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maximinus_thrax··on There are no "rogue" AI agents
So does that mean that the rule of law is no longer a thing?
maximinus_thrax··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
You'll have AI attorneys? Hello??
maximinus_thrax··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
I thought it was a joke and I laughed out loud
maximinus_thrax··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
> Say what you will about LLM-generated code, but stories like this give me hope that software will never be as buggy as it once was.

Stories like these is what I now call 'Marketing slop'

maximinus_thrax··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
Neither are the pirated books Meta is using for model training.
maximinus_thrax··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
> and then rotated his MAC address to dodge the bans that the admin was trying to place on him

And corporate scrapers never ever use proxy pools to rotate IPs to evade throttling and blacklisting. Meta is also scraping illegal content, such as pirated books. So I'm not sure what your argument is.

maximinus_thrax··on Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding
> My Eng lead has no coding experience, 25 years of management experience, yet has driven 3 separate projects into technical bankruptcy to date.

This is C-suite material.

maximinus_thrax··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
> What makes you think so?

Your resident propagandists like Solovyov, Dugin and Medvedev are very explicit about invading former warsaw pact countries when they're not threatening Europe with nukes.

> Previous wars with Russia were obnoxious with very bad consequences

They didn't teach you about the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in your russian school? Of course not, it doesn't fit the great patriotic war narrative. It's about that time when your country's leadership was friendly with the nazis and decided to split eastern europe between themselves.

Look, a picture of stalin shaking hands with a nazi: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Bundesar...

maximinus_thrax··on Russia bars last anti-war party from election, partly over AI image copyright
> rebuild Ukrainian army for the next round

There's going to be a next round? Have russians lost all sense of what's embarrassing? Is one ass-kicking with 500k fatalities and an economy held together by nabiullina duct tape not enough? I guess russia just needs to collapse every 100 years..

maximinus_thrax··on Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
> I've seen a lot of bloat, corruption, & massive inefficiency.

Been working for more than 20 years in corporations and I've seen the same.

maximinus_thrax··on New Intelligence Warns Russia May Provoke NATO Amid Dwindling U.S. Munitions
> western demands that encroached on Russia's sphere of influence

What a horribly reductive and downright insulting view of Eastern European politics.

> independent and united Europe, with Russia a part of it

Is this some sort of joke? The biggest enemy of Civilized Europe was, is and always will be a Russian state with imperial ambitions. Read a damn history book.

maximinus_thrax··on Ukrainian attacks on Wildberries strike at heart of Russia Inc
It's called Dingleberries
maximinus_thrax··on Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor
> The inherently violent nature of war

So now it's a war? It's no longer a special military operation by law? Bro, you should watch yourself, you can go to prison for using the wrong terminology.

maximinus_thrax··on Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries
https://www.reuters.com/world/warehouse-russian-online-retai...

It seems Dingleberries failed to elect a new pope. Again.

maximinus_thrax··on John C. Dvorak has died
Oh man, this nostalgia hit me hard. I was an avid listener to both This Week in Tech and Cranky Geeks. I remember I was watching (!!!) Cranky Geeks on my ipod when I was bedridden from surgery in 2008.

RIP.

maximinus_thrax··on How to hide from killer drones
@dang This user is a known troll spreading Russian disinformation and aggravating users, that's pretty much all their contributions on the forum. They are at the second account (first being protomolecule). I've seen accounts banned for less than this.
maximinus_thrax··on AI Has Broken Hiring
There's a spectrum of 'broken' and AI made it worse
maximinus_thrax··on OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B
> The money they're burning is not yours or mine. They're institutional investor money. So, again, who cares?

This is not happening in a vacuum. A lot of index funds and retirement accounts have bought into AI and AI adjacent companies, many with stakes in OpenAI. If OpenAI keels over, even when private, it will affect a lot of americans. If they IPO, it's even worse.

maximinus_thrax··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
Because it's futile. This person was banned before, this is their new account.
maximinus_thrax··on Can we have the day off?
> If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, would have taken all week.

You must be new here. No, that's not how this work. If you are able to produce the same amount of work by midday Monday we expect you to increase the amount of output in the current system by 14 x. And the owners pocket the financial gain from this productivity delta and you should be happy you even have a job.

maximinus_thrax··on Using AI to write better code more slowly
> I am aware of all the code being written.

Define 'aware'. The volume of code for a feature/system to make it worth using a more complex workflow such as this one, is definitely larger than what a human can even briefly review and build a mental model about the inner workings within a reasonable amount of time. Reasonable meaning not considerable delaying the process. When deadlines loom and management adds pressure, this 'awareness' is the first thing that goes out the window.

maximinus_thrax··on Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
> I'm a happy TurboTax customer for over 25 years.

I've been using TurboTax for about 20 years now and I am not happy. I hate it with a passion, it has more dark patterns than even LinkedIn and with my basic W-2 tax return with HDHP I managed to hit all their 'know issues' 4 years in a row. They of course offered me to upgrade several times during the 'work flow' to make up for it.

I loathe the existence of Intuit and I still have some hope that a future administration will kill it by having the IRS implement a basic digital product for federal tax filing for the 90% of people who use the standard deduction. Intuit should not exist in its current form in any civilized country, it is a form of cancer which only exists because our politicians are a bunch of greedy fucks.

maximinus_thrax··on As Russian drones hunt Ukrainians in 'human Safari,' a boy fought back
Don't bother, you are replying to a notorious Russian troll
maximinus_thrax··on A History of IDEs at Google
> https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/gemini/ai-ultra...

It's been a while since I visited any google pages and I'm shocked how insipid and soulless their UX still is.

maximinus_thrax··on Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study
I quit smoking a long time ago but if there's one thing I'm missing / craving is a hot cup of coffee with two cigarettes on an empty stomach during cold winter mornings... Fuuuuck.
maximinus_thrax··on New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
Not sure why they classified this language as 'old English'. It's so far removed (from all perspectives including a fundamentally different grammatical system) from modern or even early modern English, it's a completely different language altogether. I find "old English" to be a highly a misleading name as it implies continuity that simply isn't there in the same way it exists in say German.
maximinus_thrax··on Ban the sale of precise geolocation
> I'm no fun of Stalin

I would argue for the generality of this characterization

maximinus_thrax··on Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight
> I don't even think I've seen a single on here in Russia in the 90s.

I'm not surprised, considering they were expensive. That doesn't mean they weren't popular in the west.

maximinus_thrax··on Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
I own a kindle and use it daily. I just borrow all my ebooks from public libraries. I buy the books I want to keep, in physical form.
maximinus_thrax··on Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
Please don't 'buy' digital items from Amazon, because you won't actually own them. Pay extra, support your local bookshop and get a physical copy which you will actually own.
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