dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
20hr ago
Maybe this is a niche but I've been working on a compiler project for 3 months now. I've been mostly using Opus but it'll get stuck once in awhile and fall repeatedly to make progress but switching to Fable breaks the logjam. I would leave it on Fable but it exhausts limits too fast.
For the majority of coding tasks I have, Opus is fine.
I'm surprised people aren't humble bragging more about how their work is so fucking heady and sophisticated that they have no choice but to pay a premium for Fable 5.1 all of the time and even being forced to use 5.0 would delay completion of the Dyson sphere by years.
Papa Bear said something the other day about how SV types will cry Orwellian dystopia if you propose regulating tech at the level that eggs or milk are regulated.
Maybe toy enjoyers just hate regulation so, so much more than they hate Zuckerberg and boom solidarity.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
Is it a sign of the polar opposite of depression if I'm starting to fixate on every spec of lint or dust or schmutz in my house and car? I'll vacuum and sweep and it'll look nice, for an hour. Then I'll spot a new bit of fuzz or whatever on something and get the urge to clean it again and have to convince myself to leave it alone for a few days.
Relatu
EDIT: lol just found this. I have no idea what was going on. Maybe I fell asleep mid post.
They killed Data in that Star Trek movie and it's been just a shadow of itself after that. Even bringing him back (kind of) in Picard didn't do it for me. i will never fully forgive them.
I've had friends die and I still dream about them from time to time, as if it had never happened. Death sucks.
Maybe I'm immature or fundamentally out of touch with mortality but I don't take it well. Yes sure maybe there's salvation in suffering or whatever but I find very little art/positives in losing someone you have feelings for.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
How many beans are we talking at once? I think it's a cumulative effect.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
You can absolutely hurt yourself sprinting in a way that you can't from distance running. My running club definitely sees an uptick in injuries during track work cycles. Be sure to build in plenty of rest and don't escalate too quickly.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
Do you have any recommendations for gas station/convenience store/hospital cafeteria food that might be less bad?
I'm guessing the bad here means lots of high energy convenience food plus very little opportunity to do the exercise necessary to mitigate the badness.
Not to sound very cliche and I feel like a ditto head even mentioning it but try minimizing simple carb intake. They're high energy and not very satiating so they can promote weight gain, but they also spike your blood sugar and if you're not working hard it leads to insulin resistance. If a Big Mac is your only option try removing the bun kind of stuff.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
8d ago
Whenever I read about how stuff is made in factories it's always like, two orders of magnitude harder than I was expecting.
Metal casings for artillery? Surely you just kind of sprinkle a truck load of metal chips into a hopper and they automatically melt into cubes oh and also you upload a sketch to a CNC router and out pop the casings on the other side right? You just need the delivery driver to drop them off and wait 45 minutes for the casings to be ready and then they load them up?
No? Huh.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
9d ago
Sorry if you answered this already but what's your deadlift progression like? I'm at 1.6x body weight and had to really fight to get it off the ground for the last workout. I do 3 sets of 5, once a week. Should I back off to 85% and climb back up? Should I add a high rep lower weight workout mid week?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
10d ago
Could someone steelmom killing your own kids for me?
I'm pretty sure my kids are like 83%ile for being ornery aggravating shitheads but I still can't possibly imagine killing them and would kill myself first if I ever thought stuff like that.
Do kids have room to be 100x more infuriating and aggravating? And some people really are cursed with kids like that? Would that totally warp my values? Are there women actually putting up with kids that shitty? Is there any evidence Clancy's kids were really shitty?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
12d ago
Can you ping your online correspondents and ask them why Arday was singled out for lynching while Cambridge has other black professors who seem to have perfectly normal academic careers?
The principled defense goes something like this: Arday was an extraordinary person who was overly scrutinized for being black. Sure he embellished his achievements and did some light academic misconduct, but not any more than any other successful white person. If you think he doesn't deserve to be a Cambridge professor you clearly haven't met any other Cambridge professors or are a racist. The scrutiny and hatred directed at him for invading a white space was over the top and led to his discrediting, resignation and suicide. He was just guy dealt a tough hand in life who succeeded despite adversity and it made some racists absolutely crazy.
Rowling on the other hand succeeded despite adversity as well, but then after becoming a famous white billionaire, used her position to punch down against a persecuted minority group. She is justly being attacked but is still alive and a billionaire so you can't even complain.
(btw black Cambridge professors exist but why let that get in the way of a story)
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
12d ago
I'm sure you're playing dumb on purpose to obfuscate the issue
Thanks for providing the context but this barb is unnecessary.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
12d ago
I agree the arguments are usually dumb but how about this one: datacenters in general built by the hyperscalers have a good history but modern AI datacenters in particular are built in a hurry with little concern for local pollution or green energy commitments and small municipalities are at risk of being played off each other by level 50 lawyer sharks from trillion dollar corporations. They create few permanent jobs and nobody trusts the promised infrastructure improvements will actually materialize.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
12d ago
In the Arday context, no one argues he isn’t guilty of the charges. Instead, they claim accurately castigating Arday repeatedly for his crime is a modern day lynching.
Who is "they" here? Like two influencers posting rage bait? Or was there a poll done where 40% of progressives say this was a lynching?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
12d ago
I spent the last 11 days camping without any Internet access. We engaged in primitive recreation like hiking to secluded hot springs, told stories around a fire and also wrote code without an LLM.
It was kind of hard, in dumb ways. I had to look up how APIs worked and couldn't because all I had were the C++ standard library headers, and those things are not meant for human consumption. I muddled through, but it reminded me of what it was like to program not only without an LLM but also without good online references.
We've come a long way.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
23d ago
proclaimed, "Woke 1 was crazy"
The best part about this is now the Republicans can be all "haha yeah MAGA was crazy let's just forget all about that"
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
23d ago
I was expecting to find this hot from your description but it ended up being unattractive for me. I can't even really access it in a 'sex with crazy people is so exciting' sense. It all just strikes me as too forced and stilted and weird and with no emotional valence.
I don't mean to sound like a queer or nuthin' but I thought Christopher Walken was sexier.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
25d ago
We talked about North vs South Italy here a few months ago.
https://www.themotte.org/post/3726/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/439931?context=8#context
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
25d ago
Was anyone else asked the mitigating circumstances question? How did they respond?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
26d ago
Curious. How do you actually get AIs that will process porn? It seems like you need to grab open weight models and fine tune them? And the fine tunings themselves are valuable enough that you don't just post them? Definitely doesn't seem as easy as grabbing a Claude API key and writing a Python script.
A lot of them are too stupid to declare bankruptcy and just make the minimum payments for life, and divert whatever cash windfalls they get towards it. Only to then continue spending into their temporarily freed up credit.
I'm not saying a business that boosts utility today for people with high future discounting rates is inherently bad, but to the degree banks exploit this it borders into illegitimacy, IMO.
I was born and raised in NYC and moved to a small town mid career to start a family with my sweetheart. Now I'm back to visit my parents and the place feels so inhuman to me. Just stress and noise and chaos from every direction.
How did I live with this so long? I think having a drink every day was a part of it.
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