Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

@doriantaylor No worries. I’m just saying it’s interesting how much people in ordinary speech bring up binary as a ·layer· of abstraction – not a choice or method, where isomorphism matters, but a level. Not binary as opposed to trinary, but binary as somehow more diagnostic or distinctive than all the other things in the stack that make computers like that.

@doriantaylor I feel like we’re having two different conversations here. But I agree with the one you’re having, and that’s good enough for me.

@doriantaylor I would go further and say it was a pretty good insight. But it doesn’t really address what I said, does it?

@doriantaylor I still think it’s weird how much people like privileging binary as an especially important layer of abstraction. “It’s all ones and zeros” is no more true than like a dozen other things you could say about even computers in the commonly understood contemporary style.

@meetar Good, evening.

Found it.

I’m like 90% sure Sir Thomas Browne makes this point somewhere in “Hydriotaphia”.

Kind of humbling to hold something in your hand, even just a chunk of cheap tea, that might last longer into the future than the Marvel movie timeline itself.

@midendian @numist Is there a (struggling for terminology here) characteristic timescale to the shimmer that defines the optimal fps for defeating it? Like presumably in even a lossless video, most frames would be practically wasted.

@grahamsleight @meetar

@meetar This whole time I was assuming you meant Windows the operating system.

Out-take from that last @salkinjorts:

@harrisj we were suck dorks back then

@meetar you must really hate that big latte

Have just been made aware of a deep-sea crab that eats trees; please respect my privacy in this difficult time: https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/28764/1/2009%20Hoyoux%20et%20al%20-%20R%c3%a9gime%20xylophage%20et%20microflore%20digestive%20de%20M.%20andamanica%20des%20bois%20coul%c3%a9s.pdf

@randometc I suspect that the (still partial) transition to HLLs, RISC, and interpreted languages is a valuable comparison here. That also involved programmers giving up valuable kinds of control for other valuable things. (Disclaimer: have not used any commercial LLM.)