In principle, this *should* work on macOS the same way, but I don't have a system to test it on, and so there's undoubtedly bugs I haven't run into yet.

I have no fucking clue how to make any of this work on Windows other than (a) install everything manually and hope it works, or (b) use WSL […]

Phew. @crazy4pi314 and I did a bit more work on troubled-waters, and got the direnv → Nix → just → uv chain working with nix-ld, so you can use it on NixOS or traditional Linux distros, either way.

That together with using dependency groups a bit better goes a long way towards the whole "cd […]

I'm a bit tempted to see if I can boil this all down to a template repo, as there was a lot of just kind of wiring needed to get it all to the point where you can cd in and use direnv/nix to provision everything else from scratch, as well as making sure that `just` works without making too many […]

By way of caveats and clarification, I am absolutely not saying human experimentation is bad categorically — pretty much everything we know about everything from clinical psychology to HCI stems from human experimentation.

Rather, I don't trust VCs and adtech in general to be responsible […]

I've said similar before with respect to LLMs fuzzing other aspects of society writ large, but the idea of fuzzing individual mental states is deeply terrifying to me.

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@bob Yeah, it's how you get shit like the woman being shown pregnancy ads at Target before she knew she was pregnant. But, for the reasons you note, it's hard to do climb gradients when introducing new hypotheses is expensive such that you have a fixed list of ads for the RL to choose between […]

@bob Yup.

@xgranade that's the entire thesis behind facebook's investments in AI

But like, advertising in general is an uncontrolled psychological experiment — trying to find the magic words and pictures to make people do specific things that you want them to do, with zero regard for "externalities" like mental health.

How much worse does it get when humans are on the inner […]

Playing D&D in college [REDACTED] years ago, the biggest challenge was always finding a table big enough for all the books and character sheets. Playing D&D now, the biggest challenge is half the players have kids, the other half are on call. The *second* biggest challenge is finding a table big […]

At some point, I should PR type stubs back onto ckdl. It's a good library, and quite useful, but being an extension module, MyPy quite rightly can't find its typing information.

Hah, I win!

@xgranade you can fix this with dataclass_transform, and it’s a fine thing to do

@glyph Ah, that did it, thank you! I'm kind of amazed that wasn't referenced from the docs on `dataclass` itself, I wouldn't have naively expected there to be a built-in thing for typing specializations of dataclass, that feels rather specific. Definitely glad it exists, though, that makes this […]