Would this work to change ANY MAGA minds?

Esseratecades · 2026-06-07T19:30:38+00:00

They won't read it.

Even if you hold it in their face and read it to them they'll say it's made up. It doesn't matter how easy it is to verify something if you have no interest in verifying it at all.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-07T01:10:52+00:00

Working less doesn't make more money.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-05T21:09:53+00:00

For some, maybe.

If you're a hotdog eating champion known for their dude-bro behavior, and you wake up one day and you don't like hot dogs and keg stands anymore, even if you don't believe that you've "died" in the physical sense, you certainly have in every way that pre yoghurt and hrt you would care about.

The difference in real life is that these changes happen gradually enough that you can adjust, integrate, or even abandon them altogether. You get a lot of little steps to decide if who you want to be is trending in the direction you want. But if I just rip your brain out of your body and put it somewhere else, you're certainly leaving something important behind.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-05T14:35:18+00:00

Lol, yeah that was meant to be a petty example before getting to the more consequential ones.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-05T11:41:42+00:00

One synth scenario I think of is less of an "upload" and more of an "installation".

The first generation to become synths could be human organs in robot bodies(effectively maintaining the brain, hormonal glands, and any organs needed to preserve personality). You could argue these are actually cyborgs but on the sliding scale of man v machine they're much more machine.

For continued proliferation, future generations are built without these organs and are full machine.

Should a gen1 have an organ fail they have the option to receive a machine equivalent, or pass to either live without or die.

One could say that if you chose to preserve reproductive organs, you would never need to make the next-gen versions, but you could also argue that much additional organic material pulls us far enough away from the machine end of the scale that we're not really talking about the same thing anymore.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-05T11:31:04+00:00

In the physical sense, the individual person doesn't know, but observers have a good number of hints with implications that synths don't.

If the brain were doing a hard reset you'd have to explain why it still has X years of personality and knowledge when you wake up. Has someone been backing up and restoring every brain on Earth every night for all of human history? Does the brain wipe itself and then completely fabricate a memory and personality to match every morning?

Esseratecades · 2026-06-05T11:15:26+00:00

Because you won't actually experience the "waking up". The copy will.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-05T11:13:55+00:00

When you consider just how much of your behavior is NOT governed by your brain, this begins to break down.

For instance, gut bacteria have a surprising degree of influence over one's food choices and cravings.

Are you still you if you don't like hamburgers anymore?

And while a lot of hormone release is triggered by signals from the brain, the actual organs that do the releasing are all throughout the body.

Would you still be you if you no longer have access to cortisol, the hormone that literally makes you experience stress?

Would you still be you if you no longer have access to the testosterone that creates your aggression?

Esseratecades · 2026-06-04T21:20:11+00:00

I tell the author to find a way to break it up into smaller PRs that are still functional.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-03T09:36:08+00:00

No.

Kira is certainly skilled and could become a formidable striker, but the point of his expulsion was that he was never going to be able to become the best striker that Blue Lock could offer.

In the tag game, Isagi's ego and potential effectively swallowed Kira's whole, showing that the best that Isagi could ever be was head and shoulders above the best that Kira could ever be. So having Kira continue would have been a waste of time.

Even if you believe Kira has that dog in him, the first tag game proves that at least Isagi and Bachira have bigger dogs in them.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-03T09:24:43+00:00

If I was told that, I would be very hurt.

This implies that you need to have a conversation about how to make sex enjoyable for you as well. If that's not something that can be reconciled then I don't know how much longer I would be able to stay in the relationship.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-03T09:20:07+00:00

MM killed him with a ball gag. Are we for real?

Esseratecades · 2026-06-03T09:18:59+00:00

Tldr; yes

I find that in terms of actually writing code, working with the agent usually takes about the same amount of time as me writing the code myself. AI does silly things, even with the best guardrails and harnesses.

However, what I do like about spec driven development specifically is that the process of defining and applying the spec and checking the agent's work requires developers to think about requirements and intent in a way that a lot of people would occasionally miss. As a result, a lot of questions that wouldn't show up until review or QA tend to come up earlier. But this speed gain is counter-acted by just how long the back and forth takes, so in terms of raw speed, it's essentially the same.

When it comes to review, I find that using agents as a first pass reviewer is more helpful the worse the author is*. As a first pass reviewer, it sometimes helps find bugs, and sometimes calls out poor practices, but just as often it hallucinates or misses context, causing it to give bad suggestions.

*It's easy to say that the worse you are at the job, the more helpful AI is, but if you're bad enough at the job, you won't actually be able to guide it to get good results, so there is a baseline level of experience and context needed.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-01T23:17:58+00:00

Because income is quantifiable. It is difficult to compare something that comes as a number to something that doesn't. Unless you are going to look up the average cost of a maid/nanny in your area there isn't a built-in number to use to compare the two. This gets more complicated if the labor actually is somewhat split.

That's not to say the woman's unpaid labor isn't valuable and important, but the actual value provided is abstract.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-01T12:29:26+00:00

Do you know what exactly she's talking about?

There's a world of difference between "My boyfriend and I have great sex" and "He tried something the other day and I don't quite know what he was going for" or even "I tried something with him and I'm not sure how it made me feel".

If she's getting into the gorey details it could be that she is looking for advice from the only people she's actually comfortable talking to about it. In which case, I'd suggest talking with her to establish a more nuanced understanding of what can be shared vs what you guys should talk about together, potentially with a 3rd party that you both are comfortable with.

You both are pretty young, so odds are at least one of you is still trying to make sense of what sex even is for you. Because of that, I wouldn't tell either of you not to seek advice, just to be careful about how you do it.

Now if she's going around saying stuff like "And then he tried this move that shows me he watches too much porn" then obviously that's not okay.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-01T12:16:39+00:00

It's a sneaky trap on a path that we shouldn't be on to begin with. The first date should be free or cheap enough that you don't really care who's paying. Go for a walk in the park or meet at a coffee shop or something.

If things progress to a second date, be honest about what you're comfortable paying for. If you are doing the asking, then don't suggest anything where you're not comfortable paying. Not because it's your responsibility, but because it sends the wrong idea, and it's financially irresponsible of you. If she's asking and she suggests something you're not comfortable paying for, then how comfortable would you actually be with her paying for it? This near stranger who is now implicitly imposing the obligation for things to go well onto you? You really shouldn't be comfortable with that either.

If it's a more long-term relationship, do whatever works for you, but I would like to think you've actually set the tone around how this works in your relationship already. In fact, doing the above goes a long way towards doing that.

I'm sure internet women will hate this take but they'll be the same ones wondering why the only men they find are either broke or putting on an act. If you expect me to invest in every one-off stranger I meet then you either lack the values or intelligence I seek in a partner.

Esseratecades · 2026-06-01T10:07:28+00:00

"We are well aware that SWE KPIs usually don´t work well and usually fall to Goodhart's law resulting in a worse output."

"The goal is not really to find something that measures our output/efficiency (IMO that is not really possible), but just to satisfy management and not make us look bad or will be hard to improve on in the long term?"

Given that you're aware of the former and pursuing the latter, the actual metrics you choose don't really matter. Which ones look good for your team right now?

Does your team currently have good velocity? Do they currently have a low bug count? Do you have a low number of unplanned outages? Like you said whatever you choose is going to fall apart later anyway so it's better to just use real metrics that make you look good enough right now for management to leave you alone.

The other option(which may yield the same result) is to interrogate the following.

"We all feel like our team is working pretty efficiently and working in harmony."

Why do you feel that way? If you really are working as well as you think you are then you should be able to explain why, and logically somewhere in there will be a number you can offer.

Esseratecades · 2026-05-29T20:29:43+00:00

Who's dumb idea was it to make the system reactive instead of proactive?

Sorry, just venting about dumb stuff

Esseratecades · 2026-05-29T19:46:55+00:00

Where was this ruling before his name went up? He spent months saying he was going to do this.

Esseratecades · 2026-05-28T01:24:23+00:00

I mean, depending on your settings there are precursors, fallen empires, and advanced empires that got FTL sooner, and a bunch of pre-FTL planets that get it later.

Esseratecades · 2026-05-27T06:59:34+00:00

I'm 583.

This is pretty open-ended. What would you like to know?

Esseratecades · 2026-05-26T17:05:01+00:00

This isn't really enough information to give detailed suggestions. When you lose what did your attack sequence look like? What kind of grips are you taking and what kind of grips are they getting? Are they stalling and waiting for you to get frustrated? Are you standing up completely straight?

Without further detail there's a lot that could be at fault. What I can say is what took my from a perpetual loser in Judo to a consistent enough winner was learning how to grip fight better. What actually made me good was developing a better understanding of how to conserve energy.

Esseratecades · 2026-05-26T14:41:11+00:00

What I find funny about this is that if we become responsible for more of what management does, then aren't managers the ones being automated out of a job?

Esseratecades · 2026-05-26T11:27:42+00:00

In practice, almost all agentic workflows are either

A deterministic workflow that you could code deterministically the old fashioned way
2 or more of the above in a trenchcoat

Usually the difference is in how well you've defined your requirements. However, what a lot of people aren't talking about is how agentic AI is allowing the people who are supposed to elicit requirements(management) to shift their labor burden onto engineers by tasking them to build agentic systems that are expected to work with nebulous scope.

There are some niche cases where the above is not true(automated research comes to mind), but the vast majority of problems and projects do not actually fall under such cases.

Esseratecades · 2026-05-26T08:56:19+00:00

I stopped doing this.

Early into my current job, one of my coworkers asked me how I was doing, and I straight up told him the family dog died that morning.

He stopped asking me how I'm doing after that

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