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TrapLord_Rhodo··on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
I'm one of those people who took "the money and [ran]"

I'm a digital nomad and have been traveling full time for 7 years now. It's great, it's a good balance of work/life balance but one thing you slowly start to notice is when you leave your country, no matter if you learn the language or how much integrate yourself into that country, you will always be an outsider to the majority in that country.

As an american you will always be a Yankee, Farang or Gringo and will carry the weight of the US collective.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
That's what he said they did. that's the joke.

>so they changed the existing code to just check that predicate first, and the code sped up a zillion times, much more than with Ken's solution.

but since you've now spent all this time developing some beautiful solution for .01% of the actual data flow. Not the best use of dev time, essentially.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on How I use my terminal
Would fig not fit this usecase? I seem to be misunderstanding the post a bit. It seems like he's going through great lengths not to use cursor? This regex must of been gnarly to write

># i am so sorry > # see `search-regex.sh` for wtf this means ># TODO: include shell variable names bind-key f copy-mode \; send-keys -X search-backward \ '(^|/|\<|[[:space:]"])((\.|\.\.)|[[:alnum:]~_"-]*)((/[][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+)+([/ "]|\.([][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+(:[0-9]+)?(:[0-9]+)?)|[][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+(:[0-9]+)(:[0-9]+)?)|(/[][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+){2,}([/ "]|\.([][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+(:[0-9]+)?(:[0-9]+)?)|[][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+(:[0-9]+)(:[0-9]+)?)?|(\.|\.\.)/([][[:alnum:]_.#$%&+=@"-]+(:[0-9]+)?(:[0-9]+)?))'

This is pure quantum flux

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
2k NG, 9k Police, and LA is still burning. The protests are still violent. I'm not sure how this ends without a continued escalation and some very violent night that gets dubbed the "California massacre" in the history books. Deploying military members who are trained to put two in the chest and one in the head all but ensures this.

But then again, how are people protesting ICE doing their literal job? The other side of the coin is that anyone can come into the united states and live here. Which is an unsustainable policy.

I don't have the answers here, but i pray the violence stops.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
> on the grounds that the people should never have the power to subvert the state.

Hmm... I don't think the second amendment gives you that right... That's called treason.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
How do you force a company to provide services?

Nationalization can't work for a company working at the bleeding edge of tech. Everyone would leave, their stock options now worthless or paid out.

Name one single time in history nationization has worked? I can name 100 counter examples.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Doge Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to "Munch" Veterans Affairs Contracts
using an LLM is a very VERY small part of the code he published. 12 lines out of around 13k lines. You seem to be disagreeing with the concept, not the actual code. you prolly could have reviewed the code in the time it took you to google that ben franklin quote.

If you look at the code, he explicitly filters for sole source before he even sicks a LLM on it.

Tell me what you know about far part 6

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Doge Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to "Munch" Veterans Affairs Contracts
I think you are misinterpreting the comment here.

>I would never recommend someone run my code and do what it says.

Using this as a tool to signal can be a huge time saver. But not taking the code output as "truth" is what the engineer meant.

> It’s unclear how many have been or are on track to be canceled.

This article, just like you, are taking all of these out of context.

>Google Maps says drive into the lake. Do not drive into the lake.

He's using LLM's as a potential flag, then you go and human review those contracts with lawyers, supply chain, business specialists, nurses on the ground, etc. etc.

Calling him an idiot for being transparent is a personal attack, and has no place here.

Directly from the github: Tools I have written to do stuff more effectively at the VA. Code exists to make humans more efficient; not to replace them. All code leads to human review. Feedback appreciated!

TrapLord_Rhodo··on US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal
They've issued a stay. So, this is a giant nothing burger until 9 June, and then it's a giant nothing burger until it gets to the supreme court, because they can issue a stay until they've ruled on it.

Trump seems to be in control of the supreme court, so i imagine this will all end in a giant nothing burger.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Power Failure: The downfall of General Electric
GE's stock is one of the best performers this year. Would love to hear a "How they turned it around" follow up.
TrapLord_Rhodo··on I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation
> ksmbd has too much code for it all to fit in your context window in one go. Therefore you are going to audit each SMB command in turn. Commands are handled by the __process_request function from server.c, which selects a command from the conn->cmds list and calls it. We are currently auditing the smb2_sess_setup command. The code context you have been given includes all of the work setup code code up to the __process_request function, the smb2_sess_setup function and a breadth first expansion of smb2_sess_setup up to a depth of 3 function calls.

The author deserves more credit here, than just "vibing".

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Ground control to Major Trial
it's astra isn't it? I had an internship there and it was pretty toxic. I could totally see them pulling this shit.
TrapLord_Rhodo··on In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more
I don't really understand this comment.

You are the exact people that i am trying to avoid with this model. I'm not trying to make big deals with big companies who can be impacted by security. The Micro-SaaS model requires that when i get a client asking me those kind of questions, i run from them and tell them my tools probably not for you. Any app that requires sensitive data transfering shouldn't be done on the micro-saas model.

Micro-Saas requires small, simple tools that may be low-hanging fruit. Sometimes they aren't micro-Saas's, but just random tools that make money for you by creating a glorified Open AI wrapper and a bunch of integrations. Honestly, alot of the tools I see that make money for people are made on Make or replit. No code even required but definitly not going after the "we need sensitive info or PII" market.

All payments just go through their respective provider so not really a risk there too.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping
You are right.

it's just that the romans themselves had an identity crisis of "pagan" vs. "monothestic". So yes, you are right to call out the fact that situating it in the christian context would be follie.

But the original point still stands. Calling it pagan is still a correct classification of the works in the library.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping
yes, it would. Monotheistic would be a much better term as that's how the people at the time viewed the divide.
TrapLord_Rhodo··on Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping
it was not an insult. They called themselves pagans. There was a civil war or two in rome with Pagans on one side, and monotheism on the other. They used the term pagan, as in the "old ways". Many people died to decide the fact of whether "Rome" was going to continue as pagan, or convert to monotheism under the Kai Row.
TrapLord_Rhodo··on In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more
I agree with the article in faith, but i think they've gotten the cause wrong.

The problem is, scaling was ALWAYS the hard part. at a certain level, you don't have to worry about sharding and replicating databases, moving over to NoSQL, async race conditions, etc. etc. Why bet the house on one business idea, when you can have 10 "Micro-SaaS's" that are all bootstrapped but might make 10-20k in MRR.

In the day and age where the average business person has like 20-30 subscriptions for random tools, emails, websites, marketing, email lists, automations, SaaS products, freelancers, etc. it very much lends itself to the micro model.

The 'VC' business model is starting to break down. Just by looking around youtube and Indie Hackers, most of the successful businesses now adays are bootstrapped where the founder has some kind of community where they blog, youtube, have a patreon, X, etc.. They become the brand and they have no use for VC's. As soon as they launch a new app idea, they have 200K people on twitter, 150k people on youtube that will atleast give the app a look.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping
From the Christian, anyone who wasn't part of the Christian or Jewish faiths was considered pagan. In the first century CE, Epicureans were part of the broader category of Hellenistic pagan philosophers—which included Stoics, Platonists, and others—who were polytheistic or at least non-Christian. So since Philodemus makes up most of the library here, it's pretty safe to call it a "pagan" library.
TrapLord_Rhodo··on Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware
show me an example? Go to the link i provided and show me where they misrepresented savings. You can go directly to FPDS-NG from their saving reports.

NYT is a trash media outlet, which obviously leans everything anti-elon.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware
failed operation? Have you seen the war map? After the whole world dumped all their stockpiles to ukraine for over $500B, the russians have still taken over a 3rd of the country. Biden logic was going to lead to a american troops on the ground, and a vietnam all over again.

Russia didn't punch us in the face, they punched some dude that we barley knew in highschool half way across the world.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware
No other president has given explicit permission to launch american missles and use american guidance systems to launch missles into russian territory... Besides biden. What are you talking about?

And you forgot... besides Trump. because trumps not a warmonger, people like to act like he's on the side of the russians. People have lost their minds.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Why don't you add anywhere to that list? If the car drives itself, why is it geofenced into only places google has HD mapped down to the centimeter. My car can drive itself to Tahoe, can a waymo?
TrapLord_Rhodo··on NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Waymo taxi's are always in geofenced areas with full HD maps down to the centimeter. I can't take it to tahoe like i can with my Tesla. my point is... my tesla drives itself... all the time and never have to disengage. People can shout technicalities all the time, and regulations where tesla fails because it "Doesn't have an operator that can take over" but for all intents and purposes, my car drives itself from my door to tahoe and back without me having to take over a single time.

If that's not full self driving, but waymo's geofenced, $45 for a ride down the street is, we just disagree.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
where did i say i wasn't supervising? Are you saying the self-summon is the unsupervised part? Cause i can flip that logic on it's head and say, if they weren't confident that it can summon to me, why would they implement the feature?
TrapLord_Rhodo··on NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
If it crashes, it's my fault. At every point i'm supervising.

Except in self summon, and if it side swipes the car on the way out, it's obviously still my fault. That's just never happened to me.

Where in my sentence did i say I wasn't fully in control of the situation? I just say i very, very rarely even have to disengage in situations.

On the very rare occassion that i do disengage, it's not really that the car is going to put me in a life threatening situation, it kinda just stops... and tweeks out a bit. Mainly at some super wierd triangle intersection in some of the small towns along the california coast.

Honestly i've come to "feel" the car after using it. I'll disengage if i even have a shadow of a doubt it's not going to work, and in situations where i've seen it "fail" before. It might have accomplished it, but instead i just drive through the wierd intersection and reengage.

This has already turned into a rant, but one last point; Have you driven in the other cars in Austin? They do the same thing. When it tweaks, or thinks it might tweak, they patch over to a human who takes control of the car.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware
This was awarded sole source. There were no vendors able to compete.

I also find their J&A unconvincing, and there's no way it passes the smell test required in Far part 6.

There was really no other vendor in the world, besides Family Care to be able to do this? They aren't even a construction company.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware
regardless of the KPI perspective, do you agree that $3.3B is a bit much for a facility that can only host up the 3k?

For reference, look up some of the Giga factory costs (With Capital expenditure for production). They are similiar in expenditures.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware
I guess we just disagree on what's important. $2.9B for 3,000 children. That's 967K per child. What in the actual fuck? https://www.fpds.gov/common/jsp/LaunchWebPage.jsp?command=ex...

Edit: the contract was 3.3B, so that changes the calculus to 1,109,966.78 per child. Haven't seen the facility, but i highly doubt they are staying in million dollar condos, but if they are... there are better ways to do that.

$1,136,436,294.65 for paying their legal services... Why are we paying a billion dollars for legal services of a program we have discontinued?

1,021,000,000 to eradicate polio... Of which that last case in the united states was in 2022... Polio is all but irradicated here in the united states.

We just seem to disagree with what's important and what's wasteful. You could build a brand new city for those amounts in the private sector.

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware
Such Biden logic that ended with us launching missiles into russia. A constant escalation with no real end in sight and always matching "tit-for-tat- instead of trying to solve the root issue.

You don't think trump is actively involved in negotations with russia to stop all this madness?

Don't you think that one of the first signs of good faith in negotations would be to stop attacking eachother?

TrapLord_Rhodo··on Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware
>a suspension of offensive cyber operations against Russia in March.

uhhh... why are we commiting offensive cyber operations against a nuclear power? Somewhere in your line you seems to think that it's justified? And that biden was doing the right thing by provoking a major power?

Some people just want the world to burn, and when someone puts out the fire, they think that's unamerican?

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