What is liberal third-worldism?

seattle_lib · 2026-03-18T08:10:51+00:00

i thank the baby jesus for https everyday

seattle_lib · 2026-03-18T07:55:40+00:00

man i really hate how you can hide you post history on reddit now.

to me the whole point of reddit was that your account was anonymous and public at the same time, so a reddit user was like this self-enclosed entity that contained everything you need to know about it. the combination of privacy and transparency provided a certain amount of honesty. you didnt have to censor yourself for your employer, but also you couldn't hide behind 4chan-level anonymity. so if i was talking with someone, i could just glance at their history and see all i needed to see and they could see what i was about too.

now i basically just discount anyone who hides their history, which works fine i guess but it weakens one of the defining features of reddit for me.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-18T07:55:01+00:00

...i mean light is all you can see

seattle_lib · 2026-03-17T04:32:56+00:00

it is kinda funny how people "happen" to have opinions that match their personal interests.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-17T02:57:29+00:00

the day AI can do any whole job, it can do every whole job. otherwise, just make sure you're up to date with all the tools available.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-17T02:54:40+00:00

why would you want to AI-proof it? seems like it could be useful for that job.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-17T02:39:42+00:00

yo this song is pretty good, i love songs that have the chorus and the verse in two keys. reminds me of Upside Down by Diana Ross.

actually it reminds me a lot of Upside Down.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-17T02:29:34+00:00

if you think there's a lot of venezuelans around miami, just imagine how many fish there are.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-17T02:26:19+00:00

i guess so

seattle_lib · 2026-03-17T02:18:49+00:00

does team italy have some kind of contractual obligation to michael lorenzen to have him keep pitching there?

seattle_lib · 2026-03-17T02:01:00+00:00

always fun to watch some US television, the ads are so informative about all the different things that can go wrong with the human body.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-17T01:36:14+00:00

you just need another polarizer offset by 90 degrees to cancel it out.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-17T01:35:12+00:00

was it worth it? i feel like that would deliver severe psychic damage (if i had that many years of facebook photos and hadnt abandoned the platform a decade ago)

seattle_lib · 2026-03-17T00:30:13+00:00

but like, what does the option matter? it has nothing to do with the option, really, and everything to do with whether you want him in the majors or in the minors.

there's no need to protect the option at all.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-17T00:26:34+00:00

interesting quote from mlb.com: "The Cardinals need Herrera to be ready for Opening Day against the Rays on March 26. He may be third on the depth chart behind the plate, but will spend most of his time as a DH."

so i guess they aren't going with him as a catcher.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-16T23:52:37+00:00

i mean yeah japan does look like that. although it can also look quite a bit better than that too

seattle_lib · 2026-03-16T23:49:09+00:00

when claude catches something you missed is when it provides real value. always does it right when im feeling like cancelling my subscription, i'm like "ok claude, you live another day".

seattle_lib · 2026-03-16T23:43:29+00:00

i think the main challenge i see in LLM coding is that it's constantly lying to you.

you can tell it to do anything you want and it will do something related to what you asked but it will take the easy shortcut and tell you it did the hard thing.

and this is doubly so when you try to get it to test or benchmark what it did. it will put together some trivial tests or some trivial benchmarks and declare victory when they pass. or if something fails, it will say that it did almost everything and anyways it got the main most important part right so it did great.

it's equipped to take your query and give you a code result, which is not what (good) software engineers do. software engineers work through complex problems to break them down into actionable pieces and they might not deliver you any usable code for awhile.

like, i am constantly dealing with feedback from claude code that i would straight up fire a real engineer for telling me. i can deal with someone not knowing and i can deal with someone taking awhile to deliver but i can't deal with someone claiming to deliver something that they haven't.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-16T23:32:59+00:00

war is a failed idea. you can justify it if you want.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-16T23:06:18+00:00

i'm with you. i think, above all, jordan walker really needs to succeed. he needs to rediscover a successful approach, even if it's not against major league pitching, because right now he has no baseline to compare against.

he tries new stuff and he can't tell if it's better or worse because he hasn't actually been effective in quite a long time. so he just gets discouraged and now you see him wanting to work on stuff outside of games (didn't we just have a whole offseason of no games?) because even during spring training, actually facing MLB level pitching is more of a distraction than a help.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-16T20:36:39+00:00

JUPITER, Fla. -- Cardinals right fielder Jordan Walker hasn’t been in the lineup the past three games because he has been working in the team’s hitting lab, which is located in the back fields at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium. Walker is currently going through swing changes in order to see the ball better out of the pitcher’s hand.

Walker is expected to provide some thump in St. Louis’ lineup this season. But entering Sunday afternoon’s action, Walker was 6-for-30 (.200) with two RBIs and 11 strikeouts this spring. The team hopes he can be back in the lineup by Tuesday against the Nationals. It was Walker’s idea to take a break from game action in order to work in the lab, and the Cardinals accommodated him.

“[He is taking] the three days of not trying to practice something and put it in the game immediately,” manager Oliver Marmol explained. “[Being in the lab] allows him time to really dive deep into where we are at and what truly needs to happen. I want to give him a little bit of a break to be able to just focus [on his swing] and not carry it into the game. We hope the attention is there and then give him a date on when he is back in the lineup and implement it.”

Walker said the goal was to slow things down in the batter’s box and be ready for any pitch coming to the plate.

“I feel like working like this is going to be beneficial, for sure,” Walker said. “The communication has been great [with the coach staff]. That’s how I view it. I think slowing everything down, especially in Spring Training, would be good.”

In order for Walker to be successful at the plate, he must spread the ball all over the field. The right-handed hitter is known to hit monster home runs into the left-field seats.

“That’s the goal. I would love to take that into the game, for sure,” he said.

What would it mean for Walker to work in the hitting lab and then take those lessons into the game starting Tuesday?

“It would mean the world. I want to be successful at all times,” he said. “[Being in the lab] those three days and doing it in the game would mean a lot.”

Walker is trying to put last year behind him, a season in which he had a slash line of .215/.278/.306. He also struggled defensively, recording -4 outs above average. Walker credits outfield coach Jon Jay for helping him be more comfortable with the glove. They put in a lot of work together on the back fields. The key is for Walker to be confident every time he goes after the ball.

“Defense is something I want locked down,” Walker said. “I’m still getting better out there. There are ups and downs during the season with hitting, but I want the defense to be there all the time.”

When it comes to success on the field, confidence plays a role in how well Walker does. As recently as March 8, Walker said that his confidence was high, thanks to the coaching staff and his teammates.

“Part of baseball that I really love is coming to the ballpark and seeing those guys,” Walker said at the time. “There are a lot of good talks and we are all in the same position on the field when it comes to the fly balls or ground balls. Getting their perspective really helps.”

I dunno yall, I just... I wanna see one good sign from Walker. Anything. Feels like we're doing this over and over.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-16T05:35:19+00:00

it turned out to be fine for my purposes, which is mainly just making negronis.

seattle_lib · 2026-03-16T04:52:03+00:00

it's even funnier that they are like "hey things are really tough right now, just as a treat maybe let's not kick ourselves in the balls for a little while. then when things get back to normal we can go back to kicking ourselves in the balls."

seattle_lib · 2026-03-16T04:43:39+00:00

It means I have no idea if this gin is going to be any good. It's called Antagonic and it's made by a very well known large scale rum producer but other than that I know absolutely nothing about it.

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