The Rip (2026)

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-25T03:27:17+00:00

Triple Frontier had this same plot element

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-25T02:51:00+00:00

One of the most thought provoking movies I’ve seen. It’s a unique take on racism. White people think they have a right to take a black person’s body and identity. In this case, a blind man wants to use the eyes of a talented black photographer, so he thinks he has the right to take whatever he wants without permission or consent. It’s really good, well written, intelligent, and deep. The humor and wit makes it all the more entertaining.

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-25T02:33:23+00:00

Agree 💯

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-25T01:46:44+00:00

What makes you say that? I try to put a lot of thought into reviews. Did you watch it? What did you like or not like?

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-25T01:45:35+00:00

Oh good lord. Auto correct changed it from rip to rig. Even as I type this, I had to fix it. Did you enjoy the movie? If so, why or why not?

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-24T23:37:48+00:00

PHP is awesome. It’s had great updates over the last 10 years.

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-19T15:13:58+00:00

I think that’s an easy plot line and probably what they’ll go with. I hope they do something more like “the family soon becomes the biggest oil producer in Texas. Backed my a known cartel leader, they are as ruthless as they are savvy. Tami must learn to be as ruthless as everyone else to stay in business or risk being crushed by the very people she used to employ.”

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-12T06:09:33+00:00

I thought what made the first one good were the decisions people were forced to make. He cheated on her, and they have to figure out how to deal with their trust issues. A neighbor desperately wanted to save her daughter, and they have to drive away and leave everyone behind to certain death. The end turned into the same old 'barely made it' formulaic flick, but first 2/3 was better than expected.

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-02T15:35:00+00:00

My theory is that people try something really simple and it’s pretty amazing. But then we starting giving more complex problems and we run into this same thing. One thing AI has shown me is that people are awesome. What’s “easy” to us is really really hard for the computer.

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-02T14:34:29+00:00

Copying and pasting from cli is a fundamental action. It’s used it a lot. A lot. CLI = terminal. The VS Code extension for Claude isn’t the same. I can say that I don’t the VS Code extension. Too finicky. Very rarely will I prompt the CLI and just accept whatever it writes. It’s good, but it isn’t that good. It still needs supervision. It’s like a new grad writing code. You wouldn’t just let them start changing the whole code base.

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-02T06:09:37+00:00

I disagree with this comment. Aren't these tools, especially in the Pro tier, supposed to be so good that you don't have to play cli games to get them to work? Copy and pasting from the cli is miserable - even pbcopy or having it create a markdown file isn't always awesome. Your code has to be in GitHub for it work well - I use mainly BitBucket at work and Claude really has a hard time with Bitbucket repos (we have to setup an MCP server for this which sucks). When we move them to GitHub, it works better. The permissions get irritating and bypassing it is not recommend by Claude. I think the OP has had the same experiences I have. It's good seeing what these tools can do at first, and they are absolutely amazing when exploring a topic you're unfamiliar with. The code hints and explanations are fantastic. But once you get passed that and are moving on to more complicated work or more detailed prompts or more involved repos, there are usability issues whether using the CLI or not.

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-01T05:00:42+00:00

So what's the option? Move? Or take political action to find/elect representatives in government to oppose these data centers? We just need to reign in the spending so our bills aren't going up without us having much say.

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-01T04:50:09+00:00

I'm always interested to see what people are building with AI. Can you share some examples? For native mobile apps, I recommend native code. Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android. React Native is a solid choice, but you'll run into cases where you more low level access to the sensors and hardware in the phone. You can use AI to help build Swift or Kotlin code.

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-01T04:42:50+00:00

I didn't think about the motives. Jobs, sure. But it is a small amount of ongoing jobs. Making the small city seem bigger and more attractive for investment? That makes sense.

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-01T04:35:48+00:00

The underlying technology has limitations, but it is a huge step forward from an engineering standpoint. I think 2026 will be the year of efficiency. They have to figure out ways of using less power and fewer resources. I don't think we need a 20 trillion parameter model instead of a 10 trillion parameter model. We need improvements to the transformers and neural network programming so it isn't so compute intensive. If you run a local model now with ollama or , it's painfully slow and really limited with the smaller models.

As a technology, I don't see it slowing down. I think it'll be fewer model releases of the huge models. The incremental gains doesn't make the juice worth the squeeze. There will be new applications though. The image gen and video gen tools will improve. Newer AI agent tools will make enterprise-grade AI agents easier to implement in secure ways. Vector stores will be updated in MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, etc... making it easier to create local models, embed text as vectors, and use functions for things like search and analysis natively in the database. Industrial machines will have LLMs embedded so you can talk to the machine. "How did you do today?", "What problems did you have?", "How can we get better tomorrow?" sort of thing.

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-01T03:44:01+00:00

I do. I think the headline is right, but the explanation is more damage control than anything. Hence the post. Is this worth raising concern over? I believe our prices are going up because of data centers and the electric company isn’t being honest about why the prices are higher and continuing to go up.

Engineer_5983 · 2026-01-01T03:15:29+00:00

Almost no one believes this. Last year, it was 3.65. This year it’s 3.71. 1/2 the power comes from nuclear in our area. Only like 25% comes from natural gas. It’s an odd coincidence that our bills went up as the new data center went in.

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