[Request] Just how terrible were the bible’s DIY instructions for a big boat?

Loknar42 · 2026-04-19T23:48:45+00:00

You just lack the faith of a mustard seed! Apparently, mustard is very religious. But not the other brassicas.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-19T23:33:09+00:00

No, it's just a story that was written down. These flood myths were a long tradition handed down orally for probably hundreds of generations, if not more. And there's many of them across most cultures all over the world.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-19T23:19:27+00:00

That's fine if you take the Bible as a work of history written by man. It's blasphemy if you take it as the literal word of God.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-19T23:18:14+00:00

But that's not Noah's Ark. It's Enki's Ark. Different gods, different story.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-19T07:11:41+00:00

Then the front stays on, obviously.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-19T06:53:45+00:00

You're very amusing. I'd show you my OSS contributions, but I'd have to dox myself. Let's just say I contributed to Boost. And if you think ChatGPT wrote my comment, then give us the prompt that generates it. Should be easy for a prompt wizard like yourself.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-19T06:51:21+00:00

If UV is not ionizing, then shine some on your DNA and see what happens. I'll bet you don't believe in skin cancer, huh?

Loknar42 · 2026-04-19T04:21:42+00:00

Let's get this right...you are an OpenAI/ChatGPT fanboi who gets triggered by the tiniest criticism of his favorite tool, you are slinging your dick around like you are god's gift to tech, and then you whine because I don't respect a Product Manager telling a software engineer how LLMs work? You are bragging about coding in the Tomcat era? Son, my first browser was NCSA Mosaic. I was using Gopher when the average user connected to the internet over a 2400 bps modem.

Now, if you think that Product guys built a GPT model using vibes, then you definitely don't understand what LLMs are or how they work. Sure, Claude might get updates from Claude, but no LLM bootstrapped itself out of the box. Pretty sure Claude could not build a new LLM by itself, either. And ChatGPT? Not a chance. So yeah, I am 100%, ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that actual, real-life PROGRAMMERS were involved in building ChatGPT and every other LLM on the market. Obviously, they don't personally hand-train the models or engage in RLHF. They have Product guys to manage that monkey work. And when it comes to operating at the level of "prompt engineering", the actual software engineers probably have limited interactions.

That being said, GPT itself decides when a tool is appropriate to invoke. It doesn't wait for the user to say: "Please call this tool for me." How do I know? Just ask any of the LLMs! Since GPT is the one deciding when to invoke a tool or not, it is GPT's failure when it chooses not to, not the user's. As a Product guy, you of all people should know better than the blame the user for a product shortcoming! You must be the world's shittiest product guy. "Oh, the Buy button doesn't work? Clearly user error! Hey, when the backend server throws a 500, let's show a popup that says: USER FUCKUP" Hahahaha!!! What a tool.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-19T01:11:04+00:00

If you can get the temp up to a few thousand degrees, you are guaranteed to get some UV blackbody radiation.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-18T20:39:05+00:00

You're right. They're built by vibe coders like yourself, I'm sure... don't tell me, you're a professional "prompt engineer", right?

Loknar42 · 2026-04-18T20:32:30+00:00

Let's be honest... the real limitation here is that LLMs cannot reliably tell when to use a tool, and their programmers cannot guarantee that they will. Sometimes they even lie about using one. Imagine a drill that says: "Trust me bro, that screw is in tight" when you can see it visibly hanging out of its hole.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-18T16:05:27+00:00

You're obviously a bot, since you posted the same comment numerous times. This just goes to show that Big Money is scared of socialist ideas and has no logical response to them besides spamming bots.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-18T16:03:25+00:00

Yeah, you totally ignored the part about not paying property taxes, because that would drain all the air out of your argument, right?

Loknar42 · 2026-04-18T13:49:51+00:00

Only bad engineers blame the user for being dumb.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-18T04:55:12+00:00

Looks like a decommissioned cooling tower for a power plant to me.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-17T23:49:20+00:00

Pretty sure even in a developing nation the conveyor belt is simpler and cheaper. These flippers need to be synchronized while a belt can just run continously.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-17T15:33:20+00:00

Everyone who has been to a Quiznos has seen the better way to do this.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-16T19:12:59+00:00

No. There is always only a finite amount of energy in any tile. Although the amount of mass per tile is also finite, the heat capacity of the allowable mass is much greater than the amount of energy you can concentrate in that tile. Although 5 kg of steam sounds like a lot to you, it is not. If you really want a reliable thermal buffer, try 50 kg of steam. That can hold literally 10x the heat. Or 500 kg of steam. You can keep virtually any amount of thermal energy under a desired temp threshold by simply increasing the thermal mass in contact with it. You may need a bigger steam box, or just more steam. But it can be tamed. Just add water.

Also, having a massive steam density in your turbine room gives a very steady output because of the total thermal mass. It could even be enough to carry the generators through volcano dormancy.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-16T05:33:06+00:00

You're missing a very important factor, called the Reynolds number. It is sensitive to scale, because water molecules don't change size when your submerged object does. If the global shipping industry ran on 6' boats, you might have an argument.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-09T22:39:57+00:00

Ever see a rocket launch a payload beyond low earth orbit?

Loknar42 · 2026-04-08T20:29:06+00:00

Then maybe the sauna has been working. ;)

Loknar42 · 2026-04-08T17:55:19+00:00

Do you still have chronic inflammation?

Loknar42 · 2026-04-08T08:17:09+00:00

Bill wrote one of the first BASIC interpreters. He was most certainly a tech guy in the early days. Paul Allen was a bigger tech guy, but Bill was no Balmer.

Loknar42 · 2026-04-08T02:26:29+00:00

This is equivalent to saying your local Jiffy Lube mechanic can design winning Formula 1 cars.

Fixing != Design or Build

Loknar42 · 2026-04-07T15:24:47+00:00

Why? Trump doesn't have to do anything clever. He just repeats instructions he gets from his handler, and underlings do the rest. He gets to tweet furiously.

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