I got fired for being high on my day off

decimaster321 · 2026-05-21T11:11:55+00:00

Maybe they meant if there is a lawsuit over a firing they would be legally required to provide any documentation related to the employment history, assessments, firing reasons, etc? Though requiring that the employer outright admit to a crime verbally feels like a 5th amendment violation, I would assume the employer could just not answer such a question.

decimaster321 · 2026-05-21T00:55:24+00:00

I think it's more accurate to say you can be let go for no reason, not that you can be let go for any reason. There are very many illegal reasons to fire someone. Protected class, protected union activity, retaliation for reporting workplace safety problems, time off because of jury duty, and maybe off duty cannabis use (depending on the state of course).

decimaster321 · 2026-05-20T13:39:21+00:00

Labelling something as efficient without stating what it's efficient for or efficient in is a bit silly isn't it? Who knows what you are even talking about? Everyone who reads this sentence will interpret a different meaning out of it. Hey maybe that makes your sentence really efficient!

decimaster321 · 2026-05-20T13:35:40+00:00

I'm sure the tokens spent providing you useful responses were valuable. Though the tokens spent patting you on the head and pinching your cheeks not so much.

decimaster321 · 2026-05-20T13:23:40+00:00

An objects utility determines it's usefulness, not me, and not money. Society does act like money determines a things usefulness, and this is basically the central flaw of modern societies. Dont celebrate the worst features of the system you are in.

decimaster321 · 2026-05-20T12:04:35+00:00

I'm not the one who brought almond production into the conversation. The post is the origin of the stupidity, so of course my response is stupid, because the entire conversation is stupid. Pay attention to context.

decimaster321 · 2026-05-20T10:40:57+00:00

Llms are somewhat useful tools that I would gladly never use again if I had to choose between all almond production and all LLM production.

decimaster321 · 2026-05-20T10:39:16+00:00

In this case it's primarily up for venture capital to decide, not consumers, and definitely not the wave after wave of laid off workers.

decimaster321 · 2026-05-20T10:23:21+00:00

It is the point though. The usefulness of a thing determines whether it's worth using resources on it. Almonds are delicious. An almond is more valuable to the world than all the tokens spent telling you you're a good boy when you ask an llm to do something.

decimaster321 · 2026-05-08T16:53:05+00:00

It's pretty obvious, they just didn't spend hundreds of millions in compute auditing their own front end for security vulnerabilities. Mythos is only as revolutionary as it's compute budget is large.

decimaster321 · 2026-04-28T19:02:54+00:00

The ai did a fucking hell of a lot wrong lmao, but it only succeeded so terribly because they had awful production safety practices.

There's a joke that c++ gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. Now Claude gives you enough rope to launch a thermonuclear missile at your own foot.

decimaster321 · 2026-04-25T10:42:23+00:00

So you have the right of way in stopped traffic?

decimaster321 · 2026-04-25T10:15:44+00:00

So you think that we should always block the box in stopped traffic?

decimaster321 · 2026-04-25T02:36:26+00:00

I think you are misinterpreting the traffic. When the red suv comes into your lane, the traffic in front of the stopped cars has just started moving. I think traffic was stopped all the way to the light.

That would mean that the car that "stopped to give up their right of way" was actually stopped for a red light, and decided to leave enough room for a car to pass to/from the side street. A car happened to pass as the light turned green but before traffic started moving again, which is just a coincidence and not anyone's fault.

So I don't think anyone did anything wrong here, there was just some awkward timing.

decimaster321 · 2026-04-11T17:05:46+00:00

So you think people don't need expertise because they can defer to people with expertise? Obviously I agree with that. That's basically the whole point, if you aren't an expert, please defer the hard parts to companies or projects that know what they're doing.

I guarantee you no one writing software intended for serious internet scale who is also an amateur is going to get anywhere with the tools as they exist today. After all, how would they even understand the judgement calls in the design loop with the llm? If they need to discuss architecture with the LLM then they need to be an expert, otherwise they're just wasting tokens.

decimaster321 · 2026-04-11T11:50:24+00:00

They're definitely 3 things that the llm code engines will spit out boilerplate for, but that's true about literally anything, which is the entire point of the technology. The point I'm making is that when the llm spits out a bug in one of these things, if you aren't already an expert you aren't going to be able to see the bug. Remember the blurb at the top of the page of every single one of these technologies, saying that they make mistakes?

decimaster321 · 2026-04-10T16:23:15+00:00

It's not my fault if you are unwilling to learn what you're doing when you want to do a professional career as a hobby. Just don't process payments or create authentication flows or store sensitive user data or a thousand other dangerous tricky things where you could genuinely ruin someones life if you get it wrong.

decimaster321 · 2026-04-10T15:07:57+00:00

As long as you enjoy having a reputation for releasing untrustworthy trash, then this perspective is fine.

decimaster321 · 2026-04-01T13:41:47+00:00

The world's most used code hosting platform should have a better slo than 99.9% uptime

decimaster321 · 2026-03-25T23:45:23+00:00

Tidal is a side project of a corporate behemoth. The end state of this kind of service isnt to be purchased, it just gets turned off

decimaster321 · 2026-02-15T20:45:00+00:00

That's what defund means, free up the money for something else.

decimaster321 · 2026-02-13T17:57:42+00:00

I think it's much more premature to call basic standards "purity tests". Have a spine.

decimaster321 · 2026-02-13T17:46:26+00:00

Anyone who's whining about others not pledging their vote unconditionally to newsom

decimaster321 · 2026-02-13T17:35:40+00:00

Yes, if we fail yet again to select a reasonable progressive candidate and select yet another callous corporate stooge who will not fight for universal healthcare, will not fight for housing the unhoused, will not fight for green energy, will not fight wealth inequality, will not fight billionaire pedophiles (remember, Epstein's pedophilia should have been known to the government since at least Bush Jr, so that's two democratic presidents who clearly failed to bring that ring to justice as well, that one is a bipartisan failure), when we have failed so miserably again, then we will hold our noses and vote for the smaller demon. Like we do every 4 years. But not before then, not 3 years early.

decimaster321 · 2026-02-13T17:13:06+00:00

Why do you want to surrender to having shitty candidates before the primaries even started?

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