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fnicfnac··on Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
"20X the usage of pro" still sounds like quotas where the hammer could fall as it becomes less of an experiment for a limited number of power users..

The costs of self hosting some reasonable size models for a development group of various sizes is what I would want to know before investing in the skills to do a high usage style that might be being mostly bankrolled by investors for now.

fnicfnac··on The illegible nature of software development talent
I look at resumes from time to time, just enough to know there aren't enough noble prizes.

I also knew a number of elite school students and aside from usually having wealthy parents and motivation problems when given real world tasks with real world levels of possible reward, they aren't all that far away from the average.

Take for example SBF.. possibly a genius would have gone straight to juvi either way if he was from a community college town and wasn't a nepo child of actual geniuses. More important than having any skills in the subject, he spoke economic shibboleth as a native speaker which his parents learned as a second tongue in a much harder process.

fnicfnac··on Crypto Sees More Than $6B in Liquidations
> We are going to see assets across the whole sector correct even gold.

What would gold correct relative to? I can't really comprehend why something like a national currency would maintain its purchasing value as well as any physical asset in the dissolving contracts kind of scenario you describe.

I will agree that other nations will begin taking what they want instead of just keeping these things as alternatives. It is of course surprising that China's response to America first wasn't to put America's interests first.

fnicfnac··on My first contribution to Linux
No external compass, something the group views as (or probably unavoidably knows to be) dangerous. Overcoming the fear of it and then belittling those who haven't completed the same process. Psychologists call that the normalization of deviance. A commercial airline pilot has the external compass in your questionable aviation example.

You don't want a group with initial success with the left, right left and so much enjoyment from the sense of fulfillment in social deviance process that they think they can take over everything.

fnicfnac··on My first contribution to Linux
I'm not sure if there is a word for people who choose high risk activities because they have less fear, because I'm not a coroner.. Perhaps because I'm not sure I have a healthy enough fear of death.

If you examine the stats with the assumption that you could be one who dies early and probably won't take up opioids then there is some logical reasoning to do about your relationship with cars and death. "Mistaking" that for fear is a defense mechanism.

The situation of the worse is better crowd and computer security increasingly looks like one of these things that I don't want to apply such a defense mechanism to.

Linux has not really gotten us closer to eliminating Windows yet it has eliminated a lot of the other approaches to eliminating Windows. Maybe it is only on par with the escooters that can now run me down on the sidewalk but don't seem to have reduced my risk from cars.

fnicfnac··on The illegible nature of software development talent
I don't think elite school has much to do with talent just with how visible the things they are trusted with are.. From community college I've met some building things for companies too out of the mainstream to understand how unusual their IT worker was.
fnicfnac··on My first contribution to Linux
I'm also looking forward to telling a driver that I never I wanted to be near cars when they eventually run me down.
fnicfnac··on Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
No comparison to Python 2.7.18.
fnicfnac··on My first contribution to Linux
You can obviously map arbitrary key codes however you want on a custom OS and have extremely little fear of someone having embedded nonsense down to the bios.

On windows many of these laptop buttons were added like the Yahoo browser bar to specifically work with bloatware that might go on to make a meaningful action for non malicious software as well as what it is really for.

I prefer not to be in the habit of pressing footguns given that I might occasionally be placed in front of a consumers windows laptop that no one cleaned.

fnicfnac··on My first contribution to Linux
We might have a different definition of issue.. I think 100% compatibile working would be launching bloatware installed by the manufacturer. I'm happy not to have the pavlovian training that may some day cause me to click one of these things on someone's windows machine.
fnicfnac··on Predator drones shift from border patrol to protest surveillance
A lot of the people who were attending protests against COVID measures (or otherwise engaged in civil disobedience in public) when the President was a Democrat are very excited about measures that would have been very effective against them and will be again.
fnicfnac··on The fight between doctors and insurance companies over 'downcoding'
What is the point of having a low deductible when you could put the premium difference in a HSA and use it on either the deductible or something uncovered?
fnicfnac··on Women portrayed as younger than men online, and AI amplifies the bias
Exceptions prove the rule.. Those CEOs stand out because they care and unashamedly care; Pamela Anderson stands out because she doesn't.
fnicfnac··on Tesla unveils cheaper versions of its Model 3 and Model Y
The eternal pattern of the industry is that a automanufacturer has negative interest in remaining interested in an infotainment system in a car they sold several years ago and retrofit makers provide less specifically integrated systems that win overall because developments in everything else amounts to more than the integration.