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So cute when hockey players smile and joke with each other as the game unfolds.

quotes Patricia Highsmith as the author of his favourite mystery stories. As a big genre buff, I figured I'd check her out. But hold on, she was a raging xenophobe, probably, clearly was living with an ASPD and abusing people around her.

Here I invoke my solution to the paradox of the author's death.

Assuming mystery novels as a form of art (which they oftenn are), when we're talking about artists who were people-hating monsters, there are two options:

A. Their art was good. Then it relays the of the author. Gauguin's Thaiti is perfectly relaying colonial fantasies and act as a seductive commercial for French exploiting native population. Gauguin was an ideological colonialist and his good art weaves colonialism into it. If Highsmith was indeed good, her art then weaves racism and sociopathy into it.

B. Their art was shit. But then it contains no ideas beyond, perhaps, delusions of the person interacting with the art, but then one can just look at the clouds and interpret their shapes. There is no reason to interact with shit art.

Thus, the answer to "artist vs art" paradox is simple: don't interact with art which was made by shitheads.

I don't blame Žižek for entertaining Highsmith's works, however. He is the world's best stand up comedian and stand up comedians are meant to provoke.

I have the most random standalone / glitch just now.

For some reason, after I switched to home-manager-managed , after a reboot, I lost my profile being sourced. So I had to add

```
if [ -e /home/sweater/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh ]; then . /home/sweater/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh; fi
```

to `bashrcExtra`.

Full disclosure: the variable wasn't empty before last switch, but still it shouldn't affect anything? Idk, weird.

Conclusion from the recent Apple article on LLM performance (arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229). In my field, large variations in output from small variations in input is called chaos. Not something on which you can build a robust and reliable system.

10 October 1900 | A Polish Jew, Abram Cukier, was born in Warsaw. A hairdresser.

In Auschwitz from 20 February 1942.
No. 22725
He perished in the camp on 20 March 1942.

I learned so much by being wrong on the Internet!

Thank you, @Kiskae and @IslandUsurper 😍

@jonn I believe you can use `direnv_layout_dir` in your direnv script to get an env-specific directory instead of PWD

@jonn neat idea, but I don’t think the tests actually work right. If it installs Hex, it won’t be able to install rebar, right? Might be better to use `mix local.hex —force —if-missing; mix local.rebar —force —if-missing ` instead.

A small hint for all the users out there.

I don't know about you, but I always cringed at how dirty mix is when it comes to installing third party toolchain dependencies.

Twelve years into using it, I learned that you can actually localise third-party installations!

Here's a snippet from my .

```sh
mkdir -p .nix-mix .nix-hex
export MIX_HOME=$PWD/.nix-mix
export HEX_HOME=$PWD/.nix-mix
[ -z "$(ls -A .nix-mix)" ] && mix local.hex
[ -z "$(ls -A .nix-mix)" ] && mix local.rebar
```

This can make your builds pure without faking HOME!

Too bad there was no woman in the vicinity of this Nobel-worthy paper to share the award, really, one tries one's best, but it's so hard to find women who do science worthy of a #NobelPrize.

h/t @juliegiovacchini

"solar winds"
inspired by davidope (dvdp on instagram).
made using houdini.

Mad cow disease, also known as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is when cows ingest contaminated meal, which can be sometimes made up of other cows. It was considered a disaster for the cattle industry in the 1990s.

Anyway, I bring it up because this is basically how LLM slop is starting to work now. All the nutritional grass has been eaten and now what’s left is the contaminated meal made from other LLMs. The LLMs eat the meal, and soon we will have, like Mad LLM disease or something

We are open source taking on the adtech giant. A team of 10 building privacy-first analytics. Transparent code.

No investors or outside funding. 14,402 subscribers strong. $0 ad spend.

This is Plausible. Proving open source can create powerful, ethical, sustainable tech.

What's the proper Canadian term for "prompt engineer"? (given that there's no accredited "prompt engineering" program to confer the Iron Ring)

I recreated the Barbican Estate in the lovely Townscaper app. I couldn't make the towers any taller but quite pleased with it otherwise
More pics: flickr.com/gp/philgyford/kLr09
The app: townscapergame.com

Is it just me? Anytime I see AI generated images used in articles or web pages I immediately think “lazy” Just use free stock art at least.

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