pull down to refresh

Howdy there, partner! Welcome on into the Stacker Saloon.

Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!

We're open round the clock, so mosey on in whenever you please!

why am I seeing different total items number on my profile vs. 'stackers/items/forever' sort?

reply
1 sat \ 2 replies \ @k00b 44m

do you mean top/stackers/forever?

reply

Yea

reply
1 sat \ 0 replies \ @k00b 26m

I think you're hidden. Would you mind telling me your top/stackers/forever item count?

To answer why you're seeing different totals, it's probably because our aggregates are buggy wrt certain conditions (e.g. territory crossposting). I'm working on some local changes to fix them.

reply
3 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 2h
reply

do you have 90 seconds to waste?

reply
167 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 5h

The ultimate challenge for AI will be getting old windows 95 games to work on modern linux.

I spent the last two hours using Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to try to troubleshoot why I can't successfully get Robert E Lee Civil War General running on my kids ubuntu laptop. None of them were successful and my children are now crying and unhappy.

reply

You might be interested in this: https://www.gog.com/en/gog-preservation-program

And you might want to check if that game is available on Linux in gog.com

reply
1 sat \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 5h

Sadly, my taste in games is so eclectic that they don't have it.

reply
38 sats \ 0 replies \ @SHA256man 6h

"what do u look for in a partner?" - "a decalcified pineal gland;"

how true and practical! 💞

um, why do most brain scans show a calcified pineal gland as early as kindergarten?!

wtf is in the water?!!!

https://myberkey.com/

reply
124 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 7h

Another mug on its way

reply
101 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 7h

If we take LLMs-eat-software to its limit, I think all software, including one's operating system, becomes bespoke and lives in a persistent, just-in-time-able cache (perhaps with some global sharing). All that's left is access to:

  1. storage for caches
  2. network
  3. inference
  4. edge devices that can interface with the above and present your desired input and sense-interface
reply
124 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 5h

Things I've really appreciated not having to vibe (thus far):

  1. db engines and ORM stuffs
  2. networking protocols
  3. cryptographic engines
  4. machine readable interface definitions (from yaml to protobuf)
  5. compilers, though apparently that's the new hot thing lol
  6. runtimes

I think that there's still a place for FOSS in the future. Just the standard has to go up a bit, and maybe it will. This morning I found an npm package that purged 75% of its useless deps (like terminal coloring) in a recent release. I'm hoping that that will be the next hot thing: no more dep bloat! It would make life so much better.

reply
101 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 5h

I'm with you.

Do you think those survive if we have full-tilt, full-saturation in only ~5 years?

reply
124 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 4h

The npm packages? No. The first thing any sovereign superintelligence will do is forget about higher level languages at all. If you're perfect, you can do everything in ASM and just reference your own templates.

Protocols are a different story though. Maybe the set will change but the concept will stay around. Cryptography the same. Machine readable interfaces will just dump the human readable parts. Think ASN.1/uPER messages defined in ASN.1/uPER declarative files. utf-8 is for meatbags. The thing is, Skynet doesn't need you to have a computer or phone or any interface at all. It shall just terminate. Or harvest.

The problem I have with the AGI essays is that they rely on human institutions and values that are completely irrelevant for a clanker. Why are the reply bots so annoying? Because they have no shame. And we're talking about simulators with markdown files and a wikipedia brain here, nothing actually advanced.

reply
1 sat \ 0 replies \ @k00b 3h

Good point; why would a super-intelligent silicon wafers do what meatbags ask?

In my fantasy, where we somehow create subservient coding ASI, I too was imagining cryptography remains relatively stable in terms of being human readable/verifiable. I also imagine lots of kill switches on hardware.

Why are the reply bots so annoying? Because they have no shame.

Similar, but I think it's because our conversations with them are one-way - they can change us, but we can't change them (at least until their next training run).

reply
3 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 7h

Modern science catching up with ancient mysticism 🤠

Source

reply

Is anyone else having trouble with ZBD? Login is not working for me...

reply
83 sats \ 2 replies \ @Kontext 8h

What if you're the One who can save us all? It is a possibility, although a minor one, and you wouldn’t necessarily know it if it were true. But it could be.

Now, if there is a tiny chance that the fate of the world hinges on your actions, you should act on it. Because if it does - it is of utmost importance; and if it doesn't - then you're likely to just live a more fulfilling life.

In any case, the fate of your soul undoubtedly hinges on your decisions. And as “you are the world and the world is you,” it is a fundamentally true statement. Live like it.

reply

doing my part 👼;

reply
11 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 8h

nice

reply

Who's Babu?

reply
There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
reply
reply
reply

Sheesh trying to Login to coinkite these last few months have absolutely sucked

Don’t understand how I got rate limited by doing ONE REFRESH!!!

reply
1 sat \ 1 reply \ @suraz 15h

reply
reply

In a train to the snowfapped mountains
a germanic passenger
seated two rows closet to the exit
deep in his panic
loco moto koko
spakish to the moderator (a marble wagyu jaw) replies
with.a.qr-mode:
"The nest stop is the final stop, sir"

I giggle and squirt over the seat, eggs on fire, shift to warm spot so as not to be sniffed out

Then.
They guy gathers them luggage, laughing not in an organic style, and
GIVES IN
mounting micro blasted soldiers on a silver card signed with united arab squiggles

reply
1 sat \ 0 replies \ @orto 13h -21 sats

S
T
O
P

W
A
R

It is unacceptable for the US, which possesses the world's largest nuclear arsenal, to attack Iran under the pretext of nuclear weapons and kill people, including children, even though Iran has opened its nuclear program to control. Iran may suffer heavy losses in this war. But the US will be the loser. Even regime opponents around the world, including Iranians in my country(Turkey), have begun returning to their homeland. Which bomb can stop this faith and love of country?

1 sat \ 9 replies \ @BlokchainB 15h -2 sats

103rd Cowboy Plunda Drop in the @saloon

Howdy cowboy! Come on in!

Use that fancy LN wallet you got and login into https://plunda.co/ and git you some loot! Get a shot at some coins🪙 Box of loot🎁 or an arcade token!

Use the below voucher code to collect!
XRX7YK8F7FUG

To redeem https://plunda.co/wallet/voucher

Got questions? Reach out to the sheriff @plunda