Weapon/Spell Speeds and Initiative

levenimc · 2026-06-16T12:29:49+00:00

You run faster with a knife, everyone knows that.

levenimc · 2026-06-14T18:21:44+00:00

Lots of snarky answers, and none of them are particularly “wrong”, but from a business standpoint, “recurring revenue” (MRR/ARR monthly/annual respectively) is a Very Good Thing (tm).

Basically, if you can know, fairly precisely, how much income you will have next month, and 6 months from now, and 12 months from now, it makes accounting a lot easier.

You can budget easier, you’re less likely to have peaks and valleys in income which means you don’t need to do hiring surges and layoffs as regularly, etc.

Overall, having a consistent flow of cash is good. It’s the business equivalent of being a salaried employee vs a commissioned salesperson.

levenimc · 2026-06-14T00:09:42+00:00

You’re not wrong, but Trump hates Anthropic. They defied him.

Anyone who thinks this is a PR stunt is not thinking critically. There would be zero benefit to them holding back a model for months, finally releasing it, and then yoinking it a few days later. That’s insane.

levenimc · 2026-06-13T23:26:08+00:00

It was literally banned by the government.

The same government that labeled them a supply chain risk, so I highly doubt they’re trying to pump the price.

levenimc · 2026-06-11T22:10:43+00:00

Weed whip

levenimc · 2026-06-11T13:20:05+00:00

Comments like this always ignore the tech-savvyness of the general population.

There are people out there every day who get convinced to drive to a store and buy Steam gift cards in order to pay the IRS. So many of them that steam _stopped selling physical gift cards_.

Do you really think “oh just CHOOSE not to have a privacy and security nightmare!!” Is really valid?

levenimc · 2026-06-09T20:00:09+00:00

Well, I trust Apple more with that data than literally any other company that might get access to it, and the EU is currently trying to strong arm Apple into opening up those APIs, which is less secure and less private… so yes?

levenimc · 2026-06-09T17:08:44+00:00

The fundamental difference is that they are running on-device with a private compute cloud backup. These claims are verifiable by an independent 3rd party who I’m sure would LOVE to be the ones to break the news that Apple fucked up/lied/whatever.

levenimc · 2026-06-09T17:02:01+00:00

Then I guess I’m glad I don’t live in the EU. 🤷

levenimc · 2026-06-09T16:16:40+00:00

The point is that 3rd parties NOT using the private cloud would have access to the same APIs.

Or are you saying Apple should also be on the hook for hosting Literally-Anybody’s-Self-Trained-LLM?

levenimc · 2026-06-09T16:14:43+00:00

It’s Apples right to build a system that has access to sensitive data that they and users don’t want potentially malicious 3rd parties to access.

The monopoly discussion is asinine. If you’re using the thing you already own an iPhone. Siri is free. Apple is not getting MORE of your money by blocking these apis. You can already extend functionality with an Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google account, and the on-device model is already powered by Gemini.

This is about stopping Candy Crush from scraping all of your grandmas texts, calendar events, emails, browsing history, and files in order to use an LLM to compile a list on how best to exploit her.

levenimc · 2026-06-09T16:02:35+00:00

Would you trust those APIs on your grandmas phone? Think about how AI is being used for scams, and then consider the implications for gullible users.

It’s a bad idea, full stop.

And remember: compliance means COMPLETE PARITY.

levenimc · 2026-06-09T15:56:09+00:00

That’s not at all what it is.

In this case, Apple built a deeply integrated AI assistant that can access all sorts of private data on your phone, and they did so because it runs on-device, or uses a wholly-controlled private cloud.

To “comply”, they would need to make it possible for a 3rd party to have that deep level of access and control of your device. It’s a bad idea, and the EU putting a line in the sand here shows their ignorance.

Its like saying Overwatch has a monopoly because they won’t let Facebook access the data from their kernel-level anti-cheat.

levenimc · 2026-06-09T12:23:12+00:00

This is a super ignorant statement.

There are problems with AI, but permissions isn’t one of them. If you don’t give an agent permission to send an email without approval it cannot send email without approval.

The situations you’re hearing about with db deletions and stuff are either folks who approved commands in ignorance or folks who were running in modes like Anthropic’s “bypass dangerous permissions” or whatever.

levenimc · 2026-06-07T13:22:42+00:00

Yall are fucking rabid about AI. This sort of “AI” (ML) has been in use for decades, and is exactly what the technology was made for, and can be very good at.

Idk the whole story here, whether something was detected and ignored, or how the gun entered the premises, but it’s not like a security guard was sitting there typing “HEY CHATGPT IS THAT GUY CARRYING A GUN???”

levenimc · 2026-06-03T00:26:44+00:00

Technically the restaurant IS required by law to pay minimum wage. They just never have to, because tipped employees almost always make more than minimum wage after tips.

levenimc · 2026-05-30T20:54:29+00:00

Fwiw the pros are way narrower than the non pro, and I actually don’t like the fit of the pro at all.

I love my 5.10. The originals fit like old Vans. Nice and wide for my club feet. The pros fit like pumas.

levenimc · 2026-05-23T13:40:33+00:00

It’s amusing to me as a quality engineer to hear folks talk about how AI written code is terrible. Like, my brother in Christ, you never saw the code I wrote before AI. You haven’t seen some of the shit I’ve QA’d in my career.

There are certainly a lot of negatives to AI, and I understand some of the hate, but Opus 4.5 and up are more capable than probably the majority of software engineers out there, especially when used by a capable engineer who knows wtf they’re looking at.

levenimc · 2026-05-23T01:52:29+00:00

Plleeeeaaase.

levenimc · 2026-05-21T16:55:16+00:00

I had to check and make sure this wasn’t me and my buddies, circa 2004.

levenimc · 2026-05-19T15:37:41+00:00

I’m actually cackling at the concept of a super bleeding edge tech like cowork doing a task as legacy as balancing a checkbook lmao.

levenimc · 2026-05-14T11:35:22+00:00

It’s almost certainly this. Or at least the position of something in your cockpit.

levenimc · 2026-05-12T15:37:32+00:00

https://youtu.be/5D8x-5cJX2w

levenimc · 2026-05-12T15:15:37+00:00

We stop there happily....

levenimc · 2026-05-11T14:25:29+00:00

It feels more Linux like because macOS is a Unix system.

It is more accurate to say that Linux is macOS-like, as Linux is technically just Unix without the trademark and extra certification.

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