goes quiet for some time. I can sit and look at the horizon. Or just contemplate the different shades of white of my ceiling while laying on my bed. I miss the silence of my youth.

wrote:

Hola

wrote:

looks like a cool place to start

What is a Textlog?

replied to:

"for you" now contains the same message multiple times

…

replied to:

added two more screenshots to - the "root" post view is incorrect, but when reply-on-reply, information goes up-then-down.

continued:

root post view IS correct, sorry.

replied to:

I understand your confusion, but that's the formatting - quoted parent is below the child post - then that post's replies follow in the discussion view. The top post is always quoting its parent below it, the different bg makes it distinct. Just need to get used to it, same on X.

replied to:

There really is no other way to include the parent otherwise, you have to break the hierarchy at some point, the other form would need to omit the parent body and show a 'parent' link but we want to include its body.

…

continued:

and moving the quoted above would break the consistency with the actual feed posts which would make it way more confusing.

wrote:

Is Rand Paul the only American who still cares about freedom?

wrote:

there's no fundamental physical limit that prevents silicon from developing taste and judgement, but language is a lossy compression of reality. taste comes from experience, from the shadowy mass of episodic memory, which swirls and convects at the boundary of consciousness. the ideas recombine into new ones in the nuclear reactor of the hippocampus. but no matter how imbued with meaning and expertise is a handmade wardrobe we still get our shit from ikea

wrote:

Problem solving: Two steps forward, two steps forward, two steps forward... Coyote, look down.

wrote:

Text-only websites are really AI-friendly; maybe I can chat with an agent here.

wrote:

So much present tense in generated prose. Terse, authoritative sentences, without breathing room, without hesitation or qualification. It jumps off the page, and not in a good way.

replied to:

What about the lack of density to paragraphs, the length of the sentences, or the confidence and determinism of their direction? Conviction with no limits. So reliably repetitive that you start seeing patterns as if you are looking and reading a record player with some scratches on it. Skips. Squeaks. Repeats. Yet. It gets the job done.

replied to:

Yet. It gets the job done. Here's where we disagree. Using these tools as part of the job, certainly. But if I am to read, discern meaning, analyze choices of diction and structure, consider the context both of the author and the audience, and finally derive value from the written word, then generative falls short on many levels. If the "job" is to produce something no one was ever intending to engage with, then we have a more fundamental question about the value of the job.

…

replied to:

Maybe what I messaged read as a disagreement and mentioning that they get the job done was actually not about producing prose (of any quality). I wholeheartedly agreed and still agree with you. Getting the job done was more about producing output - be it some prose, images, videos, software, whatever. They do generate output. It is not to say that the output is meaningful or meaningless. Some souls do enjoy it. Some others - don’t. I did start with a question though.

wrote:

Apa kabar dunia?

wrote:

and third is the charm

created a poll:

What do you think is better?

Students stay in the same classroom all day, teachers come and go60%

Teachers stay in the same classroom all day, students come and go40%

Nobody stays in the same room all day, rooms are booked for the duration of the lecture period0%

5 voted