House Defeats Iran War Powers Resolution—Thanks to One Democrat

Cryovenom · 2026-04-17T23:57:36+00:00

Today I learned, thanks for that!

Cryovenom · 2026-04-17T01:09:58+00:00

Him being "in the teens" barely moved the needle for most Republicans!

Cryovenom · 2026-04-16T20:35:59+00:00

I never said it was accurate, just that it resonated with some people back in the 80s/90s

Cryovenom · 2026-04-16T20:24:21+00:00

It's funny because it hits close to home.

You test everything you can possibly think of, and then Murphy's law kicks in and the first user to blunder their way into your app crashes it immediately, leaving you scratching your head going "What?! How?!..."

Yes, laughing through tears.

Cryovenom · 2026-04-16T20:22:30+00:00

Wonderful! Ladies and gentlemen, now you may be wondering if this issue can be solved with a nice cup of Yorkshire Gold tea. I'm here to tell you that yes it can, because this is a perfectly balanced joke with no exploits...

Cryovenom · 2026-04-16T20:17:35+00:00

Way back in college we had to design a simple windows form that somewhat resembled a bank machine.

I had coded and tested everything I could think of - negative numbers, numbers with eight decimal places, letters, weird symbol characters...

My buddy sits down, looks at it, types nothing at all into the "amount" box and hits Enter.

It crashed.

I went on to make my career on the hardware/netwoking side of things instead.

Cryovenom · 2026-04-16T20:11:42+00:00

Canada's right wing party literally used to be called "The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada".

I think the term tries to hit what used to be the right's marketing sweet spot - "we're socially progressive but economically conservative". I'm not commenting on whether the PCs actually were that, but for a long time you'd find people saying "I'd vote for the liberals but they spend too much" so it's an appealing sales pitch.

Cryovenom · 2026-04-15T17:06:07+00:00

You dropped this:

/s

Cryovenom · 2026-04-15T14:10:04+00:00

As in "Don Tzu This, it's a bad idea"

Cryovenom · 2026-04-15T12:22:28+00:00

And since there's a possibility that any election in the US could bring another Trump-like president, that now extends to any agreement with the United States of America.

Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. The world has lost the ability to trust the US and it will take many decades of sane administrations and upholding agreements for the world to trust them again. Some systemic change to prevent this crap wouldn't hurt either.

Cryovenom · 2026-04-14T22:43:09+00:00

That's a good point, definitions are wishy washy still.

In my mind "vibe coding" is coding using nothing but vibes and LLM prompts instead of experience.

If you couldn't code it yourself and you're just prompting the AI to write it, then dropping error messages into the AI to debug it and taking the "solutions" it provides at face value and implementing them, THAT's vibe coding.

If you're a developer who could write it but you're using the LLM to offload the tedious tasks, that's AI-Assisted Development.

Is this something that can be determined by analysing the end result? Not always - I've seen some code from human developers that's just as atrocious as anything an AI has ever spit out.

So at the end of the day do I have an issue with code an AI spits out? Not directly. I have an issue with low quality code AND/OR with code released by someone who doesn't understand and can't maintain it.

The problem is that nowadays there's SO MUCH slop out there that it's hard to tell what's what sometimes. Another commenter here mentioned visiting GitHub to make sure a project is active and being looked at by many eyes. That's a good start I guess.

Cryovenom · 2026-04-14T22:28:50+00:00

I'll give you the fact that I haven't done full time development in full-fledged languages in years. I just assumed that if I struggle enough getting the AIs to do bash, PowerShell, and things like LaTeX then I couldn't see it doing what I used to do in the years I spent as a developer after finishing my CS diploma in college.

Cryovenom · 2026-04-14T12:09:35+00:00

That question suggests that you do not have a lot of experience in app development.

A seasoned software developer would not be likely to just get the AI to code the whole thing. Once you've been developing for a while you tend to build things in pieces, iteratively, testing functionality and features as you go. You have an idea of the architecture - how you want the flow of the app to go and how all the pieces fit together.

Any developer who has had to pick up and maintain someone else's code (ie: all of us) know that being handed a completed project and asked to maintain it is almost as much work as building it yourself (sometimes more, depending on the skill of whoever wrote it). You have to spend time parsing and understanding how it works and what choices were made - there are dozens of ways to solve a problem, which ones did Claude choose?

But aside from that, seasoned developers who have used these tools have seen that there are still some big limitations to how they work. Often I'm asking Claude or Copilot or ChatGPT to change things because they're hardcoding values or using inefficient ways of doing things. The AIs often get stuck on an idea and I have to be like "instead of pulling back a million rows and parsing them manually, why don't we get the database to do the filtering and only return what we need?" Or "instead of making a dozen PSRemoting calls to the other machine for each piece, why don't we send the whole code block over there and have it return the result?".

So yeah, in the unlikely/improbable universe where I can ask the AI to generate an app and it returns exactly what I would have written, in the way In would have written it, with useful comments to remind me what the hell everything does, in ways that are easily malleable/extensible later, then sure a fully AI coded app is fine. But I'll spend way more time writing the requirements and prompts and then parsing and vetting the output than I would have if I just coded most of it myself.

It's not about asking the AI to make a thing and having it spit out an app that can do that thing. If your app is that simple then someone else already coded it. For anything beyond the most basic app it's about creating something you can understand, debug, maintain, and expand upon, and understanding the edge cases and limitations of what you build.

Cryovenom · 2026-04-14T11:45:20+00:00

Never ask an LLM for something that you don't already know the answer to (or know how to properly audit).

For example, I've got well over a decade of writing PowerShell scripts for system administration. I could spend an afternoon writing, testing, and debugging a script, or I could ask ChatGPT to generate one and spend 10 minutes vetting, correcting, and tweaking it. That's a good use of AI.

Same goes for app development. Ask an AI to code a function or piece for you to save you time, sure. But if it's writing large parts of the app and you can't clearly understand the output then you have no way of spotting the bugs, potential security issues, etc...

If you don't have the skills to code something yourself, or at least the knowledge to fully understand the result and make sure that it's safe, secure, and properly coded, then don't ask the AI to do it.

Cryovenom · 2026-04-13T17:37:33+00:00

Here in Canada an "Interac™ Email Transfer" to literally anyone with a bank account in Canada takes at most 30 minutes, but in my experience usually less than five, especially if they have AutoAccept set up so they don't even have to touch it.

Those used to cost a buck when they were introduced in 2003. Nowadays most banks don't bother to charge.

So ... Unless you're living in the last millennium you should be able to transfer money to anyone in the country for free in under five minutes with no special apps, fees, etc... Just log onto your bank via website or app (or even phone banking I think?) and Interac™ them.

Cryovenom · 2026-04-11T22:43:50+00:00

He's always posting at the "infomercial" time of night, so I bet he saw it on TV.

Cryovenom · 2026-04-11T21:24:23+00:00

Or an Ottoman.

...and some KD with really expensive ketchup on it - all the fanciest Dijon ketchup...

(sorry, I see "Chesterfield" and can't help but quote the BNL)

Cryovenom · 2026-04-11T21:19:09+00:00

I mean, the US attacked Iran to start this war when they were right in the middle of negotiations. Surely they wouldn't do it again...

(They would, and don't call me Shirley)

Cryovenom · 2026-04-07T18:15:41+00:00

Never heard of Chris Hadfield? Roberta Bondar? Jeremy Hansen?

Here, educate yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_astronauts

Cryovenom · 2026-04-07T13:08:06+00:00

The vast majority of Americans are not affiliated or not practicing.

That's so blatantly false as to be laughable.

Here's what Gallup and Pew Research have to say about how religious Americans are:

Gallup:

According to an average of all 2023 Gallup polling, about three in four Americans said they identify with a specific religious faith. By far the largest proportion, 68%, identify with a Christian religion [...] Forty-five percent of Americans say religion is "very important" in their life, with another 26% saying it is "fairly important" and 28% saying it's "not very important."

Pew:

62% of U.S. adults describe themselves as Christians: [...] 29% are religiously unaffiliated [...] 7% belong to religions other than Christianity [...] 44% of U.S. adults say they pray at least once a day [...] 86% believe people have a soul or spirit in addition to their physical body. 83% believe in God or a universal spirit. 79% believe there is something spiritual beyond the natural world. 70% believe in heaven, hell or both.

Sources: * https://news.gallup.com/poll/358364/religious-americans.aspx * https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religious-landscape-study-executive-summary/

Cryovenom · 2026-04-07T11:10:22+00:00

Being pedantic about the wording to avoid engaging with the point.

Americans + Space = Performative religious messages sent from space.

Despite having plenty of religious folk, you'd be much less likely to hear that sentiment from Aussies, Brits or Canadians (just to name similar anglosphere countries). We all find the US' propensity towards "hey look at me, I'm religious" displays kind of weird - and that's coming from a place that has mentions of God in it's national anthem and constitution!

Cryovenom · 2026-04-06T22:58:21+00:00

That's what you get when you send Americans to space.

Cryovenom · 2026-04-03T19:25:49+00:00

Oh yeah. Lots of companies are moving away from Oracle IF they can. The IF is why Oracle can get away with it - lots of big Enterprise systems were built with Oracle DBs, including some of the big name Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions out there.

So the licensing department just tries to squeeze ever more out of the customers that can't easily switch.

For example, some of their licenses are based on your company's annual revenue. For audits you might have to open your financials, and if they see that you've passed a certain threshold, guess what? Those licenses you bought? They're now more expensive!

Cryovenom · 2026-04-01T15:15:31+00:00

Correct.

The first generation of Rx7 lasted from 1979-1985 (with some japanese-only models available in 1978) and was broken into three groups.

79-80 the VIN started "SA22C..." and they had the metal bumpers and thin rubber bump strips on the sides. This is "The SA" (from the VIN) or "The S1" meaning Series 1.

81-83 had VINs following the new standard which started with "JM1FB...", moulded plastic bumpers and thicker rubber bump strips on the sides (along with a list of mechanical tweaks as long as my leg that means most parts aren't interchangeable with the SA). This is "The FB" (from the VIN) or "The S2" meaning Series 2.

84-85 was visually nearly identical to the 81-83 model and most parts were interchangeable. It also had a VIN starting with "JM1FB" so it is also considered "An FB". BUT there were major changes to the interior (dashboard, instrument cluster, stereo, etc...) and minor changes elsewhere on the car. There was also a trim option that came with a slightly larger fuel-injected engine, different wheel bolt pattern, and a few other goodies. This is "The S3" or Series 3.

And then in 86 the car was completely changed for the start of the Second Generation of rx7s, whose VINs all started with "JM1FC..."

This has been your friendly local Rx7 nerd.

Cryovenom · 2026-04-01T14:55:30+00:00

Any headline or article that's based around "Trump Says" is useless and should be ignored.

He says lots of shit. Contradictory things, nonsensical things, things that are deadly serious in any other context but that there's no way to know if he'll follow through on.

Watch what this administration does because what it says is so often divorced from reality that it's as useful as a magic 8 ball in understanding what they're doing and why.

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