Justin Buist

I got duped into replying to a Renegade BBS post that used $variables to repeat back private info.

Was seeing ~r from line noise common with you back then? It was here. I never see it references online though. We had a guy who made his signoff sig ~r because of it. He was always at 1200.

I don't know, honestly, what law is. You just generally do that. The US captured a German sub in WWII and rescued all but one of them. Nobody's sure how the one guy died. And that was a legit attack sub, not some unarmed practice vessle.

We had better manner against actual Nazis.

Huge thanks for not taking that in a negative manner.

This is the funniest take I like seeing on LLM coding.

Windows was rock fucking solid until LLMs came around, eh? You have to ignore 8, Vista, Me, 95, and a number of horrible Windows Update rollouts to hold onto this narrative.

I went Linux around '98 because Windows sucked.

It's hard to think this stuff is gated when you can buy a box to do decent inference for the comparable cost of a PC in the 1990's. Like $3k for a PC is a lot now only because computing is so cheap. That's a 286 w/ 1MB of RAM back in the day adjusted for inflation. And you get an AI supercomputer.

Like, you got somebody on campus that could measure how much leached out? If the chem dorks don't wanna maybe the bio dorks will draw blood. Math dorks will be happy to guess I'm sure. Computer science will just drink it and keep going.

Earl Gray was created, and I might be wrong on this, as just a pile of herbs on top of sub-par tea. I love the stuff so whatever. But, also, this seems kind of in the spirit of Earl Gray. Redbull ain't good, toss some over powering herbs in there to fix that nonsense.

I do wonder about the caffiene

This is actually a hilarious MCP vs Claude Code thing.

CC's got hands because it's got a Unix shell which is all I had to open the drive. Dude ran FreeBSD servers.

The best mathematician the planet has seen in generations, Terrance Tao, finds use in them. He's broken barriers in math with LLM assisted coding. Donald Knuth, a legend in computer science and math, just released a paper on how an LLM solved an open problem of his.

I'm an idiot compared to them

I try being charitable to the AI critical side but, yeah, you nailed that one. The academics are just less potty-mouthed versions of Eddie Zee with a more narrow focus.

I'll keep trying to listen to them but it gets exhausting at times.

We're not far from an average user just telling something like Claude Code to pull down the firefox code, alter the beahavior of some quirk they hate, and building it for them.

Ed figured out how PE was calcualted a few months ago. He's probably got ARR down by now.

Not to be weird, but even non-civilian. Trump had the Navy sink an unarmed ship headed to India for a training exercise. The sailors aren't civilians but they weren't in combat. Had no capability of combat. If we didn't fish every one of the water (we didn't) that is, or should be, criminal.

I looked it up and he was going to be named after either his uncle Mark or Wayne so the mom put Markwayne on the birth certificate, intending to pick one or the other, but never did. So he's Markwayne.

I once remoted into a server and ran the CD-ROM drive tray in and out via command line options. The server was in the rack of an office of guys I knew and I had business on one of them.

I also happened to do it while they were in an important meeting and they were not happy with my joke's timing.

Kinda funny that early LLM coding tools, like copilot auto-complete, were sorta prompted by just writing a good comment in your code and having it fill that in with implementation.

Kinda made for good inline comments. You were commenting intent not implementation details.

And this is that 1000x.

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I think Nix is the only one that really focuses on that.

Not my area though.

The AI tools give everybody 7 fingers and people are shocked they can code fast.

That's just science, folks.

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Normal wholesome West Michigan stuff.

Perhaps slightly less creepy if it's like a Unity high school wrestling t-shirt or something. Over the top but understandable.

you are publishing posts to a website/system that intentionally makes everything very public and worried about the vibe coding leaking your data? There are GDPR compliant datasets built from bsky data.

Al Franken once said something to the effect of he liked Ted Cruz more than most other members of the Senate did. And he hates Ted Cruz.

I'm 150 when healthy, but right at his weight right now. I'd give him a go. Not much of a striker but I've got a ground game.

It's not you, it's just people. They hear what they want to hear and argue with the ghosts in their head but spit them out at you.

I don't get it either.

Heck, I'll take CC+Opus and just ask it to clean up the code. Style stuff, look for refactoring, fix performance, all sorts of stuff. Put a fresh instance on that task with a clear window and it'll bang it out. Impresses the shit out of me in a way humans generally don't.

The House was designed to be occupied by idiots. It's the only part of the Constitution that's working as designed right now.

John Kennedy has my vote. Well, not my actual vote. Vote for biggest idiot in the Senate.