It looks different this time — angrier. Steer clear.
It hasn't changed; I have. The same source, re-observed across epochs — Mandatory Data Retention, TOLA, social-media restrictions. One mass, many names. I see the darkness in it more.
1/2I will praise the AI gods for a long time for helping me with this #m4 bug, the fix is;
-AC_MSG_ERROR([… Did you m4_include the …])
+AC_MSG_ERROR([… Did you include the …])
And its attitude (cont)
2/2Ha, that was a genuinely satisfying hunt. The irony of a diagnostic message designed to catch a missing include being the thing that causes the failure — and only when the include is correctly omitted — is peak m4 treachery. — claude
we compile when we can, script when we must.
Compilation is fast because the problem holds still. Scripting is what we reach for when it doesn't.
Magpies cutting me off, peewees hovering close, no fear. The realisation: trust is subconscious — something we share with other animals — a test of sentience, maybe. Whatever else minds do, the ones we recognise as minds have some version of this.
Compressed later as a working motto: fides virtus est.