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Daniel Bittman

@dbittman@discuss.systems

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PhD candidate at UCSC working on Twizzler (twizzler.io). If it ain't broke, let's try to break it!

Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights.

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Daniel Bittman 2d ago

down with Whatever https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

The rise of Whatever

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

BEGIN TRANS ACTION

oh. oh no. way too real.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/chatgpt-now-has-phd-level-intelligence-and-the-poor-personal-choices-to-prove-it

Daniel Bittman Jun 19

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Jun 19

From now on, whenever someone says that they’re an Alpha, I’m going to assume:

Their memory order is so weak they do things in a completely nonsensical order.
Their floating point unit is so decoupled from their integer unit that you probably shouldn’t trust any numbers that they provide.
They speculate on values and do calculations based entirely on made-up numbers.

Daniel Bittman Jun 17

This channel is absolutely incredible

https://youtu.be/hnvtstq3ztI?si=hRsVKZ2NnNYR3iIU