eightbitraptor

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Ruby core committer. Low-key weeb. Drinks a lot of coffee, listens to loud music. Makes keyboards. Fixes MiniDisc players. Proud Luddite. I love Fountain Pens, Linux & Emacs.


日本語を勉強しています。でもまだ上手じゃないです。助けてくださませんか 🙇

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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

My hacky sysbench scripts are reporting a 4% higher throughput and a higher sustained clock speed. I'll take that W

Sometimes you end up typing gail.com (typo) instead of gmail.com and you get this nice little website. Hah!

URL: https://gail.com/

gail.com FAQ

Actually, might have been 2002. My memory is hazy.

I'm really struggling with the idea that the responsibility to correct for corporate evil resides with individuals, and that failing to do so constitutes some form of evil itself.

It would seem tantamount to castigating individuals for not recycling "enough" when the true cause of pollution lies with industry.

It would seem a way for capital to coerce the pro-human and anti-capital to tear each other apart, causing nothing but self-inflicted wounds.

Then again, blithe oblivion to whence one's resources come also seems irresponsible.

But like, I have work to do that is more important than choosing the least impure tool every goddamn day.

Past midnight, and I'm waiting for tickets to be released so I can book a gran class shinkansen ticket for RubyKaigi next month. What better time to re-paste my ThinkPad. Fun fact: the guitar pick in the picture is one I got from Jeff Irwin of Will Haven, I think in 1998.
I am not sorry.

Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

https://goo.gle/advance-flow

New post by Jacob about recent heap modeling optimizations in ZJIT :D

https://railsatscale.com/2026-03-18-how-zjit-removes-redundant-object-loads-and-stores/

How ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores

ZJIT’s optimizer now removes redundant object loads and stores, improving JIT performance of CRuby’s shape system. This post explains how the optimization works.

Rails at Scale