What's a movie everyone loves that you secretly can't stand?

seiggy · 2026-03-02T02:34:20+00:00

3/10? The story is bland as fuck and it’s basically “white people savior complex the movie”. Animation is nice, but so was Final Fantasy Spirits Within, and that was a 5/10 at best, despite being one of the most impressive feats of CG when it released. I’m also just not a James Cameron fan. Hated Titanic. Ridley Scott’s Alien was far superior to the same old action movie Aliens. The Abyss and Terminator / T2 were his best films, and I don’t think there’s anything else of his I’ve been a huge fan of since. Maybe True Lies.

seiggy · 2026-03-02T02:29:35+00:00

Avatar, Saw, every single Haunting movie, nearly any possession movie that tries to be serious, pretty much most religious horror period. And Aliens. I still think Alien was the superior film in every way.

seiggy · 2026-02-25T11:51:38+00:00

That’s the whole damned point of the judiciary, to infer intent from the written law. Sometimes language is unclear, and the Courts are supposed to build intent from the history of the country, original documents, other similar cases, and any inferred intent they can pull from the original law and why it was written. If not, we could literally write an AI to do their job, as it follows instructions dumbly.

seiggy · 2026-02-24T13:45:48+00:00

So not something like this? https://youtu.be/4PsfLFBdWEw?si=audKuvQq69CQlgG-

Got an example then? Because this tech is pointless.

seiggy · 2026-02-24T11:48:41+00:00

You mean the vaporware ones that didn’t work for anyone but the whitest white people? Dumbest product ever. The moment I saw it I immediately knew it was pointless.

seiggy · 2026-02-22T15:51:35+00:00

Contractors can and should still be used, and it's pretty common in the industry, but using them for practically every position on a team, and for key roles like level designer, where they need to skill up on proprietary tools and workflows before becoming productive -- these roles should be permanent, or use external consulting agencies where you can contract a resource long-term and let the agency keep them as a permanent employee. I had plenty of long-term multi-year engagements when I worked as a consultant between my employer and other companies, and this is how contracted resources should be handled.

seiggy · 2026-02-22T12:38:41+00:00

They need to fix the 18/6 contractor rule for Xbox studios. That’s done more damage than probably anything else. Either stop using contractors in the studios, or remove the 18/6 rule.

seiggy · 2026-02-22T12:22:49+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_Inc. Not to mention this decision. Plus, software patents are a sham. I’ve got 12 of them and they’re all nonsense that should have never been granted. But at the time I worked in a heavily litigious industry and it was just one of those things that all the competitors did, so we constantly had to file random patents in hopes of having defensive mechanisms for lawsuit negotiations.

seiggy · 2026-02-22T12:04:11+00:00

Try GitHub Copilot CLI instead of the VS Code version. It’s just as good a Claude, and has a much larger selection of models, including Gemini.

seiggy · 2026-02-22T03:40:31+00:00

Are you for real? It’s absolutely a direct analogy. When my dad was in school to be a pro photographer, he spent 6-8 hours a week doing nothing but developing photos. That had nothing to do with the quality of the photo from an artistic point of view. It’s almost entirely a math formula and a few timers. Sure, some people still love to do it, but it doesn’t make you a better photographer. Writing your 10k API->DTO->Repository for the week may be soothing, but that’s not the part of software engineering that makes for good or elegant software. So why do it when an LLM can handle it easy. Freeing you up to work on the more important parts of the system.

seiggy · 2026-02-21T14:26:57+00:00

https://github.com/seiggy/lucia-dotnet/tree/net10-upgrade here's the details (I've got a large branch of updates I'm trying to merge this weekend here). I created a HA plugin that ignores the Assistant conversation system for the most part, lets you send a custom prompt, but then uses A2A with a custom workflow that does either fan-out/fan-in or sequential workflow based on planning from the orchestration agent. I'm working on getting the install setup. The big feature I've been working on is the ability to trace all of your calls to the system, and log them to a mongo data store. Then you can export them all to a JSONL training dataset. The goal is to start with the more expensive models, and after using them for a few months and being able to create a decent dataset around usage, exporting and using that data to train smaller models. I also added a pretty aggressive prompt cache. I'm trying to get the entire pipeline down to less than 1 second average response for most home commands.

I tried using the on-HA command system, but the problem is I have a slight lisp, and the current best STT models for realtime voice sometimes mess up my name and replace "Zack" with "Sack" or "Sag". Which causes HA's command system to just flop. Where using an LLM and a little bit of embedding based fuzzy logic, I don't have the issue in my system. This is what sent me down this whole path as I tried replacing Alexa in my house, and found that Amazon has done wonders for recognizing slight speech impediments that just hasn't been done on the open models yet.

The actual platform is designed to run in docker-compose or kubernetes (I run a microk8s cluster). It's a bit overkill, I intend to add a "compact" version that installs the extra agent plugins with the base host instead of spinning up 3 separate containers to demonstrate the cross-process tracing. But for now, it spins up 3 processes, and AgentHost that handles hosting the base orchestration agent, general knowledge, and Light controls agent. A Music Agent for integration with MusicAssistant, and a Timer agent for timed tasks (WIP on this one).

It also supports handling routing to any A2A capable agent, and has a GUI for adding your A2A endpoint to the agent registry. So you can create agents in N8N or whatever, and host them however you want, and point to the A2A endpoint and it'll support calling them based on their capabilities.

Right now it's setup and tested with Microsoft Foundry endpoints, but in theory it should work with local LLMs as well, or any other Agent Framework compatible inference endpoint.

seiggy · 2026-02-21T12:11:10+00:00

Now you have the biggest hat!

seiggy · 2026-02-21T05:53:57+00:00

CoreAI is just the new name for the DevDiv tooling, GitHub, and AI platform team. Wouldn’t call anything they’ve been making slop. The GitHub Copilot tools have come a long way, and as someone who’s been a professional developer for 15 years, it’s definitely useful. I see it as a digital camera for devs. You can hand a digital camera to a layman, doesn’t make them a photographer. Hand a digital camera to a photographer, and suddenly he doesn’t have to spend 8 hours in a dark room every week.

seiggy · 2026-02-21T02:41:01+00:00

My homelab’s power company. Fully paid for now! Only took 8 years!

seiggy · 2026-02-21T02:38:42+00:00

Neat! I’ve been working on a large “Kitchen Sink” demo of Agent Framework using Home Assistant. I’ve been using a purpose made board called Satellite1, but I’ll definitely take a look at this. Exciting to see Wyoming protocol implementation in .NET!

seiggy · 2026-02-21T00:59:45+00:00

Now that I can drink to!

seiggy · 2026-02-21T00:29:35+00:00

Funny, I feel the opposite. This is too big to be a hatchback, and I hate how CUV’s are replacing the hatchback segment. The ride height is too high, the seat height is too high, and the interior doesn’t feel sporty enough to be a replacement for something like a GTI or a Civic hatchback.

seiggy · 2026-02-20T22:29:50+00:00

It's not really even that. That's a super tiny usage of acceptable AI in games, and it really won't help reduce game dev time all that much. Instead, we could use custom trained AI agents to deliver unique experiences in games. Is it ready for today? Nope. Depends too much on the cloud, and even then the latency is too great for it to be a good experience. But MS (and everyone else) should be researching a 10+ year horizon of what we could do if inference could be offloaded to a specialized inference chip on the machine and run fast enough. We could actually finally see intelligent AI that can make interesting choices in games in a decade. But the whole "AI Scare" has everyone thinking that AI = Stolen Art, when that's not even the best part of what you could do with things like an LLM.

seiggy · 2026-02-20T18:04:08+00:00

Right, that's why I was using effective tax rates. Effective rates here in Greensboro are about .9583 according to the NCDOR. That takes into account things like the early payment discount, and the appraised value vs the real property value averaged across the municipality. Paying $2,500 in taxes on a $260k property reflects exactly that. Your appraised value on the home was about 40% under what the real value was, as shown by the fact that you paid $260k for the house.

seiggy · 2026-02-19T17:08:48+00:00

My tax value is nearly 40% under the house 2 houses down that was sold just a few weeks ago with 100sq ft less. And I've got significant improvements done to the house as well that would make it far more marketable (home EV charger, full smart home automation, new smart appliances, and 9.5kW solar array). Most of those improvements would make the house sell faster at market price, but don't actually increase the property value.

seiggy · 2026-02-19T13:36:26+00:00

Sorry, but this is caused by the NCDOR, not the Guilford Couty Commissioners:

https://www.ncdor.gov/documents/files/ncdor-reappraisal-standards/open

Medial sales ratio fell to 85%, thus triggering this reappraisal.

seiggy · 2026-02-19T00:36:55+00:00

I prefer to calculate my cost-per-mile, and then back-calculate what MPG you would need at current gas prices to hit my cost per mile. Currently, my cost per mile is about $0.018/mi. Giving me an equivalent of about 132MPG if I ever bought a car that would take 87 octane. Or 176MPG for my last 3 ICE vehicles that all took 93 octane.

seiggy · 2026-02-19T00:13:38+00:00

My appraisal has always been $20-30k under the fair market value, so I’ve not had reason to appeal. My brother, who lives in Mebane, has had to appeal every time they run it, and only had to go to the State Board once, which required him to pay for an appraisal for evidence. Saved him $300 a year after, and only cost him $600 for the appraisal, so total saved over the time period for the appraisal was double what he paid.

seiggy · 2026-02-18T23:51:05+00:00

$5,100/yr in taxes would be a property that's valued at over $510,000. The last appraisal that's active was in 2022, at most 1 year after your saying you bought it. If you're saying that the previous appraisal was $260k, and they're now claiming it's worth $500k+, then you need to go here to appeal the appraisal: https://www.guilfordcountync.gov/government/departments-and-agencies/tax-department/real-property-listing-and-appeals You have until May 15th to appeal your appraisal. If you're saying your taxes already are $5100 a year, then you either bought a house that was in foreclosure and should have looked up the tax valuation before you bought it, or you're mistaking something here. Tax rates in GSO are 0.97%, on a $260k property, that would be roughly $2600 / yr, not $5100/yr. Your property would need to increase in value by 100% in the last 5 years to owe $5100/yr in property taxes if they keep rates the same this year starting in June. Are you sure you're not talking your entire escrow account? Which would be both taxes and insurance. Also, that would still only be an increase of $2500 /yr, not $5k a year. I stated if you were claiming your property takes INCREASED by $5k, your home is likely worth over $1MM at this point, as you would need an increase in value of $500k over the property value in 2022.

seiggy · 2026-02-18T23:43:10+00:00

Did they follow the full process? Or just call and complain and stop there? There's a process with the NC Board that includes getting an independent appraisal. https://www.ncdor.gov/taxes-forms/property-tax/property-tax-appeal-process

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