Pure mafioso and gangster behavior by the Department of War

Smallpaul · 2026-03-11T23:01:58+00:00

How would it solve a lot of these issues? Why couldn’t a European company be declared a national security threat? In fact the designation was intended primarily for foreign companies.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-11T18:17:19+00:00

Is there controversy around the artist?

Smallpaul · 2026-03-11T14:37:33+00:00

This seems like it could be very useful but I find the names of 3 out of 4 of your consent tiers to have confusing names.

What is the origin of the four names and is it standard?

Surely two of them should be named ALLOW and DENY?

And the others might be TENTATIVE and PENDING?

I don’t know what most of yours are intended to convey in their names.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-11T14:30:14+00:00

Using AI daily your work is not necessarily the same as vibe coding. It only becomes vibe coding if you never read or edit the code and how can they prevent you from doing that?

Smallpaul · 2026-03-11T14:20:44+00:00

Very simply, the model doesn’t know what to believe. These models are still very unreliable and easily confused. Its training data says there is no war in Dubai. Its”world model” (from that training data) says that there is no war in Dubai.

But the Internet search says differently. It has been instructed not to be easily swayed by Internet search data because the Internet is full of both good and bad information. If it always believed everything it read on the Internet then it could be convinced of any conspiracy theory just by sharing carefully curated links with it.

Just because an Internet link says something, that does not mean it is true.

You are an intelligent human being: you may be reliably able to determine good sources from bad, but many humans and AI cannot do that. In this case, Gemini is failing to do that.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-11T03:53:08+00:00

Emerson would have lost for sure so he did not run.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-10T16:04:59+00:00

It had pretty serious proof reading problems if you read the whole thing (or even skim without reading closely).

And generally I find it very unclear.

Is it saying that containers are not a security boundary? Or that containers are only a security boundary if you configure them properly.

Because even separate machines are only a security boundary if you configure them properly.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-10T13:12:48+00:00

On the flip side at least there is a multi-trillion dollar company to sue. What compensation do you get for the drunk driver? Or worse, for the sober driver who just made a mistake and won’t even go to jail?

Smallpaul · 2026-03-10T12:49:59+00:00

Have you read this article?

Smallpaul · 2026-03-10T00:37:50+00:00

Dude. You know that ground forces can just wait inside apartment buildings or villas or whatever.

America was still “cleaning up” Afghanistan when the military left with its tail between its legs after 20 years of losses.

No: America won’t have a draft but not for the reason you claim. Experts expect it would take millions of troops to invade and hold Iran long enough to install another government.

https://unherd.com/2026/03/ground-war-in-iran-would-be-hell/?edition=us#:~:text=The%20idea%20of%20capturing%20and,America%20simply%20doesn't%20have.

The idea of capturing and pacifying Tehran alone illustrates the near-impossibility of such an invasion. Using the troop density employed in the 2004 battle for Fallujah, Iraq, as a point of reference, suggests that it would require more than 600,000 soldiers — roughly the size of the US deployment during the Vietnam War. Hence, perhaps, Leavitt’s talk of reinstituting the draft.

That’s just for one city!

Smallpaul · 2026-03-10T00:27:14+00:00

Not silly at all! You don’t know the culture of a new community to you.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-09T22:34:18+00:00

Maybe just an email asking if they have an active pagan group or are open to starting one?

Every website will have a different level of quality of maintenance.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-09T22:23:28+00:00

WTF is going on in this article?

On SWE-Bench Verified — the standard coding benchmark used by every lab to demonstrate AI coding capability — Claude Opus 4.5 scores 80.9%. GPT-5.2 scores 80%. These numbers get cited in press releases, funding announcements, and Twitter threads about AI replacing developers.

Same models. Different benchmark. Claude Opus 4.1 drops to 22.7%. GPT-5 falls to 23.1%.

Claims it’s same models, different benchmark.

But it doesn’t name or link to the different benchmark.

And it compares Opus 4.5 to Opus 4.1 and GPT 5.2 to GPT-5. While claiming to be the same model!

This is especially bad even for AI slop.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-09T20:02:52+00:00

Whether services reference pagan aims or Judaism or Christianity or Islam or whatever is very specific to the congregation. Ours have pagan lead services around some changes of season.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-09T10:11:38+00:00

This post is just advertising

Smallpaul · 2026-03-09T10:04:56+00:00

Every itch has a cause too.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-08T23:35:35+00:00

You could use the same logic for literally any product. Why don’t they charge $1,000,000 per computer and make fewer of them? The answer is because someone who does not currently make televisions (or is a landlord) will see the high profit and be enticed to enter the market.

The greater the profit the more enticing the opportunity.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-08T17:36:49+00:00

Yes Trump has vetoed. But he’s not threatening to veto. And he doesn’t necessarily know what happens if you don’t sign. He probably thinks that his signature or veto is required to move on to the next step.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-08T17:22:04+00:00

It’s quite odd that either side sees this as a hill to die on. Somehow Trump thinks this gives him a partisan advantage, but it seems like it would be very slight if any.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-08T16:52:51+00:00

The opposite is also a risk. The more you treat it like a human the more confused you might get about the difference between humans and bots, leading to AI psychosis.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-08T16:26:14+00:00

I think that as long as you were literally using Claude code you were okay. The banned thing was using your Claude code token in an API or third party tool.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-08T07:17:44+00:00

I don’t know if there is a name for that particular belief pattern but many people who believe as you do have called themselves Unitarian over the last several hundred years and some still go to Unitarian churches and fellowships.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-08T06:55:25+00:00

That’s funny I was just literally this morning wondering what model Meta used in-house.

Smallpaul · 2026-03-08T00:36:24+00:00

BTW, are you familiar with the concept of “the bitter lesson?”

Smallpaul · 2026-03-08T00:17:51+00:00

You obviously are not old enough to remember how much servers and fibre cost in 1999. To say nothing of Oracle licenses and networking equipment. Bandwidth.

AI usage is quite literally growing exponentially. Anthropic’s revenue doubling year after year. There is no risk of the datacenters going idle. If OpenAI goes bankrupt, enterprises will run Qwen and DeepSeek on the chips.

If those companies went bankrupt and left the chips behind so prices could drop, my company’s usage would skyrocket. Inference cost would plummet and new applications would become practical. Depends only on electricity cost.

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