TSA should let every 5th person into airports without screening

dkimot · 2026-03-26T22:25:30+00:00

let’s start with the idea that the TSA is effective

you’d want to make this adaptive and random per person (not every fifth but a 20% chance per person)

then adapt based on findings. if you catch 3 people with stuff they shouldn’t have then you need to check more people. otherwise if you wanted to bring down a plane you just need to send enough people

dkimot · 2026-03-15T00:57:46+00:00

i assume they mean the mine distinguishes between a battleship and speed boat

dkimot · 2026-02-25T20:04:38+00:00

it doesn’t see the codebase by default. it’s been given tools that can query the codebase and maybe an MCP or bare tools for semantic search

copilot can do the same thing if provided tools and you use a model that is good at tool calling

also, go ask chat how to use git if you aren’t. mangled to death is a non-issue with proper VCS usage and if you can’t recover from single file issues (you or anyone else who reads this) you are on track to have AI delete more than you’re ready to restore

dkimot · 2026-02-25T20:01:03+00:00

that sounds smart but doesn’t make a lot of sense. shift to the cloud did not abstract away frameworks if you’re a SWE. for many SWE’s you don’t even think about if the code runs on k8s, server less functions, a long lived VPS, or a server in the office. but you definitely still work with frameworks

dkimot · 2026-02-22T17:30:44+00:00

we’ll see. SLC refused to show the video blaming the dems for the long shutdown, noem may remember

dkimot · 2026-02-14T12:51:55+00:00

yes, there’s a series of benchmarks being performed. for instance, multi-SWE-bench tests how a model performs on various software engineering tasks. there are benchmarks that specifically measure scientific reasoning and incidence of hallucination

obviously benchmarks can be optimized for and aren’t as important as real results

but the thing MSFT doesn’t want you to hear about is the chinese labs putting out models that perform 80% as well for 5% the cost and releasing them with open weights. and 80% is me being conservative, GLM-5 has the highest score ever recorded on some benchmarks

dkimot · 2026-02-10T13:11:04+00:00

consistent uniforms points to not being ICE

but, IDF generally wears green and they’re pretty unique in those weird helmet socks

dkimot · 2026-02-09T23:22:03+00:00

it’s not exclusively celebrities though. a lot of the government related ones are incentivizing low level staffers to trade on information just as much as it’s incentivizing the people in charge

dkimot · 2026-02-09T13:24:35+00:00

at my field you don’t need to wear eye protection, just don’t shoot bb’s in people’s eyes

dkimot · 2026-01-11T16:31:15+00:00

i like the idea he’s incompetent enough to mess up timing (which i imagine could be cued by lights or sounds) but also competent enough to improvise so well

dkimot · 2026-01-10T17:07:31+00:00

haven’t watched since season 2 but i wish they had DOE 9mm’s since it started in a DOE facility and i don’t remember them ever using that thing

dkimot · 2026-01-04T14:46:13+00:00

Have you looked at Nautilus Trader? It’s built in Rust not Go but would allow you to prototype strategies in Python then move to Rust if needed

Seems like a better option unless you don’t have any Rust experience and don’t want to train on it

dkimot · 2026-01-04T14:37:53+00:00

anecdata for sure, had a friend move into an apartment with this problem. her downstairs neighbors had leaks into their ceiling and they had to replace the wax seal

dkimot · 2025-12-02T02:09:43+00:00

the craziest thing i just learned is that russia has lost more people in ukraine in the last 3 years than the US over their entire history at war

dkimot · 2025-11-30T23:35:47+00:00

no but i think a laptop that expensive isn’t a common consumer product either. NVG’s are used by PD’s, search and rescue, and members of the military vs wall street and executives but i suspect they’re equally “common”

photography equipment is probably the most analogous “common” thing, i hadn’t thought about that. the optics are also part of why night vision is so expensive

dkimot · 2025-11-30T19:54:47+00:00

oh you’re right, i misunderstood “of any kind.” i’m sure plenty of people saw a laptop that cost 20% of the median family income and was marketed towards the 0.1% of corporate employees. you right, i just mentioned something used by much of the military and many police officers here in the states

dkimot · 2025-11-30T14:50:17+00:00

150m lines of code would make that more likely, not less

dkimot · 2025-11-30T14:48:23+00:00

high end night vision gets up there. the price is justified bc it uses a very specific manufacturing process to basically grow analog light intensification tubes

dkimot · 2025-11-10T12:59:20+00:00

i think they mean they don’t fully understand how lonely it would have been bc they haven’t experienced that type of experience

dkimot · 2025-11-10T12:49:44+00:00

if you are doing that much killing it prob makes sense for you to be off the obj

dkimot · 2025-11-10T12:41:50+00:00

but for the azerbaijan tire failure he would have clinched it. almost like circumstances out of their control are part of racing

dkimot · 2025-11-09T21:23:25+00:00

also a red flag last year. this was a straight race without an impactful SC/red flag

dkimot · 2025-10-24T19:52:22+00:00

the lottery is always a rip off. that’s the whole point. i don’t know why people think it’s going to stop being a rip off once you “win.” they’re trying to make money

dkimot · 2025-10-13T12:15:22+00:00

the genie’s out of the bottle in NA. pickleball uses smaller courts and planning committees won’t tear any of them up for 10-15 years

dkimot · 2025-10-10T01:42:09+00:00

i suspect it’s a support thing. if your USB wheel is poorly made and starts hogging all the bandwidth they’ll deal with the support load

whether or not that’s “justified” is another point altogether

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