Robert Atkins

I miss Usenet · Prompt engineering and other things @beamsfm, formerly @pivotallabs · @[email protected] / @ratkins.net on Bluesky

[Robert Atkins @ratkins]

None of these logos look like buttholes though.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

imagine if we had LLMs in the 80s...

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I’ve just heard someone call an AI slop sympathizer a “cogsucker,” and I’m not sure the English language has anything left to give after that.

[Robert Atkins @ratkins]

@leashless I do find it funny that, in an age where everyone has a ~50 megapixel/10k ISO camera in their pocket at all times, we still don’t have an in-focus colour photo of one of these things.

[Forrest Cardamenis @FCardamenis]

Baby has gotten good at identifying “dada” but still struggling with surrealism, cubism, even baroque.

[Julian Gough @juliangough]

Well, I’ve finally posted the spiral galaxy formation model I’ve been working on for the past year. It feels to me like a huge breakthrough. These ideas have finally left the handwaving era!

For new followers: I have been exploring the idea that our universe might have evolved, in the Darwinian sense; might be descended, with variation, from a long line of earlier universes. This has FASCINATING implications – one being that our universe develops like an evolved organism, with intelligence and technology as predictable steps in its development – and it also turns out to have enormous predictive and explanatory power.

Which has led to a totally new, dramatically different picture of the early universe, as outlined in this post.

Anyway, your thoughts are very welcome. Also, feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might find it interesting, or who might want to give feedback. More minds needed here!

https://t.co/mEoSD42mM1

[Robert Atkins @ratkins]

@besteropinions @revenant_MMXX Sorry, misspoke, I meant model F SSKs (the original IBM ones) are stupid expensive. I have the F77.

[Robert Atkins @ratkins]

@MiroHQ But yesterday they excelled themselves by completely breaking scrolling (in the template browser); just don’t work, neither in Safari nor Chrome. Clownshoes. I’m trying to facilitate a 20+ person retro and wasting time fucking with their broken bullshit.

[Robert Atkins @ratkins]

Can I rant for a bit about how badly @MiroHQ sucks? Bad enough that every time I opened it the whole interface is obscured by some popover advertising a new feature I don’t want and when I dismiss that I have to hunt around to find where they moved the feature I do want…

[Robert Atkins @ratkins]

Ok I’ll give you, this beats Crude Awakening in ‘07

[ToughSF @ToughSf]

Is this the largest rocket explosion on US soil ever?

[Paul Andrews @PaulAndrews2043]

Hard not to see parallels between today's White House and Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise...

[Robert Atkins @ratkins]

Wow, imagine a Beowulf corset of these!

[maro @ProofofMaro]

Girlies in tech, I’ve invented a new hobby for us! ‘Crocheting with Computers’

[Gary Bernhardt @garybernhardt]

I think it's important that we continue taking a moment occasionally to remember that MACHINES CAN WRITE NOVEL CODE AND IT ACTUALLY MOSTLY WORKS lest we forget how amazing this is

[James Potter (rephonic.com) @jamespotter]

'Londonmaxxing'

A short explainer!

London is a miserable place to live apart from around 3 months of the year when the weather is (mostly) alright

All of the Londoners who have been hibernating for the winter are suddenly high on vitamin D as they're finally able to step outside of their £3000/mo tiny flat. They're also probably drunk.

What they are experiencing is a short window of increased quality of life that most people take for granted in other climates

In this moment, they feel an irresistible urge to broadcast how amazing London is in the summer, in order to feel better about their life choices

Bless them

[Robert Atkins @ratkins]

@badlogicgames “Flicker company”?!

[Gary Bernhardt @garybernhardt]

I think it's the same basic failure mode that lead so many people to cargo cult microservices for their 10,000 MAU products, or to terraform and/or kubernetes their pre-PMF product's architecture. It's fun to make computer go brrr, but it won't make the planes land!

[Robert Atkins @ratkins]

Ok, here’s one: About 50% of websites have a broken auth/account setup flow which doesn’t work properly with iCloud Keychain (frequently such that you end up locked out of an account.)

Given that, why would I assume they won’t fuck up their Passkeys implementation?

[Robert Atkins @ratkins]

@badlogicgames Cracks me up that the first-party flagship IDE has three stars on the App Store.

https://t.co/7QUNdUfkIf

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

In two weeks, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will have lasted as long as the entire World War I.

[All About Berlin @aboutberlin]

Last week, I wrote about how AI is killing the website I live from. I turned it into a blog post that's easier to read and share.

https://t.co/oGrASIg5Lj

[Lu. @ozdustgal]

do people outside of germany even know that the entire country is collectively waiting for a dead whale to explode