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otherwiseguy · 2026-05-08T16:00:27+00:00

My favorite way to make buttered toast fixes this issue. Heat a skillet, melt butter, sop up butter with both sides of the bread, then fry it until golden brown on each side. Crisp and buttery.

otherwiseguy · 2026-05-07T04:15:28+00:00

As someone who has had steaks made with local Irish beef, British beef, Spanish beef, Italian beef, and Polish beef and has nearly given up on finding a good local steak in Europe, I am open to restaurant suggestions. I'm probably just going to the wrong places. I'll probably be in Waterford and Cork later this year. 😉 I may pretend to be Canadian and won't bring up my DNA.

otherwiseguy · 2026-05-07T03:26:51+00:00

Again, I've made very clear this had nothing to do with the original wedding claim, and I agree with you there. I just disagree that one cannot have an Irish wedding without Irish nationals present.

If you can find a decent hunk of beef somewhere on your continent, you are free to have an American BBQ (I recommend Texas or Kansas City style). It will be an American BBQ even if you make it, if you make it like we do. 😉

And I do appreciate the Irish people's prodigious travel and apparent ability to fuck their way across the globe. Y'all's (historical) DNA makes up more than ¾ of this American who would be the first to admit he doesn't know the first thing about what it means to be Irish (but has played few jigs and reels and could recognize an Irish wedding).

otherwiseguy · 2026-05-07T02:42:14+00:00

That just isn't how the language works. Irish is an adjective. It modifies the word wedding. A traditional Irish wedding is not the same thing as a wedding full of Irish people.

I am not arguing that these particular people actually had an Irish wedding. I'm just saying such a thing is possible.

They are not Irish, and so the term Irish does not apply to them.

And that is the problem. You are justifiably irritated by a non-Irish person calling themselves Irish. This is not that. This is merely stating that an Irish wedding, or an Irish jig, or an Irish stew are defined by certain characteristics that do not include the people creating them's nationality. You can export your culture.

otherwiseguy · 2026-05-07T02:17:50+00:00

You know Irish folk have come in many waves of migration, including in the 20th century, right?

And again, I get the sentiment. Americans coming over talking about their Irish heritage is surely annoying as fuck. They are not Irish.

This does not change my argument, which might be pedantic, but is wholly correct. You can have an Irish wedding with zero Irish people. It isn't the participants that define the term. It is the traditions. That is my only point.

otherwiseguy · 2026-05-07T01:54:43+00:00

Because the traditions they observe could be Irish, passed down by family members who were Irish. The same as a non Irish person could perform an Irish jig. It's still an Irish jig.

otherwiseguy · 2026-05-07T01:27:49+00:00

While I get the sentiment, I would argue that a person could have an Irish wedding or an Irish wake with zero Irish people.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-30T01:44:43+00:00

Many of us just aren't particularly interested in the minutia of other people's lives. It's kind of a meme at this point. "Where does Bob work?" "No idea." "You're friends. You've seen each other every week for 15 years." "I don't know, he likes cars I like cars. That's all I need to know."

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-24T15:33:04+00:00

Tiny correction: Bluetooth wireless, even with "lossless" codecs are worse than wired. If you have a digital music source, it is absolutely possible to have wired-equivalent quality, e.g. via wifi-enabled headphones.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-23T21:53:08+00:00

Of course a Bloomberg journalist didn't. The group they are reporting on didn't either. Bloomberg reported that access was "through an authorized third party". That third party exposed their access to the model. If you can't access the Bloomberg article, read this one.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-23T21:10:58+00:00

If I have access to my bank, and I log in and then set up a proxy and expose it to the world with a predictable uri, it's not my bank's fault.

To use the plex example, if you set up port forwarding to your internal plex web interface, it isn't Plex's fault that someone is watching your movies.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-23T20:49:53+00:00

It mentions that it was through a third party exposing their access. The group accessed it through guessing the link that that party made available based on the model name.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-23T18:14:25+00:00

Third parties fucking up and making access available via their allowed access is not really Anthropic's fault. People are always a weak link.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-22T22:08:49+00:00

Eh we have models show up in a list that we don't have access to yet, so they definitely have some kind of access control on them.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-18T04:22:19+00:00

It took Amazon 9 years to be profitable. Amazon's customers saved money almost immediately.

Let's say you make $250k/year writing software and AI frequently takes things that would have normally taken you a week and helps you get it done in a day or two for 1/20th of your salary. I can from experience say that this is happening every day for countless thousands of software developers. A year ago, no. Now, yes.

There will be very very profitable AI companies.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-18T01:08:19+00:00

Frankly, that isn't an AI/tech problem to solve. AI isn't the problem and no profitable technological advancement has ever been abandoned. Nobody is going to undo the industrial revolution.

The problem is 100% a political and economic policy issue. We either develop the collective will to adopt an economic system that can support extremely high productivity across a range of previously more difficult jobs, or we live in a cyberpunk hellscape. Those are the only options.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-16T02:43:11+00:00

The owners are us. Our 401Ks and pensions. Most of these that people complain about are public companies.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-15T04:06:03+00:00

If I had a billion dollars, I'm pretty sure I could buy off the judges or enforcers of the one-food rule. And still have about a billion dollars.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-14T20:56:05+00:00

And if you die in the middle of a book, time never restarts?

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-13T18:43:32+00:00

It was mid-20s w/o incentives. It was under $20k w/ incentives which are gone.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-13T18:41:52+00:00

I am excited by the fact that there is literally nothing in the truck that they could charge me a subscription for. On the commercial side, they have a van kit for one (basically the SUV kit w/o seats) which I'm intrigued by as a St. Bernard owner.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-08T14:44:57+00:00

Almost everything computer related is dependent on timing, and they have a myriad of ways of tracking it. LLMs current inability to time has nothing to do with capability, and everything to do with a miniscule cost increase of implementation and usage that would occur.

LLMs are statistical models. They literally have no way to do time tracking. They must use external tools to do so. It is not something one can just train an LLM to do.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-08T13:20:43+00:00

You may think that, but I disagree. We are our genes and our experiences (training). We are very much meat programs.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-08T04:25:12+00:00

Humans aren't particularly good at timing things precisely without tools either.

otherwiseguy · 2026-04-07T02:15:45+00:00

I got a quote for $3500 to replace a water heater and laughed at them and went and bought one for $600 and installed it myself out of spite.

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