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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: "We chose such a bad tool for our email backend that it used 100x more CPU and 20x more RAM than it needed."
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I've not really listened to Huang talk before. I chose "nVIDIA" over 3dfx in the late 90s, and I've used their hardware and only-game-in-town linux drivers ever since. An interview doesn't change that of course, but if he's the guy for skeptical AI optimism, I think you need a ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Like he's learned of Libertarianism 5 minutes before the interview, and is unprepared to defend basic first-order flaws in its simplest version. Defenses of these flaws do exist, for the well initiated. Maybe they're not good, but they're there! It's a fractal of his overall po...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: His take on AI lab responsibility is similar. To paraphrase, "CEOs are incentivized to ship safe products, so we don't need any new regulations." There is an unbroken streak of companies fucking this up since before Upton Sinclair dreamed up The Jungle. We just had a major econo...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: But when Jensen says that basic arithmetic skills might be useless, yeah he's being provocative, but it sounds ridiculous. We've had tool assisted multiplication and division via technology for centuries, but we know learning those skills yourself has remained useful. Why would ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I think Jensen's techno-optimist view of AI is defensible, but his defenses are terrible. When they are talking about human skill erosion, Jensen says new skills will fill the gap. Maybe? As I remarked to a friend who is a Maths prof at New Paltz, we never learned to use a slide...
@jmoiron.bsky.social Klein's interview of Jensen Huang was very eye opening, but the takes on here are disappointingly vacuous. People are mostly dunking on him for saying he doesn't remember his address or his phone number, which is an unremarkable artifact of being a workaholic billionaire CEO.
@jmoiron.bsky.social My feed is full of gaming posts, which is fine, but half of them are pics of handheld emulators like ayn thor, and the other half are people slagging off AI use in the gaming industry, and the cognitive dissonance is giving me brain damage.
@jmoiron.bsky.social My brain has several false "weird but true" spelling facts it seems to have made up and refuses to let go of, e.g. that "caricature" is spelled "cariacature" but we just don't pronounce the extra "a". Does everyone have these?
@jmoiron.bsky.social My first thought on the 9 games thing was "9 games is a lot, you can really cover a lot of ground with 9." and then I tried to make a list and ended up making 2 and left a bunch of stuff off.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: add enums, remove iota Fake const enums are sad and don't have compiler checking. I still don't understand exactly what iota is going to do or what its limits are. Not sure if by 'enums' I'd include Rust style sum types, but without the '?' operator maybe it doesn't change ergo...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: In that light, one of the best things about electing Mamdani is the symbolism of having a Muslim mayor who embraces our multiculturalism, how in a very NYC way it gestures to the rest of the US that they can take their tired and pathetic Islamophobia and get fucked.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I've seen a lot of threads that document how this tragedy has been taken from the people it happened to. Their loss became "our" loss. It's especially galling from the "real america" crowd who, 364 days a year, spit vitriol and hatred for the people who live here in NYC.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Something lost now is the rush of people across the country to claim their own personal tragedies in the event. You'd hear lots of stories like "My aunt's friend had her flight to Philadelphia cancelled that day." I could smell the acrid smoke and knew it was in some small part...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I knew a lot of people who were close calls. In the days, months, and years afterward, I've listened to a lot of their first hand accounts. I've always had a bit of unease in how personally I should say I felt this event, but by comparison to a lot of people, I was "there" for i...
@jmoiron.bsky.social I was in Uni in Hoboken NJ when 9/11 happened. I was sleeping when the first plane hit, but a friend ran through the house waking everyone. My abiding memory was him saying "There is only one Twin Tower." This was true for about 29 minutes. For people who don't know Hoboken, th...
@jmoiron.bsky.social I'm not typically a US Open late night doomer, but how can you let the most box office match of the tournament on the men's side start after 11PM. Just insanity.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Did you drive the nordschleife? I went to Monaco a couple years ago specifically to drive on the Fairmont hairpin and had the most uncanny jurassic-park-i-know-this.gif ever, thank you Kazunori Yamauchi.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: being over 40, my first zelda was the og but _my_ zelda was lttp, and even today I've not got any particular feelings for oot.. aside from duck rolling through a field to make up time for the missing 3 dungeons
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: "This thing eats pests" I think to myself as I watch it scurry around some dark corner where pest control is at best a minor convenience. Meanwhile, aphids lay waste to my basil.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: News organizations seem to be content with the claims themselves being the news, rather than them being spin on some objective underlying reality. It's the purest expression of both sidesism in journalism, where opinions are valid simply for existing, the truth being its ultimat...
@jmoiron.bsky.social It's worrying how little independent verification we get for claims made regarding the current war. Iran claimed to have destroyed the US base in Bahrain in early spring but even as late as June it was still reported as unconfirmed. This is basically the same: www.lbc.co.uk/arti...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: For 1-3 I'd do the SFC remakes. 1&2 are just better, 3 is a mixed bag but it's worth having the better quality soundtrack. For 7 I think the 3DS version is the best; the new remake is probably a 'better' game but it cuts a lot. I like the DS remakes for 4-6 but the originals ar...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: imho it's less relevant to a DQ enjoyer than something like Torneko no Daibouken. My hot take DQ ranking best-to-worst 11,4,5,8,3,6,9,7,2,1 3, 5, and 11 are all masterpieces. 4 and 8 are personal faves. 2/1 are only relevant to properly experience 3. Many hate 6, not me! Only ...
by jason moiron, 2026