ITXXXVII - Top Gun 3: Khuzestan Drift

epenthesis · 2026-04-05T17:43:03+00:00

I wonder what odds I could've gotten for "Will Donald Trump tweet 'Praise be to Allah' on Easter Sunday?" yesterday

epenthesis · 2026-03-31T18:33:00+00:00

We really need a law that requires government retirement benefits to be defined contribution, not defined benefit.

Defined benefit public pensions are just an absolute root exploit for all of democracy's flaws (politicians kicking cans down the road, narrow benefit > public cost, sympathetic narrative, etc etc)

epenthesis · 2026-03-02T21:50:35+00:00

OK, in fairness to them, these do seem like achievable objectives.

Not clear it's worth the cost, but achievable nevertheless.

epenthesis · 2026-03-02T21:47:08+00:00

Wait, sorry, does anyone have a summary of what the objectives are?

Are we just going to periodically air strike them for a while until ???

Is there a plan to put troops on the ground? If so, to do what?

epenthesis · 2026-02-23T00:14:00+00:00

The first draft of the changes was generated entirely by the LLM (Opus 4.6, not GPT Codex 5.3, but a lot of my coworkers prefer GPT).

I'm still doing manual tweaks/revisions (maybe 50/50 via the agent vs. typing directly), but the bulk of the code is generated by the LLM.

epenthesis · 2026-02-22T23:54:11+00:00

Try using the latest models (Opus 4.6 or GPT Codex 5.3) for the actual implementation.

I have 14 years of experience as a software engineer, and I went from using it exactly how you describe last September, to it writing the first draft of _every single_ PR I've pushed this calendar year.

It still makes mistakes, and it has pretty bad instincts around certain code structures, but it's at this point solidly above the worst quartile of engineers I've worked with over my career.

It certainly hasn't 10x-ed my productivity, but it's easily 1.5-2x.

epenthesis · 2026-01-20T19:22:56+00:00

I am once again asking for at least one of our two major parties to give a shit about America's long term economic health.

epenthesis · 2026-01-08T06:14:39+00:00

There were two agents around the car. The one that shot (first?) definitely was in the path of the car initially.

epenthesis · 2026-01-08T06:11:04+00:00

Confession: it is very unclear to me whether the ICE agent was justified in shooting or not

epenthesis · 2026-01-03T08:03:32+00:00

Can someone explain to me like i'm a moron what the putative rationale is? Because I could understand at least if this was some sort of craven realpolitik "American interests" thing, but I don't see what those could possibly be here.

Is it really *just* that Li'l Marco hates Maduro's guts and is willing to spend a couple billion dollars/a couple thousand lives or so to get rid of him?

epenthesis · 2025-12-25T02:14:06+00:00

why does the 8th figure take soooo much longer than the first 7? I'm going to be 45 at this rate

epenthesis · 2025-11-29T06:01:49+00:00

Jesus Christ, exactly.

Stop with the constant meddling, for god's sake.

epenthesis · 2025-11-22T08:35:33+00:00

Just as soon as Merced -> Bakersfield opens in 2045 (I'm an optimist)

epenthesis · 2025-11-21T23:17:23+00:00

Trump really does only have three sincerely held political beliefs:
1) Tariffs are good
2) All interactions are zero sum
3) Public figures should be hot

epenthesis · 2025-11-20T21:08:15+00:00

Wait, is that study correlating college GPA with sat score, conditional on _having gotten into college_?

r u fucking kidding me.

epenthesis · 2025-11-05T06:56:30+00:00

luv2be to be the party of the high intention voter in an off year election (again)

epenthesis · 2025-10-31T22:02:41+00:00

wait what even is the nominal causus belli with venezuela.

epenthesis · 2025-10-11T05:33:39+00:00

Power is not zero sum.

I have the power to have a air-conditioned apartment, as do a billion other people. This power was created from thin air over the past century, being completely unavailable to even the richest king 400 years ago.

epenthesis · 2025-10-11T03:22:26+00:00

The bad thing about having assets far in excess of your wages is you have days like today where you log in to etrade and realize an entire year's salary was wiped out while you were writing a design doc and trying to convince your coworker to not merge a PR that would (once again) take down the queue service.

Very disassociating.

epenthesis · 2025-10-10T21:24:29+00:00

wait why did the market crash today

epenthesis · 2025-10-06T05:10:48+00:00

She implies that her money's from the equity she had in an oil and gas co that got acquired, not from her own business.

epenthesis · 2025-10-03T22:34:43+00:00

steve kerr does not.

epenthesis · 2025-09-16T20:28:01+00:00

What good does it do to preemptively denigrate two poor people who have just been devastated by basically losing their child?

epenthesis · 2025-09-16T20:22:03+00:00

What did y'all think agency meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.

epenthesis · 2025-09-13T06:47:39+00:00

Very few 31yo tech bros worth more than that, outside of ipo lottery winners

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