TheFooder
3d ago
I'm not talking about war just the random starved or diseased peasant in the street, or maybe occasional murder victim. You know, jsut the casual reminder that life is brutish and short.
You know what else nobody ever see anymore? corpses. Used to be there were bodies everywhere. Now not so much. Everyone thinks they can live forever so there's no need for kids. Time to bring momento mori's back in the streets where they belong!
TheFooder
4d ago
That's the real headline: Corporate plant wows corporate drones during national corporate event.
TheFooder
4d ago
What was funny to me was watching the "liberal" normie people at the football party try to reconcile their natural distates for spanish music with their need to appear to be "good people." Brain static. My wife, presumably the most conservative woman in the room, thought it was better than the past two half-time shows.
For my part I was hanging with the kids watching one of them play Farm Simulator 25, a far more interesting use of my time than anything related to the NFL or horrible Halftime shows (I hate medleys so I always hate the halftime show).
The idea that kids are interested in farming feels refreshing and wholesome in the context of this whole debate. And, I might add there were a half dozen kids or more at this party and none of them gave two shits about football. I wonder what NFL viewership will look like in 10 years. My sense is the NFL is desperate.
TheFooder
12d ago
Rejected.
Yeah, I didn't get that either. The moral claim that the strong must help the weak is just that...a claim.
TheFooder
16d ago
I was just thinking the other day how much ICE troops look like generic mobs from a Far Cry game. Of course so does Antifa. Maybe that's why my dander is up so high and my finger keeps twitching.
TheFooder
1mo ago
Noem mentioned this specific office had been hit and dragged by a vehicle in July. I also saw some number (forgot where) that there have been double digit increases in officers being attacked with vehicles. If I learned that was untrue it might move my needle, but frankly, I'm a bit sympathetic to the position, "people have been trying to kill me with their cars, I'm not going to wait around to get killed next time." I find myself very unsympathetic to the, "stop ICE by any means necessary," crew. I get the ICE has been juiced up and have become something they weren't before. I don't feel particularly comfortable with the 'fear' strategy, but I get why it's effective. What really bothers me is a) the reporting on the left that the handful of possibly wrong arrests and deportations is the norm--specifically amping up the fear and b) the idea that some people are so certain about what's happening they are literally ready to lay down their lives. I just can't get into the mindset of people who lack the epistemic humility to wonder, "am I sure I know what's happening here?" Maybe I'm wrong, but it's always been my biggest issue with protesters--how are they so certain?
TheFooder
1mo ago
(Sometimes I wonder if we all just know too much and read too much these days. In my moments of debating whether I even should be doing activism trying to set up coexistence circles and hikes I wonder if everyone needs to just never read the news ever again and only talk to people they know personally face to face.
I think this all the time. 'News' is a mind-virus worthy of a bare few minutes a day--max. Yet it's addictive, somehow.
this is a long article, might take me some time to get through it, but one thing I notice straight off is the implicit assumption that all young people seem to share that "everything is political." It's just seeded into every aspect of everything everyone younger than 50 seems to want to talk about. It's not even questioned, it just is. I think this is a big part of the underlying problem because everyone is just desperate to be a Good Person (tm) and every life choice revolved around this basic motivation (even the people who overtly reject this have the same basic presumptions).
I really wish there were more "go fuck yourself" punks in the world. I feel like we need this energy to counteract the "I'm paddling my feet as fast as possible to be a Good Person (tm). I'm sick of Nice People (tm) and Good People (tm). It's not your job to save the world and trying to know every last detail about every possible threat to humanity just drives everyone insane.
I'll keep reading, it's not uninteresting just long. If something else catches my attention I'll reply again.
TheFooder
1mo ago
My comment from Substack:
My company (crypto exchange /dco/dcm/fcm) has a subscription to Claude Code. I do not know what the subscription level is I just use it conversationally without a second thought to what a token is nor how many are used in the course of my tasks.
I am the head of operations (basically the main operator of the real-time trading systems). I do not fiddle with the codebase, however I use Claude a TON for finding error messages and the context around them. I'll ask it to parse code and print out work-flow, basic stuff like, "how does the config server interface with the matching engine," "when do the reports run," "who's on the access list," etc. I've found Claude useful in helping me troubleshoot customer issues, on-boarding clients with odd requests, building Grafana queries and dashboards, running audits, planning disaster recover tests, basically anything that I might have asked a dev about I can now ask AI to simply provide the information. It's almost always correct and when it isn't it's often due to actual issues with code clarity.
I use it a TON for developing small scale jobs that I don't want to bother devs with. I've 'vibe coded' programs for rolling contracts, audits (including best methods for audit requests), AWS log retrieval, and anything that ever gets even a little bit close to Git, which I love but mostly hate. I use it do update Terraform and Ansible code without a second thought. I use it for all kinds of timezone problems which are a constant bugbear of my particular role.
I use it is very useful to me as an agent. I tell it to do all kinds of petty things simply because I don't want to do them. I never think about the token count or context or anything beyond natural, free-flowing language. I have increased my overall productivity 200% (vibes baby). Things that were even a tiny pain-in-the-ass I just hand off to Claude. I can confidently say that it has made my need for a subordinate unnecessary, so that might be a chit in the, "uh-oh, Claude is replacing workers," bucket. I would rather use Claude more extensively than hire someone.
My perspective as an operator is that it must be helping devs simply by helping me not bother them. I don't know how prevalent this acrosss the software industry as real-time operations is sort of rare, but it's basically keeping me out of the dev's way 9-out-of-10 times. That alone MUST be a value-add, though one devs might not notice. Perhaps that's a useful data point for your evaluations.
I was surprised to see you didn't find it useful for Excel stuff. It's my go-to for excel formulas and sql queries and always gets me 90% of the way there. I feel like I simply don't have to think about that stuff anymore, which is great because I never liked writing Excel formulas or sql queries. I simply don't want to deal with it and Claude takes it right off my plate. Same with GIT and repo management. Phooey! Waste of time I never have to think about again. (NOTE: I don't let Claude access the database, so I have to help it with table structures and some specific elements. There is trepidation allowing AI to touch the DB in our firm.)
In my personal life, I tried using some other AIs on some music coding projects and they failed miserably. I have a programmable synth module from Rebel technologies called the Magus. You can write code for it in a handful of ways and then upload a binary to the device. I've tried ChatGPT5, Grok, AllenAI (but not my work Claude Code- gotta keep 'em separated!). I wanted to turn the Magus into a 4-channel mixer with some basic controls on the encoders. It understood the request but just couldn't get the project over the line. I eventually gave up. I figure there isn't enough interest in the underlying project (the company may be out-of-business) for AI to hook into, say, in comparison to writing psql queries.
That's my $0.02. I specifically use it like a ham-fisted troll and I think it's been mostly great. I'd give it an 82% (solid B) grade for this year over-all. I think there's a lot of low-level stuff that it's useful for, but you have to pay for it--the free stuff isn't very good.
TheFooder
1mo ago
Surprised to see how dopey people still are, how can someone be a CTO and not know the difference between the models under the hood of Copilot? Would've thought a CTO would know better.
Even more hilariously, the CTO could have just asked AI what the differences are between the models. I feel like people don't seem to bother with the really low-hanging fruit AI is offering.
TheFooder
1mo ago
This was the last mystery that got me to sit up and cheer: https://www.magnetic-press.com/blackwaterlilies/
While I loved the comic, the source novel is probably good as well. It was considered "un-filmable" but the comic hits hard, IMO. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33391439-black-water-lilies
I haven't watched any 'Knives Out' stuff and at this point I never will. No point.
TheFooder
1mo ago
All I can say is that my company pays for the service. I'm a weird use-case because I use it a lot for code context, light scripting and other ops/dev/ops tasks. I"m not a dev. Anyway, I asked Claude-Code to describe itself:
describe yourself. what versions of software are you and how are you more performant than other versions?
⏺ I'm Claude Sonnet 4.5 (model ID: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929), Anthropic's CLI tool for software engineering tasks.
Performance improvements over previous versions:
- Speed: Significantly faster than Sonnet 3.5 - quicker response times for code generation and analysis
- Context window: 200K token limit (you can see the budget tracker in my responses)
- Reasoning: Better at multi-step planning, debugging complex issues, and understanding codebases
- Tool use: More efficient with parallel tool calls and better at choosing the right tools
- Code quality: Improved at writing idiomatic code across languages and following existing patterns
Compared to other Claude models:
- vs Opus: I'm faster and more cost-effective while matching quality for most coding tasks
- vs Haiku: I'm more capable for complex reasoning but slower
- vs Sonnet 3.5: Improved speed, accuracy, and extended context handling
I'm specifically optimized for CLI workflows - file operations, bash commands, git operations, code analysis, and multi-file edits. My knowledge cutoff is January 2025.
TheFooder
1mo ago
Many projects are stalled waiting for someone else to complete a task.
Usually, the one guy on the team not using an LLM.
TheFooder
1mo ago
Dude is also a devout Roman Catholic. Trying to shame him for being a virgin is probably not the best avenue of attack.
TheFooder
1mo ago
McLuhan's famous adage, "the medium is the message" applies in this case. We've moved beyond the information era into the narrative era supported by a vast and all-encompassing media blanket. You literally cannot belive anything because everything is the story that someone wants to tell. Actual facts and information are at an extreme premium. That's the real tragedy.
TheFooder
2mo ago
Walter Kirn has said numerous times that his read of the media surrounding Mangione tells him there will be an acquittal. I'm not super confident in that prediction myself, but I would take the under on him getting the death penalty. Seems like what you're seeing puts a chit in the Kirn basket.
TheFooder
2mo ago
One can hope. It's jsut a nicer way to keep one's house, IMO. The Asians have it right.
TheFooder
2mo ago
There was a point in time, after the Mexican-American war where Mexican lynchings were greater than black lynchings in some Western states. The relative peacefulness we see now took a long time to generate.
TheFooder
2mo ago
Houellebecq’s Submission
I thought to meself, "I kmow that name..." Turns out I have Platform on my bookshelf, lo these past 15 or more years. I think I started to read it and had the same visceral rejection that I experienced reading Portnoy's Complaint and simply put it down. Maybe it's worth another spin on the Houellebecq tilt-a-whirl if this Submission book is any good.
That's the Michael Tracy position. He regularly excoriates the lack of investigative reporting during the various trials and points out that the main witness (Gioffre) was so unreliable, prosecutors tried to bury her testimony and every other claim was even more poorly investigated. There's a lot of smoke, but not a lot of heat. Surely there's some signal, but the noise is overwhelming.
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