nwcasebolt.bsky.social
Senior software engineer. Bills fan. Huskers fan. History enthusiast. Dabbler in Greek philosophy. Amateur theologian. Often wrong, but with flair. Just trying to get through life without making anything worse.
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I genuinely think that’s why Trump is letting Elon have so much rope. Sure, Trump *might* be old and tired and whatever. Maybe. Or he might recognize that Elon’s doing everything Trump wants to do, but Elon can be sacrificed if necessary. Trump’s lived his entire life this way, why stop now?
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He needs to be canonized. Patron saint of making Job look bad.
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Stephen Douglas bore a good bit of responsibility for the Civil War, but he killed himself fighting side by side with Lincoln to stop it. You find out who the real patriots are when all the choices are gone. Praise God and pass the ammunition.
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Excellent choice. The problems of past people are always more pleasant than my own. 🤗
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Churchill was highly sympathetic to Chamberlain in his memoirs. He could afford to be generous as the guy who was proved right, but that says something to me.
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Very unsportsmanlike of you, not the done thing at all
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I agree Europe has a chance to revitalize itself as the bulwark of democracy, free markets, and progress. Heck, if they start taking themselves seriously, maybe I'll try to figure out a way to emigrate. Europe could benefit from an American brain drain — if it can get out of its own way.
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"Monster Out of Control, Must Be Stopped"
- by Dr. Frankenstein
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Yeah. For all the catastrophic downsides of social media, I've really benefited from learning how fast returns diminish from engaging bad-faith actors. Life is too precious to waste it with people who just want you to be as miserable as they are.
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Ah, the ever popular “I don’t follow sportsball” poster, anytime anyone anywhere expresses excitement about something that makes them happy. It’s a little wild how many people look for parades to rain on.
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“BREAKING: Nazis hate Jews”
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I understand you to mean this tech is beyond redemption since we can’t know if every link in the chain is pure. I don’t draw that hard a line since I see LLMs as just reading the same code I could, but faster.
I see a hammer, you see sin. Each views has its arguments, and I’m comfortable with mine.
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Only if building applications on top of dozens of open source libraries, or on forks of them, is theft.
Another analogy: only if using math means you’re stealing from all the mathematicians.
You’re conflating artistic output with the way everything in a modern tech stack works.
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It’s not a small problem, and I don’t have an answer for it. Read Asimov’s short story “The Dead Past.” He was pretty prescient about this sort of thing.
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Ohhhh… I thought you were upset about accuracy. That’s what your link said, so you can understand my confusion. We’re having two different conversations.
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I routinely correct faulty code that GitHub Copilot spits out. As another commenter in this thread said, LLMs are no substitute for experience. But so what? I’m not sure why people don’t want a better hammer just because it’s not a perfect hammer.
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I completely agree. I'm an experienced software engineer, but I've learned tons just by asking questions. I've used ChatGPT to bootstrap algorithms that would've taken me a day or two to grind out. Sure, you have to stress test the answers, but LLMs are a revolution in accelerated self-education.
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lol the Azazel Protocol 😂
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I agree with you except for the final sentence. I understand the sentiment. I even feel it at a gut level. Schadenfreude's a hell of a drug. Still, I keep circling back to Abraham Lincoln. "With malice toward none" has to mean something, or it means nothing, and this country is doomed anyway.
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When his Cabinet finds out what's going on, they are gonna pull the 25th Amendment so hard.
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Elon has real “I guess the whole world must be wrong” energy
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Anything and everything having to do with datetimes is a plague from the pit of hell.
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Your country is the definition of wrong time, wrong place.
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I've been in software engineering for nearly 10 years. I've been burned so often by my own hubris that I'm *very* cautious when I don't understand a thing. My assumption until I can prove otherwise is that I'm missing something — I no longer double down on hubris. Then again, I'm not a billionaire.
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Poor Denmark. Britain preemptively burns their fleet. Nazi Germany occupies them en route to preemptively occupying Norway. Now America wants to preemptively occupy a constituent territory. I don’t know why the Danes are always getting preempted.
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I don’t really care what Joffrey has to say.
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I’ll take every bright spot I can find.
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Absolutely true. They’re all cowardly weasels. You need actual convictions to have courage.
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It’s wild that it won’t even be a second civil war, not really. That was over two very different theories of republican government. This will be a second American Revolution to prevent a regression all the way back to monarchy. Amazing.
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This is what my bookshelf looks like. We tried the book on the right, and failed. Looks like we'll have to get reacquainted with the one on the left.
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Wrong.
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There will always be four lights.
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the Carolingian heart beats again
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Agree to disagree. I told two of my family members in early 2024 that I would vote for him as the only alternative to Trump, but that Biden was *far* too old to be president. I have no doubt the office would’ve killed him before the end of a second term.
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Should’ve started doing this two years ago, when it became ultra apparent that Biden was a shell and the Democrats had no real plan. Better late than never, though.
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Yes that’s exactly what we’re saying, you’re very smart, well done <\s>
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Blue MAGA isn’t much better than Red MAGA.
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These men must be stopped.
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About time white men caught a break.
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Even worse: with each puppy you strangle, the easier it gets. You wonder why people can't see puppy strangling is nasty but necessary. You start to think we should've been strangling puppies all along. Before you know it, you're angling for a task force rolling out puppy strangling in all 50 states.
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Has he read Churchill? Bradley? Those guys were swimming in bureaucracy. You can't manage combined-arms logistics to victory without a well-oiled bureaucracy. Kills me that the guy running the military seems to think running laps and being good at hand-to-hand combat wins wars.
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I think I speak for all of us when I wonder aloud how such a priceless gem has tolerated you all these years.
(Yes, I wonder the same thing about my wife as well.)
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I know one probationary employee who will (I expect) get fired. That one sucks b/c he’s 10 years older than me. I worry about his prospects.
I know one family scrambling to find affordable transport to commute with remote work getting axed.
Those people are in MT and NE, btw. Nationwide carnage.
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Burn ‘em.
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Back in '24, I tried explaining to a friend (before Biden dropped out) that I wasn't a Biden fan, but that my choices in November were Chamberlain or Mosley. We did not have a Churchill anywhere in the country.
Still don't.
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Scott, I was reliably informed that we would FA and the rest of the world would FO. Did I misunderstand?