V0ldek

joined 2 years ago
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 7 hours ago

I used strawpoll.com which, well, works

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Doodle, the site where you make polls to schedule stuff with friends, that Doodle, wants me to PAY THEM to have a poll with more than 10 dates xDDDDD

I'm wheezing, I'm sorry, what xD DOODLE? A PRO PLAN for DOODLE? xDDD

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 0 points 13 hours ago

Can't stop laughing at "drives public outcomes AT SCALE", when you can't decide if you're a political org or a software consultancy.

Operationalizing into a synergistic workflow-driven organization with the energy of a startup that drives impactful public platforms at web scale for the AI revolution

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

which in polymarket apparently amounts to token holders in an external DAO called UMA voting in proportion to their holdings to resolve disputes,

Wait that's even fucking dumber than I thought it was, good grief

Everything I've learnt about prediction casinos is against my will and all of it is somehow the dumbest shit imaginable. I went through crypto, NFTs, the metaverse, and 3 years of AI bullshit, and nothing reached this level of psychic damage before.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago

the original GMO crops

The original GMO crops would be like, broccoli existing and bananas not sucking ass. Monsanto are villains but they didn't invent genetics or selection.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago

We are good on opsec

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

AI Winter but with the same connotations as a nuclear one

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago

this man is allocating municipal water to a crabgrass cluster with no monetization strategy

This is poetry, AI could never

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh, interesting, when the price was close to 100K I saw roughly eighty-six hundred headlines about it everywhere. But it lost almost half of that and it didn't make the news? Huh. I wonder how that works.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago

To ​be included in the S&P 500, a company must be profitable

This is just discrimination. Is S&P scared of innovation? HFSP

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago

Nightmare blunt rotation

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago

I absolutely do get to call everyone who uses LLMs chuds, I actually do it all the time, it's a great past time that keeps me healthy and moisturised.

 

This is a nice post, but it has such an annoying sentence right in the intro:

At the time I saw the press coverage, I didn’t bother to click on the actual preprint and read the work. The results seemed unsurprising: when researchers were given access to AI tools, they became more productive. That sounds reasonable and expected.

What? What about it sounds reasonable? What about it sounds expected given all we know about AI??

I see this all the time. Why do otherwise skeptical voices always have the need to put in a weakening statement like this. "For sure, there are some legitimate uses of AI" or "Of course, I'm not claiming AI is useless" like why are you not claiming that. You probably should be claiming that. All of this garbage is useless until proven otherwise! "AI does not increase productivity" is the null hypothesis! It's the only correct skeptical position! Why do you seem to need to extend benefit of the doubt here, like seriously, I cannot explain this in any way.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by V0ldek@awful.systems to c/freeasm@awful.systems
 

I'm looking for recommendations of good blogs for programmers. I've been asked about what I would recommend by younger folks a few times these past few months and I realised I don't really have a good list that I could just share with them.

What I'm interested in are blogs that don't focus specifically on any particular tech but more things like Coding Horror that are just for devs in general. They don't have to be for beginners. It'd also be interesting to see which of those are most popular in our little circle, so please upvote comments that contain recommendations you agree with.

I'm implicitly assuming stuff shared by folks here is going to be sensible, well-written blogs, and not some AI shill nonsense or other tech grift.

Note that I'm specifically interested in the text medium, podcasts or YT not so much.

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