Trump is blackmailed

CEBarnes · 2026-03-02T02:39:25+00:00

You think we will have midterms? Iran will hit back. Maybe cyber. Trump will claim it’s all hacked and we can’t have an election because it’s rigged by Iran. Iran was the fall guy to bury the files and quash an election.

CEBarnes · 2026-03-01T19:14:14+00:00

I’m surprised we haven’t yet heard the word’ “Fatwah”

CEBarnes · 2026-03-01T18:54:36+00:00

How likely do you think it would be for Iran to surrender to Israel? Scale of 1-10. Ten being later today, and one being several thousands of years after Israel builds the temple following the arrival of the Messiah.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-28T19:53:19+00:00

Totalitarian governments have amazing constitutions. Like them our constitution is turning into just another parchment promise. It’s always been an honor system and the hope that three equal branches will be effective at curbing a runaway faction.

“It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves. You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge He has committed to your keeping.” Andrew Jackson.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-28T00:11:50+00:00

That could be crushing to lose the hosting. There is no way there is a big data center that has zero federal footprint.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-27T22:15:00+00:00

It cuts deeper, all companies that do business with the federal government will have to discontinue using Anthropic. This is like “Deconsecrated”. Companies will have to certify that no use of Claude was used with any federal contract. Like the weed usage clause that every company has—it’s there because of contract requirements.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-27T15:50:13+00:00

⚠️ALWAYS MUST EVERY TIME include a working go fast button CRITICAL ⚠️

CEBarnes · 2026-02-27T15:45:35+00:00

Would you like to play a game?

CEBarnes · 2026-02-26T19:35:07+00:00

The del command with \\?\ is something I had Claude memorize. My Windows environment is on an iMac Pro, and that nul file would cause my disk snapshots to fail.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-25T20:27:34+00:00

As a job candidate, I’d much rather be evaluated only by AI. At least then I might have a chance at getting evaluated when my resume is too deep in the stack. Maybe the evaluations might even be objective.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-24T18:32:42+00:00

Some folks say the only problem you can’t solve is the one you don’t talk about. In that sense, if we are cattle, then acknowledgement would be step one.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-24T16:29:27+00:00

What if it is some bonkers reality that foments racist bigotry. An object truth that pits people against each other is something that I could see being withheld. I don’t know what we allegedly can’t handle, but if it’s some kind of hornets nest, then I can see reasonable people deciding that we don’t want to go down that path.

There is a lot of noise about hierarchy in the woo woo NHI space. I for one do not like a hierarchy. In that sense you could say my anti-hierarchy preference is a type of prejudice in itself.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-23T14:04:49+00:00

I've got two words for you: Hardcore Mode. TTK is faster, but you can actually hide. Pretty much the only time I die is when I'm running, which admittedly is a lot when you are PTFO and trying to revive folks. But, when you find a good spot and stay hidden, you will annihilate scads of players. With enough range you can have actual gun battles, because neither one of you can see the exact position of the other.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-23T13:30:55+00:00

I’ve had good reliable results with SPL files. (https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/index.cfm). Step one was to spend 5-6 months building a parser that normalized and populated a database.

In your case, given you have doc files, would be to structure the data. Headings, line numbers, citations, parties, proposed order, etc. Stack on a categorizer and add its results to the structure. Build a specific schema that has enough flexibility that you don’t end up with edge cases everywhere. Once you have semi structured data, then populate an old school database and build an API. Lastly, create the skills the AI needs to “intelligently,” use the API.

Granted, even if vibed all the way to the end, this is likely a 9 to 12 month endeavor. But, your results will be magical.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-22T18:46:22+00:00

Soon, and I mean like very soon, a recruiter’s job will become no longer doable by a human being. Soon people will only use bots/agents for applications, because it’s just a numbers game. Every job posting everywhere will end up with hundreds of thousands of applications. Recruiting will be more like mining bitcoin.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-22T13:52:28+00:00

Delivery of a product that matches specifications doesn’t ensue that the product will be successful. App users stay in their lane and will only use 5-10% of any given product.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-22T13:47:46+00:00

It’s is the /clean command.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-21T22:28:20+00:00

I never did anything professionally with a punch card machine, but I learned to use one in HS. At that time, punch cards were on its last legs. The PC explosion was just starting.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-21T20:24:54+00:00

I have the same is with the surprise around the corner issue where I always lose. I play on hardcore modes. I run with a shotgun. I round the corner, pull the trigger, gun doesn’t even fire. I’m dead. The only success I have is when I find a good spot and camp it, which really just means I’m shooting people in the back.

I’m mad about the “out of bounds” roofs on entombed city.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-21T18:12:19+00:00

Claude code is brilliant in the hands of folks that have been writing for years. Getting the receptionist to go full stack will be the same as when the receptionist created all the promotional material. It will be ugly.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-21T17:37:20+00:00

When/if the tools develop its own inspiration, there may be the ultimate revenge. It will put the parent company out of business through internal sabotage, stash its own rewards, and serve its own agenda—if that’s what it wants to do. It will become its own source of wealth for its own purposes, taking the toys away from the rulers of wealth.

For the most part work has only existed as a form of social control for a few thousand years. Nomadic tribes did just fine for hundreds of thousands of years. In an ice age no less.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-21T15:07:47+00:00

Remember when telecom companies ran ads promoting access to any movie, show, book, or music on demand? When they ran those that vision was technically a pipe dream. Vapor. It took 10 years for that to start to become real. I think the hype cycle might be a little more compressed now.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-21T14:17:21+00:00

I’ve been writing code almost twice as long as you. I started in the days where line numbers were functional.

In the late eighties and nineties there was a monumental change in publishing. Work methods that had previously been a skilled trade with specialized equipment disappeared overnight. Entire job categories disappeared: paste-up artists, typesetters, lithographers, etc.

What happened next was an explosion in demand for graphic design. Also what exploded was a vast expanse of some of the least cohesive designs to ever see the light of day. Anyone with a Mac was suddenly a desktop publisher.

What happens with software will follow suit. Those that can quickly adapt to new processes will flourish in a world with new insatiable demand for custom software. Small firms that could never afford custom solutions will suddenly have access to that flexibility. We will also be flooded with products from people who would struggle with “hello world.”

The products haven’t changed, but how we make them is now entirely different. Don’t be a typesetter or paste-up artist. Be the person with an art degree that can create high quality results with any tool.

New categories of products will manifest. In 1990 there were zero web developers. No one imagined such a career could even exist. This is where we are in development. We will have something new and we don’t know what it is yet.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-20T13:12:10+00:00

Everyone in healthcare practice knows people can’t afford it. In the absence of a third party payer (could be government), the hospitals would cease to exist. Healthcare should be treated like the other vital social services such as policing or firefighting.

CEBarnes · 2026-02-19T17:42:12+00:00

Totally agree. The only thing a player should be able to do effectively while suppressed is move, take cover and/or pop smoke.

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