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dttze··on CT scans show cigarettes are harder on the lungs than marijuana
> She is also author of Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader’s Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line and founder of And Then There Were None, an organization that assists abortion-clinic workers seeking to transition out of the industry.

Thanks for quoting some culture warrior clown, but they asked for real sources.

dttze··on Silicon Valley is coming for The Pentagon's $1T budget
May as well get in on the MIC scam, maybe they can rival Boeing or Lockmart's grifting. Can't wait to see what useless weapons (that will also be dependent on Chinese mfg) they make.

Well, useless for peer adversaries, that is. Perfect for suppressing populations.

dttze··on Man 'Disappeared' by ICE Was on El Salvador Flight Manifest, Hacked Data Shows
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dttze··on A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
You'll never see the code. They will just say how amazingly awesome it is, how it will fundamentally alter how coding is done, etc... and then nothing. Then if you look into who posts it, they work in some AI related startup and aren't even a coder.
dttze··on High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill
Invest in economic zones. Enforce the usage of the investment into infrastructure and not stock buybacks. Rebuild industry. Then establish tariffs to cement it.
dttze··on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
They could just out these pedophiles and remove them from positions in the church, but they rather hide their crimes and shield them.

They did absolutely nothing until it became too hard to ignore reality and now they are dealing with that.

dttze··on Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what "vibe coding" means
You said:

> How many C++ coders these days can read x86 or ARM assembly? Not many, because they almost never need to. It's well past time for traditional "high level" programming languages to meet the same fate.

There is a misunderstanding, let me rephrase. How will I operate and maintain that software without a high level language to understand it? Or do you think we will all just be debugging asm? The same language you just said people don't bother to learn? Or am I supposed to debug the prompt, which will nondeterministically change the asm, which I can't verify because I can't read it?

Doesn't matter how it evolves, some easy to read for humans high level language that deterministically generates instructions will always be needed. To try and replace that is kind of counter productive, imo. LLMs are good at generating high level language. Leave the compilers to do what they are good at.

dttze··on Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what "vibe coding" means
Formal language to formal language provides a level of determinism. I know what kind of code gcc will generate for a loop, generally. But if I care about vectorization or whatever, I will need to inspect the assembly to ensure it is generating it correctly (or write it myself).

Natural language to formal language does not provide that. How the hell would I debug or operate a system by just looking at a prompt? I can't intuit which way the LLM generated anything. I will always have to be able to read the output.

AFAICT, the only people who say you can remove code are people who don't code. I never hear this from actual devs, even if they are bullish on AI.

dttze··on The Brief Origins of May Day
Starvation has historically been used as one of the most effective ways to commit violence on populations and is often used by militaries.

If you do not think that is violence, I'd love to hear what qualifies in your mind.

dttze··on Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
No, it isn't. "Conceptual understanding" is a deep comprehension of a particular concept. It is grasping its meaning, significance, applications, and boundaries. It involves knowing not just what something is definitionally, but understanding how it works, why it matters, and how it connects to other ideas.

"The relationship between concepts," is focusing specifically on how different ideas connect, overlap, contradict, or complement each other. It's more about the network or system of connections rather than deep comprehension of individual concepts.

Understanding relationships between concepts is part of conceptual understanding, sure. But conceptual understanding is broader - it includes both mastery of individual concepts and awareness of their relationships to other concepts.

dttze··on Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
Using a conceptual understanding of something to deduce or infer something else.

An LLM doesn't know what anything is. Just what goes around the token representation of that thing.

dttze··on Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
Markov chains have done that for ages. They aren't AI. This is just that scaled up.

Just because it can infer a token doesn't mean it can infer a conclusion to an argument.

dttze··on Empty Calories of AI: A Cure for Loneliness Worse Than the Disease?
So you have to do things for free or you are a profit seeker? What?
dttze··on OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf
So a bunch of people who can't code are going to train it? Or, rather, how will you know it is the right reward? Doesn't seem like a good way to train.
dttze··on OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf
How is it supposed to learn to automate development by watching us not do things? Which is what the LLMs are used for currently.
dttze··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
The biggest impediment is the misallocation of capital and the lack of regulations controlling corporations.
dttze··on Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta
From that same CNN article:

> “They dressed us in military uniforms, put a camera on us, and gave us a metal cutter,” he said. “They would ask us to do things like, ‘move this carpet,’ saying they were looking for tunnels. ‘Film under the stairs,’ they would say. If they found something, they would tell us to bring it outside. For example, they would ask us to remove belongings from the house, clean here, move the sofa, open the fridge, and open the cupboard.”

dttze··on China Admitted to Volt Typhoon Cyberattacks on US Critical Infrastructure
Completely made up right when the admin needs to make China look bad.

“People familiar with the matter” lol yeah okay, sure.

dttze··on ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system
He is a fascist that wants to see academics and immigrants suffer. Best to just make fun of him or ignore, logic is pointless.
dttze··on About 90% of Migrants Sent to Salvador Lacked US Criminal Record
If we locked up and removed all white men, we'd have a lot less rapes too.
dttze··on U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism
Wonder why they don't monitor the ZOG white nationalist types. Only those that offer opposition to Israel. Almost like it has nothing to do with antisemitism and is targeting anti Zionists.
dttze··on About 90% of Migrants Sent to Salvador Lacked US Criminal Record
You should see the sick shit natural born citizens get up to.
dttze··on North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500
>Ah, there it is, “Western chauvinism,” the all-purpose dismissal when you’ve got no real counterargument. You’re not engaging with what I said, you’re just performing indignation.

Gotta call a spade a spade sometimes, sorry bud.

>Yes, I’ve seen videos, read books, listened to defectors, and followed reports from Amnesty, the UN, and others. You? You’re just here to sneer at the idea that anyone outside North Korea could possibly know anything. That’s not humility, it’s nihilism in a moral disguise.

This isn't even an argument. You read things? Wow, me too. I read NK is awesome. They are trying to sustain their nation. Your repeating of biased western propaganda uncritically is the nihilism.

> You say I “know nothing” about North Korea. Maybe not everything. But I know enough to not reflexively defend a regime that starves its people while building monuments to a cult of personality. If that makes you uncomfortable, good.

I never even defended them. Just pointed out your ignorance and racism. Cheers. Nice edit btw.

dttze··on North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500
Once again, you made broad generalizations based off some videos you saw (who even knows how biased or truthful they were). You know nothing of NK and yet here you are confidently making statements about it and its people.

It is typical western chauvinism and it is embarrassing to read you try to pretend it isn't.

dttze··on North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500
You’re making broad, sweeping generalizations based off biased videos. If this is a flat earth discussion, you’re the flat earther.
dttze··on North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500
The US and Japan did awful things to Koreans. Slavery, weaponized rape, bioweapons, and other numerous war crimes.

So why are you asking which? Isn’t it obvious?

dttze··on How the 2025 US Financial Crisis is Different than 2008
> Either way clothing will cost more.

If there are no tariffs they won't cost more. They could use other means to onshore jobs without causing a huge shock to the economy, then raise tariffs.

dttze··on How the 2025 US Financial Crisis is Different than 2008
I'm talking about jacking up tariffs immediately, costing US consumers right now, with false promises of mfg magically popping up immediately to replace it. The government needs to directly fund and standup industrial infrastructure in the way China does with their SEZ to actually bring the jobs here, and we know that that will never happen.
dttze··on How the 2025 US Financial Crisis is Different than 2008
Making clothes more expensive for everyone is helping that how?
dttze··on I just saw the future. It was not in America
Our ruling class and the idiot scammers in power sold our country out. They should be the ones you get mad at.
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