When reached for comment the family said, “how could this happen to us? We’re not even trans?”

Have the day you voted for, know that you won’t be the last people in rural areas that this happens to, and that when the AI bubble pops you still won’t get the land back. It’s gone forever.

They typically condemn the land before using eminent domain.

The adult entertainers are the VC investors. They’re pretty world-wise, but can’t be well versed on everything. So when someone sells them on something that sounds pretty good, they bite. The CEOs are the bros laughing about how great everything is, except in real life they don’t have consequences. All the CEOs get paid like it might be their last job so if they never work again they’re still fine.

It’s still impressive to see what the LLMs cook up when asked about programming problems. I’m coming back to programming from some time away from it, and it’ll give you the answer to the question you asked. If you ask it for an old way of doing something, it’ll tell you that. Then it slips and shows you a new way of doing something (I’m specifically talking about std::cout versus std::format and std::print), and the doors are wide open all of a sudden.

Then it gives you a technique for something and you spend hours debugging code only for the LLM to say that the solution it provided won’t work.

Prompt engineering is going to be a real thing whether we like it or not.

I know :-)

Here’s hoping for more red today.

Replying to myself to put up a link to the jenga tower scene of The Big Short in case nobody has seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbiDrzTd8fE

It’s there in the S&P 500 between MSFT and PLTR on the left kind of in the middle (size of the box is the market cap of the company). It’s in practically every 401(k) in the US. BBB is somewhere in the middle of the jenga tower.

You could probably get 80% of that process done by learning some python. If you have a string “s”, then replacing double newlines with a single newline is as easy as

re.sub("\n\n", "\n", s)

where “\n” is an LF in many programming languages. A CR is often “\r” in the same vein. Just be aware that regular expressions can be very, very frustrating; and every webpage is going to be a new adventure in how it got formatted. If you use something like spyder it’ll allow you to see what the data looks like inside the python process so you get a chance to iterate.

There is Carriage Return (CR), and also Line Feed (LF, often called New Line). If you think about old mechanical printers with the metal arm sticking out, a CR operation would move the type head to the far left column, and a LF operation would advance the paper by one line. Variously through the years depending on hardware (typewriter, teletype, those early CRTs that you had to refresh the screen, or modern computers) you would get one or both of those if you pressed Return/Enter, and it’s configurable in software, depending on the software. I don’t know what windows does these days with notepad, but at one time the Enter key sent both (CRLF). UNIX style systems tended to use LF, and older Macs as someone else referenced used CR. If you wrote a generic program to handle anything you had to account for all of them. Mostly these days it gets abstracted away which generally works well enough unless a team of people used a random collection of software to edit a text file.

printf "\r\nHexadecimal, like that scene from The Martian.\n" | hexdump -C
00000000  0d 0a 48 65 78 61 64 65  63 69 6d 61 6c 2c 20 6c  |..Hexadecimal, l|
00000010  69 6b 65 20 74 68 61 74  20 73 63 65 6e 65 20 66  |ike that scene f|
00000020  72 6f 6d 20 54 68 65 20  4d 61 72 74 69 61 6e 2e  |rom The Martian.|
00000030  0a                                                |.|
00000031

The 0a is a Line Feed character, and the 0d is a Carriage Return character. In my terminal without piping it through hexdump you get:

printf "\r\nHexadecimal, like that scene from The Martian.\n"

Hexadecimal, like that scene from The Martian.

The LF at the end of the string makes it so that the prompt at the terminal doesn’t appear on the same line as the output, and the blank line before the text is caused by the LF at the beginning. I don’t know/care/have to worry about what eats the CR.

You shouldn’t forget about selective enforcement.

Ft. Knox

Did anyone ever go in there and show the gold? I thought someone campaigned with that as a promise.

it would be able to detect

“It” doesn’t have to be any good at it:

https://blog.princelaw.com/2009/07/08/nfa-and-constructive-possession-myth-or-reality/

https://johncderrick.com/dinosaur-timeline

The timeline stuff always gets me.

https://www.spaceweather.gov/

Pretty good resource for that kind of thing if you have another interested kid and access to the internet. There’s also this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_law_of_universal_gravitation

Most still will. Like I’m sure a lot of people are doing, I was trying to reuse old hardware for a new purpose. Perfectly good computer with 16GB of RAM with an AMD A8-3850. I’m not complaining about progress’s march towards the future, but I missed the warning signs about the changes. I’m sure some other folks probably did as well.

I’m going to drag out my same soapbox: a lot of systems old enough to use DDR3 RAM will have x86_64 v1 or v2 processors. Some projects have already removed support for those, the big one being the RHEL kernel as of RHEL9.

You’re approaching this with the attitude of a parent who’s already got their future grandkids named.

Happy cake day.

The article just before that about the “missing missing reasons” hits just as hard. That whole site makes for an informative read for someone frustrated with dealing with their parents as an adult.

Replying to myself here and including a link that just dropped:

• https://lemmy.world/post/48881740
• https://nsa.2026.action.cr.yp.to/
• https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260405-votes.html

Apparently the debate was more spirited than I thought. The argument appears to revolve around whether it’s OK to jump to the new stuff directly, or use a combination of the old and new.

I think this is how I can message people…

• @DevDave@piefed.social
• @monkeyFromTheLake@programming.dev

reddit cant afford [the V3 captcha system] but google lets them use it in exchange for AI/datamining

Had no idea they used that. I edited all my comments to crap then deleted them around the time the admin monkied with the backend database, and stopped using old.reddit to browse once I found lemmy. I once went through the effort of making a temp account to comment on someone else’s comment there because they had suggested trying something specifically dangerous and didn’t seem to know about it. I doublechecked later and the comment I wrote was caught in some filter, likely the result of the account being too new. I can’t imagine what garbage that site will be in the years to come.

abusive scraping

As opposed to the plain old scraping they do to train AI, and generate revenue by selling user comments for others to train AI.

I read a half-cocked internet theory that a certain someone might’ve purchased twitter just to gain access to an ex-gf’s personal tweets. I judged it as possible but unlikely, as that’s a lot of money to spend on such a thing.

Now, we’ve all heard stories about reddit blocking accounts for no published reason, and tracking folks down across accounts/IP addresses/etc. That code must be pretty expansive to do the things they’ve done. So one has the thought: if you’ve ever reached out to the reddit hive mind for some kind of support with a personal issue of any kind then that data about you is still floating around in their database and tied to whatever alternate accounts you have, even if it was the “good old days” when you did it.

Abusive scraping, my ass.