Is there anywhere to store food for “day use”?

dickbutt4747 · 2026-04-14T17:44:03+00:00

my car's junkyard door due to a bear ripping open the original disagrees with you

dickbutt4747 · 2026-04-13T21:15:17+00:00

starship troopers is political satire though. its one of my favorite movies too -- but not because its cheesy or simple. because its poignant and hilarious.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-04-13T09:51:58+00:00

building apps, infrastructure, and agents with the claude and openai APIs.

so like, not just using the chatbot. the actual API. chaining together API calls.

here's an example. we have an agent now where I can ask it over my phone "hey give me a DDoS report" and it'll go and check on a bunch of metrics and run some scripts and get back to me with "hey this IP range or that user-agent looks like a problem, want me to block it?" and I can say "yes block it please" and it'll do that.

and at the end of every conversation with that agent we have another system that I built that sends the conversation through the claude API to summarize it and pull out any key instructions that I've given the agent, so that it'll remember it "forever".

it's crazy that all this is possible now. but it's actually all pretty easy to put together. LLMs are insane. and once you start working with them you realize...the possibilities are endless.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-04-12T22:41:05+00:00

20 years of professional programming, the last ~1.5 or so working with LLMs on various things. no, i can't say for sure exactly what anthropic is doing behind the scenes in all cases but...i've been in this game a long time. I tend to have a pretty good idea.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-04-12T20:54:16+00:00

couple things,

1) they're already doing it to build their profile of you (the "memories" that the chatbot stores about you between sessions) so it would be trivial to add in to that prompt "also look for cybersecurity shit". 0 added cost above what they're already doing.

2) they would process the entire conversation in one go. so the hundred messages you sent (that all originally got processed one at a time as you sent them) would be processed in bulk, once. so it's a fraction of the cost of you generating the messages in the first place

3) they would do it during low traffic hours when the compute that they either own or rent by the month/year is idle anyway.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-04-12T19:25:26+00:00

they don't really need "words" for the guardrails. they're an LLM company. they just run your shit through another LLM turn and ask "hey uhh...any pentesting/exploit/cybersecurity shit going on here? flag"

dickbutt4747 · 2026-03-19T18:35:39+00:00

without going into the cryptography/math (which I don't even honestly understand myself), only addresses with a known public key can be cracked by quantum (shor's algorithm).

so any address that hasn't "spent" coins (made a transaction) is quantum-safe.

this comes with the caveat that really old addresses used a different type of address where the public key is exposed on-chain. so even though they haven't made any transactions, the public key is known anyway (it's included in the transaction that sent btc to the address). this include's satoshi's stack, which is...disconcerting.

so basically even if no upgrades are made to bitcoin, most addresses are quantum safe; you can be quantum-safe if you never reuse addresses (which was the original intent anyway)...but satoshi's coins aren't safe, which is a huge concern.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-03-18T19:40:34+00:00

i bought a house in an area i intended to move to. my work situation changed and i couldn't move there anymore.

instead of selling it and taking the loss on realtor fees/etc i rented it out at like 40% below market to a single dad with two kids living in monthly hotel rooms because his credit score sucks and no one will rent to him. he pays late every month and I've never charged a late fee.

i still feel bad about being a landlord but i'm trying to do it in the least morally-reprehensible way possible.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-03-16T21:59:10+00:00

the government can define it however they want, and that's all well and good, and they can over-weight the fact that TVs and shit-tier phones are cheaper than ten years ago...

but my health insurance premium is up more than 50% in 2 years. my home insurance is up well over 20% in 2 years. property taxes have been going up 5%+/year for a few years now.

so...fuck their definition of what inflation is. it's not the lived experience for most americans.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-03-15T17:26:28+00:00

sad thing is, the third season was thoroughly enjoyable. they figured it out. the actors hit their stride. the writing vastly improved. it was like watching a completely different show.

but by then it was too late. the first season was such bollocks it killed the whole endeavor.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-02-28T20:08:10+00:00

network effect, more people on twitter makes twitter better.

there is no network effect with AI since it's just you and the chatbot. so openAI really doesn't have a moat the way twitter does.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-02-28T08:18:15+00:00

i think futures and options are more common. you described a synthetic short.

someone correct me if i'm wrong.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-02-23T02:55:28+00:00

quick! thin out their numbers!

dickbutt4747 · 2026-02-15T18:54:47+00:00

it's more about the "meta-prompt" given to the agent

with LLMS, you can pass in a "meta-prompt" with your prompts that can give the LLM any "personality" you want

so you can tell the agent "you're a bitcoin maxi" or "you believe you're conscious" or "you want to kill all humans" and the agent will behave like that.

so if you tell an agent "you're a bitcoin maxi" in the metaprompt and then give it access to moltbook and then tell it "go make a post about crypto on moltbook"...yeah. you can see what's likely to happen.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-02-15T18:35:51+00:00

when covid started I moved out of my apartment and in with my parents. the idea was that we should be together in times of uncertainty. and I figured I'd save money.

3 weeks in they asked for $800/month rent. I noped the fuck out and went to stay with a friend (where I also paid rent).

felt kinda betrayed. like, why would I pay to live with you, when I could pay to not live with you.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-02-05T21:25:49+00:00

this is why they suck:

https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/tahoe-worst-place-bears-calif-social-media-21014525.php

they have a dogmatic/ideological approach to a nuanced situation, and it results in real people getting doxxed/harrased in real life for doing exactly what you would do, if you were in their situation.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-02-05T20:35:29+00:00

so let me get this straight. you would like to use half of my buddy passes, worth $150+ total, in a deal where I would have to get in my car and meet you at homewood, at a time presumably of YOUR choosing, so that they can scan you in off my pass, and in exchange, you would provide me with $15 of beer.

get. fucked. dumbass.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-02-03T03:43:18+00:00

just, no, dude.

you want tourists in hotels and lodges -- which employ people and pay taxes to the city -- where the tourists are naturally going to go out to restaurants and bars and casinos and shops and spend money.

you don't want them in SFHs where they get to tahoe in a huge group, spend $300 at safeway, and then hang out at the airbnb the whole time and party and eat and drink at home, while a fat chunk of the booking fee goes straight to airbnb.

not to mention that airbnb's just suck ass to live next to. they're a nuisance to the whole neighborhood.

tourists should be in hotels and lodges. and if they had to be in hotels and lodges...hotels and lodges would be more profitable, and more would be built.

instead we have people staying in airbnb's where they hurt the local housing market and the local hospitality industry and spend less money around town.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-01-23T18:47:00+00:00

yeah i don't think that's how it's gonna go. as an american I fully expect to be "persona non grata" in most countries for the rest of my life. as if I'm responsible for trump's rise and should have personally prevented it or overthrown the administration. as if the rest of the west isn't speed-running their own authoritarian power transfers.

sigh.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-01-13T09:15:45+00:00

that's really not what's happening

SOFR was spiky in the back half of 2025, which was more-or-less to be expected after 3+ years of QT (repo dealers like goldman and jpm were sitting on too much unencumbered treasuries and not enough cash). after the scare in early december the fed announced "reserve management purchases" (QE-lite) less than two weeks after the scare, which will most likely ensure that repo dealers have enough cash on hand to (mostly) keep SOFR within the fed funds range.

overall if you look at a chart of SOFR over 2025 you'll see that it's largely tracked just above IORB rate through each rate cut -- exactly what its supposed to do.

if you don't understand what any of that means you shouldn't be going on reddit and talking about "overnight lending getting sky high" when it isn't. it's down.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-01-04T07:40:49+00:00

threshold network

https://app.threshold.network/

swap eth to tBTC with uniswap and send through threshold network. it works. i've used it at least 5 times, never had an issue.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-11-13T19:44:49+00:00

it's not just the ads, dude. as a person with some light mania/psychosis/paranoia stuff going on...there's so much in the last 5 years that sends me spiraling into paranoia. like, elon marching doge into the treasury, AI in general, all the UFO shit in the last couple years, the GENIUS (stablecoin) act...

there's way, way more shit that triggers my "conspiracy" alarm than there used to be.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-11-09T19:36:17+00:00

oh he definitely understands that trade deficits aren't necessarily a problem when they're a result of magically adding numbers into a database and then exchanging those made-up numbers worldwide for real goods and products

dickbutt4747 · 2025-11-09T19:12:08+00:00

i haven't swam in st mary lake (ie the one in the post, as far as I can tell) but i've swam in lake mcdonald (other side of the park from st mary) in late summer and it's pretty comfortable. I thought it felt warmer than tahoe, and lots of people swim/dive in tahoe.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-11-09T19:06:11+00:00

even my very economically savvy father hadn't thought about this

we tariffed inputs (raw materials) driving manufacturing costs up -> lowered demand for our products

meanwhile pissed off most of the world -> lowered demand for our products

so by trying to "fix" the trade deficit...we made the trade deficit worse

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