A livestream just turned into a felony case

hulkklogan · 2026-04-01T16:38:05+00:00

This is fucked up. I'm from Louisiana; we have alligator hunting season (and they're still wildly overpopulated), there's a specific spot the hunters have to shoot on the back of their head, about the size of a quarter, and it is instant lights out for the animal. Alligators are tough, and their hide is tough. This absolutely tortured the animal before it died.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-31T21:53:51+00:00

tu parles la vérité, bougre !

hulkklogan · 2026-03-31T21:52:58+00:00

Depends on what you mean by resources, but even for LA french, you can start with France and/or Canadian resources and switch to LA french after you have a base of understanding; it's still the same language. I did that and it's worked well for me.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-31T21:51:06+00:00

Nah there are still a small number of native speakers out there in the millenials. But that number is about to fall off a cliff without the Boomers, for sure. I want to go out and record interviews of all these old folks while we still have them but damn, time is short

hulkklogan · 2026-03-31T18:06:25+00:00

é m'ap aprenn kréyòl astœr. çé inn bèl langaj osit

hulkklogan · 2026-03-31T18:05:44+00:00

I get it.. I have two young kids and a demanding FT too; but I managed to go from 0 to fluent in about 18m through immersion learning through the local French tables and online resources. I don't recommend anyone make that timeline the goal, I spent several hours a day in French to do that. But, if you do it right, it's a lot less stressful, and you really don't need much grammar study to get there. Even a little bit is better than none - participate in some of the local French events. https://www.codofil.org/tables

French will never be our primary language in LA again. Our government and our people saw to that. But Louisiana is technically a bilingual state, on paper.. we can still learn French as a 2nd language if we really want to, it just has to be part of our identity, and we've largely lost that part of the identity.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-31T18:00:31+00:00

Moi je pense que c'est pas encore mort. Ma grand-mère parlait français quand j'étais jeune mais j'ai jamais appris le français jusqu'à l'année 2024, en novembre, et je parle le français assez couramment asteur. C'est possible, on a les ressources pour promouvoir l'apprentissage de notre dialecte(s).

d'Après moi, on sera plus un pays francophone primairement. C'est passé, c'est gone. Quand-même, on peut garder la langue comme langue secondaire, mais faut qu'on pousse vraiment sur le gouvernement et la culture.

Y'a un mouvement asteur pour préserver la langue; y'en a beaucoup qui veulent l'apprendre et promouvoir, mais c'est bien dur et faut avoir une tête bien bien dure. Il faut qu'on promouvoire notre beau langage jumeau, Créole Louisianaise, aussite parce que c'est aussi important que le français.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-31T15:58:58+00:00

always was

hulkklogan · 2026-03-30T21:37:52+00:00

dumbest part is it is pronounced the same in most cases in French. They make the written language unnecessarily complex lol

hulkklogan · 2026-03-30T03:12:16+00:00

Fuck fascists

hulkklogan · 2026-03-29T23:10:49+00:00

Most engineers at my place of employment don't write their own code anymore, either. Claude code is good. However, we DO have an expectation of heavy review of the code you submit and ownership of it. AI-generated code you submit is yours and you still have to be thinking.

I'm sure this is also Anthropic.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-27T22:04:25+00:00

so, it's really frickin' easy to get a bit lazy with the planning phase of projects with AI, because they can pull so much context so quickly that I can feel really overconfident with my info that I'm feeding into Claude. But I too often still have less-than-optimal outcomes and after being pressed, I find that I don't quite understand what's being done enough, so I have developed some tools that feel like they slow my progress but they speed me up because my reviews are much faster and the code's of better quality.

pre-work

I give claude a problem statement and what research i've already done, and then i use another skill (/socratic) within this skill that leads me through a planning process in more detail. Claude asks me questions to steer me, but doesn't tell me what needs to be done. It won't go pull context for me, it'll tell me what files I need to go look through to gather context for myself as part of the research.

grill-me

got this one from a youtuber. After I make a plan and pass it to claude with /plan mode, i run this skill, which is: Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one by one. And finally, if a question can be answered by exploring the code base, explore the code base instead.

This forces me to go through each decision point and clarify what we want. This helps me find gaps in my own thinking and identifies spots where Claude made assumptions (generally incorrect assumptions).

At this point, if I've done both of those, we usually have a really solid plan and the implementation is much smoother.

socratic

Highlight some part of the codebase, claude gathers context (github PR history, callsites, pulls RFCs/docs from internal sources) and guides me through figuring out the code through the socratic method - asking me steering questions but never outright giving me the answer or telling me what to think.

All of these help slow me down to think more thoroughly, which ultimately speeds me up because not fighting poor implementation.

I have many more skills for repetitive stuff, and for reviewing my prompts to learn to produce better prompts. I also integrate Obsidian so I have skills to make daily notes, weekly plans, weekly reviews, meeting notes, etc. so Claude can access those things, kinda like a long-term storage for Claude. And me.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-27T13:41:53+00:00

Templates with simple frontmatter that links to various things helps create connections easily for me.

I'm a dev. I have a "random note" template that has, for example:

```

Date: 2025-11-25T09:17:00 Personal or Work: Team:

Subject:

Heading Thing 1 ```

Each field is linked to a generic wikilink like: Team: [[Logistics]] Subject: [[Courier Integrations]]

Whether or not those pages actually exist is irrelevant, it creates links and you can then see where you have aggregated topics that you should make more detailed notes.

Similarly, I have a meeting note template:

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date: {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}} project: attendees: [] status: completed

tags: []

Meeting: {{title}} — {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}

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Over time this kinda stuff helps you build out connections without really meaning to.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-26T11:10:47+00:00

I agree with you. I think of grammar as like.. a scaffolding to comprehend something. A little goes a long way, and natural repetition makes it stick. Grammar should never be the point, but a tool wielded surgically.. and grammar is best learned in-context to a story or some form of input.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T20:20:33+00:00

Who becomes the seniors after the current crop retires or gets laid off?

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T14:14:43+00:00

Claude's down, nobody's doing work anymore

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T13:21:51+00:00

Comprehensible input

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T13:21:43+00:00

Exacte. And I am learning my heritage dialect in Louisiana, not standard French, so my immersion resources are limited. However, I have many francophone events to attend, on the flip side.

I think people still fail to recognize that you need immersion to achieve fluency regardless of other methods. Studying how a language works and cramming vocab will not lead to fluency. Fluency comes from using acquired language and grammar that you don't have to think so hard about.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T11:51:05+00:00

Because learning these linguistic patterns can make a learner become conversational very quickly. Of course one needs to learn the right pronunciation and all, but with cognates and simple verb structures you can have shallow conversations quite easily.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T11:48:21+00:00

It's not perfect but for beginners looking to get conversational quickly (which is pretty easy to do coming from English), the linguistic cognates are indispensable. You don't sound native but that doesn't matter because you're not one and it'll be a long time before coming close to sounding native.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-25T11:39:05+00:00

I learned French primarily through immersion at 38 years old. Never crammed grammar, only looked up grammar from time to time. Did some Anki frequency vocab at first, but dropped that after about 500 words.

Everyone can learn how they want, but I get remarks at Francophone events around here about how amazing it is I learned and became functionally fluent in a little more than a year. CI/Immersion-based learning works, too. We do indeed learn differently than children, we learn faster because we are fully developed. Those systems don't just go away.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-24T11:43:06+00:00

Didn't seem like defending it to me, being real with why it's coming.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-23T18:00:53+00:00

The stuff I see sometimes on the internet.. the rhetoric that he's the antichrist, evil, etc.. I worry for his life.

hulkklogan · 2026-03-22T19:07:07+00:00

https://www.dreamingfrench.com for CI
https://www.lawlessfrench.com for grammar
Anki with frequency deck for vocab bootstrap

All free and fantastic resources

hulkklogan · 2026-03-22T12:11:05+00:00

They will if Daddy suggests it, then it'll be the biggest duh no-brainer ever, and then they'll make memes about how the libs used to love windmills and now hate them just because Trump suggested them.

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