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I've started with Opus 5.5 last week. Roughly where do you start to see the context rot?

I've been experimenting with a project that is not growing real fast, but wondering about the risk as I try to make it do more.

maxericksonon A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There

So there's not like statutory rules governing the mechanism by which the President makes that guy his avatar (not Rubio, the guy in the article)?

If he ordered a dog to dismantle USAID, would the ineffectiveness of that simply be due to the dog being incompetent and not be legally challengeable?

maxericksonon Challenge Is Gone

Live performance is already the better source of revenue for most musicians.

maxericksonon We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970

I haven't read the sequels, what is it that happens partly as a result of all that in God Emperor of Dune?

maxericksonon Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name

Did you not consider that they were proposing "change"?

There's probably arguments against the change, I dunno, I haven't thought about it. "You can't change things" isn't one of them.

maxericksonon Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name

Accused of causing.

maxericksonon Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Electric generation is a business and existing sites will be prime locations for new panels (likely straightforward to permit, connection to the grid, etc.).

Municipalities often have bonkers cost structures and imposed limits on tax increases (limits in state laws and such). Here they are redoing lead service lines, rebuilding substandard water mains and repaving streets. State and Federal grants are paying for a lot of it, along with increases to water rates (to maybe 5-10% above the national average, enough to make people unhappy, but not out of control).

maxericksonon Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time

Most of it has been installed in the last 4-5 years, and we are still accelerating.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capaci...

maxericksonon We are entering a period of overlapping crises

Ancient Greece then?

maxericksonon We are entering a period of overlapping crises

I guess if you take a wide enough lens, the west lives in the civilization founded in Rome. There's no political continuity, but there's a reasonably coherent cultural trajectory going back a few thousand years.

Do we think that there is going to be a major break from that?

maxericksonon FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review

I'm not saying it is your job to do anything, I'm saying your argument against it is fallacious.

maxericksonon FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review

Seems like a lose lose with joe six pack. He gets to be stupid and lazy and blame you no matter what you do.

You are also begging the question, asserting that the law has no useful impact and is thus useless or even harmful.

maxericksonon FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review

Be interesting to see how the new requirement to name the chemical goes.

maxericksonon FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review

Prop 65 gets a lot of shit, but the way it is implemented makes a reasonable amount of sense. If there is evidence that the substance causes harm, it gets listed and companies producing products that contain it have to either notify consumers that it is in there, or they have to demonstrate that the amount of the substance does not cause harm (there's a very low general threshold and some specific thresholds that are higher).

That leads lots of companies to go the low cost route and use the notification safe harbor, but it also creates an incentive to find alternatives and so on. You get cases like you mention, but the alternative to the evidence based approach is to hand wave that it's not harmful.

maxericksonon YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

There's some public interest in noting and publishing observations of police (they appeared to be working while they were being paid, for instance).

The same is at least less true for private citizens that are not being accused of a crime.

maxericksonon Tesla Rebrands Full Self-Driving as Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe

Tesla has become a vanity project operated by an emotionally unhealthy, power seeking narcissist who will chase attention and validation for the foreseeable future. It is not a critical component to global electrification.

Tesla was always an option on batteries improving at roughly the widely forecasted rates. This is the same information that the established automakers used to not focus on electric vehicles.

maxericksonon AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war

The US has produced ~70000 warheads, set off ~1000 and currently has 5000 (close to late 1950s levels).

Is your argument that attrition without replacement just doesn't count or something?

maxericksonon Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill

Think of it as an HOA fee that you pay to your society.

maxericksonon Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant

If nothing matters, people who have reason to use technical countermeasures aren't really taking extra risk by doing it.

maxericksonon Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections

There's not really any need for sophisticated arguments, it's a constant shit show and we should abolish it for the simplicity.

I guess that or go full on Judge Dredd.

maxericksonon The great crime decline is happening all across the country

Right, I put it that way because they are real, hard problems.

Still, we've come a long way from impossible if we are merely looking at a hard problem.

maxericksonon The great crime decline is happening all across the country

Renewables are basically an industrial product at this point, they will get cheaper (raw material prices can throw that off, but technology will be working to make them cheaper no matter what).

The way I look at it, everyone being better off as far as energy in 2035 is a political and logistical problem, not a fundamental problem.

maxericksonon The great crime decline is happening all across the country

Make sure you aren't comparing the wellhead to the outlet.

maxericksonon The great crime decline is happening all across the country

It's gonna get cheaper.

maxericksonon What even is an OS now?

The main thing is that it takes a long time to hit operating temperature at idle. Of course it still requires warming up, but every knows the other poster meant sitting at idle, not driving easy for a couple minutes.

maxericksonon What even is an OS now?

If your car is relatively new (couple decades) you don't need to warm it up, just drive easy for a couple minutes.

maxericksonon Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster

What do you think is in the reference information?

maxericksonon What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

Have you considered adding this information to the Wikipedia article?

You seem to have advanced knowledge that is contrary to ~everyone else. It would be helpful if you would simply state 2 numbers. First, what you think it costs, and second, what you think an economically viable cost would be.

maxericksonon White House Says Access Is a 'Privilege' in Court Filing Defending Media Ban

Do you really think this is an interesting line of interrogation?

When we speak of rights, we speak of limits that should apply to our government and the actions of others, not of iron laws of the universe.