Chlorocruorin is really confusingly named. I was trying and failing to find the chlorine in it and was wondering if I was just dumb or blind or what.

khloros is Greek for “green”. That’s also where chlorine gets its name. So they’re only related etymologically.

it’s just a jerk-thing.

That’s not very skibidi of you to say.

I’m a Millennial and I’m happy to report I’ve appropriated “skibidi”. I really, really enjoy watching younger people die a little inside every time I use it.

Does that make me a dad even if I don’t have any kids?

so they wanted to sell Itanium for servers, and keep the x86 for personal computers.

That’s still complacency. They assumed consumers would never want to run workloads capable of using more than 4 GiB of address space.

Sure, they’d already implemented physical address extension, but that just allowed the OS itself to address more memory by enlarging the page table. It didn’t increase the virtual address space available to applications.

The application didn’t necessarily need to use 4 GiB of RAM to hit those limitations, either. Dylibs, memmapped files, thread stacks, various paging tricks, all eat up the available address space without needing to be resident in RAM.

Their last few generations of flagship GPUs have been pretty underwhelming but at least they existed. I’d been hoping for a while that they’d actually come up with something to give Nvidia’s xx80 Ti/xx90 a run for their money. I wasn’t really interested in switching teams just to be capped at the equivalent performance of a xx70 for $100-200 more.

This highlights really well the importance of competition. Lack of competition results in complacency and stagnation.

It’s also why I’m incredibly worried about AMD giving up on enthusiast graphics. I have very few hopes in Intel ARC.

I’ve woken myself up from several unpleasant dreams and nightmares before by literally just going “fuck this, I’m out.”

I think I’m often aware that I’m dreaming, but I don’t really lucid dream because my dreams are generally more interesting than anything I could consciously come up with anyway. So more often than not I’m just content to be along for the ride.

Will AI steal their jobs? 70% of professional programmers don’t see artificial intelligence as a threat to their work.

If your job can be replaced with GPT, you had a bullshit job to begin with.

What so many people don’t understand is that writing code is only a small part of the job. Figuring out what code to write is where most of the effort goes. That, and massaging the egos of management/the C-suite if you’re a senior.

Plants: develop hard pericarps for their seeds to survive animals’ digestive tracts

This beetle: G O T T A G O F A S T

Problem is, AI companies think they could solve all the current problems with LLMs if they just had more data, so they buy or scrape it from everywhere they can.

That’s why you hear every day about yet more and more social media companies penning deals with OpenAI. That, and greed, is why Reddit started charging out the ass for API access and killed off third-party apps, because those same APIs could also be used to easily scrape data for LLMs. Why give that data away for free when you can charge a premium for it? Forcing more users onto the official, ad-monetized apps was just a bonus.

These models are nothing more than glorified autocomplete algorithms parroting the responses to questions that already existed in their input.

They’re completely incapable of critical thought or even basic reasoning. They only seem smart because people tend to ask the same stupid questions over and over.

If they receive an input that doesn’t have a strong correlation to their training, they just output whatever bullshit comes close, whether it’s true or not. Which makes them truly dangerous.

And I highly doubt that’ll ever be fixed because the brainrotten corporate middle-manager types that insist on implementing this shit won’t ever want their “state of the art AI chatbot” to answer a customer’s question with “sorry, I don’t know.”

I can’t wait for this stupid AI craze to eat its own tail.

Knowing Tom, he’d be too embarrassed to accept it.

You could contextualize the conversation by bringing up how you met and having a retrospective discussion about how and why it didn’t work out romantically.

Maybe ask them if they’ve considered or are interested in seeing other people. This will let you gauge how they feel about it and the current state of your relationship, and also give you an opportunity to bring up how you feel.

Then, the conversation isn’t just about you seeing other people but about what’s best for the both of you.

What’s the best place to find monsterfuckers to date? I’m not one but my ex was, and she was insatiable.

I wonder if all the NCOs are bitching because they have to get their guys to clean their guns twice as often now.

He’s always been a troll. He says and does whatever he thinks it takes for people to pay attention to him. I doubt it goes any deeper than that.

the opposite of brittle

I think that would be “tough”, which has a mathematical definition in materials science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughness?wprov=sfla1

Meanwhile, giraffes:

What’s the point? It’s not like the people who still put money into this scam are going to be turned off by yet more undelivered promises.

Either the bowl or the shroud around it is probably overstimulating the poor guy’s whiskers.