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throwup238

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A bootlicker and their boots are not easily parted.

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throwup238··on ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)
> This seems like sloppy reasoning. If a person's rights are being violated, they ought to be able to make that argument in court without reference to disparate impact.

Where does that leave the equal protection clause?

throwup238··on DoorDash to acquire Instacart
Yeah that’s what everyone says, but no one wants to pay for it. That’s why California voted for Prop 22 instead of our courts forcing the rideshare companies to treat their drivers as employees.
throwup238··on DoorDash to acquire Instacart
My nephew is currently doing UE/DD/Instacart to make ends meet and if their experience is reflective, most of their customers deserve shitty service. I helped them write some scripts to analyze data from Gridwise (delivery+mileage tracking app) and the tips average around 3-5% of the gross. Even in California with Prop 22, that's not going to add up to a livable wage.

Don't be surprised when the permanent underclass you depend on doesn't give a shit about your moldy strawberries.

throwup238··on Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet
> I'm also unsure how they even keep their 501c3 status

There’s a special carveout in the law. As long as they’re only selling donated items, they can remain tax exempt (or to be precise, that income is not counted as “unrelated business income” so they can keep it under the nonprofit).

throwup238··on Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
I have several difficult projects that are very amenable to the whole automated agent swarm nonsense.
throwup238··on Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
This is (still) happening to three of my four 20x Max accounts and by all accounts it seems they’re getting short changed on total weekly quota.

They’ve got that IPO coming up so they’re turning up the fraud in preparation.

throwup238··on Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain
The train in Spain derails mostly on the plain.
throwup238··on The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
The assembly is almost all automated with pick and places machines and the board fabrication is mostly chemistry. The problem is changing tooling between each run: PNPs need their feeders changed to the right parts for each board and there’s limited space for them so they all have to be changed for every design that runs through. Same with the tooling for the board etching. This stuff is precision equipment and has to be properly aligned so it’s not just a simple matter of plugging and unplugging some parts.
throwup238··on Harvey raised 500M for legal AI, I built the same and open sourced it
> CaseCite is a _source-available_, self-hosted legal RAG caselaw research & document analysis platform.

Source-available is not open source.

throwup238··on Ask HN: What shenanigans is Anthropic pulling with Claude subs this time?
Same repos, same workflows.

Besides, how would workflows impact how much weekly quota 100% of a five hour quota uses? One account can fit more than six maxed out five hour sessions, the rest only three.

Something is fundamentally different between them, regardless of workflow.

throwup238··on Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria
Which is really curious. Shortly after the printing press was invented, grammar books were one of the most popular genres as people learned to read but it took centuries more for languages to get standardized and nearly four hundred years for dictionaries to appear.
throwup238··on Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built
Many of us can do it on just our hacker news comments (been there, done that).
throwup238··on 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
> It's easy to understate how big of a deal this is for the compiler. This work resolves a major piece of technical debt that a lot of compiler developers dreamed about for years.

No kidding. I’ve been waiting for the solver at least half that decade now. Hopefully it and Polonius unblock specialization which has been in purgatory for years.

throwup238··on Nine-Inch Snails
I recommend reading accounts of traveling through the Amazon, like The Lost City of Z. The number of pests in rainforests that do horrifying things to the human body is astounding and the botflies are only one of them. Makes me thankful for modern conveniences like pure DEET.
throwup238··on Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land
That ship has sailed. We’ve been spraying Bacillus thuringiensis as an agricultural pesticide for a century now, at a massive scale, and that scale probably pales in comparison to how prevalent the organism is worldwide naturally.
throwup238··on AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
Programmers can’t even agree on tabs vs spaces, less alone something important like strict vs weak typing. That survey is going to be a mess, even if you limited it to the most senior engineers. About the only thing we’ll be able to agree on is “source control good”.
throwup238··on What agents mean for Rust (and vice versa)
It’s especially bad when working on multiple projects at the same time. Memory and CPU contention kills performance.

I’ve switched one of my projects to Go and it took a day for Opus to do the port and another couple of days to finish the features I wanted. I’ve never liked the language and still use Rust in plenty of places, but I can’t argue with how much faster iteration is.

throwup238··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Cultural and timezone alignment. We’ve been here before with the outsourcing wave 20 years ago. The answers are still the same, remote is just a job perk.
throwup238··on Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age
Accounts by westerners enslaved by nomadic tribes (when they shipwrecked on the coast) often talk about looking for sand to sleep on, especially when in the rocky parts of the Sahara, so I’d wager humans have been sleeping on sand for a very long time.
throwup238··on Why were Victorian elites so effective?
> 1. The Colonial Service never administered India, the biggest colony.

And by that point the East India Company had one of the largest armies on earth.

It wasn’t that their administration was effective, it just didn’t care what happened as long as the plunder rolled in. It was backed by the largest Navy in the world and largest private army, which allowed it to devolve most functions to local puppets which implemented them brutally (and why the EIC was eventually nationalized). For example the Mughal bureaucracy alone was massive and they just coopted it, as long as they had the means to physically enforce their control.

throwup238··on LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
> isn't sufficiently well understood to tell us how close the software neural network is to being practically equivalent

I’d argue that we do know enough to say conclusively that they’re not mathematically equivalent.

Where is potentiation? Plasticity? You can’t apply the universal approximation theorem against something that’s changing all the time.

throwup238··on GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
There’s a lot of other boring chips on a server motherboard beyond the RAM and CPU that share older processes with everyone else making silicon. Stuff like power management ICs needed to bring up power to a chip in the right order, which were an annoyance even before COVID and AI.
throwup238··on Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics
“Sodom on earth”? Really?

And you went twice?

throwup238··on Pirating the Pirates
“Idea people” are not self aware. That’s the whole problem.
throwup238··on Lunar Terminator Paradox
> Or whichever movie was about basketball.

BASEketball?

throwup238··on Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
> it was neigh impossible at any temps my desktop hako could output.

You have to preheat the board so that the giant copper pours don’t sink as much heat. Or just use a Metcal.

throwup238··on Lunar Terminator Paradox
Is that the Alien version of the Voight-Kampff test?
throwup238··on As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'
If the human lawyer doesn’t proofread it, whats the point’s the point of a human lawyer? Scapegoat for the AI?
throwup238··on Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
I don’t know the specifics of their systems but both of my local lumberyards here in SoCal still use DOS systems for their point of sale and inventory management, with slow dotmatrix printers and everything.

They simply have no reason to modernize. The one big benefit they’d have is an online inventory system but they make most of their money from negotiated bulk orders so there’s zero incentive.

throwup238··on Geothermal heat map of US hot springs
Maybe you’re thinking of Letters from Iwo Jima? They shot on location but the island is basically a mass war grave so they couldn’t use much pyrotechnics to avoid disturbing the ground.

Empire of the Sun was mostly shot in Shanghai and Spain. That was the one where they got fined for burning old tires for the special effect smoke, which dumped a bunch of toxic smoke on Shanghai.

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