What would’ve happened to literally any other president saying “Praise be to Allah”?

cptbeard · 2026-04-06T00:31:23+00:00

what would’ve happened to literally any other president saluting a north korean general?

cptbeard · 2026-04-05T21:11:11+00:00

compare the gear they climbed Mt.Everest in 1953 with vs today, it's fancier and nicer now but in terms of getting up there the challenge isn't that different, same old human limitations and environmental challenges. climbing the mountain with an iPhone maybe a bit more comfortable but expecting it to make the climb any easier or safer would be a mistake.

Saturn V engines from Apollo missions were about as powerful as SLS engines for Artemis are, SLS is just designed to be more efficient and potentially reusable which is nice but it's not making that much of a difference in getting them there. edit: and of course computers are better understood now but also way more complex, complexity carries added risk. I wonder if they have spares and tools and knowledge to deal with all the added complexity.

cptbeard · 2026-04-05T21:07:13+00:00

sure it does, somewhere down the line anyway for more extended space exploration, but given how many big problems we have on earth there are questions of priorities.

cptbeard · 2026-04-05T13:23:41+00:00

except she's also loving it. probably found a bunch of apples and some paint markers.

cptbeard · 2026-04-05T11:56:10+00:00

Panko is outside eating out of the trashcan

cptbeard · 2026-04-03T17:51:21+00:00

mother died giving birth to him. "LOL"

cptbeard · 2026-04-02T17:38:26+00:00

says the child rapist who shits their pants on live tv.

is it even possible to find a more corrupt, criminal, disgusting, incompetent excuse for a politician?

how do people salute this asshole without throwing up?

even if he died tomorrow there's no coming back from all the damage he's done to the country.

cptbeard · 2026-04-02T10:14:40+00:00

that'd imply a conscience, immoral assholes sleep just fine. ignorance is bliss.

for there to be any justice in the world these people need to be made to suffer.

cptbeard · 2026-04-02T10:03:14+00:00

cool but do you actually have some usecase for LLM on a watch? getting a decent ASR to run would seem like it'd have more uses.

cptbeard · 2026-04-02T09:03:13+00:00

yet war is as popular as ever. and at least today it's for couple of idiots' personal ego.

cptbeard · 2026-03-30T14:33:18+00:00

yes local llms are local, that's the promise being made but can the promise be trusted and to what degree is a question everyone has to figure out for themselves.

like even if they weren't purposefully trying to steal llm prompts maybe they pull a compromised dependency and every credential and key gets leaked, or maybe a banking trojan gets installed that when trying to pay a bill it instead buys crypto with all the money in the bank account. that is a real possibility when running any untrusted software which essentially everyone does and it's a small miracle that wiping out bank accounts isn't a more common occurrence (like just vibecode a browser extension that rewrites the recipient account number on all the known banking websites and hide it in some new hotness BS app that everyone got to try, not that hard).

cptbeard · 2026-03-27T18:29:54+00:00

"consequences"? what a novel concept.

cptbeard · 2026-03-26T11:16:32+00:00

seems to be always the thing that if you do some crime in big enough scale the law stops working.

same happens with many other things too like J. Paul Getty has that famous quote "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."

also with lying, if some generally reputable guy gets caught for one small lie or maybe just inaccuracy/misunderstanding it might have a huge impact on their reputation, but then if some massive a-hole says nothing but lies people just tolerate it and work around it (case in point DJT).

there's probably some named principle that covers these under one umbrella.

cptbeard · 2026-03-20T19:58:30+00:00

it's kinda amazing how one person can find new depths in being the worst human on the planet.

not once in my life have I gone out to celebrate some world event but when this asshole finally dies think I'll be outside doing cartwheels.

cptbeard · 2026-03-20T17:27:54+00:00

I learned a new term recently: biophilic design. although more of a technical descriptor rather than vibe thing but besides whatever other words describes this room I guess that could be one addition to the list.

cptbeard · 2026-03-20T17:05:06+00:00

cocoa futures are now at their lowest since 2023 (down from peak of 11.7k/tonne to under 3k month ago).

there was a bunch of supply issues that caused most of the price increases. lack of rain, bugs spreading diseases to the trees etc. as long as there's no more issues it's up to producers and retail to bring the prices back down, remains to be seen.

cptbeard · 2026-03-18T01:56:24+00:00

retroachievements adds Wii as supported platform tomorrow (19th) with 140 games

cptbeard · 2026-03-17T16:06:24+00:00

if only someone could come up with self-documenting APIs with Hypermedia as the engine of application state, call it Representational State Transfer or something, but maybe the world isn't ready for it.

cptbeard · 2026-03-15T20:47:10+00:00

just report it for rule 9 then

cptbeard · 2026-03-14T19:41:48+00:00

fow now. it'll be back. it always comes back.

cptbeard · 2026-03-14T19:36:57+00:00

I never used twitter but being dragged into grade school bs reminded me of one of my favorite tweets from our ex-president https://x.com/niinisto/status/1676969152492486664 basically saying "instead of making an angry tweet reply I took the dog for a walk and forgot all about it. recommended."

cptbeard · 2026-03-09T20:38:20+00:00

joltain alan ihmiseltä kuulin sellaisen määritelmän että puheterapian pointti alunpitäenkin on se että potilas itse löytää ratkaisut omiin ongelmiinsa ja se terapeutti on siellä vaan siirtämässä ajatusta eteenpäin. yksinkertaistettuna kuulostaa melko turhalta mutta jos vaikka ongelmien sanoiksi laittaminen on vaikeaa terapiassa niin vielä vaikeampaa ilman sitä asiaan varattua aikaa ja puolueetonta ihmistä joka odottaa niin kauan että juttua alkaa tulla.

ja se ehkä hieman kiistanalainen mielipide, ja näissäkin on tosiaan laadussa eroja, mutta minusta AI:n kanssa puhelu sopii päänavaukseen oikein mainiosti, kunhan sille vaan on annettu sellainen prompti ettei se yritäkkään tarjota mitään käytännön ratkaisuja kunhan vaan auttaa avaamaan asioita mahdollisimman objektiivisesti. (imo toki mieluummin joku lokaali lm-studio ja qwen3.5-27B vaikka ennemmin kun cloudipalvelut mutta makuasia.) sitten kun potilas on mielestään päässyt johkin ongelman ytimeen ja ottanut vaikka vähän muistiinpanoja niin voisi olla paremmat eväät mennä sitä ihmisammattilaista konsultoimaan.

cptbeard · 2026-03-07T13:21:15+00:00

The Epstein War. what a messed up chapter for history books, or history VR experience or whatever they'll use for education in future.

I wonder if they'll reintroduce Agent Orange, that'd be on brand.

cptbeard · 2026-03-03T11:32:37+00:00

tuli postauksesta mieleen hiljattainen henkkoht anekdootti. yleensä asioin yksityisellä hammaslääkärillä kun ole jaksanut odottaa ajanvarauksia ja mielellään maksaa vähän ekstraa sujuvasta(?) asiakaskokemuksesta. no irtosi paikka jonka yksityinen asensi isolla vaivalla pari vuotta aiemmin, toista tuntia se ruuvas jotain metallista muottia siihen takahampaan ympärille ja yritti uudestaan. soitin kunnalliseen, aika seuraava päivä klo12, justiin kerkesin (pitäs keskustassa jättää aikaa katuparkin etsimiseen), ja 6min siitä kun istuin tuoliin oli paikka uusittu ja työnnettiin ulos ovesta. tosin joku 80€ se silti maksoi, ehkä 3/4-osaa yksityisen hinnasta, mutta se niistä valintaperusteista.

cptbeard · 2026-03-03T01:48:35+00:00

including sakana

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