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Wordle 1,966 5/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 i am joining the club, it's a big club, and i'm in it now. you can all quit wordling now.

today i learned that the proper name for one of those SEO spammy blog "list articles" is "listicle" and adjacent, a blog post with charts is a "charticle". list-article. chart-article. but the etymology suggests they are little list and little chart.

ever since the end of kernel 5 and salty linus, linux has steadily turned into shit. so, i was just following what everyone else was doing, updating my current kernels, and a month or two ago kernel 7 appeared. i was like, ok, blah blah. but 7 was a real major change, and not just because 6 bumped past 6.18 to linus's usual minor bump to major threshold instead of 6.19. the preemption code has changed, and my experience of this has been the causation of massive issues with dropped io and network signalling while under high cpu load. switching back to 6.18 now, and yes, under load everyhting is a little more laggy. but it was literally dropping key up signals on the keyboard, leading to lags that caused thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis sort of thing to appear after the whole ui unfroze and started responding again. it isn't doing that now. it's just a little slow now, it doesn't outright drop keys. and why i am forced to do this now, with the most recent version bump dropped on arch linux kernels, vanilla and garuda version bump right now. NETWORK drops. causing my harnesses to completely fail to send messages and not know they were not sent. unacceptable. linux kernel has crossed the rubicon this time. changing the preemption has materially caused me measurable, and potentially accountancy quantifiable damage.

now playing: nice spooky space music

"But from a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time." - Sam Altman this is the "let them eat cake" of the modern day.

today i learned that when the first samples of the zilog z80 were being sent out for testing, was the month of my birth. neat. they only just stopped making them in 2024.

i just watched my clanker not correctly respond to a prompt where i qualified "data center" with "AI" specifically referring to offloading cpu/memory intensive compilation work (and test running) teh point being that these are not commutable workloads (related to sam altman's idiotic comment about consumers not needing DRAM, when his highest paying customers have the highest need for DRAM, nobody pays $100+ a month for chat). in AI jargon this is a salience error. the AI qualify is the most salient item in the prompt, because you can't compile software on an AI compute stack. so, you can also say, when someone misses a key point, rather than just saying "you missed the point" you can say that you missed the salience of this word here "word".