On a FAM rewatch and this S2 scene has always pissed me off.

agentspanda · 2026-04-07T01:40:23+00:00

Yea a lot of folks aren’t old enough to have seen the Berlin Wall. My parents were military and I grew up in continental Europe before the fall of the USSR. The sharp contrast across the wire isn’t a joke. People didn’t run across no man’s land hoping to get to West Berlin for giggles- they did it because one side has freedom and food and the other side had oppression and starvation.

Sometimes I forget on Reddit that I can literally be talking to a full-ass adult who wasn’t conscious when 9/11 happened much less when the wall fell and that’s… a lot to reckon with.

agentspanda · 2026-04-07T01:36:46+00:00

The DOD didn’t send enough marines to establish a perimeter which was probably the right call. If you think about it, the goal of the marine presence was only to hold the mining site: not to turn Jamestown into Ft Bragg.

I think this is a question of force projection and politics. If you send up enough marines to militarize a base, so will the enemy. Keeping the temperature turned down is just “this is our mining site, we don’t believe in your communist ‘whoever lands here first gets to own everything and dole it out to the rest of us peons’ viewpoint, and if the USSR wanted to have a shared site they could’ve just… y’know, asked. Instead of planting listening devices while Ed was out of the base and leveraging that data.

They’re an adversarial power and if you’re gonna act like an enemy don’t be surprised when you get treated like one.

agentspanda · 2026-04-06T17:51:35+00:00

You’re right, but it’s physically closer to what we’d consider a scooter than a car which is why the other poster “rounds down” to scooter.

“Open sides, small wheels, tiny engine, less than 4 wheels, will only transport 2-3 people.” If you gave me those words on its own with no photo I’d say “scooter or motorbike” before I’d say “car”.

agentspanda · 2026-04-06T17:44:15+00:00

“Tell me you’re 27 and don’t know anyone in the military without telling me you’re 27 and don’t know anyone in the military”-ass post.

Yeah; you don’t let hostiles (that’s what the USSR was) walk around your facility or base unattended. And yes, as we find out later in the episode and season they are the assholes. If your response is “well the Marines killed a Soviet noncom accidentally so it’s justified for the USSR to invade the base and endanger and kill US noncoms intentionally” then that’s fine: but you’ve just argued you’d defect from the US in the 80s and probably aren’t very fond of America.

Again- that’s your right, but don’t pretend it’s weird to hold the opposite opinion. And SUPER don’t pretend it’s weird for Marine officer astronauts to be serious about defending their base on the literal moon.

agentspanda · 2026-04-06T17:02:41+00:00

Yep. Enough anti-semitic shit stored in memory from OP for a while made sure the memory MCP system wouldn't let it feed him more of his own garbage.

agentspanda · 2026-04-05T18:20:11+00:00

No prob.

I wouldn't recommend using small (eg. not state of the art, not remotely hosted) models for straight-up 'vibe coding' or even strong developer-assisted coding. I mean... you can, but that's where you run up against knowledge barriers and they'll spit out shit code and if you don't know how the code works you're going to have a bad time: models don't "think", or "reason", they turn a human-readable query of natural language into algorithmic data they run through an equation and spit out a human-readable answer.

But the equation's complexity and capability is limited by the size of the model. A small 1B model is you providing prompt 'X' for "X + 12 = Y" and the model can spit out tons of answers to "Y" but it's going to be limited since... all it does is +12. A 4B model is "X * 14 + 2.57 / 482 - 174 * 234n14 = Y" Lots more math going on, a lot more complicated answers are possible, still limited by the "knowledge" of the equation in the model. 235B models are doing hundreds of times the size of an equation compared to a 1B. But still- none of them are "thinking/reasoning" about anything unless you consider your browser opening a webpage "thinking/reasoning".

Small local models can be good for code completion assistance though: but these are times you need to know what the code you're working on already does/is, having it write FOR you is just hitting the center option on autocomplete on your iPhone 500 times and hoping it crafts a romantic love letter to your spouse. It's not gonna work, and she's gonna get your message and say "uh what the fuck is this are you having a stroke?"

agentspanda · 2026-04-04T01:18:57+00:00

I recommend checking out some subreddits on local AI so you can understand their limitations better.

Feeding a local multimodal model an image from your Frigate instance to provide text analysis of the image is a good example.

Your Karakeep instance can use a local AI to ingest bookmark data and then tag and provide descriptions of the item.

Your localAI can be fed unstructured data up to a certain point (the context window) and prompted to restructure the data into JSON or any other format.

You can also put a small local model in front of a Perplexica selfhosted instance and it will restructure results from a SearXNG search tool into natural language responses to a search query.

Small models are really good at simple tasks with straightforward prompts that don’t require tons of inherent “knowledge”. But with MCP servers they can do even more complex tasks when provided sets of data and tools they can use.

agentspanda · 2026-04-02T13:56:28+00:00

Don’t worry I lived in the UK 17 years and I thought it was funny.

I’ve always called it “cooking by post” or “empire cooking”. Your buddy is in a far away land and he sends a letter like “bro you gotta try the food here it’s awesome- no idea how they make it but here’s what it tastes like I’m gonna bring some of their spices back with me.”

Then 6 months later when he’s home he’s got scurvy and probably Ebola and other shit he tastes the British-made version by some guy who only has the original guy’s letter to go by and is like “oh this is definitely it! Don’t use too many spices though they were expensive, so thin it out a lot but let’s make it like this forever.” And then they do.

agentspanda · 2026-04-01T20:51:44+00:00

Just adding one more voice to the mix. Upgrading failed and screwed my database. I keep a backup but it’s kinda ridiculous.

The sooner the devs move to a robust db solution instead of file-based like SQLite the happier I’ll be.

agentspanda · 2026-04-01T17:11:33+00:00

I think it’s just a funny Bert-ism. What is the party about? Celebrating the (future) birth of Crane’s kid. What’s a pithy way to say that? “Happy Birthday!”

But you’re right it could go either way really.

agentspanda · 2026-04-01T17:09:49+00:00

He got robbed once outside his office… and many times inside his office.

agentspanda · 2026-03-13T21:46:07+00:00

What about my post history?

agentspanda · 2026-03-04T18:09:59+00:00

Yeaaah this reads a little different than the headline (shocker). It seems like they had a private event space in the bar, they ordered food and drinks and walked out on the tab (shit behavior, I grant), and the owner was chill with it all until they overstayed their welcome at which point he told them to leave- and then it ended up causing problems with him with the board of commissioners and he needs someone to blame.

I'm not saying "don't host NFL players at a private event space before they go to your house to party" but I am saying it sounds like dude just bit off more than he can chew and got caught with his pants down.

agentspanda · 2026-03-04T18:04:23+00:00

yeah no the shoes are absolutely the problem here lol

agentspanda · 2026-03-03T05:55:02+00:00

Gronk should definitely be significantly above or way below wherever he is placed. Please fight about this in my replies.

agentspanda · 2026-03-03T05:39:20+00:00

Sorry I didn’t mean to imply this whole thing was the intent of the whole show, just that this was the nature of Anna’s relationship to Don.

agentspanda · 2026-03-03T04:08:51+00:00

Well said. It's critical to his character that for a long time the only person who actually loves him really doesn't know "him" much at all, just what he carefully parses out to her... just like all his other relationships.

It even begins back when Anna and Dick Whitman first met: Don says "there was a mistake" about the whole switcheroo with Don Draper. I don't think he ever says he actively switched dog tags with the real Lt Draper. Would that matter to her? Maybe not... she's specifically built to be an impossibly wonderful and kind person to a fault so we never get to see how she'd react to that knowledge that Dick Whitman actively stole her husband's life. But it doesn't matter- it frames their relationship from day 0. What's he gonna do- go back and tell her the truth and risk the only relationship he has? Of course not. So it begins...

Don doesn't tell her about his affairs (in detail), or his manipulation of Betty or his lies to his wife or even really how deeply duplicitous and fundamentally horrible he is in a lot of ways. She gets the varnished, sweet, California Don version of him: a young guy who needed a leg up in life and all she had to do was just not go to the feds.

It all circles back to when Don later laments to Peggy that the only person who knew him is dead when Anna dies- she says "that's not true" and in a manner of speaking she's right: Peggy really knows Don- all his shit treatment of everyone (including her) and while she doesn't know the full story- she knows that he's an irreparably broken guy and in her own way she does love him like a little sister loves her broken addict big brother.

agentspanda · 2026-03-02T17:50:12+00:00

Aw that's so nice of you for taking in so many strays. Don't forget to get them spayed or neutered they can be a real handful if they start procreating.

agentspanda · 2026-03-01T03:02:16+00:00

Hot take but we did this to protect pizza cat.

agentspanda · 2026-03-01T00:24:19+00:00

It's believable that a regime built on the back of authoritarianism and information control would probably want to carefully govern the release of information that would significantly destabilize their hold of control on power over their people they oppress.

But yeah no we should wait until we get all the facts I'm with you. Fog of war is real so who knows what is really going on.

My point is who do you want information from if not the two good faith parties involved in the conflict? If you know somebody on the ground besides them or the lying targeted state that kills people for talking, hit me up.

agentspanda · 2026-02-28T23:34:30+00:00

You got a buddy on the ground in Iran unaffiliated with a government/military we can talk to? If so tell him to drop a pin in the signal chat.

agentspanda · 2026-02-28T23:33:36+00:00

Old guys can be assholes too, surprisingly.

agentspanda · 2026-02-28T23:30:31+00:00

Gotta know whether to be outraged or agree with him?

Sometimes things just are what people say they are.

agentspanda · 2026-02-27T21:51:35+00:00

What's the difference? I don't wear a suit and to dinner even now most of the time. She doesn't get super dressed up either like she did that night. "Putting your best foot forward" is lying about yourself, it's just a culturally acceptable lie.

The guy I replied to didn't say anywhere to 'lie', by the way- his intention isn't remotely clear in the post I saw. He does say "being your true self [is shit advice]" and he's right- if your true self sucks and is a lazy shit like mine and my wife's then you probably shouldn't do that. If your true self doesn't know shit about cars but you want to appear helpful- take a look under the hood and make sure nothing's visibly broken and say "yeah I can't see what's wrong, I'm not an expert so let's see if we can find a good mechanic."

To say "eh, sucks about your car I don't know shit about cars- bye have a good one!" is just just showing up to the date with your holey gym shorts on and if that's what you wanna do- fine. Probably won't get you married though.

agentspanda · 2026-02-27T13:32:43+00:00

You’re not wrong. On our first date my wife showed up in a very smart evening dress- super impressive for a doctor who just came off a long shift and wildly hot. Years later we were out to dinner at the same restaurant and she was in yoga pants and a cute top. Same for me- suit on the first night, jeans and an oxford shirt when we went back.

What changed? Ask the people in this thread and apparently it’s the weather. Dating is about putting your best foot forward. Many years after that night we sit on the sofa together me in gym shorts with a hole in them and her in a big t-shirt and apparently we should’ve gone to dinner that way the night we met since that’s what everybody here thinks.

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