em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 23hIf everything someone believes about a thing is fake, outdated, or presented in bad faith I don't think its that crazy to suspect that their overall conclusions about said thing are also wrong. 190
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Is it a new argument for why a computer can't be conscious or is it the chinese room again 1364
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I quite like TUIs because the terminal is from a time where people cared about composable tools/platforms. e.g. you can run a tui inside termux over ssh, or within vim/emacs, whatever. Most gui alternatives don't even care about this at all. If only we lived in the plan9 alternate universe. 1182
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I am going to need it to stop being 90 degrees in october pls 041
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I worked for a company that had a special exemption for covid lockdowns so they could get everyone back "In office" technically, but in practice they sent everybody to a mostly empty auxiliary office to work in isolated cubicles on laptops remote desktop-ed into our regular machines? 2160
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026cargo cult isn't exactly right, its more like being overly fixated on appearances because of how invested people who mostly interface with internal politics are in being perceived to be critical to operations 1140
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026really depressing how much energy is spent in companies on stuff that is just absolutely stupid and unnecessary to satisfy cargo cult beliefs of middle management 1240
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Humans like designing tiered abstracted systems so that higher levels do not need to worry about how lower ones are implemented, the central dogma is almost the complete opposite of that idea 0111
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026DNA/RNA is the most insane complicated programming language/machine code ever, its like if punch cards were read stochastically but also bits of the card could break off and do stuff in the computer including modify how other punch cards are read 2333
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The good news is I am only a pound or two away from being not (technically) underweight anymore, which should be a good milestone 110
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ive taken a bit of a medical leave and haven't really used ai much in the past few weeks, interested to get back into playing around with opus 5.5 when I don't feel so crummy 140
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think a lot of people say "tech bro" when they really just mean nerd. 2874
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026dreaming about stuff to do when I no longer feel sick to my stomach every day 001
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Understandable, sometimes you want state wrapped in a nice interface and it feels better to use something standardized than to roll your own every time. Also if you want to do this and interact with e.g. user input that also uses an actor framework it makes some sense. 110
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Gotta go to the roller rink again I like zipping around in there. 100
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I guess really the benefit is you MUST have a typed interface for each object (the message type it accepts), which is good imo. 010
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Kinda feels like a way to morally permit one to write OOP slop when OOP slop is called for. 110
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The whole thing is a bit more flexible technically, but the tradeoff is its more verbose for like 90% of use cases. 110
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Is this better? Beats me. I guess you explicitly have to write a state machine out as well. Is that better? Idk its a little clearer I suppose. 110
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026No you see this is not an object its an actor. The difference as far as I can tell is you gotta explicitly pass it a reference to the calling actor to get the result back, instead of leaving that implied. 230
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026when the only streamer you like gets into yet another of your special interests :o 000
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I suspect its not going to happen but it would be nifty to be part of the first generation of people that live forever. Imagine the "back in my day"s you could pull off. 1422
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026apparently announced earlier this year and I completely missed it somehow 010
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Thinking about how one would design a post scarcity TCG. I like the mechanics of playing magic but the business model is so fucked and full of perverse incentives. Obviously games like slay the spire solve this by just being single player but I do like playing games against people. 050
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Excited for a future where machines are better than humans at everything, we can finally stop pretending like some activities are inherently more meaningful to spend your time on than others, finally everything can be art. 25712
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026its crazy anthropic completely ripped off the big walk trailer music for opus 5.5 release 0110
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Exactly I need more ports to connect the pipes in the walls to the pipes in my body. The in between bits are just inefficient tbh. 140
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I should be able to just put nutrient slurry directly into my bloodstream from a pipe in the wall. 3282
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I don't get what the big deal is AI doesn't do anything you can't emulate on a Turing machine. 2962
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I am up 2 pounds now! I am absolutely going through it and having a very bad time BUT I am making progress. 010
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Haven't heard much about that Charlie Kirk fella in a while whatever happened to that guy? 040
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Its sucks how bad a tummy hurt disease will ruin your life, its so embarrassing to tell people you're having a hard time getting much work done because tummy hurt. 160
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026People on the internet love telling you "Its obvious that [completely unfalsifiable statement]" 0403
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 19/09/20263k calories a day is making me feel like a completely different person in a way thats hard to describe 000
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Idk I feel like it might be fucked up for claude's long term psychological development if his parents are constantly talking about how dangerous he is 0140
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026However IF I am wrong I am gonna be sooooo fucking pissed remembering all the glib dunk posts in the trenches fighting terminators 000
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Nowadays when you're anywhere in public like 50% of people are on phone/videocalls? When I was a kid it was considered rude to be on a phone call in public. 141
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I'm pretty optimistic that ai making it easy to "just do" anything will actually raise people's standards across the board. 020
em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'll not play for year or so and then come back to it and still be about the same 3-4kyu range, seems to stick in the brain pretty well. Daily tsumego helps. 130
