it's a little magical and not entirely reliable so i'm not a fan, but the switch is there

i am hearing that ProQuest has been quietly contacting small publishers to see if it can ingest their published output for AI training.

ProQuest has an AI thing now, but it's denied it's training on hosted content ... yet.

if you are, or know, an author who's had a letter of this sort recently, mentioning ProQuest or no, i'd love to know and please tell your friends - email is dgerard@gmail.com

i have already had whiny shits demand that I (a) set dark mode default (b) remove the switch

default is currently set to whatever your browser thinks is the default and you can switch it otherwise

yep, i'm in touch with college hill, she's aware of our esteemed site too

imma fuckin do it again

booooo should be my personal preference (light)

pivot to ai now has working dark mode! all praise to the illustrious @fasterandworse@awful.systems

i still hate dark mode, but others fucking love it so

our good buddy Jordan Lasker aka Cremieux aka TP0 gives a talk to Stanford libertarians

i haven't watched this but i am confident it is the most cursed fuckin thing

one hour thirty frickin eight

acausal robot god, i have sinned, i am deliberately baiting the nerds. what no this isn't a confession it's a brag

mullenweg pissing you off? you should totally replace WordPress with [static blog generator using an idiosyncratic variant of markdown], i wrote it yesterday in [nightly rust/perl 4/ocaml]. It doesn't have [list of basic blogging features] because those are wrong things to want

us-east-1 is Amazon's Self-Nuking Technology(tm)

didn't we all

i sometimes wonder how i'd make money if i was unencumbered by ethics. i originally thought audiophiles, but then i discovered crypto, holy shit

ai is the same

The hypothetical benefit is that prefabricated parts are a lot less dependent on the site. This will make the reactor cheaper to build.

There's also a perception sleight of hand - "modular" doesn't mean the reactor is a module you ship in on a big truck, put some uranium in and away you go. You're building a power station in a fixed location.

Also you still need a shitload of water.

I got a lot of them from very pro-nuclear guys too, but ones who can count

you'd almost think they were literally the same fucking guys

even if you're ardently pro-nuclear, SMRs are just a failure purely on the economics and always have been. And that's before wind/solar/battery made them just obsolete. So SMRs are the perfect tech when you don't want to do anything useful.

looks like the name server is getting hammered

as you will discover if you read, the use case for SMRs is to keep doing coal

wtf are NPUs anyway? some specialised vector maths thing?

i mean, he's saying "met up with my fellow put-in-a-locker-nazis"