Xitter. Pronounced “shitter.”

What do you get when you roll a turd in shit?

With some difficulty, probably.

Further evidence of the lawlessness of Trump and his goons.

They don’t want foreigners in the US, looking healthy and fit and spending money while Americans are struggling to get by. And they don’t want Americans visiting European countries where the standards of living are much higher than in the US. Americans might start getting the idea that they are getting the shit end of the stick.

those states are represented by binary numbers.

The states represent binary numbers, not the other way around.

https://www.britannica.com/technology/bit-communications

A bit is a binary digit. That’s what “bit” is an abbreviation for. That is, it’s either a 1 or a 0. It’s a logical thing, not a physical thing. It’s a unit of information.

The embodiment of that bit is the physical state of a certain tiny, addressable chunk of silicon. And there could be any of several other embodiments: the position of toggle switches, chalk marks on a board, pits on a metallic surface in a DVD, voltage in a wire at a particular time. The particular embodiment is an engineering choice that is distinct from the information itself.

And, if the top levels of the BBC weren’t staffed with time-serving Conservative Party appointees who spend all their time interfering in politics, they could get their journalists to fact-check their articles by asking someone who knows what the fuck they’re talking about.

the weights are the code

In the same way as an Excel spreadsheet containing a crosstab of analytics results is “the code.”

It’s processed input for a visualization/playback mechanism, not source code.

And there’s no reason for widespread adoption of AI besides a massive hype cycle driving a speculative bubble.

The Earth doesn’t need a fucking thing it doesn’t already have, except for a cleanup of human-generated pollution.

Most of the new demand for energy is to run LLMs that nobody actually needs.

And, if I recall correctly, the other option besides rolling their own interpreter was to just use Scheme as the browser scripting language. Which would have been immeasurably better.

“End-to-end encrypted using the time-tested ROT-13 cypher.”

Or something even more porous.

A family member is a graphic designer for an agency. They use AI to reformat files, and claim that having AI do it, then fixing it, is quicker and easier than doing it some other way. But their actual creative process doesn’t involve AI at all.

YouTube has been getting much worse lately as well. Lots of purported late-breaking Ukraine war news that’s nothing but badly-written lies. Same with reports of Trump legal defeats that haven’t actually happened. They are flooding the zone with shit, and poisoning search results with slop.

what you find online through search engines is only the standard case which just so happens to not work for you for some odd reason

Usually because the highest-rated solution is half-assed bullshit proposed by an overconfident newbie (or an LLM regurgitating it). I mainly use Stack Overflow as a way to become pissed off enough that I’ll go solve the problem myself, like I should have done in the first place. Indignation As A Service.

It’s even worse than that. Porsches are locked by default, and can only be enabled remotely.

That’s not how the stock market works, you buy stock from other investors, not the company.

The company can issue more stock, not just use debt for its financing. And the value of the new stock is strongly influenced by the market price of the stock that has already been issued.

That’s why transactions are defined as the exchange of something of value. In most legal systems, if you’re caught swapping phony transactions like that, you can be prosecuted for fraud.

but it was the main one putting future united humanity, progress, science, equality, humanism and secularism into the center of its cosmology

Just llike with many people, what they say and what they do can be two very different things.

In the USSR’s case, they talked socialism while being totalitarian state capitalists. This was even noted at the time of the Russian revolution by people such as Rosa Luxemburg. And in terms of its foreign policy, they talked internationalism and cooperation while carrying on the legacy of Russian imperialism.

When it failed, all those things listed also got a hit.

All those things also took a hit at the end of WW1, in the Great Depression, and during WW2. Nobody who was paying attention believed the Russian bullshit, before or after the collapse of the Communist Party’s rule. The double-dealing in the Spanish Civil War, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the crushing of the Prague Spring, and many other events put paid to that naivety.

I totally forgot about this app because, well, it seemed pretty forgettable.

It’s too trivial to remember.