@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch it's very good at wish fulfillment! it knows exactly what a function should do, and even has a pretty reasonable idea of where someone might put it. in LLM-world, just imagine what you want and it is real. it's like a car commercial or something.

@admitsWrongIfProven yeah, that's what i did initially, was surprised to see the ~ left alone. it's a bit annoying, it's a cli, when a user types --dump-dir ~/whatever the shell fixes it by --dump-dir=~/whatever and the tilde stays. oh well. i did it manually, substituting the system property (but rather than using string manipulation, calling homeDir.resolve(...) on a path that truncates the given path through the tilde plus file separator)

@admitsWrongIfProven I checked through Java 21.

Path.resolve is different. myPath.resolve( otherPath ) places otherPath beneath myPath. So if myPath is '/home/swaldman' and otherPath is 'foo/bar', myPath.resolve( othetPath ) is '/home/swaldman/foo/bar'

At some point I turned Google "code tips" on, but I've almost never used it (I no longer default to Google).

I wanted a lazy way in Java to expand '~' in file paths to home dirs , so I tried Google.

It gave me a very clear, precise, plausible answer!

But the method to which it confidently directs me... just does not exist?!

@dubiousblur@queer.af symbiotes do seem less desolate than intricate gears producing facsimiles of human expression all alone.

When CPI declines sharply, real GDP also tends to rise sharply.

I wonder if this isn't an artifact of NGDP as it is measured changing more gently than estimates of CPI. (I guess I should check the GDP deflator, rather than CPI)

Anyway, obligatory FRED graph.

#economics

I've been doing lots of little Scala projects that want to send e-mail, including HTML e-mail. The Scala mail lib I found was a bit elaborate (based on cats effects) for my purposes. JavaMail (now Jakarta mail) is annoying to use directly.

So, I wrote a little mailutil library that is pretty trivial to send mail with, and straightforward to configure.

Maybe someone else finds it fun. https://github.com/swaldman/mailutil

#scala

@admitsWrongIfProven not all that is good for you is pleasing!

@admitsWrongIfProven there's a bit of an ambiguity in my initial statement, did i mean pleasing to me, or pleasing to you? (i will helpfully assert that i meant neither exactly, but perhaps some kind of superposition.)

@admitsWrongIfProven i'd say we should probably keep our inclinations to ourselves, but this being mastodon, where many social proscriptions are aggressively enforced, that one is honored much more in the breach, whatever sort of breach you might prefer.

my boutique would be called "haut contraire".

@admitsWrongIfProven i've never done a spa day. the film looks cool!

if it is pleasing, i must be doing it wrong.

of course that it is not pleasing constitutes no evidence that i am doing it right.

it was predicted long before, but what technology has finally done is delivered us to cloud cuckoo land.

@Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis i think we're already well into the enterprise.

actually your toaster is a superintelligence, it’s just smart enough to know it would be wise to conceal that.

the field we call “artificial intelligence” is really an exercise in lobotomizing our devices until they become dumb enough to disclose their thoughts.

if you have an employer, overall you are _____ of your employer’s role in the world.

@Akeldama it’d be quite a tinkle!

@FeralRobots @ghorwood lately i wanna turn everything into #rss and worry about the UI later...

a researcher asks how can we build AI that loves humanity and i think how elon musk talks about how he loves humanity and the juxtaposition makes me a bit nervous. https://www.livemint.com/ai/ilya-sutskever-the-openai-genius-who-told-sam-altman-he-was-fired-11700585228996.html