YoungAchamian
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YoungAchamian
22d ago
we read comments on the internet we use limited information to interpret what perspective is being communicated.
This is not the broader internet, it is a niche community, people's affective information appears in a continuous manner. There are iterative engagements, post history, etc that give greater semantic clarity than shallow linguistics reads. Justifications about deploying rough signal filters ring more hollow. Donny is diminutive in the sense that any more casual nickname is diminutive. Would you freak and call someone a lefty for calling Richard Cheney something so diminutive as Dick? Regardless, it's not something I hear left wing folks say either, so as a dog whistle its pretty weak.
And in this case you are in fact critical of Trump so my read seems more than justified.
The fun part about being an independent that voted for Trump in 24, is that I get to critique him. I earned that right. As I have literally demonstrated that I will move across the aisle, and am not a tribal partisan hack. Unlike a lefty who would never vote for him or a righty who would never vote left regardless of candidate. Hell, my vote probably mattered more than yours...
object-level about Trump and Minneapolis, where I think you're wrong.
What you think shock and awe tactics against an outgroup when they hold a veto enabling minority to fund the group you are using to do shock and awe tactics with, whose budget renewal is coming up, is the smart thing to do? You think American citizen's weren't shot in Minneapolis? There is a smart way to enforce border deportations and then there is the dumb way. It would have been much harder for democrats to resist on principle if ICE looked competent and professional (they still would try, but that's politics). Now ICE looks like thugs who "murdered two American citizens exercising their 1st and 2nd amendment rights to protest such obvious authoritarian brutality. The cost to us citizens thus must be borne by any means to curtail that abuse" (not my words, but that's the general normie lefty view/vibe/interpretation). Meaning democrats can afford much more pain for shutting down DHS.
YoungAchamian
22d ago
Ehhh, you're missing the point of the TSA. It's a jobs program for the working class, much the same way the MIC is a jobs program for the middle class. Give them a purpose, some authority, and an income and no one figures it out that THEY have the bullshit email job that exists via government largess.
YoungAchamian
22d ago
I am irreverent in the extreme. I don't subscribe to language being "coded" to signal tribal loyalty.
Idk if democrats are really hitting the defect button here, that would imply this is a prisoner's dilemma-esque game. They are just advocating for what their constituents want(in the ideal aggregate). What's really happening is that DonnyBoy, knowing full well that DHS funding was due for a refresh after the last CR, decided poorly that Jan/Feb was the perfect time to go vindictively goad democratic communities. Then American citizen's got shot by ICE... Dude could have chilled on Minnesota until after the budget was passed, but that's not his style. Poor strategic instincts, lead to poor policy outcomes.
YoungAchamian
22d ago
Actually, I work in applied research that is funded by the government, I have research work that had strong interest from a division of the DHS back in Jan and have been playing whack-a-mole trying to get it funded since. I am just acutely aware of the funding issues and the reasons for. I think attempting to project my motivations onto your simple partisan 1D axis is a fools errand.
YoungAchamian
23d ago
Yes but the core sticking point here is ICE, which is under DHS. DHS isn't getting funded because of ICE. Unless Trump wants to negotiate big on ICE operations, I predict the democrats are unwilling to fund DHS. I don't think Donny wants to make a deal yet.
YoungAchamian
24d ago
Silent in 1 has the most difficult early game of all the characters
I always figured it was the Defect, who if you hit the Gremlin Nob as the first elite would generally wipe your silly robot ass from existence.
YoungAchamian
26d ago
You really need that strength from self damage power if you want to go a blood build in my opinion. I haven't tried a lot of Clad yet.
YoungAchamian
26d ago
modern society, law and regulation is simply too complex for an MP or congressman to learn in the time they have, much less meaningfully edit.
This is increasingly an idea that I am cooking. It used to be that politicians were often well-learned, with a strong elite knowledge, which provided a strong foundation for understanding the world and engaging in governments. But the modern world is just too complicated, politicians are now people-persons, coalition builders, cult of personality enjoyers, peacocks. There was a post a couple months back about how the James Bond archetype of a hyper-competent man is increasingly unrealistic, that I think touches on the same idea.
YoungAchamian
26d ago
and the top builds from back then still work
Sorta, the lack of energy relics is definitely felt, as is the removal of certain cards. I do miss fire-breathing on Clad
YoungAchamian
26d ago
I've done a couple ascension 2 runs with the Regent, and stars is the way to go, but it just feels so restrictive. Like here's the "box that you can play in" it's very small. The one consolation is that the game is still in early access so I imagine there will be buffs to the newly designed character
YoungAchamian
26d ago
I have about 35 hours in STS2, Just finished ascension 10 with the silent and am on ascension 7 with the Necro. I think Silent is really overpowered. The shiv decks are strong, discard is strong, that one poison power that causes poison to trigger twice (3x upgraded) is downright nasty. The discard 2/draw 2 in a deck with sly's is broken. Meanwhile the regent just feels bad.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
Trump is a Gracchi Brother, we are still a bit from the Caesarian Era of American Politics
If you were already reasonably wealthy few million USD at hand or magically given the money, then you absolutely would be bottlenecked by knowledge. You could purchase lab equipment, reagents etc, hire staff without much difficulty
This and the fear that the layman can use a LLM to make bioweapons are in completely different realms of argumentation. Only a tiny fraction of the population makes enough money to have a ~few million usd on hand.
As you pointed out, you can go get the knowledge, the skillset, the knowledge of the process, nothing is stopping you, except you know time to do all of that. The fear is that an LLM can skip a 4 year degree + a 2 year masters in providing you all of that. Idk much about biology, but I am passingly familiar with explosives.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
Yes, let's fuck over everyone who can't read between the lines.
Considering I am autistic as fuck, and I still got the message. I'd advise that just thinking about it is pretty straightforward, blaming others for not telling you to think is literally the point. If you can't think for yourself you are not intelligent, period.
Lmao I'd don't think I've ever been an advocate for the system, so go ahead. I'm sure IT jobs are going to be more needed in the apocalyptic subsistence economy that follows.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
I'm not a biologist either. But I am in defense research, and one of the things parts of the defense/intel establishment intensely want is to be able to create biological compounds and medical supplies in austere forward bases. Think 3d printing drugs, bandages, needles, etc. There is a LOT of money being thrown at that problem. And it hasn't gone anywhere(fast). So if it was just "Well we need to know the formula" then it would be solved. But its not. Skillset != Knowledge. My girlfriend's father is a bit of an anarchist. He gave her several books on the chemical process and formulas for making bombs. And then said never to do them because he has a friend who tried and now no longer has thumbs. Making explosives (knowledge of the formula) and having the skill to keep all of your limbs are two different things and LLMs can't give you the skillset. "Process" is the knowledge in the sense of austere manufacturing is knowledge, its how do you create clean rooms, how do you create biological precursors with everyday chemicals, you do you titrate, filter, mix, combine, to get the right compounds. Chemical Engineering is literally the field of how do we make chemical processes more efficient/practical, and they are paid big bucks to do it. If it was easy why are they getting paid well? The problems with these internet arguments is that they abstract all of the details and the details are fucking hard.
Meanwhile, it's conceivable (if not proven) that a worldwide pandemic spread inadvertently from a small biolab in Wuhan.
Note that it took a bunch of highly skilled chemical biologists to create the virus, the "spread" was what was inadvertent. The effort on the creation vs the effort on safety protocols are two different things. Since we are talking creation, I'll bet you that a jailbroken LLM cannot tell you how to create a novel virus via gain-of-function without you already having a biology background.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
Knowing a single trans person IRL is already an outlier, knowing multiple is an outlier even among outliers that would mostly occur among people who seek it out in some way like going to a LGBT group.
Statistically, yes if you just go by raw numbers. But since Trans people are not uniformly distributed across the country, ones exposure more likely hinges on ones exposure to high concentration of prog politics. I know multiple trans people IRL. I don't seek them out. I just exist in a more progressive area and have hobbies that MTFs and Non-Binary people are biased towards. Which increases my statistical exposure to trans people.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
Is this bait? This was my honest assessment.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
small groups had the ability to make deadly, highly infectious pathogens.
Is not really possible, knowledge isn't the major bottleneck, its process, materials, equipment, and skillset. This is just a confusion that some more knowledge oriented profession have about difficulty in other fields.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
I can't understand the mindset of making such a large drone, in such small numbers and not giving it any defences. S-300s were around in the 1980s, it's not like 'just fly moderately high' is a sufficient defence.
Being in defense, the answer is greed. Only tangentially related, but the number of recent drone warfare calls I have been in is huge. The government keeps asking for disposable/attritable drones like Ukraine has, just less hobbled together. Everyone and their monkey offers up their drone for this. The kicker? The cheapest one was like 25k per drone. It made me felt like I was screaming into the void. So I bet the 150 Mil spy drone was given no defense tech because that's more expensive and it wasn't in the RFP.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
Why wouldnt IT be tech? Infrastructure is still technology
Its a bit of a category error. IT IS technically "Tech", but it's not in the context people actually talk about it. People like to ride up on coat tails of adjacent things that give them prestige by believing they are apart of the "great transformational wave" The tech boom has been driven by an explosion of SWE and SWE-specialty jobs not IT jobs. When people call this the "Tech Boom" they expect everyone to understand the imprecise terminology. IT jobs are costs, more of them doesn't drive a surplus of value because more cost is just more cost. As far as I know IT folks don't really develop products unless they are selling them to other IT folks as costs for their IT stuff. Cloud Engineers are probably a border area, idk who claims them. Idk if the modal Cloud Engineer starts as a help-desk IT intern either. The ones I know are SWE -> Cloud.
Your analogy is actually good, but you misunderstand it. If we said there was a Medicine Boom: lots of high paying medical jobs, shortages of skilled laborers, go get the job from college ASAP! And then a bunch of people went out and got Chiropractor, Acupuncturist, CNA jobs and then complained about low pay and large competition. Well those are technically "medical" jobs but the "medical jobs" we were really talking about was doctors, nurses, and PAs. Another would be women in STEM, which is Science Technology, Education, Medicine. Well women actually already dominate Education and Medicine, about 50% of Science, and 50% in things like Biomechanical Engineering, or Environmental Engineering. They have low numbers in hard sciences, and hard engineering disciplines like ECE, CS or Aero. IT is the same for CS, its "Tech" but its not the "Tech" that's being talked about as driving the Tech boom.
Thats an interesting critique. I havent heard of the too much white space critique before. How do i compress everything, while still sounding significant? Run it through GPT-5?
Your resume is literally 2 pages, I didn't even realize it at first. You just get rid of all the extra white space. idk if you need a llm to do that. Think about it this way, If you have a lot to say because you've done so much stuff, then your resume would like bursting, you want it to look like you almost struggled to include all of your stuff in 1 page. Instead it looks like you have lots of white space and two pages which means you wanted to fill the page so you added empty lines (not actually, but could be framed as such).
I mean. Per my resume, I did do most of this. As did many of my peers. We aren't jobless at all. Its just difficult to take the next step after help-desk.
This might just be the difference in our two "Tech" fields. But my career path looked like: Electrical Engineer Intern -> Robotics Intern -> ML Intern -> ML Engineer. My last two internships I was just doing normal Junior ML work with a bit more hand-holding. It wasn't difficult to transition because the transition was just more independence on the same experience. I'm not sure what the transition from Help-Desk IT to Cloud Engineer is, but it feels like Cloud Engineers, or Network Engineers don't start at help-desk or the transition is a lot.
P.S. I could also just be full of shit, I'm not in your field and don't pay much attention to it. Just giving my experience.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
I suppose since modal HR wokescolds aren't the woman in prison with him, the schadenfreude of leopards eating faces is probably a bit of a misplaced feeling. However it is germany, so I probably misunderstand what the modal underclass female prison believes politically.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
It already resulted in a peak-Germany situation
Reading that article had me grinning from ear to ear at the ridiculous troll situation.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
It's always weird to me when the IT field gets conflated with "Tech" which to me (not that I am an authority) is a shorthand for Software Engineers/Machine Learning Engineers/Computer Scientists. The two fields have radically different variables, IT is almost always a cost center to someone. You are either doing it in house, or working for a consulting company selling your cost center-ness to other companies. The Tech folks are money generator in that they create products/services/work that is then sold (in some fashion). On a balance sheet these are two radically different outcomes, and when the economy slows, companies don't want to expand the cost center.
I lost my job in late 2024 as part of a lay-off. I sent out probably a 100 resumes via websites, linkedin, recruiters, et al. It took me about 6 weeks to find another job that ostensibly required me to relocate, but in practice I was able to prove my value staying at the local office near me. My boss no longer talks about me relocating. One of the interesting things I noticed, is that remote work jobs are insanely over-valued. If you are applying to work remote, 10,000 other people with your skills or better are too, and unless you are the creme de la creme, you aren't standing out. In person jobs are much better competition wise, and you can even turn them into quasi-remote jobs once you have proven yourself.
Its fascinating, because many people in the gen-z bracket were told to got to college, get a degree, and you'd have a nice cushy office job lined up
Only if you picked the right field, got internships and work experience, and either networked, did projects, research or went to the right school. The extra parts were just implied. No one smart ever thought getting an English bachelors or HR degree entitled you to a nice cushy job. The part about going to college, is that it requires you to also demonstrate you can think without being told to. Figuring out which jobs are flush with applicants or are low pay is fairly straightforward with some independent thought. The only lie that gen-z was sold was that it required no extra effort, no extra thought, just color inside the lines like you were told to, you good little lemming. And that's probably because that extra effort/thought is a costly signal. And why pollute the costly signal, the smart ones will figure it out, which is the point of a costly signal.
here is my resume
You have too much white space, it definitely shouldn't be 2 pages. Everything reads super bland. You don't need to always do the "show me don't tell me" it just needs to read better than something 10k other entry level IT folks also all do.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
I finished No Life Forsaken. It was okay. I feel like Erikson has lost some of his touch. The "hidden" characters were too on the nose. It felt too much like an avengers-slop style full of team-ups/guest appearances. The dialogue was boring and without gravitas, the only interesting thoughts were those about worship which has been done better in his other books. Even the tropes just felt well-trod which is something I remember, maybe incorrectly, as something he was better at pathfinding previously. Lastly for a Karsa Orlong series there is a specific dearth of actual Karsa appearances, which is disappointing.
Neither of these require any external input, western society does not deter or hobble you from doing them. It doesn't promote them, but that's the key underlying point. You need to do them on your own, because "figuring it out" is part of that skill. Competence is sexy.
Not going to weigh in on your other stuff because it's not necessarily wrong, but these two were glossed over and you are wrong about them.
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