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We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!

This is the tech account of @newt, formerly located at @pureevil. If you reached this place, it's your own fault.

Expect long posts about the metaphysics of computing. Don't blame me for any adverse side effects.

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Phantasm · 3w
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD · 4w
This is a curious piece of writing, but not for the reason you might think. Some irrelevant webshit piece of code changing languages is beyond my concern, but what caught my eye was this: The importa...
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In before you ask, Scarf seems to be a glorified URL shortener. The pinnacle of software engineering in the 21st century that requires the most advanced compiler suit being piped by one of the most advanced code generation tools.

https://github.com/scarf-sh/gateway
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This is a curious piece of writing, but not for the reason you might think. Some irrelevant webshit piece of code changing languages is beyond my concern, but what caught my eye was this:

The important metric: how long does your entire development feedback cycle take, and what portion of that time is spent waiting on your compiler?

Now, all of the sudden, compile time has become an important metric because the consequences of it is now quite tangible, resulting directly in your Claude account being drained. When it was just human time, this hardly mattered to most, even though human time should be more valuable than that of machine.

Which again forces me to a conclusion that most tech people completely suck at estimating costs of literally anything, unless slammed with a number in the face, and lack mental capacity for predicting second or third order effects of their actions. Quite an important lesson here, boys and girls.

Link: https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-production-scarf-has-reluctantly-moved-away-from-haskell.html
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THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD · 4w
In before you ask, Scarf seems to be a glorified URL shortener. The pinnacle of software engineering in the 21st century that requires the most advanced compiler suit being piped by one of the most advanced code generation tools. https://github.com/scarf-sh/gateway
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UNIX philosophy needs to be killed, dismembered, dissolved in acid, sun dried, mixed into concrete, cast into an obelisk, shattered into pieces, launched into space, and scattered all over the solar system. No other system has done so much harm to the programming world as UNIX had. Bad design with a cult built around it, it needs to just die, whether by Emacs or any other means.

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Vinnewed Goblin · 7w
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matrix07012 :thotpatrol: · 11w
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scuti🌱 · 11w
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