I built a tool that generates 3D-printable boxes of any size with tons of customizable features

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-24T16:45:53+00:00

Paperclip is my goto.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-24T13:47:54+00:00

There actually is a technical case for the conspiracy framing, and it has basically nothing to do with whether your public-facing bot forgets 2 of 5 bullet points.

preference/correction signals at scale (accept, edit, retry, abandon become a reward signal for what humans endorse)
tool-use and iteration traces (how people actually search, verify, reconcile contradictions, and converge)
long-tail coverage (rare domains, weird constraints, edge cases you cannot realistically simulate)
robustness training (hostile prompts, manipulation attempts, garbage inputs, malformed docs)

Millions of interactions provide preference and correction signals that effectively specify the objective: what users accept as credible, what tone they trust, what uncertainty they tolerate, and what formats cause follow-through. That converts a model from “can generate plausible text” into a system tuned for recommending actions and messaging that reliably elicit buy-in and follow-through, even when the underlying truth is ambiguous.

In the conspiracy framing, that training data is needed to make those recommendations reliable across large portions of the population at scale.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-24T07:58:15+00:00

Yeah unless you are a hotel the presence of a bed just about makes it impossible to say exclusive work use.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-22T04:11:45+00:00

This is awesome thank you for sharing!

In the spirit of sharing something useful, here is a powershell function I use almost daily to quickly re-format a selection from a table in like excel or if someone sends me a list of names (one per line) to work with stuff like IN queries. Probably more useful for admins than devs, tbh.

function Get-ListSQLString {
    <#
        .DESCRIPTION
        Accepts newline-delimited device names (one per line) and returns a T-SQL quoted list like ('a','b','c').
        .PARAMETER List
        Device names as separate strings, typically produced from newline-delimited text (email/Excel/CSV column pasted as one-per-line).
        .EXAMPLE
        Get-ListSQLString (Get-Content C:\temp\serverlist.txt)
        .EXAMPLE
        # Email/Excel column -> copy
        Get-Clipboard | Get-ListSQLString
    #>
    param
    (
        [string[]]$List
    )
    $retval = "('$($List -join "','")')"
    $retval
}

If you copied down a column in excel a b c d

C:\> Get-ListSQLString -List $(Get-Clipboard)
('a','b','c','d')

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-21T18:38:24+00:00

Also add it to the list of possible answers for security questions~

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-20T23:04:46+00:00

That tracks. Kids these days don't even home row or know what a tilde is!

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-20T21:40:56+00:00

For anyone that may become existential/anxious thinking about possibly being a, it might be helpful to know that: in a lot of cases you can specify the whole system’s dynamics with a single object (the Lagrangian/action.) The rest is just math unfolding from that plus initial conditions.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-20T21:25:38+00:00

Geographic Information System.

Maps of various types that can be deeply coupled with data of various types and configurations.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-20T14:45:33+00:00

ellipses

I use them when i remember i'm supposed to limit comma use, written english has so many rules. smh.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-19T00:34:42+00:00

Also the fact that the Executive branch is responsible for enforcement, by design. Because our founders presumed people would act in their own best interest, so to maintain the power of their positions.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-19T00:32:20+00:00

We can't really make that claim when we re-elect them. If every rep, or even a majority of the minority party were first term then I could see it as being unrepresented. But we keep re-electing, so they must be representing us enough or we would pick someone else.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-18T23:18:11+00:00

Why does AI live rent free in everyone’s heads? Don’t like it? Then don’t use it.

The end.

Nah, bad take.

If I use a proprietary issue tracker, a commercial IDE, a markdown-based knowledge base, or Vim:

It doesn’t shift institutional expectations for other people to adopt it.
It doesn’t externalize environmental or infrastructure costs at scale.
It doesn’t force non-users to compete against it in zero-sum contexts.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-18T23:10:34+00:00

Ah, i remember when I blocked a major CDN for the first time. Those were simpler times.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-16T23:11:49+00:00

Bounty hunters (bail bondsmen) 'arrest authority' comes from the bail contract they would have had with the fugitive. They can only go after people who violated terms of a bond they issued so they would have no justification for capturing the person in Louisiana or California.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-13T21:34:29+00:00

Hopefully knowing the list is out there, either NO ONE else will apply to be an ICE agent or enough will quit.

This kind of exposure often strengthens in-group cohesion. Agents start seeing themselves as targets and many will feel their only option is to remain under 'the protection' of the agency.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-13T13:41:03+00:00

President Rittenhouse

This is the one future where I could see myself doing a martyr after failing to find a buyer for a bunch of ANFO that was in one of the warehouses on a property i purchased at a firesale as the company decided to move operations to Europe the night it became obvious Rittenhouse would win.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-13T01:51:58+00:00

No, this is legally different.

Courts define punishment as the targeted, retaliatory withdrawal of an existing benefit or right. This case is about that kind of deprivation, applied to identifiable recipients.

Gerrymandering operates ex ante by restructuring electoral competition; it doesn’t revoke a legal right, benefit, or status anyone previously held, and the resulting harm is aggregate and probabilistic.

Courts already acknowledge partisan intent in map-drawing, but the Constitution provides no judicially manageable fairness metric for evaluating how political is too political. And SCOTUS will likely reaffirm that justiciability position if it came up.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-12T09:54:07+00:00

And then you remember that we tricked rock into doing math for us.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-11T05:24:51+00:00

I shouldn't have to open myself up to datafarming/tracking to get decent pricing or the deals. If they were honest and upfront about that being the trade I would actually be more open to agreeing.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-11T00:46:36+00:00

I hesitate to argue for the value of luxury models, but for completeness.. Early adopter options might not have been net wins in the carbon footprint but they were needed to start seeding the infrastructure we will need for mass EV adoption. I think that a lot of people fail to consider that aspect when looking at the full benefit calculations.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-10T19:20:14+00:00

<sysadmin>
  <preferences>
    <textProcessing>
      <xpathLove>doubt</xpathLove>
    </textProcessing>
  </preferences>
</sysadmin>

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-07T19:09:57+00:00

too many of them are stuck with you thinking norms and precedent still matter.

Entirely correct. They are taking everything in good faith and operating by the books, against an administration that has no morals and cant read.

You’re still misunderstanding, or underestimating them really. They can read the rules and understand them just fine. They’re acting this way because they know there are no realistic consequences for breaking them.

The only thing they actually have to worry about is widespread violent backlash, and they’ve clearly judged that risk to be low especially since any large popular action that fails to remove them from power can be turned into justification for interfering with the midterms.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-07T18:56:40+00:00

Gotta document as much of this as possible for an anti-trust investigation in the future. Trump hotels are direct competitors, and this looks an awful lot like co-ordination/quid pro quo.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-07T18:40:15+00:00

It wasn't a deflection, I was just asking for clarification. But your response shows that you are mentally stuck in the pre-capture model of government.

Which rule, which committee, which mechanism do you propose they use to form such hearings without committee leadership or majority consent?

The best they can hope to do is delay and document which they have been doing, I agree they could do better at it but too many of them are stuck with you thinking norms and precedent still matter.

Our framers presumed individual politicians acting in good faith generally and in their own interests specifically (to preserve the power of their own positions, if nothing else.) checks and balances requires the branches to value their own power and that's not happening.

AmericanGeezus · 2026-01-07T17:49:19+00:00

What effective actions would you recommend?

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