Nate Black

[Paul Graham @paulg]

LinkedIn was already slop. All that's changed is that it's now AI slop.

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

The SURPRISE is:

https://t.co/pn3jJHINVu

Order of the Sinking Star will have a free demo on Steam, for NextFest, Monday.

Because the game is HUGE, the demo is huge: it's bigger than most entire paid puzzle games, and you get to try it out for free.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.

[Nate Black @upbeatengineer]

@tanpukunokami @GearHangout Strangely, Cowboy Bebop is not that well known or popular in Japan. A Japanese fan told me it is because in Japan it didn’t run on broadcast television.

[notch @notch]

I like it when you ask a technical question, the AI makes up an answer, then cites human discussions as the source.
How about using the technical specification as a source instead of consensus?

[Ivan Werning @IvanWerning]

A friend just revealed to me that the middle name of Benoit B. Mandelbrot is Benoit B. Mandelbrot.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I have difficulty arguing that most of the writing changes suggested in gmail now aren’t improvements, but it does tend to wipe out my particular authorial voice.

[Nate Black @upbeatengineer]

@NOTimothyLottes That’s cool where did you find this information?

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

I'd like programmers to retire the "isn't this just reinventing <thing>?" responses. Nobody has read every Wikipedia article. Nobody agrees on every piece of terminology. Reinvention is a good & necessary thing, because it renews, updates, and clarifies ideas. It's also admirable, because it means that someone discovered something important without it being told to them already. That is a much more valuable trait than memorizing terminology and facts.

[Nate Black @upbeatengineer]

Relatable

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

We’ve been so busy giving every Stanford dropout $40M at $400M to build AI notetakers for birdwatchers that we’ve totally missed one-a-day banana packs?

American stagnation.

[Nate Black @upbeatengineer]

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[DHH @dhh]

Ternus has a unique chance to reset the relationship between developers and Apple: 1) Tear down the App Store tollbooth, 2) reintroduce Boot Camp for M macs so we can run Linux on them, and 3) fix the infuriating 500ms workspace animation delay. Approval rating +50% instantly.

[Nate Black @upbeatengineer]

@rfleury @ChatGPTapp “Solved” by slop content entering the training data set. The snake is eating its own tail.

[Nate Black @upbeatengineer]

@Jringo1508 The Special Edition must cause you physical pain

[sui @birdabo]

A JAPANESE DEV BUILT AN APP THAT SHOWS A FAT CAT ON THE SCREEN AND FORCES YOU TO TAKE A BREAK.

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

I’m sorry for polluting your timelines. I hope it’s entertaining &amp; useful (so everyone can mass block these accounts). I understand mutes etc. But the job must be done.

[pikuma.com @pikuma]

Alysa Liu recently went viral for her Teen Vogue rant on MMX.

“Most Pentium MMX vectorization was premature micro-optimization & aged poorly. The same code rewritten a few years later with streaming SIMD or even compiled automatically often outperformed it with far less effort.”

[Nate Black @upbeatengineer]

Thanks to AI I can finally experience what it’s like to have a highly incompetent personal assistant

[John Ringo SF Author @Jringo1508]

Interesting. It explodes exactly as any chemical explosion propagates.

@BlastingThrough @EODHappyCaptain