I’m not trying to condone North Korea’s whole deal, but I do sometimes think about what an amazing job that must be in the abstract sense.

You are paid to use black hat hacking skills to steal money for your country from people you believe to be your enemy, and instead of having to hide or feel guilty you are celebrated by the people you look up to. And you know full well that there will be no repercussions from foreign actors.

That is the absolute dream for a select group of IT people. The rest of the NK experience would not be worth it, but it sounds like such a sweet deal on the surface.

I saw Patrick Rothfuss in person once and called him Patty. He’s already famously grumpy and that did not help. I bet Patrick Stewart would have laughed, though.

GHC stands for Glasgow Haskell Compiler, since the article doesn’t mention it and I had to let a captcha mine some Bitcoin to prove I’m a human just to access the linked wiki where I could follow some more links and eventually decipher the acronym.

I’m having lots of performance issues after the last update. It seems to be getting slower with each update, sadly.

Java. I could certainly use a lot of what you wrote, but I don’t know nearly enough about the JVM to take it as far as you did.

Amazing. It’s so weird, I was just needing to do this same operation and was looking into some of the bithacks. Although I don’t have the ability in the language to fully utilize this, I am astounded by how lean you made it.

Shoulda blown up Earth when he had the chance.

I think you should avoid things created out of hate.

Hey, it’s not my fault my parents decided having a baby would be a great way to spite each other!

I’m going to show my ignorance here: what are the silicone rings for?

Good Lord, I thought I got ripped off the one time I had to pay and it was only pay 99 cents. I’m very fortunate there are so many free chargers here.

Finally some good news!

Saying humanity is “being swept down a raging river” is spot on, except it’s an analogy for basically everything except GAI.

Climate change, rampant fascism, unrestrained capitalism, take your pick. We’re speeding towards 3 or 4 dystopias but a super intelligent AI isn’t one of them.