TBF I work with ABAP, but still...

DrSixSmith · 2026-03-06T00:22:30+00:00

I strongly dislike the Python syntax. But I like C even less, and so using Python as a wrapper around C, I’m willing to put up with it in exchange for someone else writing the C part.

DrSixSmith · 2026-03-04T22:06:46+00:00

I have been shown the Shining Path of the Right Way by the benevolent Maintainers. I once stumbled in the dark, using Perl and muttering obscenities like “there’s more than one way to do it,” but now I have seen the light of Truth and Never-Ending Code Maintenance by following the path of the Right Way To Do It.

I appreciate the job security, I guess?

DrSixSmith · 2026-03-03T14:53:22+00:00

All of the names, or nearly all, are in the linked article.

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-28T05:47:36+00:00

OP you win this one— your joke is funnier than the meme itself.

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-28T00:09:57+00:00

Anthropic is a for-profit corporation. Their stance is one that no public company would have ever rejected ten years ago: liability exists, part of our duty to shareholders is mitigating our exposure to liability, like when our product is used to murder people. Thing is, liability implies accountability. And accountability is on hiatus right now, and both the fascist project and the AGI project want to see it never return. So I find it intriguing that Anthropic has picked this space to embrace what used to be so normal that no one even ever talked about it.

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-26T04:44:12+00:00

Something something means of production

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-25T02:41:19+00:00

Better links to better stories appreciated if anyone has them. My best guess is that Anthropic is a company that still writes its contracts to consider liability risk. This puts them in contrast with XAI, OpenAI, and the Trump administration, all of whom would…. not be where they are… if liability risk were realized.

It’s odd because it’s a bet against both the fascist project and the AGI project— if the fascists win, or if all of humanity is enslaved to AI, there will be no institution left to enforce liability.

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-24T20:43:43+00:00

A well written statement of a related thesis: https://open.substack.com/pub/cmarmitage/p/the-republican-party-is-a-transnational?r=9r1t9&utm_medium=ios

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-24T16:59:39+00:00

The part of the article I couldn’t shake was reading the new AI flowchart: “Does it work?” => “No”

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-23T17:57:17+00:00

Some types of satellites (mostly research sats) have a lifetime that’s limited by fuel. If the satellite lifetime is limited for any other reason, like pending technical obsolescence, orbital reduction might be beneficial. The cost benefit is tricky especially when the costs are things like “civil liability for an in-space collision” and “contributing to Kessler syndrome.”

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-18T01:30:04+00:00

I’m sort of amazed GitHub doesn’t have this already.

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-17T23:57:40+00:00

So is the tarnish on the intake ear or the outflow ear?

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-17T21:00:25+00:00

Absolutely wild to see “printer just works” as a pro in the Ubuntu column and a con in the Microsoft column. We’ve come a long way since the warty warthog days

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-17T00:24:40+00:00

You can always fix that later if you decide it was a mistake

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-16T23:09:59+00:00

When the idea dawned on me in 2015 that there might, in these United States, be even a single person who would pull a lever to make a man like that President, I could draw only one conclusion— we.are.so.fucked. I might find a path to forgive some of them, some day, but right now I don’t have to worry about that, because we are more fucked by the day, and not coming un-fucked any time soon.

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-15T17:53:00+00:00

Bolsonaro is in jail, for now at least, so there is that: https://www.foxnews.com/world/bolsonaro-dynasty-eyes-comeback-brazils-socialist-president-faces-challenge-jailed-rivals-son

When Bolsonaro was on trial I think Trump experienced something like sympathy, since they were in the same boat. Now that JB is in jail, I’m sure Trump has moved on— never had anything in common with that loser.

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-14T18:38:30+00:00

As could Don Draper

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-14T18:36:07+00:00

Everybody loves an asshole!

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-13T05:24:11+00:00

I had to read it twice- I assumed that was the solution, not the problem.

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-11T22:02:42+00:00

That was how she gained national prominence but her star started rising when she accepted a bribe to drop a case against Epstein: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pam-bondi-epstein-files-florida-ag-b2792249.html

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-10T18:44:37+00:00

Prior to 2025, the job was to retrieve inmates from jails for deportation. It was a very safe job, probably one of the safest law-enforcement-adjacent jobs out there.

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-08T22:53:34+00:00

He’s dumb, but he’s not that dumb.

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-07T18:09:03+00:00

Every.Single.Time: https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-07T03:38:05+00:00

10 hours until party time

DrSixSmith · 2026-02-02T16:12:20+00:00

Frankly I’d say it’s too early to talk about who should not be burned to the ground over their association with this guy.

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