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Fabian Giesen

rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place

<p>Abstraction maker, abstraction breaker. FUN FACT: things I prefix with FUN FACT are sometimes fun and sometimes factual, but very rarely both.</p>

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    @aburka@hachyderm.io @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place hence &quot;take the money and run&quot; and not &quot;shut up and take the money&quot;

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    @regehr case in point, this is the Porta Nigra in Trier (~180AD) alongside a bunch of buildings that, while not new, are maybe 150 years old by their looks?

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    @Doomed_Daniel @ireneista I keep thinking about the SXSW 2013 closing remarks by Bruce Sterling https://www.wired.com/2013/04/text-of-sxsw2013-closing-remarks-by-bruce-sterling/ I don&#39;t agree with all of it, but there&#39;s several bangers in there, e.g. the bit from &quot;Whatever happens to musicians happens to everybody. Including you.&quot; to &quot; it was a casualty.&quot;, or &quot;Now, it&#39;s not okay&quot; through to &quot;you were living an illusion&quot;.

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    Again, not that I have seen any indication to suggest we&#39;re anywhere close to any of that. But in a bullshit-supersaturated environment, this part seems even more bullshit-y than most. You have all the public posturing about &quot;oh we take AI alignment and ethics very seriously&quot; and then you see things like the Claude code leak and, as expected, the reality is mostly prefixing your prompt &quot;Please be a nice and fluffy computer, not nasty, uwu.&quot; and hoping for the best

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    If you dig through several-hundred-year old trash, you&amp;#39;re probably an archaeologist, which is a respected profession. The humble aeologist who digs through 2-week-old trash, muss less so.

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    Never looked at the specs of the original SGI RealityEngine, and holy shit https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/166117.166131 this is completely bonkers for 1993. Just look at these boards! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealityEngine#/media/File:SGI-re2-ge10v.jpg (this is actually a RealityEngine 2 Geometry Engine) and a Raster Manager board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealityEngine#/media/File:SGI-re2-rm4.jpg no wonder these things cost $infinity

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    hear me out: Oled Zeppelin

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    I&amp;#39;m not sure what you need snake oil for. No snake I have ever personally encountered appears to be in need of external lubrication.