Jesper Öqvist

I press buttons on computers.

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

I hope none of the bug fixes and performance improvements were related to basic arithmetic or I have lost all hope for modern software.

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

The modern Internet is so terrible and here's an example: this was the first result I got when searching for a definition of Code Churn:

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

@AgiDoomerAnon @Jonathan_Blow Recursion goes deeper but the stack grows higher.

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

@Jonathan_Blow Funny how half of these replies are cope and the rest are not about the smoke effect.

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

@iquilezles @norpadon based

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

The most important bug in gnome-settings-daemon has been unfixed for over 10 years. 🫠

[Frank A. Krueger @praeclarum]

The Control Center icon in the Mac toolbar is always running and always using 1% CPU. Not a big deal, but I finally had to know wtf it was doing...

Turns out it is constantly re-rendering its SwiftUI (running layout) even though there is no UI visible. 🤣 Yay for modern software

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

@awesomekling Nah man if someone says something is impossible it will make lots of people skeptical. Especially contrarians like me.

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

@mattpocockuk I've seen diagrams like this referred to as a "type lattice."

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

@jessesingal Stop being so chronocentric Jesse

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

Incredibly, the placebo effect is (mostly) not real.

It is a result of statistical confusion. Whenever you have a group with extreme values, they tend to exhibit regression to the mean. Eg. on average, sick people tend to become more healthy over time.

Thus if you give one group medicine, and one group placebo, the placebo group will also tend to get better over time, because of regression to the mean.

People have then misinterpreted this to think that it is the placebo pill that actively does this.

If you want to demonstrate a placebo effect, you have to construct a study where there are three groups:
• A. treatment
• B. placebo
• C. no treatment, no placebo

If B and C get different outcomes, that would demonstrate a placebo effect.

When this has been tried, mainly there has been no provable placebo effect. See the paper in the screenshot. (There is some evidence for an effect for pain, but this get's into a slightly different debate.)

The fact that the placebo effect is mainly not real, fortunately frees us from having to come up with convoluted explanations, as to why the placebo effect would work even when we tell the patient that it is a placebo, as in the quoted tweet.

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

@notch Did you mute the voice acting? https://t.co/DBkq79vfAd

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

@BenKrasnow Every update to Windows adds more bloat that you didn't ask for and don't want. Much like most other software nowadays.

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

@EFF Elon melted EFFs brains.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The funniest single part of the Oxfam guide to the colonial language known as English is the suggestion
that using the expression 'to stand with' people you support should be avoided as it 'might potentially alienate people who are not able to stand'

More, please !

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

10 is evenly divisible by 3 #ChatGPT

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

I've been looking for interesting prompts where ChatGPT gives wrong answers. Here's one:

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

🤯

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

@EFF @jenuhhveev @nbcbayarea Sounds a lot like speaking against civil liberties in favor of censorship.

[Jesper Öqvist @llbit]

https://t.co/HRLYvAJ2od