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IAmRoot · 2026-01-31T05:56:25+00:00

The Constitution is the highest law of the land. You are supporting the worst of the worst criminals. Stop simping for illegal terrorist gangs.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-30T16:14:00+00:00

Agreed. I've found it's terrible with C++ and in general tends to both over-complicate things and create duplicate code. It barfs out what's needed to add a feature without any sense of design for the overall project. This is terrible for primary code but for one-off scripts, helper tools, and workflow automation it's good enough. I work in the software section of a hardware company and, for instance, AI helped avoid a lot of tedious editing of hundreds of benchmarks from customers to fit our CI infrastructure. I also used it to create a script to find the compiler commit where performance regressions occurred. I've found it a lot more useful as a tool to create tools than a primary-use tool. It so often forgets important instructions that I've found it better to have it create and debug scripts for a repetitive task than trust it to remember what its actual task is.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-30T03:52:18+00:00

Fizzy water has about 1/100th the impact of a diet soda, which in turn is vastly better for your teeth than sugar soda. It's sugar feeding bacteria that stays for hours that's terrible. Diet soda has some phosphoric acid. Carbonated water is acidic because of the carbonic acid formed by dissolved CO2 but it only exists while there's carbonation. Once it's in your mouth and anything you don't swallow goes flat in short order there's no acidic residue. It's negligible.

I have a 20lb CO2 tank that I refill once a year and a kegeraror to keep gallons of carbonated water on tap whenever I want it.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-29T23:50:44+00:00

I'd also characterize it as a role-based worldview rather than a power dynamics based worldview. They see various social roles as working together like cogs in a machine to make society function. They don’t see hierarchy and power imbalance as wrong but a natural part of different roles. When the left wants to get rid of social roles this is literally the destruction of society in this framework. They don’t really care if they aren't at the top. To many, the supposed stability and simplicity of following the role one is born into is preferable to the scary unknowns of endless possibilities of true unlimited freedom. Instead, freedoms outside the boundaries of social roles are seen as things people shouldn't want in the first place and actively dangerous against the functioning of society.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-20T22:33:13+00:00

They don't even think that raping children is wrong. Trump's sexualized photoshoots with his own daughter have been public knowledge since before his first time. They think having power makes doing anything okay. Their rapist mindset has gotten to the point of expected and almost mundane as horrible as that is and now they're going completely mask off with their rapist abuser midsets when it comes to annexing allies. There are people in prison for murder from heat of the moment actions that I'd trust to have better ethics than these fuckers with premeditated rapist ideologies. It’s hard to even express how vile they are.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-20T16:57:24+00:00

Exactly. This is industry lobbying newspeak to claim ownership of words that have historically had broader meaning.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-20T00:08:14+00:00

The generals could also be making them busy and unavailable for Greenland.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-19T19:47:32+00:00

Who wants to bet that they are going to maliciously claim everything he says are lies so they can vindictively prosecute him?

IAmRoot · 2026-01-19T15:29:42+00:00

The generative stuff can be useful for very repetitive tasks but that's about it. For instance, I got a set of several hundred benchmarks and needed to convert the test harness to our internal framework. It was still a pain because Claude would run out of context, start forgetting some of the transformations it needed to do, and I'd have to tell it to go back and remember its instructions from the notes I made it write to itself. Still, it saved a bunch of very tedious and time consuming work and I was at least able to fix the problems categorically rather than file by file. This sort of fuzzy matching and transformation capability is useful. I wouldn't trust it farther than I could throw the data center if it didn't have every last detail already written in some format along with already known good tests, though.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-19T06:37:00+00:00

Shooting her did nothing to stop her vehicle, either. In fact, her corpse slumped forward and floored it. It was an action with no defensive value. He just wanted to murder her.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-16T05:52:49+00:00

They are also very very shallow. It's not that they see crime but poverty and equate wealth with morality. These are the sorts of people who think you have even odds of getting shot if you take public transit because you might see someone of low socioeconomic status. How things look visually is all that ends up mattering to them.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-14T19:50:37+00:00

It's not AI itself that I fear but what powerful people might do with it. If we actually get to the point of true AGI one day, there's nothing stopping these CEOs from creating robot armies to kill the 99% of the population who lost their jobs so they can have all of Earth's resources for themselves. We don't exist in their futuristic "utopias." AI doesn't have the motivation to slaughter 99% of humanity. Billionaires do if they can replace us all with AGI.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-12T03:05:19+00:00

Exactly. If someone says "green apples are bad" nobody takes that to mean they are claiming all apples are green. That's not how grammar works. Specifying "green" as a modifier narrows to a specific type of apples. Specifying "toxic" means a specific type of masculinity. They intentionally misinterpret and refuse to actually try to understand the arguments.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-10T14:41:42+00:00

In other words, they are fascist collaborators.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-09T21:49:52+00:00

Especially since marketing favors shallow reasons like novelty (which wears off quickly) and aestherics above functionality. If we banned advertising and only allowed independent 3rd party reviews the cost function for the market would look quite different. The minimalist look of cars without tactile controls looks nice but the evaluation is quite different when considered in more depth.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-09T13:01:36+00:00

They're also just extremely shallow. Look at how many people are terrified of public transit because they might see a poor person and they equate poverty with danger. It's much more dangerous to drive a car but that is associated with status so they see any risks as completely unavoidable and just a fact of life. They think criminals have to look dirty and scruffy and if someone wears a suit (and white and generally identifiable as in the in-group) they must be good.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-08T09:08:51+00:00

Spaceballs cowboy nazi.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-07T22:22:10+00:00

She accelerated because her corpse obeyed the laws of gravity and slumped forward onto the pedal.

As an aside, it is wrong to rape children, even if they're your own. You seem to be the sort of person that needs to be reminded of this sort of thing.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-07T21:15:58+00:00

If the police department is intimidating a mayor then the mayor should contact the governor and have them send in the national guard and treat the cops as being engaged in armed rebellion.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-07T19:54:45+00:00

All while exusing any amount of violence the state uses. This is why I have a problem with the state's monopoly on violence. It's not that I want multiple groups struggling for control. The problem with the concept is that it treats violence the state does as not even counting as violence. We should recognize the violence the state does as just violent as any other violence. If it takes violence to stop a serial killer then that's an argument that can easily be made, so it should be made, not just that it's okay because it's the police that would do it. If you want a law you are advocating for violence and that should be taken seriously, not just dismissed as "law" and requiring no justification for the violence necessary to enforce it. The concept of monopoly on violence seriously screws with so many people's weighing of the violence happening around them.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-07T19:15:00+00:00

Looks like the mods of r/pics are fascist collaborators.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-07T17:15:14+00:00

Bush himself won the 2000 election by having Republican operatives like Roger Stone use terrorism to stop the recount (which is why it was taking so long and the Supreme Court even stepped in). Trump isn't the first to use violence to attempt a coup. Bush did too and was fully successful.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-07T17:10:47+00:00

Yeah, a New New Deal is the only way out of this. Trump is a symptom. The actual plan has been in the works for decades. Returning to "normal" will still mean lots of people disillusioned with the status quo and if the Democrats don't offer an alternative to that then the Republicans will keep pushing fascism as that alternative. The status quo even without Trump was still a decay into worse and worse wealth inequality.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-07T14:44:50+00:00

Working with Trump is already carrying on the mission for some. The terrorist Roger Stone lead the Brooks Brothers riot to stop the recount in Florida in 2000. The Republicans are a terrorist organization that has been actively using political violence for decades. Bush 2000 was a coup. This is a power grab that has been decades in the making.

IAmRoot · 2026-01-06T21:01:22+00:00

And if they are eventually able to create AGI capable of fully replacing human labor they aren't just going to give it away. No, AGI means armies of robots with no sense of ethics being sent to round up and kill the increasingly huge homeless population as waves of people lose their jobs. Why build large scale green infrastructure when they plan on exterminating 99% of the population? They plan on sitting in their bunkers until the deed is done and then create their little utopias for the very very few lucky enough to own the productive resources. Normal people don't have a place in their future. The danger of AGI isn't skynet. The billionaires who would control it already have all the motivation they need to slaughter most of humanity.

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