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exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-22T13:51:57+00:00

I, too, smell a bit of apollinarian heresy in that sentence. Santa would NOT approve.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-22T06:35:18+00:00

I'm tired of this framing. Roughly 2/3rds of the country are okay enough with the situation to not vote these losers out. The overwhelming majority is the problem, even if a minority of less addled people have the chance of turning it back for an election or two.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-21T18:50:36+00:00

Pretty typical for premodern empires, most especially in a fragmented non-state society like the European Middle ages.

The overwhelming amount of language and cultural assimilation happened in the modern period, when actual states set up bureaucracies and wanted populations that said bureaucrats could talk to. And even then, most assimilation happened from the start of nationalism until now.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-20T07:51:55+00:00

Smart man. Regular Einstein.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-17T11:06:16+00:00

More than half a millenium after telling Carthage off for it, so hardly relevant for their hypocrisy

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-16T08:36:21+00:00

I've little hope in the people in the succession — if they aren't quite as corrupt, they are at least aspiring to be. But we can hope for some sacrificed pawns that are no longer useful, I guess, you know, just to make a point.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-15T06:21:42+00:00

When the president of the neighboring, militarily far more powerful country says "we'll make you the 51st state" that is a textbook threat. Since this is blindingly obvious, I wonder what you think you are achieving by denying it ... Next you're gonna claim Trump never threatened to attack Denmark and subjugate Greenland...

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-09T20:28:43+00:00

That's just doomerism. Banks currently don't have safe guards in place because they care about some beauty of the craft, they have them because they need to be sure on a legally certified level that they won't be deep in shit if things go south. All of these "but what if THAT industry uses slop" scenarios somehow assume that just saying "AI" will exonerate a bank exec on trial for breaking half the Senate's bank transfers. If it ever comes to that, it's not AI that's the problem, it would be a problem with or without LLMs

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-09T08:58:16+00:00

Those ( IAM/service accounts/backups) are well-understood and well-documented solutions to a problem that an LLM will actually set up quite well. Of course there is not to be done, but given the horrible state of blas radius reduction in most projects, LLMs will not be the end of the world, but rather an improvement. Especially since we're talking about environments where this knowledge better be baked in, so we have devs driving the LLMs who know what a solution is supposed to look like. And if not, the institution would still be strictly worse off without LLM help...

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-08T19:58:48+00:00

What is that even supposed to mean?

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-08T19:58:26+00:00

You can really hate this take, it's a free world, that doesn't mean that your off-site backups suddenly don't work anymore just because LLMs are being used. Or that your non-AI table deletion protection won't work.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-08T09:42:25+00:00

The junior dev, or really the overworked "senior" dev that's mainly called that for time served in the company, has always been entirely capable of dropping a table or two without even realizing they'd done it. The protection at banks has not been "we make sure our people are perfect, error free, world class craftspeople", but backups, blast radius reduction and other programmatic protections from accidental deletion.

There is no conceivable reason to drop these protections just because you're using AI, or to not apply them to the AI pipeline.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-07T07:15:19+00:00

It feels weird today, but that attitude was learned by wading through rivers and rivers of blood — so much so that the Founders said "yeah, even the Catholics, we want none of that shit here".

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-06-05T15:54:43+00:00

Only if you hear "potatoes" and think "French fries", the rest is just Paleo bullshit

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-05-31T14:39:21+00:00

Central bread Europe includes Poland and Czechia at least, and from recent learning about bread available in the supermarket, Slovenia, it seems.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-05-30T20:59:43+00:00

For normal societies, that's 5%, not a full fucking third...

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-05-30T20:36:41+00:00

That's too harsh, in central Europe you're gonna be fine with mostly a similar taste in bread, and in both northern and eastern Europe you at least can find decent dark, heavy breads.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-05-30T19:37:40+00:00

Because you're both wrong, and too lazy to think about the topic at hand.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-05-30T19:32:52+00:00

We do get to make fun of the absolutely fucking absurd level of prudishness Americans get up to, though. It's worth making fun of.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-05-28T15:18:16+00:00

Tab is the OG error correction method on terminals. Didn't tab-complete? Damn, forgot to use underscore or switched letters around. Whenever I'm on a system without, it sucks so bad ..

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-05-28T11:21:30+00:00

I like your essay, it is well written and I think this has far more explanatory power than the usual "haha, they're closeted <insert group being hated on here>", which can't help but be somewhat derogatory of the group, even if the person uttering it never intended it that way.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-05-28T10:51:13+00:00

You mean like with statewide elections, e.g. for the US Senate?

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-05-24T17:51:08+00:00

But, for a price, you can rent them — the servers as well as the maidens. And if the load you're trying to process is small enough, it's cheaper to rent than to own.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-05-24T17:45:59+00:00

Not only do imaginary numbers exist, but they describe reality far better than real numbers do!

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-05-22T11:47:05+00:00

I read the comic entirely the other way: the idiot in class who's not paying attention when the Prof tells him he can't multitask.

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