DradisPing
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DradisPing
7hr ago
The correct remedy is for the bar association to suspend the prosecutors license, but they aren't going to do that.
DradisPing
8hr ago
Developers seem to be split Claude and Codex (ChatGPT) right now. In my experience Codex seems to be a little better at thinking but a little worse at making sure it didn't hallucinate the function. Claude is a little better at doing what other developers are doing. That can be a problem with things like React where it has been trained on a lot of bad code.
The developer split seems kind of ideological right now since people have strong opinions on Anthropic vs OpenAI.
Gauntlet.ai has a free "night school" with videos of talks that will help you stay up to date.
https://apply.gauntletai.com/night-school
They push you to apply but just ignore it if you don't want to.
DradisPing
8hr ago
Back in 2022 the Canadian government saw the trucker protests as well as a report from the RCMP warning about domestic revolt.
In response they seem to be trying to form a Varangian Guard. It's not going well.
In 2022 they opened up military officer positions to permanent residents instead of just citizens. Because of the governments commitment to French language, they have been recruiting from French speaking African countries.
They've lowered standards and had to deal with problems.
They are not deterred by the problems and have added an express immigration category for "highly skilled foreign military applicants". https://archive.ph/4JgpZ
DradisPing
9hr ago
Yeah, all of the shady peptide sites offer Retatrutide.
DradisPing
9hr ago
Doctors have an old joke that goes something like "if your patient manages to loose weight, check for cancer".
People who don't gain weight have a feedback mechanism where if they eat a big meal in the evening they will not be hungry the next day and eat lightly. In fat people, for whatever reason, that's not working. They'll eat a big dinner and be hungry at breakfast. While dieting their body will respond by becoming lethargic to save energy and store whatever they eat.
Yes you can loose weight by aggressively counting every calorie for the rest of your life, but the effort is huge and the quality of life is bad.
The new weight loss drugs just dramatically improve people's lives. They get to experience the sensation of being not hungry for the first time in their lives.
DradisPing
1d ago
How should find a personal trainer - just the gym?
Basically every gym employee is also a personal trainer. The gym pays them crap but lets them work as a personal trainer and that pays much better. Usually you'll get a free personal training session
Has the science of ozempic and friends continued to advance? What is the best ozempic like to take?
Tirzepatide is the best at suppressing food noise. Retatrutide is weaker at suppressing appetite at low doses but it also has a chemical to signal your body to spend more energy. So Retatrutide tends to win overall and it'll pair better with going to the gym.
DradisPing
2d ago
I'd focus on spices. Fresh bay leaves are useful and you can share them with neighbours. Fresh dill really improves things like scrambled eggs but isn't worth a trip to the grocery store.
Grow mint and invite your friends over for mojitos with mint from your garden.
Plants where the useful part is the leaf / stem can probably just sit in your backyard until you need it. Plants that fruit have the issue where you suddenly have a lot of fruit to deal with.
You should also look into growing ghost peppers or Carolina reapers. They are fun to give away.
DradisPing
2d ago
So it's being hit by a few things.
- UI work is low status in tech.
- Microsoft wants to use it's UI frameworks to tie people to Windows, but it burned a lot of developers and companies with Silverlight.
- HR departments don't believe in transferable skills. They only hire for the same stack.
So Microsoft has tech like XAML, which is perfectly fine. But their own developers don't want to learn it because it's career suicide. 5 years as a XAML wizard at MS means that every other tech company will view you as less than a fresh grad.
So the developers working at MS have been trying to avoid UI work or shoehorn React into the OS UI to preserve their ability to get other jobs.
Additionally there are some structural problems at MS. The main customer from the sales point of view is the corporate IT department. The tools for managing Windows Domains are excellent. However the IT departments view the desktop OS as an overly complicated launcher for Microsoft Office. They have no interest in things like moving the launch bar, and would probably like an option to ban that.
Also Microsoft has been getting increasingly culturally Indian. It used to have a bit of a barbarian flavour where it was OK to get in fights over tech decisions. I don't have enough information about the details and consequences of this to do a good write up, but I'm sure it has effects.
DradisPing
2d ago
In Shards of Earth he favours a prose style I find a bit convoluted.
Until there's a chapter in a bar where he's describing the crews polyamorous dating habits. It suddenly switches into a perfectly clear writing style.
He goes back to being convoluted when the interesting space stuff starts up again.
I've read Shards of Earth and Ruin, and I don't remember any sex or romance in either of those.
DradisPing
8d ago
So a few things are hitting at once.
US energy production has been basically flat for the past 25 years. Renewables have been replacing coal with the total largely unchanged. Progressives, thanks to funding from China, adopted anti growth strategies and blocked new power plants. Now there's suddenly huge strategic demand for power hungry data centres. They need to find places with enough surplus grid capacity to build them. China has switched to PR campaigns about water usage.
The typical small town mayor will eagerly sell out the towns water and power rights to get his daughter a Google marketing internship. The small town residents are well aware of this. Additionally data centres don't generate many local jobs, so most towns don't see the point.
We're in an era of high interest rates, so companies that need to raise big money to build big computer now need big IPO.
I haven't seen any actual craziness yet. The original dot com bust had things getting just silly... loose money on each sale and make up the difference in ads! SF had a proto door dash that would have someone deliver a single candy bar for no mark up. The 2008 real estate bubble was famous for it's NINJA loans (no income, no job, no assets).
In comparison data centres are genuinely useful and they should be able to pay for themselves with other tasks if AI doesn't pan out like they expect.
I'm not sure how wasteful the current model training is... eg how much each new version carries over from the prior training. It might be possible that they are currently doing too many releases and it'd be more long term efficient to do fewer. But it's R&D, so who knows.
What people tend to miss is that all of the money is being spent on the AI training arms race. It's simple to run a model profitably after it has been produced. The issue is recovering cost of development and funding new development.
So even if all of the AI companies go bust, we're likely going to still be running models in those data centres.
It doesn't exactly feel like a bubble to me because the average Joe isn't getting rich off of it yet. There are no FOMO investors getting into it because their neighbour made a ton of money. That may change with the IPOs.
DradisPing
9d ago
So historians tend to have either a pro-Soviet or anti-Russian bias. If you start looking into the numbers Russia was well behind the great powers but industrializing.
At the dawn of WW1 Russia had more km of railway than anyone except the US. Note that sources split the UK and British India, so you can easily argue that the UK was ahead. Obviously that's spread over a massive territory, but it's still something. The Trans-Siberian Railway was pre-communist.
During WW1 the Russian Empire was making it's own artillery, rifles, and armoured cars.
Sure it was underdeveloped, but it was a major oil producer during the age of oil. A more moderate government would have been able to industrialize a bit more slowly but with far fewer corpses.
DradisPing
9d ago
Taking a break from being censured by the NH house, Travis Corcoran released the audiobook of "Red State Mars".
I'm enjoying it so far. I do find the action scenes tend to drag a little, but I feel that way a lot. It's a me problem.
DradisPing
10d ago
Not always better. Despite always having ardent defenders on the left, the communists were just terrible.
Basically in the post communist era it's been clear that Russia was much poorer than it should have been. So a lot of bright minds went into government to improve things.
In the West improving things inevitably involves fighting tooth and nail with entrenched powers.
I post-Soviet Russia smart people can dedicate their lives to looking for easy wins.
The big problem that the West has is that their elite has been focussed on how to get rich in the global economy. That doesn't require them to improve things in their actual countries at all, and in some cases making them worse will be more personally profitable.
DradisPing
11d ago
A disapointing joke. Like TacoCopter.
DradisPing
16d ago
What else have you enjoyed? I'm always working on adding to my backlog.
DradisPing
16d ago
"The MAGA project has failed" is far too strong wording. The Dems have proven increasingly willing to go after people they dislike on trumped up charges. There's probably a 30% chance that a state or federal prosecutor will try to indict him over the next 10 years. If he's out of the country he'll be out of mind for them.
The other thing is that it's probably possible for him to do a big construction project in Argentina that wouldn't be possible in California. He might be trying to fulfil some dream from his 20s about building a beach town for brainy gay nerds. Basically to build a Mecca for his tribe.
DradisPing
16d ago
I enjoyed it. However in the audiobook RC Bray did the Duke voice for Mr Boots a couple of times, which was a bit annoying.
DradisPing
17d ago
Here's the secret. The point of laptop stickers is to make it easy to find your MacBook on a table full of MacBooks.
I kind of like pristine laptops but when everyone on the team has the same model things can get confusing.
DradisPing
22d ago
Mace exercises feel great on you shoulders if you slouch a lot in front of a computer. A kettle bell is also pretty handy.
Neither take up much space if you aren't using them.
DradisPing
29d ago
Physical activity? Alcohol gets converted to acetaldehyde which causes the hangover effects and then to acetate which causes the hangover effects.
If you're burning off the acetate quickly it may stop acetaldehyde from building up.
See if working up a sweat after drinking at home helps.
DradisPing
1mo ago
It's made my Larry Ellison's daughter. There's huge money behind it.
I'm sure they sprung for the "ultra premium ad package" for the major sites.
DradisPing
1mo ago
Also once you're used to taking care of a dog every day, a child seems more manageable. You've already adopted a lifestyle that involves being home on a regular schedule.
DradisPing
1mo ago
I too love how cats get indignant at any perceived slight.
DradisPing
1mo ago
The new Dungeon Crawler Carl book just came out. Book 8, A Parade of Horribles.
So far it hasn't been thrilling me. Book 7 featured the conclusion of multiple long running storylines. Book 8 starts with Carl and Donut isolated from the supporting cast. I probably just wasn't in the right mood, I'll give it another shot in a week or so.
Essentially the issue is that the Tony Blair government set out to permanently change the UK using immigration policies and the political class in London were dead set on covering up any problems. Pakistan took the opportunity to rid itself of some of it's worst behaved ethnic groups.
There's too much complicity for important people. The Crown Prosecution Service is a key figure in covering up the crimes and it was run by now PM Keir Starmer.
I actually think they only way to fix things at this point is for a judge in an ICC signatory country to indict Starmer.
Europe already agrees that the ICC can ignore the parts of its charter against indicting heads of government, so I think it's the only way to force the issue. There must be a Canadian judge wild enough to do it.
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