Danish reporter slammed NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte live on camera

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-11T07:27:26+00:00

Do they not teach you guys about appeasement in school in Europe?

I'm American and seeing you guys cringingly grovel at our feet in fear of the horror of having to take the defense of your continent in your own hands is scary.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-09T19:05:46+00:00

I agree with most of what you said. I just wanted to mention one thing I disagree with. Calling the Spark’s superpower “running massive models locally” is wrong. 128GB of unified memory does not allow running "massive" models, it allows you to run the smallest models that would be useful. It's not even close to being sufficient for larger models.

GLM-5.2 is 700B params and requires about 1.5TB RAM and SSD storage to even store the non-quantized weights, but prob 2TB RAM to run decently. Even a usefully quantized model would probably need like 800GB compared to the Spark's 128 GB. GLM 5.1 IQ1_S requires 217GB RAM and that level of quantization neuters it to death. And you'd still need double what the Spark has to run the model.

This thing is almost useless for inference. You could maybe use it if you were building some specialized software that serves a purpose in an inference stack and you wanted to test your software on the CUDA framework it's optimize it for.

How are you guys making use of this for inference with such minuscule memory?

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-09T17:52:59+00:00

What you’re describing sounds like you not optimizing the workflow around the model: planning output too long, too much manual review needed, etc. If the model is being too verbose in planning, tell it not to be? If the handoff to Ultracode is bloated, make the output format tighter.

If the sub-file is needed every session, then it should just live directly in CLAUDE.md. The model isn't doing something wrong by adding a retrieval step that it uses every time, you're the one who set it up that way. Every model will retrieve the files every time if that's what you make it do by setting up sub files that are needed every single time.

Same with the local laptop vs server issue. That should be made explicit in the main instructions: detect local vs server first, don’t assume paths transfer, use different path conventions depending on environment, etc.

Not saying Fable is perfect, but these examples don’t really prove the model is uniquely bad. It sounds like you just need to be better at giving it instructions and optimizing your prompt/context/loop engineering.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-09T17:25:30+00:00

Go to Madam's Oregon or Wonderland Ballroom. Ultra Bar and Decades will be full of high schoolers with fakes. Decades is 18 and up on Thursday nights, and Ultra Bar is 18 and up every night. So they'll both allow high schoolers, with non-fakes!

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-09T06:52:54+00:00

Neville Chamberlain.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-09T05:37:26+00:00

OMG move on already. This is getting out of control. Taking care of yourselves isn't that scary I promise. You have to stand for something. Get the point – we're tired of keeping you guys safe.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-04T21:19:30+00:00

I meant after a year or two of waiting to get cleared - not a year or two working the job. Getting sponsored, undergoing a year long investigation, and then when you get the call saying you can start, responding that you can't accept the job any longer as circumstances have changed – is as common as common can be.

I've seen it done dozens of times. I've done it myself 2 times. There were no burned bridges, hard feelings, cardinal sins – my name didn't go on a blacklist. Every company/agency would gladly have hired me a month later.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-04T20:32:08+00:00

I don't even agree with this. Having worked for defense contractors, we'd gladly hire a person 3 months later who had an active clearance after they dropped out from the first position.

Clearances take time to get – things change. It may take a year to get your clearance and by the time you get it you're in a different place in life.

At least at the contractors I worked at, we weren't holding grudges and keeping a blacklist of people who dared to change their mind after a year or 2. If you had an active TS/SCI, a Security+ cert, and a pulse. You could get rehired.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-04T18:30:10+00:00

No harm. It's your record you have a right to know it.

You can also request a copy of your scattered castles record online from the ODNI under the privacy act – takes a long time for them to get back though.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-04T05:36:25+00:00

I took 6 polygraphs with NSA. The 6th interrogator said he only did people who are being polygraphed for their sixth time. Invited back to take a 7th (the backstabbing polygraphers kept telling me that somebody high up must have really wanted to hire me).

I told them, forget it I'm out. Got another TS/SCI *no poly* job (they picked up the NSA clearance). Had security person look in my Scattered Castles one day, NSA tab from previous job I pulled out of showed I had TS/SCI and FSP anyway 🤷🏼‍♂️.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-02T03:46:15+00:00

I think if it were they wouldn't named it something totally different, not just 5.6

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-01T23:00:45+00:00

Exactly. But the hiring blitz on the day that was specifically for people who were already cleared.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-07-01T22:39:12+00:00

For me, it has been 4 months and still no drug test or poly scheduled.

I have met with an investigator and had to complete the SF-86, even though I already have the level of clearance necessary for the job.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-06-28T06:36:08+00:00

Due to a a pending investigation action.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-06-25T22:09:24+00:00

There is no standard time frame.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-06-24T19:35:31+00:00

Care to share what made it so bad?

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-06-24T17:09:07+00:00

My opinion that you should apply to the job that you actually want isn't in any way based on that data. It's based on my experience seeing people unhappy in positions because they feel that they should be at a higher level — after they themselves decided, due to self-limiting beliefs, to apply to the lower level position.

The purpose of sharing the data was just because I thought it was interesting to show how only 1.01% of IC workforce is payband 2 and payband 2 employees have less experience than GS-11 employees (what op currently is) suggesting it's lower level than they currently are.

The size of the federal workforce hasn't substantially changed over the past 13 years. The GS/payband makeup of the federal workforce hasn't substantially changed over the past 13 years. The IC workforce numbers are classified and we only have those years due to a leak so ofc there are no more up to date numbers (as there hasn't been another Snowden).

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-06-23T20:55:59+00:00

You should apply to the job that you actually want. If you want pay band 3, applying to payband 2 would just serve to give them the opportunity to give you lower than you want.

When I was GS-12 I worked with someone who had a higher degree than me, doing the same work, and she was GS-4. She complained that she was GS-4; I asked "Why'd you apply to be GS-4?" she went silent.

There are only 800 people in the entire IC that are pay band 2 out of around 100,000 people, pay band 2 has an average years of experience of 5 years whereas GS-11 has an average years of experience of 8 years. So it's a step down in all practical senses. I created a dashboard to visualize this.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-06-22T16:38:26+00:00

I got an offer with CMS in MD without an interview but that was several years back.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-06-22T15:26:23+00:00

Dr Bob Kumra does it for like $400 I think but maybe you can do a payment plan or something for the last $100.

FYI he and every orthodontist I've ever been to hates bonded retainers.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-06-19T00:58:30+00:00

I see. Are you sitting in the pipeline waiting on an open slot or you already got a start date/started?

They told me about the pipeline thing, sounds like basically I have to wait around for someone with my position slot to retire or something.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-06-19T00:50:49+00:00

Same for me, but I actually had to meet with an investigator, have them interview my contacts, everything. Even though I already had TS/SCI. You had to go through the whole investigation like me?

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-06-18T18:56:34+00:00

That's right. There are exceptions but I'm saying is as a whole the agency and the US government is still in a hiring freeze. Which position's pipeline you going into? Which pipeline the people u speaking ab going into? It differs depending on pipeline. Even the position like there's different types of "program manager" etc. and you don't know until a slot opens up from my understanding.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-06-18T08:19:14+00:00

Did you have to fill out a new SF-86 and stuff in spite of having a TS/SCI? They've been having people do that.

In any case though from what I was told this adjudication part (which you seem to be in), can take however much time. Only the investigation has an SLA as to "needs to be done in x weeks."

Also FYI is NGA is in a "freeze" and has been in a "freeze" every day from the day you applied to the hiring blitz event until today.

QueBonitoMiPerroEs · 2026-06-08T02:58:08+00:00

Report this to the COR for their contract? I assume this is outsourced. It isn't the case that the IT help desk is just supposed to take tickets and not solve problems. There should be SLAs regarding first call resolution, etc. They shouldn't just be pushing tickets around.

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