This is a fun thread.

And…There’s a bunch of folks in this thread who will be pretty happy next time they try Luanti.

And a smoke machine in the nostrils to warn off tailgaters.

Ouch. I had to learn endianness once to solve a real life serialization bug. It sucked. I learned it for just long enough to correct the code for the corner cases involves, and then slept and forgot everything about it.

edit, actually, it might have been on the back…it’s been forever since I touched one

It was along the right side. I remember it helped to sit a little bit to the right, or angle the keyboard a bit, when playing a two player game, so that the leftmost player’s joystick cord would reach.

TURBO!!!

I can also use cartridges!

Well, I could use cartridges…before I loaded a custom ROM via the cartridge slot, and it does almost everything faster, but now I cannot function without it.

And I have the option to spin cotton off-road on rugged terrain…so there’s that…

…and then we can grind all the code ever created by human kind into a fine paste, and write a clever algorithm to regurgitate it as a squishy code slurry in response to questions about problems that the standard libraries already solved.

I pass the time ignoring the dangerous substance I’m handling untrained by thinking about how we stopped employing a specialists so that someone’s quarterly profits could go up a bit more.

That’s perfect timing, since in a moment the car will be started, and they can resume drinking…

Someday in a few years there will be an accident in the opt out service that routes 95% of attempts into a 500 error screen. All they have to do is underpay and never check on the server admin for that service for years until they don’t care.

We get signal!

“How are you gentlemen?”

Nah. We would have to add patriot dollars that can be spent on freedom necessities, instead. We don’t tolerate communism.

This is brilliant. Most of us are having a good laugh, but I suspect that someone, somewhere, on a research team, is also taking a few notes.

CLI first here too, for the same reason.

I’m not above using an editor plugin if it’s simple and reliable and right there waiting, like VSCodium.

Students came 2nd.

Right. Yes. At least second. For sure.

There’s not like, another kind of research we should save a spot for? No? Okay. 2nd is good.

Right. All this consideration of medium-term consequences for decisions is why Lemmy isn’t ready to build a CEO LLM, yet.

Noisy shareholders want a briefly increased stock price, not a long term investment.

Edit: I’m not sure this is even sarcasm. The world is just a deeply stupid place, today.

There is a pretty good chance that Satya goes first.

It really might be an improvement.

Totally random behavior would likely outperform optimizing for the next quarter share price.

If an AI simply fails to commit to various wasteful hype trends (return to office, DEI policy rollbacks, needless investment in AI) the company run by it might well outperform companies run by humans who jump on those trends.