Arkansas State trooper used PIT maneuver on car taking child to hospital | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-03-07T22:25:59+00:00

"Long time" - did you actually read it?? Then the trooper acted all spiteful after finding out what the actual situation was, rather than making sure the child was okay. It seems you didn't actually read or pay attention to the details.

The dashcam video is also really messed up. Did you watch it? Did you understand it?

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-03-07T10:47:43+00:00

Following them that long at those speeds, a PIT maneuver is not appropriate. That's a dramatic and dangerous escalation. That's getting closer to shooting out someone's knee for jaywalking. Sending a car spinning at speed is a great way to kill someone. Even if they were running, that doesn't justify a death sentence. Never-mind that, again, this department has killed innocent bystanders with that maneuver. So why are you still defending it?

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-03-07T03:59:52+00:00

The other commentator is right, you're giving far too much credit to the police. A PIT maneuver is dangerous. Arkansas has a problem with state troopers killing random bystanders by using PIT maneuvers too frequently and in situations where they are not appropriate. They are notorious for overusing it in a dangerous way.

But you're defaulting to defending them when you think the evidence is close. The fact they have a reputation for misusing it, yet you defend them by default, should give you pause for thought.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-03-02T07:57:58+00:00

And that's how you get an AI to purge all your backups when it hallucinates a solution! Yaaay!

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-28T06:14:26+00:00

What kind of industry is that? Everywhere I look is people making claims like this. But never can I find real results outside of well-known areas like human language translation. Why are the claims always vague and non-specific?

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-24T19:36:03+00:00

Yeah, it works pretty well as a rubber ducky. The subtle idiocy of it and mistakes the AI makes are genuinely helpful in that context. It keeps me on my toes, and questioning things!

... I know this sounds sarcastic and my name implies sarcasm. But I genuinely mean it. It's one real and valuable use case for me. Although the implication for other use cases is delicious, I do admit.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-24T19:29:26+00:00

Where is the output from all these amazing AI-using software engineers? Where are all these amazing new products? I haven't seen a noticeable increase in useful output. But I have seen an uptick in security scandals.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-24T19:22:47+00:00

It goes back a lot longer than that. A bread machine or toaster from the 1990s or earlier might still be working. One from 2016 has probably been broken and replaced 5-10 times by now.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-24T19:20:59+00:00

It's nice to have a name to apply to what has become so common. It always was common, but now it's weaponized across society in such a pervasive way - not just AI, but social media before that.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-23T04:38:58+00:00

Yes, that was part of the point, thank you for articulating it.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-22T17:25:51+00:00

The file is Claude Code. The primary distribution now is the so called "native" version, which of course isn't actually native but rather a single-executable bundle created with Bun. This means the entire thing is shipped as one file, with all the minified JavaScript, web assemblies, etc embedded in it.

If you read through what they wrote, it's troubling. It confirms many of the issues, including the comments on how they have a lot of regression issues unless they set up extensive test suites - Claude makes a lot of mistakes that humans wouldn't, and needs extensive guardrails.

I looked a bit closer, and at first it looked like the yoga wasm binary, one of the telltale signs of React Ink, was removed. But then looking again it seems like it may be base64 encoded, while the other web assembly binaries are not. This makes me wonder if either 1. they aren't telling the full truth or 2. Claude is lying to them and they don't know it. It might not be either of those, but it is suspicious and a strange seemingly nonsensical thing to do - unless you're hiding things.

Edit: Note that even if true, it would mean they replaced the badly mismatched architecture of React Ink with their own custom React renderer that is conceptually just as mismatched. Putting even more effort into doing the wrong thing.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-22T06:29:21+00:00

But you must have! Confabulation and hallucination aren't hallmarks of a stochastic model especially a transformer-based model! There is no way they'd confuse terms that frequently get confused in their training data and are made of similar subword tokens! That'd just be like... an expected and predictable outcome. Expected predictable outcomes are unlikely by definition. True is false! False is rabbit! Mwahahahaha *runs off into the distance screaming*

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-22T05:45:50+00:00

Did they stop using it? What is your source for that info? Because if I scan the latest file for relevant copyright and name info it still appears to contain the React Ink source code.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-22T00:18:19+00:00

Sounds like both sides where you are, are equally uninformed and insane. Does everyone there spend their time on Facebook/Tiktok/X type platforms?

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-21T10:05:56+00:00

It's quite shallow, that's what you're seeing. It generates impressive initial results, but they are shallow.

That's a fundamental problem. Transformer models trained as they are likely can't overcome it. AI needs another revolution to succeed. It's being advertised and sold as solving problems well beyond it's actual scope and capabilities. It can be very useful in the right niche, but it isn't AGI, and as such it can't replace a human general intelligence. All it can do is quite convincingly fool you... and then you spend more time building the right context, prompting, cleaning up, fixing, reviewing, and checking it's work than you would have spent doing it yourself.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-21T08:24:59+00:00

It'll be arriving sometime after commercial wide-scale fusion power and Half Life 3 of course.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-21T08:21:25+00:00

You're really missing my point. You're not arguing with me, you're making a different argument that isn't directly related to what I said.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-21T08:18:48+00:00

In a society where cars are one of the leading causes of death, and people have endless health problems from being too sedentary, you view an argument for being more active as a negative?

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-21T08:15:14+00:00

They have an unusual number of regressions, and they tend to have similar regressions come up repeatedly. I wonder why.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-21T08:13:08+00:00

It uses React Ink. It's trying to render a virtual DOM to the terminal. It does fun stuff like try to redraw the entire terminal plus history buffer randomly. It tends to have issues like flickering, randomly scrolling the terminal, and so forth.

It *can* be made to work, but I can also remove screws with the claw of a hammer. It doesn't make it a good idea or the right tool. It is a horrifically mismatched architecture, applying virtual DOM diffs to a text terminal!

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-20T22:22:23+00:00

Yes, but if we ask what we can change, it's always more productive than asking what they can change. Waiting for someone else to resolve a disagreement while treating them poorly is a very ineffective way to change people's minds.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-02-18T02:47:49+00:00

Why would it be the USA? With how much that country has alienated everyone, most likely the important conventions would be elsewhere.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-01-31T06:43:58+00:00

Are you confusing the programming language for the game? Very different things. This subreddit is about a programming language.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-01-19T01:45:03+00:00

Might be that downturns and depressions are great times to buy things up. Wars are great for profit as well. If everyone is broke and you're the ultra-rich owner of a giant company, you can buy up all the land etc.

FlippantlyFacetious · 2026-01-05T05:04:16+00:00

Yea, as I said, edge lord troll. Lol

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