- 1 Post
- 21 Comments
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
5·2 months agoI just entered university for math and even though this is all very demotivating, it’s just what I’m good at.
https://math.andrej.com/2013/08/19/how-to-review-formalized-mathematics/
The AI people’s cry of "no don’t look at the code! it’s in lean so it’s correct! does give me a bit of hope (hi bitofhope if you’re here) that it’s bullshit that will fall over
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026English
4·2 months agoSmart Pipe Inc. is a Registered Sex Offender
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Office workers are spending way too much on AI tooEnglish
4·3 months agoThere cannot be such a thing since pdf does not structure its data. There is an extension to the standard that would let a program do it for you but nobody uses it (PDF/UA-1). (also pandoc is vibe coded now)
flaviat@awful.systemsto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•Antediluvian beast thought extinct spotted on MarsEnglish
3·4 months ago+1 for Archipelago
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025English
4·1 year agoThat horse should be the mascot of this instance
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English
7·1 year agoComputers use both big endian and little endian and it doesn’t seem to matter much. Yet humans should switch their entire number system?
E: this guy can’t grasp the concept that left-to-right is arbitrary, which is really ironic given his point. Ok so in arabic it’s exactly how this guy wants it, except no, the universally correct reading direction is left-to-right and arabic does it backwards just to be quirky🙄, and humans, just like programs, flip a bit to read it left-to-right, where it’s the opposite of how you should be reading it! of course.
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English
11·1 year agoIt’s hard to come up with analogies for AI because it’s so goddamn stupid. It’s like if asbestos was flammable.
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
1·1 year agodeleted by creator
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
2·1 year agoI don’t know static site generators, but I took a look at your site and the text doesn’t render! The font file appears to not be good. Also sorry for having to move to another software.
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
24·1 year agorsyslog goes “AI first”, for what reason? no one knows.
Opening ipython greeted me with this: “Tip: IPython 9.0+ has hooks to integrate AI/LLM completions.”
I wish open source projects would stop doing this.
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English
12·1 year agoThanks for the work you do on Newgrounds! This sentence stuck out to me
No more worrying about lack of content or fickle UGC creators
Oh they’re just publically advertising their company to be anti-union. Bold.
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English
7·1 year agoWoah i had no idea. Apparently he also made a web crypto miner used in hacked sites.
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English
9·1 year agoWas checking out the QOI image format and the politics of the dev and found that he is pretty comfortable around the ladybird people. (sigh) Also the r slur on twitter.
Really amazing that such a simple format achieves PNG sizes and faster encoding speeds. 1-page specification, though it’s more like 2 with a bit bigger text, for bragging rights.
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English
8·1 year agoThat is the kind of writing that absolutely anyone can get a thing out of. Will cause me to introspect.
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025English
9·1 year agoI misinterpreted this reply as the guy in the post being hired as a police officer. Thank god.
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•ChatGPT o3 found a Linux Kernel vulnerability. "The future" has an 8% success rate, and a 28% chance of false positives.English
24·1 year agoYet another LLM guy claiming it solved a problem when in fact it was already solved, with it being told almost exactly where and what to look for. Cold reading for use-after-frees.
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English
6·1 year agoNow I’m wondering if an infinite sequence of nested LLMs could achieve AGI. Probably not.
flaviat@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025English
7·1 year agoSo “unintentional moderates” are those that both choose deliberately to believe in centrist political ideology and to participate in groupthink?



Theorem 13 lead to a recent inconsistency