birb_cromble
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birb_cromble
49m ago
Harnesses will fix hallucination much like they have for coding.
Harnesses fixing hallucinations is news to me. I just spent an hour today putting a Junior's head on straight after codex sent them down the garden path for a day and a half.
birb_cromble
54m ago
Like, definitely plenty of jank, just less of it.
I was able to stand on a dead guy and ride him like a magic carpet onto the top of a nearby building.
I can hardly imagine what more jank would look like, but I'm sad I missed it.
birb_cromble
4hr ago
As I work the repertoire for the band where I'm subbing, I'm noticing something interesting. They do a lot of covers of one hit wonders, but it's not covers of the One Hit.
For example: anybody who was alive in the 90s probably knows Del Amitri, but they're covering a totally different song. It's been fun seeing how a lot of one hit wonders were pretty good musicians who had the (mis)fortune of writing something outside their usual niche.
Do any of you have good examples of that? I'd love to give them a listen.
birb_cromble
4hr ago
I've been playing a little early access indie game called Half Sword. It's a physics-based medieval fighting simulator where you use your mouse and keyboard to control individual arms. It's simultaneously incredibly detailed and incredibly jank. I think I'm enjoying the jank more than the detail.
birb_cromble
1d ago
This shit keeps me up at night. I work as a software developer, but I don't work "in tech", per se. I constantly hear these horror stories, and I'm just waiting for the contagion to spread to my little corner of the industry. It really makes me wonder if any of my backup plans are even worth it.
birb_cromble
1d ago
I was mildly optimistic about SpaceX until the S-1 came out. The launch business has legs due to government contracts, but the xAI portion of the business is a giant pit in the ground where they set money on fire. At this point their financials suggests they're a data center REIT with delusions of grandeur. I'm not willing to make a long term bet on that. If the stock price drops to around $70 I'll reconsider, and I'd also do so if the AI portion of their company shows improvements. Until then I'm sitting on the sidelines.
I'm out and about so I can't really dig for a source, but I'm pretty sure they already have charges set on at least some of the factories.
birb_cromble
1d ago
How often does something like this happen, where a judge refers a DA to the feds for prosecution?
birb_cromble
1d ago
It looks like the fed voted for a 25bps rate hike, with a possibility for more this year.
Even though I've been expecting it for several months now, I'm still surprised it happened. The market is responding negatively to the news
birb_cromble
2d ago
We briefly rented a murder house growing up. It was considerably under the going rate at the time - cheap enough that we could afford to live there.
birb_cromble
2d ago
Are you leaving domestic agencies off the list because you think they wouldn't do it, or because you think they're screwups?
birb_cromble
2d ago
I probably wouldn't use me as a point of comparison for anything. I'm a little below average height, and I have abnormally short legs and long arms. I'm almost custom-built for squat and deadlift.
My guess is you're proportioned more like a human than a fantasy dwarf, in which case those numbers aren't bad at all.
birb_cromble
2d ago
Spending is $2,276.17 lower than the same day last year. My heating oil bill has quadrupled for the upcoming season, so that's going to make things tricky going forward.
Nonetheless I persevere.
birb_cromble
2d ago
After close to a year of injuries, rehab, recovery, and retraining, I've finally managed to get my deadlift back over 500 lbs.
My calves, transverse abdominal, lower back, and traps are killing me. My shin and right hand look like I spent the night in a muay thai hand job battle because of the bar knurling. It took me three tries to get out of bed.
Nonetheless, I did it and I'm pretty happy with the number. It's not my personal best ever, but maybe I'll get back there one day. In the meantime, I'll move on to building up my squat numbers again. Hopefully that will build up my core enough to keep the deadlift from being so unpleasant.
birb_cromble
2d ago
VXus Tracks the FTSE Global All Cap ex US Index, so outside of tracking error, it should be.
birb_cromble
2d ago
The only reason I didn't suggest VT is that a lot of people think it has too much ex-US exposure. VXUS would give him the opportunity to decide his own tolerance levels
birb_cromble
2d ago
Steve Yegge is a stark example of that.
I will wait for the S-1 to make any decisions, but my gut prediction is that I won't be touching it with a ten foot pole. All of the leaked data suggests shaky financials with fickle customers and costs that aren't entirely under their control. That sounds less like a high margin software company and more like an airline.
birb_cromble
3d ago
Any advice on further diversification of my portfolio?
Answering your questions more directly, I might consider some global exposure, and maybe some assets that aren't directly correlated to equities. For the former, adding a fraction of VXUS might be a good call. For the latter, you probably want to talk to somebody smarter than me. People make strong arguments for gold, bonds, commodities, and cryptocurrency.
birb_cromble
3d ago
Hot damn man. I'm glad you're getting some traction.
The best time to plant a tree might be twenty years ago, but the second best time is today.
birb_cromble
3d ago
But where will they go? You basically have to live in a state like Texas for access to the best jobs. schools, dating, etc.
I live in the middle of nowhere, and I've lived in dozens of deeply rural towns. It's not bad. Sure, I might not have access to the "best" jobs, but I have a good job in an area with a low cost of living. I went to "shitty" schools, but I got a degree and managed to learn things that have served me well for the rest of my life. Dating might be harder, but I still met a woman who I love with a burning intensity that has never faded as the years have gone by.
Maybe I've been wasting my life, but it still seems pretty nice out here. Maybe you should give it a try.
birb_cromble
4d ago
Now reading some silly vampire books. First was Coffin Moon by Rosson, which sold me with its badass cover. Solidly B grade but that's all I expected.
If you're into that kind of thing, I'd really like to suggest the V-Wars anthologies, mostly fronted by Jon Maberry. It features multiple authors, each writing in a shared universe where "vampires" return to the modern world as a side effect of a global pandemic. The premise is a little handwavy, but all the authors do a good job of playing it straight, and they present a visceral, immediate window into how the world would fall apart.
birb_cromble
4d ago
Nothing organized.
Religion is a difficult thing for me. I've never been able to square Christianity's Message with its Commandments.
birb_cromble
4d ago
But then why the Christian God? I can get to A, but I can't go from A to B.
Might as well pick something. Christianity isn't what I picked, but I get it.
Are you on any medications? You can find a thread of mine from abour a year ago where amoxicillin clavulanate caused me to wake up every morning with raging anxiety attacks for close to a month.
I also used to have similar problems when I was in the cut phase for physique competitions. I tracked it back to a blood sugar crash and calorie deficit overnight. Eating about 100 calories of slow-digesting food helped.
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