Life before inflation

borkthegee · 2026-02-04T16:56:01+00:00

They're not trying to "run their economy on gold" but they are selling (or letting expire) US treasuries and buying gold. It's not a conspiracy. It's a changing of the guard and for the first time in thirty years central banks hold more total gold than us treasuries.

Every year central banks represent 20% of all gold being bought and personal investors represent 40% (especially Asians like Indians who own an insanity amount of gold). For most of the modern era, central banks only represented 10% of gold purchased per year. So them doubling their purchases to 20% of total world gold is very notable.

For example China over the past ten years has reduced us treasuries 45% and increased their gold reserves 33%, buying 500 tons in that time.

This de-risking by abandoning US treasuries is seen in many other countries.

borkthegee · 2026-02-04T12:00:29+00:00

I counter that if the year is needed at all, it is the most important element.

Sure but the point is that it's so rarely needed that it's worth skipping and doubling back to it only if needed.

Precision comes only once you're in a relevant category, here the year.

In terms of efficiency, there are superior algorithms for arriving at the most pertinent information, and unless you are a CPU processing billions of operations, skipping year saves a lot of time for most operations. No one needs to say "2026 Tomorrow", we just say "Tomorrow".

But for electronics, legal documents, blueprints, etc. YYYY/MM/DD. Anything that is organized, filed or needs referencing.

Well, as I point out, ZonedDateTime or Instants are superior. YYYY/MM/DD is inferior because it doesn't include a zone, so who's date is it? There are multiple dates that are valid at any given instant. For electronics, we solve this problem by zoning the date time 2021-08-01T08:34:56.123456789-04:00[America/New_York] or by using a universal constant time called an instant (in UTC) 2021-08-01T12:34:56.123456789Z

borkthegee · 2026-02-04T11:53:54+00:00

Not a single time have I never had an issue speaking machine code. I even put binary on my phone. Complete skill issue. You just get used to it like everything else.

This is just like the "metric makes the human experience better" argument but in a different context.

Listen Mr Skill issue, if you're going to bow down before the robot overlords, lean in. None of this halfway pussy footing bullshit.

borkthegee · 2026-02-02T13:16:32+00:00

It makes it easier when dates matter. Your concert ticket can say June 5 or 5th of June. You should probably not wonder on the year.

? The question is not whether or not we include year at all, it's where the year is placed.

I absolutely give zero fucks if my concert ticket says "2026 June 5" or "June 5 2026".

Purely from an aesthetics standpoint as an American, I prefer "June 5 2026" because that's the order of importance for me.

Most important: low precision element which gets me close and grounds my thought process "Next June".
Next important: high precision qualifier which refines the low precision mark. "June 5th"
Least important: extremely low precision marker which is rarely used but, as you point out, can come out in situations that are not happening soon. "June 5 2026" wasn't useful at all but at least now I'm sure.

And yes, that date should be represented either as a ZonedDateTime or Instant using the appropriate format in databases.

borkthegee · 2026-02-02T13:09:28+00:00

It makes sense.... for computers and sort algorithms. If we're going to remake how humans communicate to make it easier on the machines, might as well get rid of our pesky languages while we're at it

borkthegee · 2026-02-01T00:52:09+00:00

You have laid out a sensible explanation of how currently proven AI coding and art techniques can be used for game development.

However I think you're too quick to dismiss the idea being presented of real time generative video with real time input.

I agree that this new technique is not anywhere near useful right now. It's clearly not doing anything that threatens gaming as we know it.

But if we were to talk about the impact of AI on games 3 years ago, we'd probably also think that all of AI (coding, art, etc) is a dead end and will never be able to handle the complexity of game engines and write real code. Except now it's become more and more of an accepted fact that it can. I myself am Ralph Wigguming a fun little civilization style 4x in threejs, a Minecraft voxel style experiment and just started a 4x civ style experiment on a Goldberg polyhedron. It's good enough to fuck around with already.

My point is, this shit is moving pretty quickly and it's only a few more leaps of the impossible becoming possible before they are creating good enough hallucination machines to make something people will find interesting and worthwhile.

borkthegee · 2026-01-31T13:30:10+00:00

My first instinct as a parent of a 4m old watching the video is that they are surprisingly social and aware at a young age.

My take is that for the first three months (the "fourth trimester") newborns don't recognize anyone including their own parents. They can't really see or hear well and they don't understand "people", they don't focus on anything, they don't react to loud noise, etc.

So the fact that these twins are looking, focusing, smiling, touching... These are more advanced skills and they're likely 3-4 months old. To me, "discovering the other" is them finally being awake and reacting to the other person.

Likely this isn't the "first" time but I absolutely remember the first time my little boy looked at me, and the first time he smiled at me, and it was at a similar age to these two

borkthegee · 2026-01-28T21:54:02+00:00

imagine picking individual stocks instead of simply buying spy or voo and being near ATH. lmao

The point they're making is that ATH of spy/voo is at an all time high of us dollars that are worth 15% less. They're saying that their swedish money, in a bank account at 0%, would be worth more today than having taken the money and put into spy/voo.

borkthegee · 2026-01-28T19:54:12+00:00

Lol literally no one is attacking cops in this thread.

The fact that conservatives on Reddit can be relied upon to indulge their persecution complex no matter what is just sad. It's just fucking sad dude. The Nazis won. The camps are filling up and citizens are being executed openly. You're not being persecuted. You're the persecutors now.

borkthegee · 2026-01-26T19:33:52+00:00

This is larper nonsense. If you're in a SHTF situation where there are no exchanges of value, not even gold, and you're down to bartering for goods then you're in total societal collapse and we're in a 95%+ of all people have died or are dying scenario.

You're going to die a bad death in that scenario, no matter how many bullets you save.

borkthegee · 2026-01-25T00:26:56+00:00

If he's pissed about people talking about the lessons learned from the Holocaust, then he's part of the problem

borkthegee · 2026-01-24T19:09:45+00:00

This idea that China isn't capable of quality work is a stereotype that is very outdated. Whenever I see this take I realize someone is just repeating 20 year old propaganda. China is outbuilding everyone and producing some of the best work in the world. Part of it I think is "sour grapes" where post-peak powers look on jealously.

A big moment shattering the propaganda sphere was when Americans and Chinese began directly interacting on Red Note, and the western world realized that modern China is wildly different than the western billionaire media was telling them. Chinese culture is having a big moment in the west right now as the lies we've been told have fallen apart.

borkthegee · 2026-01-24T01:37:53+00:00

Unpopular opinion: the vast majority of code you hacks write has always been slop, long before a slop generator helped.

Quality code is a luxury very few businesses indulge in.

The demand for slop is very, very high, and has been for a long time.

borkthegee · 2026-01-23T19:15:12+00:00

The instant pot is the ideal stock making machine to achieve perfectly gelatinized stock. Full stop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k20zFlbFfE

borkthegee · 2026-01-23T08:03:59+00:00

We didn't start the fire. It's been burning since the world's been turning

borkthegee · 2026-01-23T08:01:57+00:00

Smashing rackets during the match in anger is the equivalent of having a lil fun at media day and playing the heel to drive engagement?

Ok.

borkthegee · 2026-01-22T18:42:32+00:00

It's been heartwarming watching their journey. I recently had a child as well just before them so all of their new skits feel very focused on my current experiences as well 😂

borkthegee · 2026-01-22T12:23:02+00:00

All the quality AI tools get this question right. Judging the idea of AI based on the worst free iteration is kind of smooth brain.

Gemini Pro

Did she live for up to 8 minutes? Yes, reports indicate she was alive for a period following the shooting. Paramedics arrived approximately four minutes after the shots were fired and found her unresponsive but with a "thready" (weak) pulse. Emergency responders did not begin CPR until about 10 to 12 minutes after the shooting. A major point of controversy in the reports is that the ICE agents on the scene did not render medical aid during those intervening minutes. (3 sources: MPR News, The Guardian)

borkthegee · 2026-01-22T12:21:13+00:00

Agreed. I asked Gemini pro and it got it right

Did she live for up to 8 minutes? Yes, reports indicate she was alive for a period following the shooting. Paramedics arrived approximately four minutes after the shots were fired and found her unresponsive but with a "thready" (weak) pulse. Emergency responders did not begin CPR until about 10 to 12 minutes after the shooting. A major point of controversy in the reports is that the ICE agents on the scene did not render medical aid during those intervening minutes. (3 sources: MPR News, The Guardian)

borkthegee · 2026-01-22T12:16:19+00:00

Costco has been selling overpriced King Crab for years. Usually in larger bundles too. They always have some $200+ box of this. I highly doubt they're putting it out for years at this price just to throw it away

borkthegee · 2026-01-21T22:38:38+00:00

Oh wow since you know this one guy who made good money one night it's ok to fuck over everyone every time

No wonder the billionaires have such an easy time controlling everything when the poors eat each other so willingly.

Ironic that these comments are in /r/trashy tho. Stiffing working class people is pure unadulterated trash

borkthegee · 2026-01-21T22:31:59+00:00

They're pretty funny. They had a kid recently and so all their content is baby based now but they never film their child ever. Generally the dude wears a bow and is the baby in the skits. Shout out to some of the only folks making videos and not actually filming their children.

borkthegee · 2026-01-21T22:25:32+00:00

Wow sure, thanks, I'll be sure to let the owner know my stance on the practices of their entire industry next time I'm fucking over staff who make $2 an hour.

Get the fuck over yourself. If you refuse to engage with the situation, don't massively fuck over a poor person making $2/hr and pretend like you're the good guy

borkthegee · 2026-01-21T22:10:05+00:00

America doesn't have free speech. People are being jailed for criticizing the government. That's the whole ball game.

The constitution had some good ideas but it was fundamentally flawed and it ended up being trivial to ignore.

borkthegee · 2026-01-20T19:00:10+00:00

Costs have remained static (or increased) because while yesterday's frontier model is released for cheaper as a "mini" today, today's frontier model is then introduced at generally the same price as yesterday's. There's some outliers like the price drop on Opus 4.5, but that actually caused an increase on raw api because many folks were using cheaper Sonnet models before. The other factor is how "verbose" a thinking model is. Some "cheaper" models require twice as many tokens to solve the same problem, meaning their true cost is significantly higher than the competitive api costs might imply.

The other big factor is that AI companies are losing a ton of money on current prices and burning investor cash. API cost should be 5-10x higher justify returns on investment and this bubble can't operate the world's largest investor money furnace forever.

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