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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 23h

another day volunteering at the peter naur museum. people keep asking if they can have the theory of the program. buddy,

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went to a new dentist earlier and it was decorated with illustrations that were literally teeth teeth teeth

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I wouldn't make jokes about this given the tenure of his immediate predecessor

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the final phase of the tech industry's transformation into the finance industry

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millennials are never retiring huh

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did the balatro wheel of fortune card write this

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another day volunteering at the peter naur museum. people keep asking if they can have the theory of the program. buddy,

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spent the whole evening completely stuck in emuurom because of what turns out to be a really misleading late game clue

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me and a bunch of stupid assholes are going to start a community in the middle of an raf base to either get arrested or prove a very important point

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I keep forgetting streeting is defence sec. unserious country

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also even before this, it was very normal for people over say 35 to be out of touch with contemporary pop music

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you lot weren't kidding about macos tahoe being ugly as hell huh. this looks like if a litestep skin developer learned css in 2005

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has anyone heard any good songs about texas

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the conference in question only exists because the existing main rails conf might have said he wasn't welcome so he started his own thing entirely so he could still keynote. the audience should be considered a personality cult

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sorry, some big AI vendors went on record *in court* recently saying their products are a world-historic act of theft and we're still supposed to treat this as a legitimate technology?

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 26/09/2026

[ask a question about how to ban LLM users from my projects] [get replies from LLM-promoting bots] [I hate it here]

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is there any commonly accepted/recognised way to indicate a project does not accept LLM-generated contributions? am struggling slightly with a (well-intentioned) contributor saying I should have indicated this in my project files

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the "should you take coffee to an interview" thing is such transparent attention bait that I'm almost amazed it's got any traction. anyway it's fun that serious newspapers don't have the basic immunity to jingling keys to ignore this type of shit

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holy fuck @ scala last night

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if you go check on this thread now you'll see the author has a root shell

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today I learned wikipedia has a category named "former objects"

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I hate that LLMs mean I can't trust anything any more. I'll get something I previously would have viewed as a thoughtfully written bug report/PR and now it's "this might just be very professional-looking bullshit"

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[guy who is 42 and the subject of a second major film by the same director about how much of a gigantic piece of shit he is voice] you can trust me to self regulate

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if the cost of making anything has gone to zero then why is any technology company worth anything any more

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despite my better judgement I watched the rails guy keynote and now I wish the antimemetics division was real

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a key pitch of the desk job compared to manual labour is it doesn't break your brain anywhere near as much as manual labour breaks your body, normally. if you're very lucky it's intellectually rewarding. I would quite like to retire still being able to think

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depressing that you can apparently fill a room with people paying good money to attend the ruby on racism conference

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"the CTO of the rails company says the company has no further use for rails" interesting. gee I wonder why he's found something else to build an audience around

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between this and yudkowski they're really letting the eugenics roots of AI out of the bag

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recent macOS versions are still shipping ruby 2.6 as their system ruby (?!?!!?) which is too old to run homebrew

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fun new macOS bug: mouse clicks are targeted nowhere near where the pointer is on screen

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the reporting on this stuff is a form of pareidolia. all this is explicable by a set of automatons stochastically exploring a state space and host environment with whatever predictive capacity an LLM affords them. absolutely no intent is required, they do not "know" what they are doing

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