Posts by ratkins@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AS5HNeMSxrKMQyIajQ by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-01-27T12:21:09Z
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@mhoye If we grant you the premise (which is at the very least an adversarial take, though I admit it’s possible), what do we do about it? The technology is kind of inevitable at this point (if it wasn’t OpenAI it’d be someone else) and there’s a snowflake’s hope in hell the US will legislate against a US tech company. And if Europe does, it’ll be left behind.
(DIR) Post #AS5zKQ24B9pB6k1i88 by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-01-28T08:02:19Z
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@publius @mhoye If they really do end up being that large and power hungry physics and economics will naturally be the limiting factors so I’m not *too* worried about that.
(DIR) Post #ATt2wE4BgwIUtcKmn2 by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-03-22T21:54:13Z
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@spolsky Knowing that complexity is the enemy and Gall’s Law is your gospel.
(DIR) Post #AUDclAlNWp49JqfNaK by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-04-01T20:11:18Z
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@lowqualityfacts *fewer
(DIR) Post #AWECZFbHHqXCXUdO6a by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-05-19T10:07:08Z
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@spolsky I guess it’s been a while since you recorded your Accuracy 3rd interview but has the “camp without the camp” joke caught up to you yet 😂
(DIR) Post #AWjt71aXH1BnlkpkCu by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-06-16T05:27:56Z
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@simon I only have a couple of domains but I think Porkbun satisfy most of your criteria? I’d have to check about the multiple cards thing. They’re very boring-in-a-good-way though.
(DIR) Post #AXCBCi0chI0tE4OX44 by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-06-29T21:02:24Z
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@simon The stupider the bit, the straighter you’ve got to play it. This is exquisite.
(DIR) Post #AaK1dNDueW8OLEyxmK by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-10-01T09:26:52Z
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@simon @chriscoyier Is this what you were trying to accomplish the other week @jwz ?
(DIR) Post #AauzqAQ5taLFDWPid6 by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-10-19T05:35:05Z
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@xkcd The Hermetic oath: Shut it.
(DIR) Post #AbPQAwmVWROcp5NxDs by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-11-02T21:49:48Z
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@simon This is infuriating and I’m going to try it.
(DIR) Post #Ac3gxU9rMGqnSrKM0u by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-11-22T08:06:25Z
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@simon Then there are the fun ones like “colourful racing identity” (organised crime boss), “tired and emotional” (drunk), “confirmed bachelor” (gay, when that was somehow scandalous in the 80s.)
(DIR) Post #Ad2xN8Zee6BrftIpqS by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-12-21T21:29:08Z
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@killyourfm A random newby asked me what I did at work at Burning Man this year. I said, “We don’t talk about that here” and they were enlightened.
(DIR) Post #Ahhu599l2mZfDL7Q1Y by ratkins@mastodon.social
2024-05-09T07:03:03Z
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@clive @jjdavis We’re calling it “slop” (c.f. “spam”) now: https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slop/
(DIR) Post #Amb796JvRoI2oqJixU by ratkins@mastodon.social
2023-04-11T16:15:22Z
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@jk You’re absolutely 100% correct about this. The web is a great hypertext browsing system but a *terrible* application platform. All web “apps” live right at the bottom of the uncanny valley of software UIs, who knows what this button will do when I click it or what invisible and unnecessarily asynchronous process will be kicked off before it responds. It’s terrible and what baffles me is *nobody seems to care*. Nobody under the age of forty even remembers anything different!