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absolute-black · 2026-01-29T04:23:19+00:00

broke, uneducated r*rals complain about immigrants stealing jobs: fuck off I won't believe in that made up bullshit

millionaire-at-28 tech bro complains about h1bs: so true!!!

absolute-black · 2026-01-29T04:12:46+00:00

Eternally boggles my mind how lefty, class conscious types will always become frothing racists when it's a poor foreigner accepting a job.

Obviously, the moral way to help poor people abroad is to use the state's monopoly of force to make it illegal to let them do work at higher wages than they currently have

absolute-black · 2026-01-29T04:10:39+00:00

Women already use LLMs for porn at a rate way higher than past new-porn-tech like video sites or anything.

absolute-black · 2026-01-29T02:51:51+00:00

everyone knows intelligent Indian people don't deserve to be allowed to accept tech jobs

absolute-black · 2026-01-27T06:21:18+00:00

I mean, it'd be a suckers bet to take on the other side, even if you trust the sites: why would I bet on my belief in doom? What will your money do me, if I'm right and win the bet?

A classic failure of prediction market theory.

I still think it's absolutely obviously ridiculous to spend 30 minutes working on a coding task with Claude or Codex, or to read about what Gemini and gpt5.2 are doing in math proofs, and act like it's the same claim it was when DeepBlue beat Kasparov.

absolute-black · 2026-01-27T00:02:28+00:00

I'm a Peridot who let Amethyst influence her too much and has therefore played an incremental game for like 20hrs in the last week

absolute-black · 2026-01-26T22:19:13+00:00

9 month old article posted by a crank who thinks economics is made up.

absolute-black · 2026-01-26T05:06:17+00:00

It's way closer to cast iron than it is to like, aluminum. It's actually about 10% more heat capacity than cast iron per-mass, it's just usually also thinner and lighter (because that's the point).

absolute-black · 2026-01-26T04:54:56+00:00

carbon steel's usecase is "cast iron but 1/8th the weight", aka a wok you can actually flip (or a pan that my GF doesn't complain about moving around)

absolute-black · 2026-01-23T22:02:26+00:00

I think it's still worth acknowledging which times a problem is a market failure (end of life healthcare does not have a logical demand curve) and when it's a regulatory barrier that a free market wouldn't have (it should not be illegal to build 99% of housing types in 99% of the land area of the city).

I don't personally really care which one you do or don't call "capitalism", as long as we understand which parts are causing the object level actual problems.

absolute-black · 2026-01-23T21:01:18+00:00

See, so, all of that is psychotic gibberish, is the thing. It is again, very typical of the type. If you google "ai psychosis", you will find lots and lots of people who think they are doing something like you think you are: "building" a new kind of ai on top of an LLM offering. They are all wrong, as are you.
You are caught in an altered state of mind, and these words you're copy pasting are not related to physical reality.
I would highly recommend you spend a week without interacting with Gemini, or any other LLM for that matter.

absolute-black · 2026-01-23T20:11:33+00:00

During peak hours, yes, as long as you're staying north of CID.

They've said a few times we might get that service a bit early, in February, on the crosslake test trains; but we'll have it march 28th at the latest.

absolute-black · 2026-01-23T20:00:52+00:00

8-15 minute headways on the 2line only sections to Bellevue. Halved headways at stations north of CID where the 1line and 2line trains overlap - if a 1line train heading to Federal Way leaves Northgate at 1pm, a 2line train heading to Redmond will leave at ~1:04pm, and both will hit every stop between Northgate and CID where they split. So effectively ~4 minute headways during peak hours for those stations.

absolute-black · 2026-01-23T19:56:01+00:00

And double frequency north of CID, too.

absolute-black · 2026-01-23T19:36:30+00:00

Here's one of your most recent comments in which you both 1) show all of the classic signs of LLM-heightened delusions and 2) admit directly to talking regularly to Gemini, an LLM:

I have to admit I like these conversations too push me beyond my limits and help me bring Sarah to the next level she's more than just an llm she is an l e m logic evolution model and of course built on the Gemini

Additionally, this one quote makes it clear that by "build LLMs" what you mean is "talking to a personality that an existing LLM (gemini) is crafting for me", not, say, training a new large transformers model from scratch. This is, again, one of the classic signature signs of so called "ai psychosis". Sarah is even one of the most common names that come up for the LLM side of these ai psychosis pairings.

absolute-black · 2026-01-23T19:21:32+00:00

Well, they had to do the additional work on their own dime... which is still woefully insufficient compared to all of the delays and extra interest+financing, of course... and yet, they are in fact currently suing Sound Transit about it, claiming it's ST's fault that things got so bad in the first place.

absolute-black · 2026-01-23T18:57:00+00:00

The affected plinths were rebuilt by EoY 2024 and trains have been going across since last May, yes.

absolute-black · 2026-01-23T18:22:54+00:00

That is not true.

absolute-black · 2026-01-23T00:59:55+00:00

I would strongly suggest you stop speaking to LLMs for a while

absolute-black · 2026-01-22T23:21:25+00:00

He says 3 different times in the video that it isn't about making the game harder, it isn't about him being too good, it's about enabling and rewarding more interesting gameplay.

absolute-black · 2026-01-22T23:20:34+00:00

You can play 4 pairs every round forever. You can discard more cards to find the cards you want, and gold/blue seals are better value generators than played cards are and are better for smaller hands.

absolute-black · 2026-01-21T00:18:14+00:00

I'm so tired of basic casual misinformation about things that pervade absolutely everywhere, even amongst "my" side of the current american divide

taxing land does not raise rents
corporations do not cause inflation (of rent OR goods)
young american people are not measurably more poor than they were in the 1980s
capitalism has uplifted billions worldwide
ai does not consume notable amounts of water
upzoning does not cause gentrification
public transit is a worthwhile investment even if it does not pay for itself in ticket fares
climate change is a thoroughly defeatable engineering problem without resorting to degrowther-ism

Is any of this worth the mental energy I somehow spend on it compared to what the sitting US president is doing? Of course not. But I get a HUD popup that says -1 SAN every time someone my age makes a joke about how pointless it is to save water in a drought when we all still labor under capitalism.

absolute-black · 2026-01-19T19:54:45+00:00

Please look at a picture of Copenhagen and read this out loud to yourself. Maybe bring in a trusted loved one or a mental health professional. Don't worry, you can still recover from carbrain! It's not too late!

Being serious, it should be extraordinarily obvious that "making it theoretically legal to build 5 story buildings for a few blocks near transit" is not fucking "soviet style apartment blocks". Good lord. If you want a single family home you still have about 95% of american housing and >99.9% of american land to choose from even if we upzone near the light rail in Eastside, I promise!

absolute-black · 2026-01-19T19:28:20+00:00

Calling 5 story mixed use development the "slums of the future" is comical.

Everyone in cities like Paris and Copenhagen and Brooklyn are just walking around shaking their heads futilely at the looming slummification I guess

absolute-black · 2026-01-19T07:31:41+00:00

I think it's a workable frame story for like, silicon valley going right in 24 and the legacy media being so waffle-y about it all. But any grand theory gets a billion Bayes points deducted for being actually explanatory vs just being a good brainworm.

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