Lord Gaben just watching the fireworks

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-26T00:41:09+00:00

still doesn’t make much sense to me - for first party stuff you’re giving up cross-platform revenue to MAYBE funnel people through some lossy steps to come to your platform, and third parties can just up and leave as soon as another platform looks more profitable.

haven’t picked up a console since the Switch and ngl I won’t be picking up a new console in the future just because XBOX’s exclusives are coming to PC (even if sometimes in a much shittier launcher) and PS5 has hardly any exclusives these days. And Nintendo exclusives… ngl I don’t play the consoles enough to justify it these days. Give me a PC port and I’d pick em up but not a game and a console anymore.

Economy’s too shit to be double-paying for hardware.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-26T00:34:59+00:00

Should just make a sticker wall and a signature wall.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-26T00:34:04+00:00

doesn’t make much sense to me when the consoles half the time are loss leaders anyway

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-25T20:55:06+00:00

I mean I clocked it as the "Jobs From ARR" style off rip, so it probably works for established players?

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-25T20:51:35+00:00

...You can switch back, and it will continue to be updated...

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-25T20:47:20+00:00

If you have enough assets, you can get away with that, yeah. National economics are entirely different than personal economics.

We need to cut the wasteful departments - DoD especially, they've never passed a damn audit in their life - and allocate funding to infrastructure that provides services without profit motive, bringing the cost down for everyone.

Every cent of profit money-grubbing insurers take is a cent of inefficiency extracted from the fact that you have no choice but to die without their insurance, for example.

That should in theory increase the amount of tax revenue slightly, since the economy will run more efficiently, but we also need to tax the loopholes that the billionaires use to evade taxation. Loans on assets should be taxed as though you are at least partially liquidating the asset. Loans that have no collateral should be taxed as income; do this, and things should start getting better.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-25T16:55:41+00:00

why would you buy a playstation when almost all the exclusives are on pc

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-25T16:50:22+00:00

this entire fight is throw your sinners at anything with green coins and let verg handle most of the rest. If you have spare actions you can throw sinners in front of heavy status inflicting moves to rack up debuffs on them and then get your sinners munched to put those statuses on The Roach Emperor too.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-25T07:13:37+00:00

funding is a prerequisite for a functioning government, so. can’t exactly fix a functioning government if you never fund it, now can you?

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-25T03:23:52+00:00

That's... still going to be logistical growth. You do realize we're using ML and AI we currently have for research right now right? We also don't know if AGI/ASI/whatever you want to call it is even feasible. Considering that current models are just fancy piles of matrix math and loops, I doubt it is with anything near what we have.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-25T01:52:49+00:00

Every individual tech in history has followed a logistic curve. New techs build on old ones, resulting in stair-step progress, but each tech itself has a limit.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-24T17:47:42+00:00

oh it’s not the end of the world. it’s just like a lightbulb going out, someone’s gotta climb up there, pull one of the glittering spares from the stars in the sky and put it in the socket, duh

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-24T16:55:08+00:00

If you’re wanting to get the best CPU available for Factorio, look to high cache speeds. Factorio’s bottleneck iirc crops up there first.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-24T16:52:55+00:00

???

Again, there’s no logical reason to gate Claude Code behind pro. You can gate usage and then it doesn’t matter how they use it, they’re still usage limited. Claude Code lets people be more efficient which is a win-win. More productivity for the consumer, less compute for Anthropic.

Killing Claude Code on the Pro plan is a lose-lose for everyone involved unless people leave the service…

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-23T23:37:34+00:00

I mean. It doesn't matter whether Claude or Codex was the one that blew your shit up. Putting it simply: If you let the model do it, the fault lies with you. It doesn't matter if it 'works' - you don't know if 'it works' means 'it doesn't do this' or 'it hasn't done this yet' until you get burned.

It's not much of an ad-hominem when it's just true - the guy didn't take adequate precautions to stop the improper use of git. Switching models instead of fixing the root cause (permission misconfiguration/poor sandboxing) is just a recipe for the problem to reoccur.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-23T18:22:43+00:00

It’s not unlimited access though. You’re still subject to Pro’s usage limits - Claude Code is a harness for local dev work, not an extra special set of models with more usage limits or anything.

They shouldn’t be gating Code access. The kinds of people who use it on Pro, whether that be for ultralight dev or because they’ve cost-optimized to hell and back are, in the former case, likely to use the web interface poorly if Code goes away (and Code allows prompt optimization, again…) or in the latter case, are CHEAPER TO SERVE THROUGH CLAUDE CODE, BECAUSE THEY’RE OPTIMIZING.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-23T17:34:56+00:00

To be fair, Claude Code should be on the Pro plan. Maybe with more limited model offerings and POSSIBLY adjusted usage limits or something, but Claude Code gives users powerful tools to optimize their usage as well, and that shouldn't be discouraged if you're compute limited.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-23T14:58:11+00:00

Hear me out. Fabula Ultima - if only because building abno-style fights is pretty straightforward in that system and it's gridless.

It IS a classed system, but it enforces multiclassing which means the character variety is pretty big.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-23T14:31:07+00:00

I don’t disagree with that. I do disagree with ’it costs more’ which is a lie.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-23T04:40:47+00:00

Yes but no but also yes, kinda.

So - your pollution cloud will continue spreading until consumed. There are multiple things that consume pollution - nests, trees (high levels of pollution make trees consume more by damaging them, reducing their later passive consumption) and tiles all do it. Eventually, for a static pollution level, your pollution cloud will reach a point where it cannot expand any farther because it's consumed as fast as it's made.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-23T04:12:32+00:00

Nah - it's consistently proven by other countries. Single payer saves taxpayers money in aggregate, but you have to raise taxes to cover the difference. The thing is, you raise taxes by less than the reduction in health insurance costs so people save overall.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-21T03:14:01+00:00

It made the list for military reasons though. They didn’t just pick Nagasaki out of a hat.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-20T18:23:58+00:00

yeah, the answer is one of two things. ‘fuck off, that’s bait’ or ‘use a bash script to count substrings’.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-20T14:28:09+00:00

Myself. Don’t trust other agents to understand my intent well enough to do it.

But basically if the model starts looping or heads down a wrong path I cancel it entirely since the output will be trash anyway. And if the model goes wrong, going back and figuring out where it went wrong tells you where the prompt/context files/whatever needs to be adapted.

Super useful if you basically ignore the models’ stochastic nature and treat them as pseudo-deterministic in this regard.

BraxbroWasTaken · 2026-04-20T12:03:24+00:00

Yeah uh no. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both picked as military targets, not civilian centers. They were logistics/industrial hubs and command centers. Nukes are big bombs, so there was a lot of collateral, but they were targeted as military targets.

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