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Neither are the many politics threads shitting on California.

The trick to avoid needing a plan B is to have no plan A.

I do these sorts of things all the time for cabin rentals. It's pretty standard there. But the cost typically also reflects it. I'd be fine with the same sort of situation on AirBnB, but the fees and such change the calculations really quickly.

The vast, vast majority of RTO doesn't include any sort of office. You're lucky to get a permanent desk these days. The new hotness are hot swap desks. Just grab the first available work surface in a completely open office environment so you can take your Teams calls and still not interact with anyone in the office.

Your comment is confusing. You're using a reference which implies a quote but there are no quotes here. Maybe it's just my misunderstanding of how those [0] references work.

Seinfeld recently stated that "it's a genocide, I'm into it" which is where my mind went based on your comment. But the capital P power line also leads me towards "Jews run the world" tropes.

Exactly what I was thinking. Most competent people should just need a way past the ATS filtering bullshit. You have zero ideas what you're being excluded on when you apply through a public application portal. For all you know, the automated system didn't like the font you chose for your resume. There is zero visibility into it and why you're not moving to next rounds. With a foot in the door introduction, you're at least past the thing filtering out 95%+ applicants and can have a better opportunity to actually demonstrate strengths and skills. Most people don't get that much.

Maybe I'm overly pedantic, but in my mind a feedback loop involves both feedback and a loop. So by my reckoning the "feedback loop" must, by definition, guide the direction of the next step. I hold this true of feedback loops with zero LLM tooling involved. It's the same thing. The "entity" determining whether to continue the loop or not must have a good enough definition of success or improvement. Of course there is a lot of variability in how effectively the feedback is delivered. That's one of the variables the human setting up the loop is responsible for establishing in our brave new world.

You're right though that in new territory you may often have domain experts who still cannot adequately define success in an automated fashion because this is literally something that hasn't been created before. So they must be a part of the loop. They cannot necessarily put into code and descriptions what "better" or "right" is for an LLM to follow. But they can recognize it when they see it. In this case, it's still best to create the tightest feedback loop you can. If the LLM is waiting 2 days for your feedback, the loop is 2 days long.

Take a look at observable reality. Not how you wish things worked. Being optimistic won't change anything. Won't change the balance of power. Won't make anything more fair. Just make you a more pleasant serf. It literally doesn't matter what you call Elon Musk. He still has tremendous power. He has hordes of defenders. No amount matter how much power you pretend people have with their vote you're still ignoring observed reality. In your world, someone like Trump could never be elected much less twice. Yet here we are. There seems to be a fundamental disconnect between your beliefs and reality.

Conservatives seem to crave the drama and criminality. It's not just Trump. There are many, many blatantly criminal conservatives still getting support from conservative voters. It's almost a badge of honor. See Rick Scott. Ken Paxton. Chris Collins. Duncan Hunter. Roy Moore.

No thanks. We've seen this nonsense play out over the last few decades. Republicans do evil and illegal shit. Get voted out. Democrats promise to be bipartisan in their new administration. Bring Republicans into their cabinets and appoint them to the highest positions in the land. Public doesn't like the economy or some other bullshit excuse and vote Republicans back in. Republicans who say Democrats are evil baby killing pet eating monsters who want you to work for illegal immigrants on welfare. Republicans purge Democrats from as much as they can get away with. Often with more illegal shit. The country starts falling apart so Democrats are elected again. They promise to be bipartisan and heal the country. They put Republicans in their cabinet and in important positions in government.

Literally all this appeasement has lead to MAGA. You let conservatives get away with evil and illegal shit decade after decade trying to be "empathetic" and "understand them" and "be bipartisan" while they call for your head.

> “Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step towards him, he takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.”

~ A.R. Moxon

And way too many Democrats keep falling for it.

More than likely Plex realizes where their money comes from. It's not streamlining personal video content playback. That's how they built their reputation, but they make their money on integration deals and filling your home screen with other people's content. I paid for Plex Pass and they still feel entitled to put advertisements in front of my local media content. I've since switched to Jellyfin.

My issue with RTO is a lot of folks are working for international companies with teams spread all over the world. Sure, I can go back to the office... but I work with literally no one there on a day to day basis. I'll be going to a hot swap desk spot to take meetings on Teams all day anyway. Makes zero sense.

There must be some sort of term for the type of derangement where you witness an administration doing the absolute worst at literally every possible opportunity but every single time they do something new which is degenerate you must come out and say "What if they just really care about election integrity? This is all normal guys. Promise."

Any time the LLM can establish a tight feedback loop it can iterate effectively enough to make good progress. But if for one reason or another that feedback loop is long, the more guidance and direction they seem to need. If they cannot correct their course based on feedback from their own output they need an outside observer to push them towards different paths. CRUD stuff is the obvious easy answer. It represents some absurd amount of software development work and is drastically overrepresented in training data. For good and bad. Lately I've been working on a diffusion model for terrain generation. The goal is to be able to recreate realistic terrain based on water flow and erosion on top of plate tectonics for much longer geological time terrain adjustments. These are much longer feedback loops. Sometimes it'll spend 6+ hours training a diffusion model on my 5090 just for the quality to degrade compared to the last experiment. So letting the model go wild trying different approaches and evaluating the results doesn't work nearly as well as when it can iterate 1000 times in those 6 hours while checking its own answers.

That's why I don't rely on their design. But I also don't write the design from scratch. I use a conversation with the model to build a plan. I let it do the things it thinks is right, and I add corrections where I want to see something different. Or more accurately I "ask questions" which lead the model to making those changes itself. I don't say "use this design pattern here instead" but "Why didn't you choose to use this design pattern instead? What are the tradeoffs that you see?" When I notice a pattern in how the model deviates in how I prefer things, I add additional instructions to the prompt to try to close the gap over time and I get better first shot responses.

This is how I view it. If you're going to be hosting dozens or hundreds of sites having a consistent platform like this is important even if Claude Code is doing all of the implementation work. It has understood and workable flows for things like content approval, timed releases, etc. All the things people think about when they talk about "managing content" and for the most part organizations still want human in the loop, especially for gated approvals and auditability.

If I'm thinking of building a single one off site, then yeah I'd probably opt to just let CC handle it without worrying about a framework which is overengineered for my current need. That's what I do with most of the personal projects I work on these days. But I do have a skill to build consistency around the parts that should be consistent for everything I host. Like package shape and types of hooks available for deployment. How sites are publicly exposed and DNS management.

Yes. They see things like "Japanese fans cleaned the stadium before they left" and want to be part of a society like that even if they wouldn't have personally helped clean the stadium. They want to be surrounded by people who do.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48851733/world-cup-20...

That last statement was probably too harsh. I'm sure plenty of the weebs would help clean up if they were surrounded by others who were cleaning up. For me personally there's a lot to like about Japan. Mainly their civil infrastructure. Not just the fast trains but actually having walkable cities where you can reach everything you need on your own two feet. And keeping it affordable relative to other even less densely populated cities. And I hear the excuses about places like San Francisco where they really don't have the land to expand. Welcome to Japan. Your excuses suck. Zone and invest better. But I wouldn't want to live there. They are way too conservative and thus obsessed with hierarchies and keeping people "in their place".

Recently stumbled across this cooking video featuring chefs trying to recreate Michelin recipes. Lièvre à la Royale (Royal Hare).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJtdtekV7xo

Let's just say it didn't make me want to try rabbit any time soon.

You make it sound simple, but a significant portion of the population doesn't want their children to understand anything about sex or drugs. They want to pretend like those things don't exist and anyone daring to talk about them is "indoctrinating" their child. The solution could be simple. But people suck.

Elon stans are deeply weird people.

Same. Dealing with depression for years. Joining a BJJ class taught me I have abnormally strong grip strength for someone who otherwise isn't fit at all.

"The base violence necessary for change"

When please. I bought 2x 28TB HDDs when I upgraded my NAS with the intention to fill it out with 6x more. I paid roughly $1k for the two of them last year around this time and today the same drives are selling for $1500 each if you can find them in stock at all.

I practiced BJJ for a couple years. I was much more comfortable with chokes than joint locks. There seems to be a lot of misconception around blood chokes which I attribute mostly to movies. You'll see someone grab another person in a rear naked choke and they are unconscious (or dead) for as long as is convenient for the story to continue. Blood chokes come on fast and they go away fast. I've choked two people unconscious in training accidentally. Both recovered in under five seconds and just seemed confused and didn't even realize they had been caught out.

Joints don't have that amount of forgiveness. If you over-apply a joint lock then the joint or bone or ligaments are damaged. Period. Literally no one has ever died in modern combat sports from a choke. No one. Zero. None. But there are plenty of deaths and traumatic injuries from other combat sport actions. The only way to accidentally kill someone with a choke is to hold it for multiple minutes while they are unconscious as was the case for Jordan Neely.

None of this comment has anything to do with choking in pornography.

Not the person you're replying to. But I do most of my "deeper" research online with LLM backed tooling these days. Product research in particular you need to instruct the tools to reference latest data and not rely on "memory". Many brands have excellent reputations that degrade steeply over a period of months or years. I've been bit by this both with and without LLM tooling though. If I'm searching for the hours of a local restaurant I'll still just use a search engine.

This is what happens every single time a conservative administration is in charge. Literally. Every. Single. Time. Conservatives fuck up the deficit giving the rich tax cuts and liberals come in and patch things back together again. There is something deeply wrong with conservative voters on many aspects.

You're feeding the trolls.

You know exactly how this will work. If a company steals from you by withholding your wages the police don’t care at all. That’s a contract dispute. You have to hire a lawyer and fight them through the courts. If you steal from your employer then the police come and arrest you. Police aren’t there to protect people. They are there to protect capital. The delivery robots are agents of capital and the police will side with them 100% of the time.

They wrote "I have been a member of a local makerspace for the past couple of years, and one thing that being a member has crystallized for me is that pretty much everyone is smart in their own way." which is tipping their hand. That's an incredibly selective environment where curiosity and getting into things and figuring it out are almost prerequisites.

The blue collar guy has proven himself to be dumb for the last 5+ decades now. Yeah. They prefer the story that the immigrant is taking their cookie. The CEO can do no wrong. He's providing the jobs out of the goodness of his heart after all.