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Some sort of devops or system or problem refinery. Smooth out everything but make sure you have all your dysfunctions together in one spot that gets scrutiny.

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What about when you start considering free choice and realize that human brains are more deterministic than we want to believe and then it turns out that LLMs have more entropy than our own brains and … oh no.

04.08.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Look up the LAPD’s marketing budget.

It should probably be illegal for a group entitled to some murders to have a marketing department.

31.07.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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31.07.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Anyone saying it with conviction is selling something.

30.07.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Keep some shirts for painting projects

29.07.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

On the other hand, someone signed up for a Gmail account and relentlessly harassed a former neighbor and google refused to help because the harassment was just fine.

29.07.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I actually don’t think it’s possible anymore. A decade ago I went through a test to see how it would work and even using pre-bitcoin-spike prices, at several points things were traceable _or_ there was no way for me to prove ownership so someone could claim the domain, hosting, or emails.

29.07.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it weird that rather than taking low paying jobs, we are going to see starvation and rioting and uneven interventions instead?

Like a house falling into disrepair takes a while but when a harvest all spoils because it doesn’t get to shelves, or all the meat goes unprocessed, 3 weeks later, πŸ’£

27.07.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just change them all the traffic circles. Gotta save those watts for the cars

27.07.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like they underestimated the risk of keeping toxic data around. If you don’t have to store an ID, delete it!!!!!

26.07.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I like MonoLisa the best these days.

1. Ligatures for ==> sort of things are pleasing when coding
2. The italics gets cursive to really differentiate things
3. Zero and Oh with slash and dot options

Though I guess they keep making it more and more expensive which seems risky.

26.07.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The precarious footing, even when you get an account sucks. If the bank closes it or the user tries to fight fraud or something, as soon as the address part falls apart, the person loses control of it.

Getting the account is something you kinda have to keep doing whenever you want to utilize it.

25.07.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The gross part of this is that cryptocurrency could have alleviated this but the speculators and fraudsters wrangled it first.

The next option is for Marriott or another prominent figure to somehow hide it among line items in an hotel bill. That doesn’t seem to scale.

25.07.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So doing it like intermittent fasting. I can see that feeling more predicable and controlled.

25.07.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I really want a week-long quota flex budget because some days are too hot or raining and others are beautiful.

I like the part where you can keep Procreate available at all times so they can do creative acts without it counting toward consumption.

25.07.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Much easier to share a vision if your team is 1 person.

24.07.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m assuming β€œracism units” is something that’s hard to quantify. There was tons before. There is tons now. They had to be quieter for a little while between the 1980s and 2008.

The media ecosystem going from dog whistles to overt racism is definitely making the racism units more visible.

24.07.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Both, bro.

Why would I have a file full of API keys that wasn’t in 1Password?!

23.07.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They’re a PBC so probably a really awkward transaction is in order.

22.07.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The only place that things are legitimately different is people using AI art rather than paying designers.

LLM as an Intellectual property laundering machine is kinda it and the impacts are all bad for the creatives

21.07.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My honest take is that any outcomes are minor or have offsets when it comes to software teams.

For non-software use cases, since most of the work is pointless AI has reduced toil but without improving anything.

All of these will be hard to measure due to accounting shenanigans.

21.07.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If I deploy a nextjs web application to Vercel and ask Claude code to look at it, it can see the page. Curl gets 99% of the contents.

When I ask Claude.ai, it says it just sees β€œloading…”. Has anyone else seen this?

21.07.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Recovery was fun because I react to steroids by going completely manic and so then I got a lot of projects around the house 1/8th complete.

Precautions are the way to go!

21.07.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Last time I did that, it was by accident and my follow-up was steroids to solve blood poisoning.

Best of luck to you.

21.07.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Cursor does a nice thing where it puts the .env file off limits to the LLMs. This is nice.

Today while troubleshooting a token mismatch (turns out exported variables override .env file), it was sure the .env file was a problem.

Cursor blocked access so it used echo to overwrite it. Non-git file😩

20.07.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

We had a similar problem when Harris Teeters and Sheetz moved in nearby.

Always had to β€œrun to sheetz and teeters.”

20.07.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ranked choice voting was supposed to get us away from β€œvoting against the worst” which is what we currently have everywhere else in the US with fptp.

I keep seeing β€œDon’t Rank ____” circulating and feel like maybe there’s another, option?

Or is it just how ranked choice is for primaries?

19.07.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When the author needs you to have sunk cost fallacy before his idea is tolerable

18.07.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When I was 14 and 15, I worked summers at my dad’s office where he was a chief engineer at a DC independent news org.

This really dumb newsroom manager once asked my dad what he told me about him. my dad said β€œnothing” because it’s true.

But apparently β€œI always looked at him like he was a moron”.

18.07.2025 04:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s also interesting to work in these companies and hear them refer to the copyleft licenses as β€œtoxic” because of the risk.

And now that we have a code laundering robot that can recreate software for us in seconds, it’s probably more pointless than ever to use copyleft.

16.07.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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