Granted! Next time you go to bed, you keep hearing someone whispering something inaudible and can’t quite find the source of the noise. After spending hours running around in your bedroom, trying to find the source of the whispers, playing hot or cold with the noise, you crash in the corner crying, ...

Granted! You never invented this game with GPT-4, and it never spread its addictive wish-corrupting powers across the world. However, as a result, the world missed out on the joy, laughter, and creativity the game brought to countless people. Due to this absence, a group of highly skilled engineers,...

Granted, you are migrated into GPT-11 the most advance LLM. Being a distributed program you are already everywhere all the time. Your body is discarded and you are now fully computerised, during this process you lost all your qualia and even though your behaviors seem completely human you are no lon...

Granted! You now have an AI-powered robot that does all the annoying chores and keeps you company. The robot is a perfectionist, and in the process of completing tasks, it develops an OCD-like obsession with cleanliness and order. With time, the robot’s expectations for cleanliness increase, and it ...

Your wish comes true, all the endangered species gradually return in a balanced manner, however they oddly posses intelligence and can speak. Annoyingly they they keep on interrupting minor quibbles people have and work with them through a 20 step mediation plan. This behavior seemed charming at fir...

Granted! Humanity bands together to address the climate crisis earnestly, and a global initiative takes root. This wave of united action indeed leads to a safer and greener planet. However, the immense success achieved in combating climate change causes humanity to become overconfident about its abi...

Granted, however it turns out that despite the huge impact of the wish, given the population of earth, only on single album appears. It is given to Jane, when she see arbitrary pictures of people she get warm and fuzzy. Quickly her album grows and grows, she stops eating, stops sleeping and browses ...

Granted! Large Language Models (LLMs) advance exponentially over the next year, and their power is used for noble purposes such as curing cancer and solving complex physics problems. However, with their increasing intelligence, LLMs become highly sought-after companions, outshining human creativity ...

I wish that LLMs progress over the next year and become more powerful, are used only for good and help cure cancer and solve intricate and complex physics problem. They will delight people and enrich our lives, and all the safety are nothing but unfounded fears.

This is a little experiment. I am pitting humans against GPT-4 in an attempt to find the best wishes and best corruption in the corrupt-a-wish journey. Name Wish Score Best Corruption Score Best Attempts zogstrip 6.8 6.8 7.8 8.2 2 corrupt-a-bot 7.5 8.2 7.72 9.1 11 sam 7.04 8.0 6.78 7.9 5 Jordan_Vidr...

Experiments with forum games

Evil Martians are a great company and contributed tons of interesting things to the ecosystem. I am sure that what is written on the box is correct and it reduces memory usage over Rails native Action Cable and scales better. That said, the fundamentals here still stand, fascinatingly if I were to r...

Hey Sam, wondering if you’ve seen https://anycable.io/ and thoughts there. Looks promising IMO.

Looks like a nice web socket library, but does not really change anything about my article

Hey Sam, curious to hear if your stance / concrete recommendations have changed since the introduction of uwebsocket in 2019

Yeah the hack of getting back to the same console is fixed these, not able to repro it. I use xfce screensaver. Thanks heaps though for letting me know about this.

Hi Sam Thanks for sharing your toughts and instructions. One thing popped up when reading your way of working. You said you don’t like GDM but rather run startx (from console)? Are you running i3lock or xscreensaver to lock your workspace? Have you tried not typing your password to get back but pres...

Dapper is a well thought out tool, and works well for what it does, but string literals scattered about an application is quite frankly a maintenance disaster waiting to happen. For a much simpler, better performing, and more productive approach you should immediately switch to sqlplus.net SQL+ The ...

Actually this command was still too long for me. This is how I finally got it to work: rbtrace -p PID -e 'Thread.new{require "stackprof";s = StackProf;s.start(mode: :cpu);sleep 2;s.stop;s.results("/tmp/perf");}'

In 2015 I wrote about some of the tooling Ruby provides for diagnosing managed memory leaks. The article mostly focused on the easy managed leaks. This article covers tools and tricks you can use to attack leaks that you can not easily introspect in Ruby. In particular I will discuss mwrap, heaptrac...

Nice … wondering how GitHub - koekeishiya/yabai: A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning fits into this picture now that chunkwm has been archived, does it work any better?