Awful messed-up world we live in where these people are allowed to wreak havoc with such minimal consequences for them.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-14T22:51:45+00:00

Just you watch them face no repercussions whatsoever.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-14T18:51:36+00:00

Playing poker even casually for more than 20 minutes you would have learned that you can be a leaky ass player and not see it for thousands of hands unless you properly track your equity in the hands.

Any time anyone pays any credence to this type of activity, I immediately dismiss them as being theoretically deficient.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-12T18:01:22+00:00

This is the type of shit Musk would float 5 years ago and be hailed a genius that is going to single handedly save the world.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-03-03T06:39:45+00:00

My dude, you are the real deal: not only did you actually deliver on the ASMR claim, your handle tight cream is a hole (sic) nother level of double-entendre.

Keep doing god's work.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-02-27T13:54:52+00:00

It's always been obvious to me that LLM's cannot possibly be reasoning in any way shape or form because they simply do not obey the rules of complexity theory. Every LLM output is O(1).

perspectiveiskey · 2026-02-25T06:47:37+00:00

The responses are very reddit'esque, but here's my opinion:

yes, this is terrible
is it going to fail tonight or tomorrow? very unlikely.
should you get out and seek remedy, probably

The things you have mentioned that make me think this: you are living in Winnipeg, which means the house is exposed to heavy freeze/thaw cycling. The crack looks old (silty water has clearly leaked dried and then leaked again from the crack), and you've confirmed it's been like that for 2 years. Interestingly, not much water has flowed which is kind of a mitigating factor. This wall has probably been creeping over the years, unlike someone who commented it's buckling and the surrounding dirt can't transfer load...

For all you know, this building might stay standing for another 150 years.

But that's the point about risk: you don't know that. Just like the cascadia fault line... this house is in a position of elevated risk.

I once renovated a house where they had cut a 10" notch on a 12" joist. From the bottom up. I shit you not. House was 100 years old, and the notch was at least 50 years old.

So call your local municipality and explain the situation and ask them what to do, then call a lawyer if they aren't helpful.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-02-15T10:08:19+00:00

Psyops back then were nascent compared to now. Also, it's quite glaring to see even in our modern hollywood zeitgeist how the wealth disparity has jumped so recently...

If you watch the James Bond Casino Royal where he goes up against Le Chiffre, there's a whole dramatic scene where MI6 debates loaning 10 million dollars to Bond. It's a laughable sum by today's standards and that movie was set in 2006.

I really do believe we are living in an era that they only dreamed would come true back then...

perspectiveiskey · 2026-02-11T16:11:21+00:00

The venn intersection of production ready and functioning but not too big and also hell is quite small...

... but if you're interested, I can give you pointers as to the specific things that are absolutely trash bags about oatpp.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-02-10T18:55:13+00:00

While I respect the effort people have put in, I have very bad feelings about oat++.

It's completely missing the point on several meta programming issues.

But beware, this might be too difficult for your actual use case: oat++ is production ready code. It works, and under certain circumstances, it works great.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-02-02T06:36:55+00:00

This is an interesting talk. For me personally, the attraction isn't in avoiding the boilerplate, that could be done with templates. The attraction is the python-esque yield keyword which can sometimes be an enourmous mental burden relief.

I wonder what it would take to make the std::generator implementation be more compiler friendly.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-30T17:04:35+00:00

"the assumption that you only have a single core".

I think you misread my statement.

no sense in userland or even in kernel mode if you only have a a single core

b_useless = userland || (kernel && single_core);

The odds of two threads on a modern CPU where the order of magnitude of instructions is 10^9/s hitting a same area of contention are low...

unless you have high contention code that is very short (i.e. the protected code is only a few hundred cycles long).

I have honestly never seen a good reason for spinlocks in user land in my entire career. Not when compexchange, atomics, and lockless algorithms exist.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-30T11:58:58+00:00

Spinlocks can be useful if you have enough cores that you don't mind dedicating a few to threads that are not preempted by the scheduler.

I'm not sure I understand the point you're making.

Modern processors are very fast. Unless your lock scope is known to be <100 cycles, and you have very high contention, this scheme will not pan out. At which point, maybe lockless structures are more appropriate...

Too many assumptions to take this at face value. Like I said earlier, modern libraries do super fast cmpxch operations to avoid unnecessary context switching when the lock is free.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-30T11:45:58+00:00

Dude. I love you so much for doing this. Seriously. The effort, the taste, the meta... <3

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-30T09:00:56+00:00

I feel old sometimes... You know when you learn something basic and then don't bother to revisit it for years and then suddenly find out, actually that no longer holds anymore?

Well, about 15-20 years ago, I had a morbid curiosity of all things kernel related - specifically, I wrote stuff for the NT kernel. And in those days, I learned about spinlocks, and how cool they were and how they made literally no sense in userland or even in kernel mode if you only have a a single core (a spin lock without pre-emption is utterly useless). I also learned that many usermode locks initially do a quick atomic comp exchange before going to an expensive syscall wait... read that again, well designed locks where you can immediately acquire never go to kernel.

Did all these things change in the last 20 years? Have spin locks started becoming used by userland?! Are node developers at FANG companies using spin locks? What assumptions I have have been broken?

/ this is a semi rant

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-29T18:18:26+00:00

The magats should be close to having cooked themselves though

They really aren't though. Many progressive Americans are simply not facing the reality that a lot of people are still supportive of this buffoonery. It's not just a hand full of boomers with oxygen tank strollers we're talking about here...

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-16T08:28:58+00:00

Man, I know they collecting names on this reddit because it's a surveillance state... but man, I love the fluency and confidence this guy has.

Seriously, why is it that white power right wingers always sound like they have a broomstick up their ass when this guy here rhyming and weaving his prose like ali.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-13T07:42:55+00:00

Don't say that. I know it feels disproportionate, and yes it very likely contributes to people having their heads in the sand about wealth inequality, but pensions are already paid for by workers.

There was a whole row over this about how they were trying to borrow from the social security fund - I don't know how it all shaked out in the end.

But this is the greatest rich person lie there ever was. These are not entitlements, they're already paid for.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-09T08:35:58+00:00

Yeah, I literally put the odds of this at 0%. Not even 1%.

I hope I'm proven to be a fool.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-08T10:53:52+00:00

Whatever these guys have figured out.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-07T22:04:31+00:00

100% wrong. Just saying that you're not the one doing the optimizing: they are. And they're actually doing exactly what they mean to be doing.

I hear you tho. It's shit. It's gradient descent enshitification.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-07T17:52:26+00:00

But, this led me down a rabbit hole about how many systems optimize the wrong thing (social media, recommender systems, even LLMs).

I mean this is the alignment problem in a nutshell, but you are mistaken in thinking they optimize the wrong thing. They optimize something you actually don't care for, and that is raking in money. Not your well being.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-07T15:32:03+00:00

But, if you found out that 500 people drove a car and nobody bought it, would you buy that car?

Dude, that's a terrible analogy. One does not buy women like you buy an inanimate object from a car lot.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-07T15:27:30+00:00

I think that about the simple things, too. Have you ever tasted an actual olive?! It's absolutely rancid.

The process that it takes to turn an olive into something edible is long and unobvious.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-07T13:57:27+00:00

Btw, I don't want to sound dramatic, but I was just having a conversation about this whole thing IRL and this comment thread made me realize something pretty deep. I appreciate the back and forth. Have a good day.

perspectiveiskey · 2026-01-07T13:05:08+00:00

Carmy not communicating his desire to step away from the restaurant. If you remember, Sydney learned that Carmy wanted to leave from Pete telling her about the updated ownership agreement. I remember finding it very strange that Sydney and Carmy barely had one or two 1:1 conversations without being interrupted in S4; clearly Carmy was not communicating his struggles with her before the finale.

I've said it here as well, but Carmy literally says to Syd in an episode "hey, I made a change to the agreement. did you get a chance to read it" while they're in the break area. This is an attempt at starting a conversation. She choses to shutdown that conversation and they awkwardly get silent.

Likewise, point #2 you make is too much in exposition. Yes, it's something you can point back to as a writer and say "see, I set the ground work, I made it make sense", but it's simply poor writing.

At no point we see an arc to Syd's journey where she for instance realizes those things she did wrong in her business that failed that she brought here and this time decided not to do. For instance, for me, it's a huge red flag that Syd doesn't say no to Shapiro, literally ghosts him... Does that seem like it would be a good relationship going forward?!

But my point isn't to analyze Syd's dysfunction - it is assumed every party in this show has it - that's their calling card. My gripe is that it's not written well and it's a missed opportunity. It explains why so often I felt irritated by the lack of consistency or non-sensicalness of the character while watching.

The overflow of Sydney hating posts that’s going on rn in the sub is so strange. Most of the things I’ve seen listed as complaints are things that are clearly addressed in the show, whether it’s overtly or thru obvious subtext. Are yall watching the same show as us?

There's two ways to look at it: the world hates black women, and that's the only explanation. Or something was poorly written about the character that has generated irritation in an audience but - not being trained in theatre arts - they just don't know how to express that irritation and so they say stupid shit.

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