Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

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Your job.

The shovel was a ground-breaking invention.

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My ideal package manager design for a programming language:

Packages are downloaded over a P2P system, like BitTorrent or IPFS
The package manager runs as a daemon and seeds all downloaded packages
There is also a centralized site, which is a directory that maps packages to hashes/torrents; also has documentation and search
The site has an open API that other sites can replicate
Project files reference packages by both name/version and hash; the hashes remain valid even if the site goes down
The site has human moderation and handles detecting malware, spam, etc. and removing it
Package names always have a username prefix
The site's staff can choose to bless a package as the preferred implementation of some feature, giving it a non-prefixed name

Because only you can prevent florist friars.

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@jimsalter it does feel as though we've gone from say little, do much to say much, do little in rather short order. But I think that's because we've also moved to a system that rewards those with fancy words, and the ability to motivate and/or otherwise stimulate people.

When you find the N64 shiny thing

#indiegames #indiegame #indiedev #gaming #videogames #n64 #nintendo64 #oot #zelda #zeldalike #ocarinaoftime

#windowsDefender

@ProgressiveLurker @TomSwirly @GeePawHill Mastodon is chockful of micro-celebrities huffing and puffing beyond their reach.

Been having a discussion, and thought I'd have a quick poll. Please boost to get this beyond my bubble.

Is zero:

Would you drink the systemd juice?

They then state that 1,287 megawatt hours is enough to power 120 average US homes for a year. According to https://housegrail.com/how-many-houses-are-in-the-us/ there were more than 140 million houses in the US in 2020. Thus, the energy cost of training one LLM represents roughly 3/35000 of a percent of the energy used by all homes in the US in a year.

I'm trying to argue that the energy consumption of AI is comparable and perhaps even smaller than basic household amenities. That's to say, we should be willing to accept such an amount of energy consumption if we are already accepting it elsewhere. I think your mock interpretation of my viewpoint reveals some strong ideological oppositions you have to AI, besides the energy consumption alone.

@jonny AI is just the latest ”no code” vibe cycle.

Every 10-15 years someone comes in declaring: ”Programming is dead! From now on we only write specifications in a language anybody can understand.”

But it always hits the same problem: Natural language is not good for describing systems of deterministic formal logic. If it was, we’d not have had to invent symbolic mathematic notation, flowcharts, etc to describe them.

The cycle might yield a new #programming language.

Been there
#stateHWtrek

Another #LiteraryQuote from the same work:

There are no nouns in Tlön's conjectural Ursprache, from which the "present" languages and the dialects are derived: there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic suffixes (or prefixes) with an adverbial value. For example: there is no word corresponding to the word "moon,", but there is a verb which in English would be "to moon" or "to moonate." "The moon rose above the river" is hlor u fang axaxaxas mlo, or literally: "upward behind the onstreaming it mooned."

It's just q with a bunch of silent letters waiting in line.

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To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

— Grace Hopper

#programming