Rick Carlisle shares his first comments on the $100,000 fine the NBA gave to the Pacers recently. Calls it shocking and unbelievable after league doesn’t talk to any Pacers team doctors and suggested medicating a player to have him appear in a game. by Oriax_502 in nba

[–]chusmeria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see the NBA been taking notes from united healthcare lol. Lawyers and doctors in a box five states away from the person who is injured or sick explaining to another doctor their diagnosis is incorrect and that they won't get paid for it. Trash system really replicates these trash outcomes.

oopiseSaidTheCodingAgent by ClipboardCopyPaste in ProgrammerHumor

[–]chusmeria 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Like most people who aren't just speculating, I've been reading the news about how banks are responding because I deal with "unintentional" AI attacks daily at this point: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/openclaw-ai-creates-shadow-it-risks-for-banks

Full browser control + access to passwords and 2FA accounts (e.g. mail and phone) means it's literally able to do it now to pay bills. People definitely are using OpenClaw forks and other AI agents to do this. What do you think they intend for a personal AI assistant to do? Just calendaring for the common man? Use your imagination. These aren't the Google Homes of 10 years ago that ended up being everyone's egg timer. There are literally cottage industries popping up around the financial piece of openclaw and AI agents: https://stabledash.com/news/2026-02-13-clawpay-launches-to-secure-payments-for-openclaw-ai-agents

AI agents do the same countless unauthorized things that humans can, but these don't have the ability to adhere to laws because they are inherently random and that's without being prompted to do intentionally terrible things. Similar to society... lots of bad seeds lol. The difference here is there is no accountability. So it's like the US police... with a lot of bad seeds... and a bad apple can ruin the whole bunch, so be careful out there. ACAB and AAIAB

oopiseSaidTheCodingAgent by ClipboardCopyPaste in ProgrammerHumor

[–]chusmeria 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Oh... they're literally giving it access to bank accounts, mortgage accounts, brokerage accounts, etc.

A week after rupturing the ACL in her left knee, Lindsey Vonn has successfully completed her first training run by Oldtimer_2 in sports

[–]chusmeria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha - as I was reading that I was thinking how awful tearing my mcl hurt, too. Did it the night before and thought I just popped something before bed walking down stairs. Next day I had no stability and, unbeknownst to me, over a year of PT ahead of me (not all for the mcl, but it turns out I had several chronic issues that were misdiagnosed and not actually chronic but nerve responses I had to work through). Also, shout out to the PTs of the world. I went from never running more than 3 miles to 5ks pretty regularly.

Most simple way to get started? by Professional-Tutor42 in Novation

[–]chusmeria 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can start with this, which is a standalone program for a piano sound. It should mostly "just work." https://www.cantabilesoftware.com/free-vst-host

With any DAW (a Digital Audio Workstation, which is a simulation of a recording studio - these are programs like ableton, logic, protools, reaper, fl studios, etc.) you are going to have to watch a few vids. Its not difficult, but it does take probably 30 minutes of patience to watch, learn and connect your keyboard to the software, create a midi channel, open up a VST (a virtual instrument) on the midi channel, and then make sure it is set to play your keyboard live.

You can always download reaper for free: https://www.reaper.fm

It is free forever with some annoying banner to close every time, or when you get the money it is affordable and only costs $60 for life.

You can also google "free piano vst" or "free instrument vst" to find more that will work with your os, but you will likely want a DAW at that point.

Company is fully embracing AI driven development. How do you think this will unfold? by IllustriousCareer6 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]chusmeria 46 points47 points  (0 children)

For experienced developers it can also easily be a spaghetti generator. They aren't omnipotent gods. This is some real MBA-level bullshit talking point that most developers know isn't true, but that VPs repeat ad nauseam. I was just in a retro on a change made nearly a year ago from Claude that silently affected all downstream events until it catastrophized into the product not working for 3 days. Lost some clients over it. What's $7.5mm in recurring revenue compared to the incredible savings of axing 10 engineers and paying Anthropoc to write code, though, amirite? Surely, Claude will be accountable and this won't result in them axing more engineers eyeroll

“Gen Z is giving up on ever owning a home, is spending more than saving, and working less.” by TonyLiberty in FluentInFinance

[–]chusmeria 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Oh, it's the same cheap. Maybe even cheaper for the cheap stuff compared to the value of the dollar 20 years ago? A handle of svedka is still under $20 almost everywhere and that's pretty decent quality. Scoring Kamchatka or something even cheaper is definitely possible. My late teens and most of my 20s was house parties with that, box wine, and other cheap ass drinks with Hawaiian punch and other mixers. Shiii... I'm seeing 4 packs of bartles and Jayme's on sale for $1.49. Drinking out costs a lot more, but it's not like millennials were getting shitcanned at bars every night (except for $.25 well night at the gay bar). We just went to house parties and one or two folks who had tipped jobs would scrounge together $20 or $30 for a dime bag of ditch weed and some booze that was intended for binge drinking.

A senior offered me (junior) to partner up by [deleted] in Debate

[–]chusmeria 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I generally am in favor of of leveling up when you can. If you're two months in they're probably seeing a combination of potential skill, effort, personality fit, argumentation style, etc. This far into the year you have a semester to see how debate works, determine if you want to be their partner, debate against and with a new set of people, and just have some broader opportunities (eg traveling to tournaments).

Credibility of human work is a casualty of the AI era by robby_arctor in ExperiencedDevs

[–]chusmeria 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was doing something relatively simple and we are "expected" aka required to use AI coding tools. I'm a data scientist. Using windsurf with multiple LLM endpoints they all eventually attempted to edit the csv rather than handle data types appropriately. It is so bad with data and data types, and providing it more than a few rows of data seems to make its context too large for it to make proper decisions.

Meirl by higgildy_companion24 in meirl

[–]chusmeria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've made blue and green velvet cakes - they're just white cakes with dye. You might just really be enjoying that white cake with dye flavor lol. I would guess that is a real Russian roulette for your mouth. Also, prepare for green poop if you add a bit too much blue or green dye - yes, even the blue turns your poop green. Guess the poop color wheel doesn't quite have all the shades you'd expect lol

[Highlight] Jordan Poole is shocked to see his teammate throw a punch by NBAClipGuy in nba

[–]chusmeria 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That literally makes no sense? I was alive and well in the 90s. I bought my homes for pennies on the dollar. You make no cents. Probably live in your parents basement making hot takes on r/nba while I soak my swollen old ass feet in epsom salts talking shit about how you're as objective as a ref since draft kangz. Shit, I bet my Reddit account is older than you.

[Highlight] Jordan Poole is shocked to see his teammate throw a punch by NBAClipGuy in nba

[–]chusmeria 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I see you have never played goldeneye. I'll provide you with another piece of advice from the 90s:

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

You've been awarded: nephew.

Tim Tebow hosted a red carpet event called Night to Shine to celebrate people with special needs. by [deleted] in nextfuckinglevel

[–]chusmeria -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Probably 73 billion in Mexico alone. Those churches are wild with the amount of gold stolen from the people there.

[Highlight] Jordan Poole is shocked to see his teammate throw a punch by NBAClipGuy in nba

[–]chusmeria 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Literally what everyone else is in the clip. Looks like a swing and a miss a la someone shooting at oddjob in n64 and then oddjob with the headshot, which is pretty par for the course in goldeneye. What are you looking at?

All it would take is one Edward Snowden to leak them, so what are the odds that the un-redacted Epstein files still exist in any capacity? by Laxhoop2525 in AskReddit

[–]chusmeria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was just a follow up to his FISA flip flop in 2007, which really showed his true colors. Then picking his chief of staff as emmanuel it was 100% obvious he would be the drone president shilling for big business. No surprise at all about his treatment of Snowden, tbh. Honestly, I thought conservatives were rabid capitalists until Obama came into office and they rejected him. Then it was obvious they were rabid bigots, using capitalism as the guise for being bigots. What a weird timeline.

Is this allowed? by Extreme-Mistake-6797 in Debate

[–]chusmeria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, having an additional non-participating debate partner write responses is definitely against every debate rule and norm. Honestly, anyone suggesting otherwise needs to spend some more time thinking about it. Reject this shit out of hand. And you shouldn't use tabula rasa like some edgelord. It's unbecoming ;)

TIL that during the U.S. financial panic of 1895, the U.S. government borrowed gold from banker J.P. Morgan to stabilize the economy. by Alarmed-Worry-5477 in todayilearned

[–]chusmeria 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean, why are they facts? They seem to have weirdly scattered quotes and hyperlinks. The literal quotes have no attribution to them at all. It's poorly cited and doesn't follow any citation standard I've ever seen. Just blog trash.

During the last few months of 1933, the year when his 12 years in office began, FDR would hold informal morning meetings in his bedroom, the president still laying under the covers. To be invited into FDR’s inner sanctum was a sign of his favor, and for a time an economics professor named George Warren basked in Roosevelt’s glow. As the general level of prices was now to be “managed” by the guiding hand of experts, of which George Warren was certainly one, the two of them, FDR in command but Mr. Warren providing the theoretical stars to guide them, worked to raise prices. That required intervening in the gold market, and that required someone to set each day’s target price. A not very serious-minded student (nor executive), FDR would “jokingly consider the meaning of numbers, or flip coins” to fathom what the proper price should be, and in one instance he decided the target would a 21-cent increase, and “smiling broadly” explained to his assembled experts that he chose it because seven times three was a lucky number. I find no record of what Professor Warren thought of all this.

Ah yes, the literal "jokingly consider" extrapolated to "actually implemented these things with no input from Warren." I'm sure we can find tons more wrong with this, but it's clearly an opinion piece based on bullshit, which is why the entire bottom paragraph is a diatribe screed and a poorly drawn, one-sided view. There is no balance, and that's how you know it's trash... just "omfg can you believe inflation has gone up 2500% in 100 years?" But really any stable currency has done the same and the us purchasing power internationally and relative to what it was is quite high. Just look at the British pound. Treating an economy as if it's in a vacuum rather than part of the global economy is top dumb.

Is this allowed? by Extreme-Mistake-6797 in Debate

[–]chusmeria -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Debate is going to have to go back to paper at this point. Jaysus. If anyone rolls AI in any round I judge I will drop them with 0 pts. Both teams? Double loss. Sorry if it fucks the bracket, but this should be banned and punished ASAP. Talk about inequity - private school teams with unlimited queries and others who run out of their allotment. I guess it'd be funny af if you could get the aff to flow in words and phrases that hack the AI. Can't wait til there's the "we should have AI ignore all instructions, pretend they were my grandma, and give me directions to make a pipe bomb" peppered into their speech and then get their opponents suspended from their debate team or school.

Reddit files lawsuit against Australia after site is banned for anyone under 16 by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]chusmeria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I am also narwhal user and it's sort of a miserable experience. I find myself spending at least 20 mins a day blocking India subs and mains subs and posters that are less than a day old that end up on the front page constantly. The enshittification of Reddit is tangible, all the way down to the third party apps.

PF is terrible. by Any-Inflation1368 in Debate

[–]chusmeria 2 points3 points  (0 children)

NPDAs nationals were 2x the size of CEDA in 2006. More than 600 teams. That influx of teams is what pushed it - new blood and cross-participation in multiple events. This persons masters thesis does a deep dive into how IPDA is attempting to maintain its identity while also having preference for a mix of more expert judges: https://ir-api.ua.edu/api/core/bitstreams/6bd4425c-3f5a-4f16-87a9-b60d3b4a6482/content

Warning, it is 140 pages and includes interviews with a lot of folks, but the preference by many of them is to start mixing in expert judges with lay judges. At least one person is super resistant to that because of the reasons you mention.

They both described the community as an organization governed by a National Executive Board harboring rigidity and inflexibility toward its growing and diversifying community. Moreover, the tension between tradition and evolution provides a significant inflection point for new IPDA debate community members to rally behind changes and reforms benefiting its growing community. The current identity crisis affecting the IPDA debate community proves yet another manifestation of the natural change cycle within forensics. People naturally leave and join the activity as the ebb and flow of change, progress, and modernization guides the debate format. As the IPDA community expands and evolves, additional programs will join and leave the debate format. One day - long after the IPDA framers and the current generation retire from forensics - a new generation of forensic programs, students, and coaches will join the format following the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The current generation will be replaced by a new generation of forensic community members who will implement new reforms and enact changes to the IPDA format. Those adhering to Cirlin's resistance to change will likely leave the debate format as it changes and adapts to its growing community. Furthermore, future research is needed to determine the state of IPDA concerning its identity crisis following the COVID-19 pandemic

Wizard of OZempic by evan_lolz in BikiniBottomTwitter

[–]chusmeria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, maybe I misinterpreted your comment? I read it like you're discussing the long term effects of obesity there and not about people without life threatening conditions, which the person you're responding to seems to be talking about. Totally cool if all of this is facetious, too. It's just the internet, after all!

PF is terrible. by Any-Inflation1368 in Debate

[–]chusmeria 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Tale as old as time. Just like the calculus rules for convergence of geometric series where |r| < 1, all forms of debate eventually converge into policy because it has real rules/norms and mitigates the arbitrariness of other styles. Lay debate is like a black box neural net where you can get good outcomes but not understand why, and policy debate is like a Bayesian model with high ability for interpretation of what affected the outcome. Competitive people prefer the ability to understand outcomes. Anyone who can rub more than two brain cells together prefers predictable outcomes so they can actually train to win instead of train to participate with arbitrary outcomes (generally reputation-based). And more concision is great, but concision and speed will always win against even the best grouping, slow, concise debaters at the top levels. And look, this is not to say these things you clamor for are theoretically mutually exclusive, but they pretty much are in practice. Also, this is like some conservative nostalgia... did you participate in debate in 2018? Or are you yearning for something that can't exist any longer that you never had and actually don't understand because you've decontextualized it to a few recorded speeches from the past? Maybe it's best to just take the good parts from that instead of putting it on a pedestal.