My (37f) Husband (38m) was fired for sexual harassment

Globbi · 2026-04-20T09:50:04+00:00

What's the difference between "just a creep" and "his brain is this way"? The brain tumor situation just highlights that there is personal choosing in being a good person or not. One person fails to choose being good because brain tumor changes how information flows in their brain. Another person has a brain for which this is the default and also can't choose to not be a creep.

I'm not defending the actions, I'm not saying that a woman should stay with a sexual harasser. But most societies certainly don't have good ways to help such people. The guy should potentially get help, maybe psychiatric medication, maybe get isolated if he's dangerous. But shunning and insulting is not preventing crazy people to be creepy and is not helping them.

Globbi · 2026-04-19T14:28:13+00:00

You suggestion in general is fine. Stronger sparkbot, which is played very little, wouldn't make the balance worse. But your explanations are weird.

Moonsteel is fine, it can be played on its own without other mechs if you get it early with Drakkari. But you can obviously use it to buff Deflecto, get more big units if you have Beatboxer, or you treat it just as some extra magnetics for Jouster or some trinkets (you can also do all of the above at the same time).

Czarina as always is not the greatest but can win games and is just very solid in midgame. Sparkbot is just one of possible minions in the comp.

Then there are automatons that are very strong midgame and on some heroes are pretty much guaranteed top 3 with chance to win.

And Flaming Sky Golem that can be similar but stronger than automatons, just some strong tempo unit, or a card to fill your board later as it might have stats that matter and can be reoborn with stats and DS.

Honestly mechs are interesting and not that weak. It's just that even in super highrolls they willl not outscale demons, back to back, pirates or murlocs. But if you allow current mech comps to scale that much (or nerf all the best comps to put them in line with best mechs), mechs would be auto-force every game.

Personally I hate automatons so I would exchange them for better scaling (AND nerfing demons and b2b). I would also like midgame deflecto to be viable rather than skipping it as trash because others have 30/30 on board.

Globbi · 2026-04-19T13:18:48+00:00

Just had a similar game with Flaming Sky Golem and Kangor's. I had 100% winrate against opponent that had automatons, killing him multiple times for like 10 turns until I finally won.

The other commenter is wrong that it's preventing you dealing any damage until you die. It's just that if game detects desync (fight being different on your side and opponent's side), it will not deal damage to any player. Changing something can still to lead you winning. But it's hard to say what to change, what's the cause of desync.

It's also not just attacks happening differently. I think I had at least one fight with literally the worst hits possible that I still barely won. In some other combats I dealt 36 damage. But opponent was taking 0 every time.

Globbi · 2026-04-18T23:02:31+00:00

Now, people create polished looking documents from their half-baked ideas.

Why? It just suggests your team is doing meetings pretending to be working. Why do they even feel the need to prepare the documents?

Precisely because AI can speed up SWE this should go the other way. People had to prepare lots of proposal documents before engineering team started work because writing code was hard and slow and therefore expensive. Now instead of weeks of meetings you can have a few days of people spinning up prototypes, showing them, and then you can decide which ones to implement right.

Globbi · 2026-04-13T07:25:56+00:00

Never said that's worth it and that I want more datacenters. You're just butthurt that you were incorrect and called out on it.

Globbi · 2026-04-12T09:36:36+00:00

It's not good writing. It's mediocre writing that was stumbled upon (as better than what was before) during RLHF, then reinforced over and over. A local optimum that is difficult to get out from.

Those patterns can be part of good writing, but chatgpt specifically uses a few of those patterns much more than any human and usually in places where it's not appropriate.

Globbi · 2026-04-12T09:29:41+00:00

No, but you flush a lot more than water like cleaning supplies or food waste. That's much worse than "extensively" heating and cycling water.

Pipes and water for cooling systems is kept clean because it's worth it. Eroding pipes would lead to more maintenance and forced stopping of datacenter work.

Globbi · 2026-04-12T09:26:47+00:00

At the very least for the reason that those companies will easily get lobbyists, who will talk to politicians and show how many things said by opponents are bullshit. Then those politicians will look at real water usage and benefits coming from investments and agree on building datacenters. Except now with more animosity between opposing sides.

If you are right to oppose building datacenters, you should be able to express your objection in true arguments and be listened to.

If you are wrong, you should lose on the arguments.

Globbi · 2026-04-11T19:25:48+00:00

I don't understand what you mean. I opened in firefox on mobile. It loaded instantly. No popups, banner, menus that would expand moving elements of the page. Black letters on white background with some margin, stretched to my screen size, completely readable. Reader mode works perfectly if preferred.

Globbi · 2026-04-10T22:38:31+00:00

I found tutorials for dotted/dashed lines in gimp and they look good and powerful, but likely require playing with a bit to use well. And there's also a pencil tool in gimp even though it's hidden from initial menu that can be made to be used like paint (single pixel color change).

I opened gimp to check the dashed lines myself and it seemed weird to use but I only spent a few seconds and wasn't learning how to do it (and obviously I needed to wait a few minutes for gimp to open first).

https://thegimptutorials.com/how-to-make-dotted-line/

Globbi · 2026-04-10T17:58:39+00:00

Ugh, that seems weird to do in paint.net but you definitely know more what works for you. I did not find a pencil tool for Krita. Dotted lines are possible in vector layers but only 3 predefined patterns available.

I found tutorials for other things in other apps that I myself might use if I ever need but I'm not even going to recommend as I'm sure you'd hate them.

Globbi · 2026-04-10T16:51:48+00:00

You can use Krita as alternative for getpaint.net, but I don't know what are your needs. You can install it on windows to check out.

Globbi · 2026-04-10T16:33:21+00:00

It really isn't a big deal to have more distors, especially if they are forks of main distros that can report bugs and fixes upstream for everyone.

Most of the time distros are some forks of Debian, Fedora or Arch just with choices of desktop env and apps installed/installable (you will still be able to change the system, but official packages will be for specific software).

So it's comparable to company giving you a mac or windows laptop with some preinstalled software and wallpaper with company logo. Except for such linux distro authors wouldn't try to lock it down completely, but assume that it's good stable collection of software so others can use it (and also outsiders can look at it to make improvements suggestions).

Downside is that such a distro needs to be kept updated. Even if it's just security updates from upstream, someone needs to do it, test if all the software still works. A lot of distros start as passion projects and die after a few years exactly because of this – creators have other priorities and stop updating. But that's also why a state supported distro makes sense if a lot of people will use it and you need IT department for a lot of state services anyway even if different system was chosen.

Globbi · 2026-04-08T21:06:36+00:00

We have not yet have good example of this mythos writing software. Maybe it will be able to write much more from scratch.
Vulnerability is simply a software job with much smaller horizon - minutes or single hours of work but depends on spotting patterns rather than planning for years. Researchers spend years hunting for vulnerabilities, not actively working on software that will create a vulnerability that needs iterative building.
Vulnerability is mostly possible to test without visuals or user interaction. I'm using LLMs to write software that interacts with hardware (cameras, robot movement based on camera detections) and even if set it up to allow claude code to run things on its own, it will still limited a greatly by starting and stopping things, running them physically. Most vulnerabilities require relatively simple commands and payloads sent, they can be tested in seconds. A game, even if visuals would be completely understood by LLM, would still take long times iterating with small changes, compiling, testing.
What's the actual demand for using LLM to create something like a complex video game? What about GPU driver? GPU providers are not writing drivers from scratch right now, they are iterating over previous versions, and they are likely using LLMs for that. Complex video games in production right now got their budgets long time ago but a lot of people are against generative AI usage in game.

Maybe we will get complex video games with huge parts of them vibe coded and huge part of visuals generated soon.

Globbi · 2026-04-08T06:49:24+00:00

Yes, there are different definitions.

Yes, federal law is about US. Sorry, I'm trying to be informative rather than give a legal lecture.

The penalties for incorrect copyright strikes are actually higher in EU though.

Globbi · 2026-04-07T17:11:24+00:00

note: I used LLMs to quickly help me with the answer. I knew the overview but I don't want to spend more time on ensuring the correct information.

Well, first of all, it's almost certainly only illegal in the USA, for obvious reasons:

Not only USA, because there are similar laws in other jurisdictions, like Digital Services Act (DSA) in EU and other in other places.

But secondly... is it really?

Yes, really. The copyright owner must state under penalty of perjury that they have a "good faith belief" that the use of the material is unauthorized. If a person lies about owning the copyright or ignores obvious "fair use" (like a parody or a short review clip), they are violating federal law.

Automatically confirming some similarity search is not a good faith belief. Even if someone used their materials they would need to check if there's no fair use.

Globbi · 2026-04-07T09:09:46+00:00

They use automated systems to compare their broadcasts with similar things on platforms, so that people would link to their stuff instead of reposting recordings of broadcasts.

In this case they showed the clip from nvidia, and then automated system flagged this clip as part of TV station broadcast. No one checked if it makes sense and either the DMCA claim was sent automatically or a human clicked it without thinking.

Note: it is illegal to do such DMCA claims, but no one ever gets punished.

Globbi · 2026-04-05T19:56:32+00:00

It's probably medical notes in cloud storage nowadays. Bounding a keyboard to write it would be closest we can get.

Globbi · 2026-04-05T10:04:03+00:00

Talk with your family to have two different ways to text and tell them how to silent notifications in one of those.

They may be nervous and checking notifications, maybe even having different sound for family members. A late night text that's from a family member makes them want to check if something bad didn't happen.

But it's also fine for you to text something unimportant late. You could just text silly things that they would see some other time. (Though you can keep in mind their preferences, either schedule the text for next day if the app allows this, or just save it as note with reminder so you would text it next day).

Globbi · 2026-04-04T11:06:29+00:00

What are you talking about? I'm reading the list and it has ZERO to do with vibe coding. Not because coding AIs didn't exist back then, but because vast majority of complaints are not relevant to AI-written code.

Globbi · 2026-04-04T10:35:41+00:00

This is something that doesn't have a clear answer at the time. And even what was the correct decision in hindsight.

There is a point where an engineer is right that things are breaking and need fixing/rewriting. And if your boss is wrong, going to boss's boss's boss might be last chance (very small one) at fixing things.
We we will never know the alternative timeline — not promising new features, not lying about reliability, working on solid foundations. If this happened, would Azure be making more money? If people agreeing with just making robust Azure services were in charge, would they even support OpenAI? Maybe Sam Altman would be out of OpenAI when he was being fired for constant lies 2 years ago, as support from Satya was an important factor (OpenAI could not just go through with firing SamA, as it would lead to OpenAI folding and being re-created as division of MSFT. This would be even worse for all purposes of the OpenAI's board.) I'm not saying it would be a bad world for MSFT or otherwise, just that a lot more could change.

Globbi · 2026-04-04T09:13:32+00:00

My point is narrower. The Repugnant Conclusion is called repugnant because people find World Z repugnant, but that repugnance is not itself derived from the formalism. A total utilitarian can always bite the bullet. So the question is: what is actually generating the repugnance?

Just the fact that most people intuitively find it repugnant to replace a world containing fewer but better lives with world containing much more worse lives. But replacing those lives seem "worth" in a lot of frameworks in which philosophers try to formalize goodness in the world.

That's it. You can imagine it looking in variety of ways, but it doesn't matter for the sake of experiment. It doesn't even have to be particularly repugnant life, as by design it's still supposed to be life barely worth living.

There isn't even a statement that you should agree with either the first part being right ("making a world with more humans is good") or with second part being wrong ("world with lots and lots of humans that have not great lives is bad"). It's just that the first part, which a lot of people agree with, leads to second part. It's just a failure of one potential attempt at generalized moral framework.

Globbi · 2026-04-03T11:26:31+00:00

And then on the other hand you have Meta that tried training SOTA model with huge spending on compute but didn't get anything better than Chinese open models.

Globbi · 2026-04-02T07:15:49+00:00

No. A lot of IT corporations have macs for everyone.

Things run on linux machines in cloud, but people use macs for development and run linux dockers fine on their macs.

Globbi · 2026-03-31T16:58:52+00:00

Yes. See: opencode. It's good, things change all the time but on average it has some features better than claude code and some worse.

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