theSinisterMushroom
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theSinisterMushroom
12d ago
I'm very fond of my jewish friends and (far) family. It's Israel's soul I'm worried about. Anyways, still waiting for someone to tell me who the messiah was/is, and how Eretz Israel has/will come about through nonviolence.
theSinisterMushroom
12d ago
I'm not sure the $3.8 B figure captures everything, but yeah it's probably minor in the grand scheme of things I'll give you that.
theSinisterMushroom
13d ago
Ackshually you can't cut money for my pet cause until you've proven to my satisfaction that you care about saving money more than you care about hurting my cause. The USAID stuff? Sorry, doesn't count. The ACA cuts? Doesn't cut it for me boss. Keep trying. But remember, you cut my stuff last, after I'm satisfied you're not in this just cuz you hate me.
theSinisterMushroom
13d ago
Misleading post. First, you except Ukraine treating that as extraordinary). But there is always something extraordinary. Before Ukraine there was Afghanistan and Iraq.
Yes, the interesting here is the no matter what extraordinary circumstances are going on, Israel is top 2 receiver of foreign aid as far back as the data shows
theSinisterMushroom
13d ago
Except here the sums are colossal as opposed to the amounts going to trans your kids.
theSinisterMushroom
13d ago
Yes, billions of dollars are being given to my cause, but look, those other guys are getting thousands too. Checkmate anti-zionists!
theSinisterMushroom
13d ago
Sure, let's have US cut Israeli military aid to 0 and have Israel give the US a few hundred hectares of Israeli land, plus qualified immunity for its soldiers raping Israeli girls when out on the town. You'll champion this with your fellow countrymen, right?
That leaderboard looks super sketch to me. Opus 4.6 better than gpt-5.6-sol-xhigh? It's definitely not been my experience that glm-5.2 is worse than Sonnet 4.6.
The Fediverse is the principled direction to take here. I imagine a bridge service could be created. Lemmy for example is federated and it's also basically a reddit clone, so the data plane should be compatible. When the exodus was being prepared by @ZorbaTHut on the OG /r/TheMotte I brought lemmy up, but its aesthetics were worse, and my spare time was negative.
ETA: Since code is free, maybe we can link up to Bluesky too? I recall some grumblings that the TheMotte is too right of center
theSinisterMushroom
4mo ago
No one can (or will) "prove" to you anything about the recent state of high level espionage operations or efforts. Let me ask you plainly, what are your probabilities that things have gotten better, stayed the same, or gotten worse since 2007?
Otherwise it's "I stopped reading the doctor's reports and just because I was sick last year doesn't mean I'm still sick now."
theSinisterMushroom
8mo ago
Not sure what you're asking for here. You want someone to leak a more recent NSA Strategic Mission List document? Who else could give you a recent picture of state-level espionage operations and why would they?
theSinisterMushroom
8mo ago
You think things have gotten better since?
As a bay area software engineer with a lot of free time on my hands since the pandemic let me tell you that I've been one of/the biggest boosters of the promise of llms and deep neural networks in my friend group since 2-3 years ago. For hours each day I've been reading papers, playing with all the models of all the labs, building software with coding agents, doing diffusion image generation, fine-tuning models for shits and giggles, etc etc.
I'm a very heavy user of claude code max, and it's been as helpful as it's been frustrating at times. Rest assured that there are many more interested people on theMotte and that we can figure out a way to get you the tokens you need, if you design an interesting experiment.
I totally get how claude code/opus 4.6 could look magical to a non experienced software engineer. But as helpful as it's been, it's also been frustrating. Yes, the apex of coding models/agent systems, claude code max will still make elementary errors that a junior engineer would not. If I had to summarize its shortcomings in one pithy sentence it would be LLM coding agents have high time preference. They lack foresight and they're lazy.
They pat themselves on the back for closing issues, not realizing the mess they're driving full speed towards. In my experience, without a very heavy guiding hand they will happily duplicate code, rely on shortcuts, lazily do the very bare minimum, or re-invent the wheel at times, especially on larger or more out-of-distribution codebases.
I desperately want to throw a dozen agents at a problem, but every time I look at the actual code I get frustrated: "Hey, I noticed this obvious code smell/antipattern in the code, plese fix." "Sure thing boss, I fixed it." "Ok, but I meant fix all the other instances of this bad pattern that I just noticed." "Oh, right you are boss." Then 15 minutes later, "Hi boss, I implemented this other issue you asked for, it's ready to be merged." "Did you use the correct pattern as discussed and as we added to the readme/dev docs/claude.md?" "Oh, right you are boss, I'll fix it in a jiffy." Over and over again. Yes this is with the latest claude code max/opus 4.6.
So, as mentioned above, I have free time on my hands, and would be happy to help design this experiment. I would like to be proven wrong, to learn that I've just been using these models wrong. But if you just want to show off how good of a centaur your friend+claude is on a cherry-picked problem of your choosing, I'm less interested.
Do you want to add something to the scope later? (Strongly inadvisable).
why not? requirements change all the time during product development. I propose modifying the problem given into a 2-stage architecture, the second stage to be added upon completion of the first and requiring (for satisfactory grade) the refactoring and building on top of some of the previously written code.
If my prime orchestrator spends 30 minutes building a full-stack webapp that doesn't work I'll say It doesn't work; troubleshoot, please. I trust your judgement."
how many interventions are warranted and how many points deducted? why wasn't claude smart enough to notice that the webapp doesn't work?
theSinisterMushroom
8mo ago
For Christians, does the New Law not fulfill and surpass the Old Law? Do Christians Zionists abstain from shellfish and pork?
theSinisterMushroom
8mo ago
There's probably a level between static dialog trees and completely open conversations with memory to keep npcs interesting without letting them off the guardrails or hearing about that arrow they took to the knee for the 100th time.
theSinisterMushroom
8mo ago
the Government cannot identify any statute in which the power to regulate includes the power to tax.
To tax is to regulate and to regulate is to tax, in free market economies.
theSinisterMushroom
9mo ago
The left has a chance to do a funny and reclaim "It's Okay to Be White" from the nazis. Maybe add (red?) white and blue stripes to the diversity/rainbow flag. We'd need some black leaders to say it on tv and in churches. Then the workers united will bring about the socialist paradise.
theSinisterMushroom
9mo ago
TIL about no federal income tax for Puerto Ricans. Maybe I should move there...
If everyone's happy with the status quo, sounds like a great outcome
Isn’t the central American Revolutionary mythology basically false? No taxation without representation is basically bullshit? Everything I have seen indicates total attempted taxation was like 1-2% of colonial income which to modern me basically feels like zero.
Maybe, but I think taxes were in general lower back then. Income tax for example didn't exist, and neither did sales tax (some goods were excise taxed), leaving land, poll, and other assorted local taxes. One may grumble at their taxes going to the local corrupt politician, but you can shame them or vote them out.
So I think that it was mostly a matter of principle for them. The Americans didn't view themselves as a British colony/territory, but citizens. When they were scorned by the king they probably saw themselves as fighting for a say in their own future.
Incidentally, if the Puerto Ricans made a similar argument with similar fervor, it might behoove the United States to give them a senator or let them go.
theSinisterMushroom
9mo ago
The Long Now foundation's bar, The Interval might be cool to check out
Revolutions are intoxicating, I can see how you'd be swept up into the love bombing for being on the right side of history. But it seems to me that the blue leaders in Minnesota/Minneapolis are trying to engineer a siege mentality in their base.
black and white thinking, social conformity, and lack of trust, but also a preparedness for the worst and a strong sense of social cohesion.
Some bits that caught my attention
ICE showed up to start their "Metro Surge" before I got here, and immediately started making like difficult wherever they went. They were atrociously rude drivers. They made belligerent sidewalk scenes during apprehensions. The active folks started following them around, using Signal chats and group texts, blowing whistles to gather crowds.
I'm sure in his (Jill's?) version of history the local activists only started impeding ICE activities after being exposed to their rude driving, since as Minnesotans they're just too nice to just let belligerence like that go.
It was awesome to be with so many people braving the cold
You can feel the energy, the belonging, like being bombed with love.
To me the yelling and taunting at police was misplaced aggression, and counter productive but it was their town, not mine.
we got up in the morning, put on our long underwear and gloves, yelled at the interlopers until we were cold/had to pee, then went out to lunch. I have done some great cc skiing, and he really begun to improve my form in the 'skate' technique.
were soon commandeered into helping a first-aid site for tear-gas etc in a Middle Eastern restaurant two blocks south [...] it was way past lunch and we should eat before she crashed. I could see an active buffet in the Middle Eastern, and we grabbed some plates and had a great meal. The host brought us tea.
If you didn't catch the cognitive dissonance in the main text above, no worries, his reply further down (quoted by @phailyoor) should make you do a double take
they are nearly invisible. The closest I have been is watching a Charger with tinted windows out my bedroom window in the morning [...] we were alerted that they were at the elementary school around the block [...] it as all over before she got there. not sure what ever happened. [...] I have occasionally heard the sound of dozens of whistles being blown in the distance, and seen the rising cloud of dispersal smoke
So it sounds like if you're a legal resident not looking for trouble you're perfectly safe?
I have also been present while crowds waited for them to leave apartment buildings. I split those scenes.
Yeah, it might ruin your appetite for the tapas dinner to hang around there.
https://old.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qn6dfp/ice_agents_and_what_looks_like_police_stand_at/ https://old.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qn81j3/protestors_have_taken_over_the_hotel_ice_is/
But out here, living in it, we just wonder "how many more?"
Living in what? Some light protesting before the apres-ski? If you truly believe this is authoritarianism, why not beg Jill to lend you your balls back so you can go spit some ICE officers in the face. Make sure to take some weaponry, you're fighting Nazis after all.
theSinisterMushroom
10mo ago
Weaksauce.
Feel free to run those numbers for us. Make sure to subtract personnel costs.
ETA: Fine, show me either. I saw no numbers, just feelings
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