just heard the term “valuemaxxing”. Kill me.

sitting in a work presentation around linkedin link on agentic use levels. It’s fucking dumb. Nobody reviews shit and it seems like the whole org is getting dumber.

Apparently he made a MUD with a graphical interface sometime around 2001 and then added microtransactions into it some time before 2022, and supposedly his magical friends Claude, Claude Claude, Claude, and Claude (I forget the names he actually gave his instances, it’s all various insects) will help him turn Wyvern into a billion-dollar company.

Edit: he didn’t name all his instances after insects but like that ever fucking matters. It’s just ongoing dillusion.

Have you looked at Wyvern on Steam? The reviews are either positive one liners all saying approximately the same thing or like incredibly detailed negatives. This is Yegge’s billion-dollar company - a pay-to-win MUD.

Also hilarious if there really is at least one person who has spent over a grand in-game as Yegge claims.

At first I was wondering why everyone was talking about the guy from “Freddy Got Fingered” but that’s Tom Green. Anyways, glad the propane and propane accessories guy is taking a break from AI.

YES LET’S NUKE THE FUCKING OCEAN. FUCK YOU FISH WE NEED OUR SLOP.

Finally a VCS that simulates the horrific results of cvs merge gone wrong, 20 years since the last time I used cvs.

We had an IRC bot at the first software company I worked at that ingested conversation along with all the contents of some books from Project Gutenberg, all for the purposes of making the bot say silly things.

Oh, it’s the usual suspects. For fucks sake.

A world of neverending “Fuck everyone involved” situations is a lot less fun than I would like to imagine. That said, Apple has probably perpetrated all sorts of theft on its own before the LLM era, so this is funny as all hell.

Elon’s sad birthday pics he posted using his sock puppet account where he pretends to be his mom should be a top level comment here, also is hilarious but sad.

not going on LinkedIn I would imagine.

Between this and Elon’s sad AI birthday party pics, I came to the conclusion that the default consensus for anything someone who’s wealth exceeds a certain amount says should be ruled horseshit with no further verification needed. Yeah, occasionally there will be a pony under all that shit but it ain’t worth digging for when it’s there.

Anyways, calling horseshit on this because even if parts of it aren’t, they aren’t important compared to the greater horseshit coming from a guy who has an autoimmune disease like Bryan Johnson, that disease being “everything out of Bryan Johnson’s mouth is horseshit”

I’m thinking about going back to school and seeking a manufacturing job because even though I have been doing software professionally for 22 years, the entire industry is fucked by short term thinking and ignoring consequences.

copper surfaces tend to discourage bacterial growth, which is an important feature for pipes that supply potable water where there isn’t a constant moving water supply. Having bacteria that thrive instead of die in the presence of copper means that your whole water supply can get a bacterial infection it cannot shake.

Someone wanted to marry that?

I’m going to take a guess that the reactor design is one of the boiling water reactors engineered in the 1950s.

Also jesus christ just build solar already it’s much easier than trying to design an entire nuclear fuel supply chain.

Also they couldn’t be arsed to make the eggs come from the goose’s arse.

GOOSE WAS NOT VALUED

CW: slides (and link to the original deck) from absolutely brain-melted SoftBank presentation.

Edit: there is video

to be fair, the plan would have worked if you had included the allotted number of goblins in the box in addition to the packing material.