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5434a
2hr ago
Fair play, I can see the appeal of honesty over artifice.
I'm almost ready to start activating the glue on the replacement headphone band I've been making out of built up layers of edge banding I had leftover from my shelves that I've boiled and clamped on a form. It's only taken me... ohhh, four months. Lol. Gardening takes priority in the growing season.
If that doesn't work out I'll have to buy some solid oak stripwood and try plan B. Getting pretty tired of these dinky earbuds.
Dean
Flairless
2hr ago
Maybe I'm tired and not understanding correctly, but your use of the collective 'you' is reading to me as linking to both the perpetrator and victim of firebombing alike- or possibly both, as in someone deserving firebombing.
Might I ask you to reword this for clarity?
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
2hr ago
I think they were both pretty equal in evil. The reason that Stalin gets a pass is that it makes an absolute mess of the moral certainty that the postwar order created. We were allies with Russia, and im not sure that the Allies would have won without Stalin and his war machine. If the war had remained a one front war, it’s possible that some form of Nazi German Empire would have survived. It was only because Russia was involved that we won, and thus talking about Holodomor and Gulag systems (which were absolutely as evil as any of the German labor camps) becomes a bit of a hagiographic problem. Stalin being known to be equally as ruthless would turn the story sideways. Which is a problem because the postwar mythological narrative of Liberal Western Globalist order is “we defeated the worst thing that had ever existed. Thus we have the moral right to rule over everything.” And furthermore it gives the new order a moral certainty— evil looks like Hitler, evil looks like straight armed salutes, arm bands, and speeches in big stadiums and big red flags.
Now they were obviously both evil and killed millions and committed genocide of people into the millions of people. But I don’t think the way the mythology works in th3 modern world works for a lot of reasons. For one thing, it turned things that used to be considered okay into evil simply because they’d been used to evil ends. Nationalism and patriotism are usually good things, they hold people together to build a country. It works in China. They think being Chinese is good and favor things that benefit China.
You could always just self-host a wiki with the same software that Wikipedia uses. (Other options include Tiddlywiki, Dokuwiki, and Wiki.js.)
ChickenOverlord
2hr ago
Yes lend-lease helped, but Soviet home industry did most of the heavy lifting.
That's dramatically underselling lend-lease. The US provided approximately 2/3 of the USSR's trucks, 60% of their aviation fuel, 10% of their planes, etc. And the US was also able to give all this to the Soviets while they also built the most powerful navy in human history and waged a war across North Africa, Europe, the Pacific, and Southeast Asia.
JarJarJedi
2hr ago
Stanislaw Lem had as a teaching example the tale of the robot being asked to clean the old storage closet full of disused globes with the prompt "remove all spherical objects from this room". It did it perfectly, and also removed the operator's head too - it looked spherical enough to match. I think that was in The Magellanic Cloud.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
2hr ago
No it’s not a pejorative! The thoroughness of your empirical research is rarely observed among the brainrotted younger generation.
JarJarJedi
2hr ago
And they didn't have their production code and databases backed up?
As hilarious as it sounds, with this "vibe coding" thing I totally expect it. I mean, this is a magic machine, why would I need "backups"? If there were the need for backups, the magic machine would make some, by magic. Since it didn't, it must be just some stupid superstition boomer coders invented to justify their inflated salaries.
Quantumfreakonomics
2hr ago
Oh man. Vatican II makes a lot more sense now. Every Catholic Church in America would get Waco'd if they openly churned out integralists like this regularly.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
2hr ago
The hilarious thing about this for me is that I have literally used "You ask the LLM to "minimize resource utilization" and it deletes your Repo" as an example in training for new hires.
...and this children is why you need to be mindful of your prompts, and pushes to "master" require multi-factor authentication.
comfortable
3hr ago
I've had Obsidian bookmarked for a while, but it seems to be a bit low-level for what I'm looking for. I'm sure it's very powerful, but so is LaTex and I don't generally type up my documents in that over something like Word.
comfortable
3hr ago
I'll give this a try. I'm not entirely sure about Microsoft nowadays, but ease of use has its appeal.
I am adding 'Fox News boomer' to my list of pejoratives.
Lizzardspawn
3hr ago
Oook!
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
3hr ago
Man I had you pegged as a 50 year old Fox News boomer.
Dean not only knows what gap moe means, he's embodied it.
(Also I don't know what it means and this joke is based on a 2-minute google search.)
OliveTapenade
3hr ago
To clarify, as far as I can tell the issue is that he refused to delete or censor Facebook posts by other people that were perceived to be transphobic. Hutton himself frames it as a straightforward free speech issue. He has since gone on to denounce the party as authoritarian and enforcing a cult-like orthodoxy.
I can't say I'm terribly surprised by this. That the Greens, the most progressive of Australia's significant political parties, enforce lockstep orthodoxy on trans issues is not a surprise to me. I daresay it shouldn't be a surprise to anybody who's been paying much attention to progressive political spaces in Australia or in the wider world. Is it possible that trans issues are a wedge for parts of the left?
quiet_NaN
3hr ago
The woke left is generally very tolerant of about anything except opinions. I think at this point they mainly attract people whose kink is to enforce social conformity.
The same people who reported their neighbors for keeping the Sabbath in 1600, or single people who received visitors of the opposite sex in their apartments in 1950. And in time, they will become just as cringe (or perhaps they are already).
As far as SJ is a subculture (which it only vaguely resembles), it is in the sociopath phase. The median leader might or might not be a true believer, but they surely know how to play zero-sum status games very well. At the end of the day, effectively reducing humanities carbon footprint might save the climate, but it will not secure your own status. Stabbing your own allies in the back and giving a speech about principles and painful decisions is much more likely to see you advance, at least until you slip up and use a term which was fine last year or some enemy digs out opinions you unwisely publicized a decade ago.
FtSoA
3hr ago
All US revenue either comes from taxes or from debt. Neither are unlimited (well - taxes aren't unlimited, the jury might be out on the debt!) At the end of the day, it's all one budget.
That we do not balance.
And for which defense spending is not the biggest area by a long shot these days.
This is not true for the Navy or the Air Force, although perhaps your MOS didn't encounter them much.
Fighting the Houthis is not merely the GWOT. They're affecting freedom of the seas. That's normal shit for the USN to combat.
Also the current conflict with the Houthis and Iran is not really the GWOT anymore now is it? It's not related to contingency ops in Iraq or Afghanistan.
That article makes it pretty clear the B-1 was already had known maintenance issues and was past its service life with or without the GWOT. They had given up their primary purpose of a nuclear bomber well before the GWOT even kicked off. The hardest kind of flying is the low-level kind they do in training, for fun, not combat sorties.
If anything the GWOT made us really get our money's worth out of the platform.
But I'm not sure the 300 MQ-9s we have will be super helpful if the balloon goes up against China.
Having a loitering target in the sky has its uses even against the Chinese.
But yes, we need Anduril to up the standard.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
3hr ago
And they didn't have their production code and databases backed up?
Looks someone I saw ranting on Reddit the other day about how Claude let them down. Apparently they are a startup that has built an LLM-run CI/CD pipeline. The code checker? Also an LLM. The merge request approver? An LLM. Basically their entire development process is "automated" by LLMs, with humans intervening only when something goes wrong. Surprise, something went wrong. The CTO blames this on Claude, despite multiple engineers telling him his pipeline is stretching LLMs well beyond the limits of what they can reliably do at this time.
Pretty soon people are going to start getting catfished and Nigerian prince -scammed by LLMs.
While your opening argument could be construed as just a quibble about the exact coefficient of the power-law distribution that Trace is alluding to, I generally agree with the thrust of your response as a whole.
As I note in the transcript:
[This is one area of substantial disagreement that I have with Trace. While his approach is clearly underutilised for areas of discrete policy such as dog control, curriculum changes, or selective regulatory reform, bureaucracies are often immensely complex and not so easily transformed by these sorts of (necessarily top-down) outsider campaigns. Much of my previous work has focused on this subject, and upcoming guests discuss it in great detail too. Look forward to that.]
Trace's approach can demonstrably work for situations like the banning of the American Bully XL that he cites. You can look at recordings of any local Council meeting to see dozens of these sorts of examples every year, where decision-makers have been motivated to pull a single policy lever at their disposal in order to satisfy the demands of some small group of people who were motivated enough to show up and communicate clearly. Where the approach is necessary, but substantially insufficient, is when you're trying to influence the most complex systems in the known universe - multi-functional institutions. There, a far more comprehensive strategy is required. After all, Gramsci's Long March that brought us here was the work of generations.
gattsuru
3hr ago
It does seem like it was a demo application, so it's not quite as scary at the robot sounds. But it's still absolutely not something you want happening even in a demo. And he seems like if he got lucky enough for long enough, he would have tried it on a real business application.
Some of the weirdness reflects the guy intentionally writing this up a running commentary, and often a critical one. My gutcheck is that he's more manager (or 'promoter') first that picked up some programming, and that might also be part of the weird framework (such as treating 'code freeze' like a magic work that the LLM would be able to toggle), though I haven't looked too closely at his background. The revelation here is absolutely obvious to anyone who's let a junior dev or intern anywhere near postgresql, but it's obvious because so many people learn it the hard way that 'dropped data in prod' is the free bingo of nightmare scenarios.
Some of it reflects a genuine issue with Replit's design, separate from the LLM. (how much of that is vibe-coded? gfl). There's a genuine and deep criticism that this should have a very wide separation from testing to demo to production built into the infrastructure of the environment, or some rollback capability.
But that does get back to a point where he seems to think guardrails are just a snap-on option, and that's not really easy for pretty basic design reasons. Sandboxing is hard. Sandboxing when you also want to have access to port 80, and database admin rights, and sudo, and file access near everywhere, I'm not sure it's possible.
GeneralElephant
3hr ago
Given this story was fake are you going to show any shame for being gullible?
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
3hr ago
You know what gap moe means?
Man I had you pegged as a 50 year old Fox News boomer.
quiet_NaN
3hr ago
Its not that Marx neccesarily supported Wokeism so much as the Woke copied the Marxists' homework and flipped few of the words around in the hopes the teacher wouldn't notice.
The analogy I would use is that they dug out the rotting corpse of communism from the graveyard cut of the head (caring about social inequity), and limbs (e.g. working towards a revolution), replaced the head and a few limbs with what had previously been sideshows on the left, and then sent comrade Igor to the roof with a lightning rod.
This is just a baffling description of wokism. Wokism is all about political correctness, language policing, definitional games, etc. Changing the definition of 'racism' 'woman' etc.
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