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I’m optimistic that because LLMs have brought down the cost of the mere act of typing out code that we will see a shift in focus on certification and verification. Preferably with some legal protection for customers that are sorely lacking today.

Google used and endorsed it at a critical time back when the mainstream media machine was inflating their image. Even programmers like to ape celebrities and by extension Python was the choice of the sophisticated and well-read hacker in the know. It was just luck and dumb social reasons.

You can’t be at the top of your child selling and money laundering game if your feet hurt.

Epstein had a subscription to Intelligence Squared. I feel like his whole character has come into focus for me.

I would have put the “release” part in scare quotes as anything important has been redacted.

D) the FBI stitches it up to protect the real criminals and brings out some poor fool to take the blame.

Because it would be damning to Israeli interests.

Its output might violate speech codes, and in much of the EU that is penalized much more seriously than violent crime.

“State capitalism” would imply it serves the overarching interest of the state. Pretty sure this is just good old-fashioned graft. If Chevron and Google want to go about their business, then you have to pay the mafia don his vig. Just like the last administration, and probably a lot like what the next one will be like.

I’m pretty sure if the Iranian missile program had not demonstrated its ability to exhaust and defeat the sum total of all western missile defense production and force a truce, that the discussion would be around which European population would get the plantation of Ulster treatment with the tens of millions of refugees.

I feel like I may be insulting your intelligence with how obvious this is, but the Israeli government has had turning Iran into a failed state as an open policy objective since the 1980s. Given that Israeli interests have achieved this end in basically every non-monarchy in the region, I think this is a credible threat. Israel has a highly aggressive and influential lobby in the United States, which has posed debilitating sanctions on Iran for many years now. I’m not saying the religious leadership in Iran are the good guys, but the siege mentality is hardly irrational.

Thus, by their fruit, you will recognize them.

Heckling is a lot easier than creating. Personally, I think we have an over supply of “ideas guys“

It’s a complex issue which deserves a complex explanation. I wouldn’t oversimplify and discount that at least some people with decision making clout in the US want Maduro to be made an example of. Nearly all leaders in the Americas (including in the US) are generally hostile to the US population, but Maduro is probably the most open and aggressive. Sending the worst prisoners to us is laudable as a resourceful and creative form of biological warfare, but I would still want to see him on the business end of US ordinance. Incidentally reducing the supply of narcotics, even if it’s a small percentage, is a win for working class folks on net, and at least some people care about them. Chinese and Russian interests getting cute and forward positioning offensive or dual-use material is likely in play. A smoke screen for the only country the US policy-making establishment actually cares about is also an interest served. A little jingoism probably polls well. Unfortunately, we don’t have a monarchy and policy is basically unexplainable. Sort of like how it is when companies get too big and anybody who can buy shares gets a say.

That the US cannot win a war is silly. The US could erase every population center within a few minutes. The core issue with US military policy is nobody can agree on what the goals are or what the appropriate level of force should be, and this is further confounded by an extremely large industry that benefits from no compete contracts and production practices that are optimized for low intensity conflict that lasts for decades. It’s sort of an elaborate jobs program, a lot like the TSA.

You might be surprised. Disney is a pretty good example of activist shareholders undermining the value of their brand for purely ideological reasons. This is a little easier to wrap your head around when you recognize Black Rock-type situation where the custodians of the funds are able to take extraordinary personal liberty with other people’s money.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure you need to sharpen your pencil on this one if the conclusion was that the Apollo program was legitimate.

Would the US security leviathan give away other people’s money for highly current floor plans of every residence in the country just on the 1-in-a-million chance they decide to kick in your door and shoot your dog? Probably.

I think it’s much more likely they’re creating honeypots as contractors. There is a lot more money in surveillance than privacy

Deprived of all options by the manifest oppression of the Republican Party, American youths of today face the grim choice between shoplifting Louis Vuitton below their AG’s prosecution threshold or working several hours a week in the shadow of the menacing smokestacks of ID Software to afford their meager iPhones. Affluent Ugandans make monthly donations to American charities who will send them pictures of smiling American 20-something’s named “Jaden” their charity has lifted out of complete destitution and given hope of owning their own Miami condo.

Having used Bentley software products I can tell you with complete certainty that professional software developers have extremely bad judgment when it comes to the need to test software and verify its functionality. Developers just think they know what they’re doing because there’s typically not a strong feedback mechanism that inflicts serious career damage when they do things that are extremely lazy or stupid or unethical. How many people lost their job or had to change their name and live out the rest of their days in Juarez Mexico over AWS’ incomprehensible configuration causing an internet brown out? Anyone? A teenager serves cold onion rings at a burger joint and he’s on the street. Some lazy dweeb at Amazon blows up the internet and - come on, isn’t it about the friends we made along the way? It’s obscene and the lack of professionalism and accountability is a total disgrace.

I already assume everything, and I mean everything, that I read in any comment section, whether here or sewers like Reddit, X, or one of the many Twitter-but-Communist clones, is either:

1. Paid marketing (tech stacks, political hackery, Rust evangelism) 2. Some sociopath talking his own book 3. Someone who spouts off about things he doesn’t know about (see: this post’s author)

The internet of real people died decades ago and we can only wander in the polished megalithic ruins of that enlightened age.

Which is the better value:

Hundreds of tests that were written basically for free in a few minutes even though a lot of them are kind of dumb?

Or hundreds of tests that were written for a five figure sum that took weeks or months, and only some of them are kind of dumb?

If you’re just thinking of code as the end in and of itself, then of course, the handcrafted artisanal product is better. If you think of code like an owner, an incidental expense towards solving a problem that has value, then cheap and disposable wins every time. We can throw our hands up about “quality“ and all that, but that baby was thrown out with the bathwater a very, very long time ago. The modern Web is slower than the older web. Desktop applications are just web browsers. Enterprise software barely works. Windows 11 happened. I don’t think anybody even bothers to scrutinize their dependency chains except for, I don’t know, like maybe missile guidance or something. And I just want to say Claude is not responsible for any of this. You humans are.

I’m impressed by getting the output of at least a mediocre developer at less than 1% of the cost. Brute force is an underrated strategy. I’ve been having a great experience.

That developers in the Hacker News comment bin report experiences that align with their personal financial interests doesn’t really dissuade me.

Nobody had a robust, empirical metric of programmer productivity. Nobody. Ticket count, function points, LoC, and others tell you nothing about the fitness of the product. It’s all feels.

Hospitals were paid much more for the Covid patients that died than those who lived. There’s some very strong circumstantial evidence about this driving treatment protocols.

Trades also have self regulation. You can’t sell plumbing services or build houses without any experience or you get in legal trouble. If your workmanship is poor, you can be disciplined by the board even if the tool was at fault. I think fraudulent publications should be taken at least as seriously as badly installed toilets.

I’m not suggesting comirnanty is wolbachia. If there is reproductive harm, or reproductive harm passed on to children, then we will not know for a long time.

I believe that you’re well read on the CDC’s messaging on this topic. I’d like to bring to your attention that glyphosate was scientifically shown to pose no harm, but that key paper was retracted 25 years later. Pfizer is making over $10B/yr on comirnanty and at one point it was over $50B. Would you lie for that kind of money? Could you imagine someone who would?

You really aren’t going to know how this MRNA in egg and sperm cells are going to affect offspring until you have offspring to observe. Effects like wolbachia could take multiple generations to observe.

I don’t think it’s possible to know anything conclusive about the safety for a few decades and a generation or two of affected kids can be observed. Given that finding harm would embarrass important aristocrats, I don’t think that evidence would ever be found in the foreseeable future. That mRNA and lipid nano particles were never found to be safe until the exact moment of crisis is awfully convenient for its investors.

I say decades because of the study below. Certainly, the authors could have published it for engagement bait or malice or some reason.

https://www.gavinpublishers.com/article/view/detection-of-pf...

You may not be old enough to remember Edward Snowden or Mark Klein (who went unnoticed), but there never was anonymity.

My pet theory is that this requirement is part of a mob war and porn and whatever else the MindGeek people are involved with is being attacked for the much of the same reasons Ukraine attacks Russian oil refineries.

The evening news was once a trusted source. Wikipedia had its run. Google too. Eventually, the weight of all the the thumbs on the scale will be felt and trust will be lost for good and then we will invent a new oracle.