Tom Conder

Principal Software Engineer | Tabletop Gamer | Level 0 Gong Farmer | Opinions are my own

[Tom Conder @tomconder]

Don’t take a fence down until you learn why it was put up.

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@Project2501_117 @ID_AA_Carmack I played a game with the old edition books recently. We had a grand time.

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@Project2501_117 @ID_AA_Carmack Good work on the models. Those look great!

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I enjoyed the C++ documentary. John Romero made an appearance. Was not expecting that.
https://t.co/bLGp9h3xnD

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GitHub doesn't support SHA-256 repositories. Seriously?!

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@SandyofCthulhu meh Steam has always had a miserable dark user interface. I, for one, would welcome a change.

[Today In History @historigins]

When Daft Punk's iconic lyrics turned into a full-on argument

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@saniyafatma1278 I start with the jar of sauce then jazz it up with something smoky or spicy whenever I'm in the mood.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Too good not to share! I did not know this.

If you want to "void" a row in a paper tape, you punch out every dot, and that happens to be the DEL character in ASCII.

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@piyush784066 Slackware... on floppies

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The mandolin is tuned exactly the same as a standard violin.

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@Polymarket Neat. A new monster for role-playing games.

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@LuFinali White Plume Mountain is well-written and one of my favorites.

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Welcome home, Artemis II!

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@MagestrixRiley Those posters are great. Nice setup.

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@m_jeniagd Beautiful.

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Congrats to the Artemis II team for a successful launch. Godspeed on your flight around the moon. Let's go!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.”

You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening.

The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement.

Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year.

Source: @heynavtoor

[Tom Conder @tomconder]

@JosephKahn Don't forget diplomacy and morale. I wonder if the superhero movies that have talking scenes over a meal are inspired by the old trope where adventurers meet in a tavern.

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@GaryCon So many fantastic shirts.

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axios, the popular javascript library for http requests, has been compromised. 😢Oh my. https://t.co/Dg9xxkxZ4U