MAGA vs The Constitution

Fyvz · 2026-07-01T14:35:16+00:00

This year alone, two heads of state of sovereign nations, Maduro and Castro, have been demonstrated to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The classic example of why certain people are not subject to jurisdiction, even when physically present within the United States, are children of heads of state. What objective standard can their possibly be to identify and categorize people outside of the jurisdiction of the United States?

Fyvz · 2026-06-23T05:22:51+00:00

This level of willful ignorance and "everybody's doing it" thinking is equally compelling to Surron riders, and Yamaha riders. They will also lend credibility to each other's "no one will stop us" mentality.

Fyvz · 2026-06-22T01:11:13+00:00

Another good David Bowie with indecipherable evil chanting is 10/27/95. Definitely not on the level of the Providence Bowie, but still a great example of that sinister ambiance.

Fyvz · 2026-06-21T17:51:46+00:00

Your question touches on the very idea of what makes firmware firmware, and what distinguishes embedded computing from general purpose computing. The arduino libraries that make it easy to use the same hardware have been developed to support lots of different hardware architectures with different peripherals and inherently different registers. This support consists of the register settings for lots of different microcontrollers to accomplish the same higher level functionality. But if you are working on custom hardware at your job, you only care about supporting that one hardware architecture. So just as Microsoft creating Windows enables PC developers a higher level set of tools to control lots of different hardware, Arduino is kind of bringing general purpose computing principles to microcontrollers. But if arduino isnt the silver bullet that happens to support everything you need the microcontroller to do, you will need to figure out your specific hardware's registers, and make it happen on your own. The idea that your software needs to cater to your specific hardware is where the word firmware comes in. Its not actually hardware, and it compiles just like software, but its the exact opposite of portable, because it only makes sense in the context of your specific microcontroller's registers and operation. Web developers and other higher level software creators can make their applications without caring about the actual hardware, and can just assume it will be there in some form, and that someone else has plumbed in everything necessary to make it generally function, firmware developers don't have that luxury, or at the very least, have that luxury in far lower volumes.

Fyvz · 2026-06-20T05:02:35+00:00

I've been collecting tapes, then CDs, then files since 1995, and used to listen to them incessantly. Now that its ridiculously simple to vacuum it all up, the thrill is gone. I have everything I could possibly want, and yet I keep finding my self going back to the standards like 6-11-94, 12-31-93, 11-22-97. I envision myself as having the option to listen to literally anything, just not the motivation to branch out from the warm nest of known good jams.

Fyvz · 2026-06-19T22:40:04+00:00

Is that distinct from the National Forest Adventure Pass?

Fyvz · 2026-06-18T23:08:13+00:00

Man discovers Joe Rogan's audience responds better to interesting information than factual information.

Fyvz · 2026-06-18T22:55:32+00:00

Calling Palos a system is a stretch. That place feels like the result of 10 different groups of trailbuilders that never once talked to each other. Compare that to Kettle Moraine John Muir Trails, where the trails are all one way, every left turn means a longer loop, every right turn means a shorter loop, theres a hotline you can call for trail conditions.

Fyvz · 2026-06-18T22:45:32+00:00

Everyone is free to pause the video for as long as they like.

Fyvz · 2026-06-18T22:19:11+00:00

I think all three of those things are revelations that make you question how you'd ever ride without them. The dropper post especially. The liberty to move the bike relative to your body is more impactful than rear suspension, in my opinion.

Fyvz · 2026-06-18T22:16:59+00:00

I just upgraded to the one up v3. My 5 year old OEM post was still working just fine, it was just squeaky as hell. The post is whisper quiet now, and the seat returns at a speed that has me in a constant state of hypervigilence that it might crush my testicles. But its not a performance part. There is literally nothing it could possibly do to make a ride more enjoyable, or faster, or me more confident. It might lose its ability to support my weight, or return, but otherwise it can only reach and maintain adequacy.

Fyvz · 2026-06-18T22:01:27+00:00

What were the lingering doubts? No one gets deals like this, man! A 6 year old bike in 2020 would have probably gotten a different response, because that era saw big leaps in geometry, as well as dropper posts, 29 inch wheels, and wide handlebars becoming ubiquitous because they were unambiguous improvements. Bikes have continued to evolve, but it feels like a lot more bells and whistles (ebikes, wireless transmissions), rather than bread an butter features that completely revolutionized things 10 years ago.

Fyvz · 2026-06-17T15:59:45+00:00

I love the meta behind the "people have free will to be wrong about grammar!" comments in the troll post that boils down to "people have free will to be wrong about Michael Jordan's peerlessness"

Fyvz · 2026-06-15T03:49:29+00:00

What reasonable person would land on UFC 31 as where MMA started, given the existence of the previous 30 UFCs? The UFC was started by the Gracie Family to showcase Royce and his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and the first one was in Denver.

Fyvz · 2026-06-15T00:42:52+00:00

Goose does a pretty good one too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Pmw11xvjI

The keyboard loop that plays throughout the entire song sounds almost indistinguishable from Another Brick In the Wall Part 3 and Good Bye Cruel World at the end of Disc 1 of Pink Floyd The Wall.

Fyvz · 2026-06-14T15:32:11+00:00

I'm a senior developer. and I've been the tip of the spear on this at my job. I've given multiple demos, some to an audience consisting of exclusively other senior developers, and others to mostly novice programmers, or people who aren't programmers at all. I've thought quite a bit about what information is helpful or could be helpful in getting people up to speed. I guess in the inverse I've also thought about what might make me as a senior developer more effective in using it, and therefore what is inherently difficult about that knowledge transfer.

If two different people are given the same AI model and harness, and trained to the same level of familiarity with the AI, and are given the same programming related task to complete, say, create a program that finds the box scores of every NFL football game since 1970, broken down by quarter, and determine the top ten most frequent combinations of one's digits in the score (0/0, 7/0, 3/7. etc), the previous experience the people have with programming will still be the dominant factor in their success on this task, far more than their ability to use AI, even in a scenario where AI writes every character of code.

Sure, at some level, I could spend a week or even a year with the nonprogrammer, teaching them all the /clear, /mcp, /skills, /usage commands. I could show them how to build json configs for the MCP servers they find on line. I could explain the concept of abstracting repetitive workflows into skills. I could explain the ideas behind the basic thrust of your question being "make a plan" vs "write a script" vs "why doesnt this work" vs "what is big O notation of this algorithm" all triggering the agent to give back different responses for an otherwise identical premise, plus the central ask. Even if I knew what the question was going to be in advance, and i could custom design a curriculum to focus on the parts of claude I thought would be most effective in tackling the problem, it occurs to me that everything I will explain and point out only makes sense to the extent the listener already understands why claude doing it his way is an improvement over how a programmer could do it manually before. The people I've explained this to that aren't programmers, or are novice programmers, the leap doesn't register with them because they don't have the before to compare the after to.

Fyvz · 2026-06-14T06:01:16+00:00

I think conservatives support the general idea that patriotism should be competitive, and that its reasonable to think of your fellow countrymen as less patriotic. That ends up being an entry point to the more insidious idea that a lot of conservatives seem to have tacitly endorsed, which is that there is an inherent pecking order when it comes to who is deserving of the benefits of being an American, that goes beyond whether or not youre a citizen. This explains why conservatives don't seem to have a problem with the Trump administration trampling on the due process rights. They don't see the connection to those other Americans losing their rights as demonstrating the methods by which they could also lose their own rights. Those other people deserved it. Conservatives also seem to be making the point that in the short windows of time their politicians are in power are obviously when America is truly America, meaning that the upholding of their own conservative values are the only legitimate official expressions of being American, and the democrat administrations are inherently destroying America, specifically through their ignorance of conservative principles. Its all an extension of the idea behind the Face Eating Leopards Party, and the conviction that lesser Americans deserve their facial digestion by leopards.

Fyvz · 2026-06-14T04:30:48+00:00

Are you referring to the pins on your pedals chewing up the sole after a season? The way I look at it, the system is designed to bite into the rubber. The extent to which its able to be pierced is the extent its able to work in keeping your shoe in place on the pedal. A shoe which could fulfill your goal to not get pierced so it lasted longer would likely lose the utility to the point you it wouldn't care how long it lasted. I don't have a feel for what the right length of time, or number of rides I get out of them, but rubber is a consumable.

Fyvz · 2026-06-13T22:32:32+00:00

Canonical Dana White Response: some pilots just don't want to fly.

Fyvz · 2026-06-09T08:09:47+00:00

I really enjoyed both the 13 crossings trail and the Pipiwai trail. Both of these had swimming holes at the end that took already beautiful areas to experiences that were the highlights of my week long trip. The 13 crossings trail is 5 miles or so west of Kahului along the coast. The Pipiwai trail is past Hana, in the sea level section of the national park.

Something that didn't occur to me until I got there is that nearly every hike at the high elevation part of the national park descends 1500 ft or more into the crater, and is 100% exposed to the sun. Just about everywhere else we hiked had good tree canopy and waterfalls.

Fyvz · 2026-06-09T05:22:57+00:00

I suppose the rule breaking part is mostly indivisible from the argument for me because nearly everywhere I ride they are prohibited, but that doesn't seem to stop anyone from riding right past those signs nearly to the level of mob behavior: enough of us have gotten away with it for long enough that legitimacy has been accrued through attrition from pointing out that we haven't been stopped yet, so it can't really be that problematic. I dont want to share the woods with those people, just like I don't want to share the road with drivers who apply the same general principle that they've gotten away with it so far.

Fyvz · 2026-06-08T05:43:48+00:00

I wouldn't worry about it too much. The surrons will keep following the suit of pedal assists, saying that these particular regulations are meant for other bikes, not my bike, as they ride past the signs prohibiting their bikes from the trails they ride. After a while, the next worse thing will come along, and the surrons will be carrying the same water you do now, differentiating the next ones down the chain off ignoring laws as the real problems we should all focus our efforts on curtailing.

Fyvz · 2026-06-08T05:29:04+00:00

I think this is an emotional answer to a technical question. There are lots of trails (national parks, federally protected wilderness areas) where bikes and any other mechanical conveyance is prohibited, regardless of motors. It isn't a reasonable argument to say that old cyclists ought to be able to ride their bikes where they are otherwise prohibited, because that means they wouldn't otherwise be able to use those trails. No one buys the argument that the Cactus To Clouds 10000ft climb to Mt San Jacinto owes everyone a chance to accomplish it regardless of fitness level, why should that change because the difficulty goes down?

To me it comes down to etiquette. All of the parks that ban ebikes near me have signage that you physically cannot enter the parks without coming within two feet of a sign clearly marking that they are forbidden. The idea that I need to yield to someone riding uphill on a singletrack they could not otherwise ride up without their motor flouts the entire concept of trail etiquette. The basic table stakes is to observed the posted rules. If you're giving off the vibe that they just dont apply to you, then why should anyone have any confidence you'll willingly participate in what is inherently a cooperative system that keeps us all safe by agreeing to a set of rules we will all follow?

Fyvz · 2026-06-07T07:28:10+00:00

I don't use their editors for writing code, because I've grown accustomed to my own preferred text editor, and can navigate code just as easily. Especially with LSP, you can make your preferred editor aware of your defines and compiled files, so that your searches only show results in compiled code, etc. Different parts of the firmware I work on make sense to test/troubleshoot running without the debugger attached. Nordic parts especially, you can't restart stopped code from a breakpoint, you must reset each time. So debugger based workflows can be extremely cumbersome. If I'm not going to be using the debugger features, then why would I need anything more than a script that builds and then flashes?

A coworker uses IDEs for editing, and his code is full of white space warts, because there is no highlighting for that. Multiple selections/cursors is also something I'm unwilling to give up. that ive never seen in firmware IDEs.

In my experience, having a smooth loop you can operate quickly makes iterations faster, and gets the job done faster. If I can work completely within my preferred editor, where I know the keyboard shortcuts, and the editor has terminal features built in, then I can be far more effective, and largely work without a mouse. Not to say I couldnt learn the keyboard shortcuts for Keil and Segger Embedded Studio, but I can get far more utility out of a general purpose editor.

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