James Carthew

@cjoye Yup, positioned in gold and cash and waiting for the drop.

House prices and bank stocks are about to tank. Are you ready? afr.com/markets/equity…

@_bt33_ @Asmon_Updates Wrong, it fails when you get a socialist revolution. Eg the New Deal or the other redistributions that have happened throughout history. The system doesn’t rebalance itself, people force it.

@DarkMJC @Asmon_Updates But it never failed. And all the crises were because it was too checked, not because of a lack of regulation.

Asmongold reveals the real reason people hate capitalism "Do you know why people hate capitalism? Because capitalism is the acknowledgement that you are a failure of your own design. The reason why you don't have what you want is because you're not smart enough, you haven't put in enough work, or you haven't come up with a good enough idea to earn that thing." "Capitalism is accountability. Socialism, communism, this is group consensus accountability. And nobody ever really gets held accountable for doing something right or wrong ever. And that's it."

@OldSchoolGamerP Guessing he never played wing commander 3 or 4

Roger Ebert wrote that video games can never be art, pissing off a lot of gamers, but this would also mean that art can't be a video game, which would also piss off his artist friends.

@esrtweet I’ve almost completely reverse engineered/ported wing commander three to Linux and am working on VR ports of descent 1/2/3 using Claude. The AI is far better than it was last year at engineering tasks. Major refactoring work is happening easily now.

This is a certain kind of talk around LLMs that I find increasingly puzzling. That is all of the people bitching that LLMs constantly generate crap code and hallucinate solutions, and are worthless for programming. This has almost never happened to me, and never during the last two model generations I have used (chat GPT 5.4 and 5.5). Occasionally a model used to get a little deranged when I pushed its context limit, but under codex that doesn't happen anymore; instead I got a red-highlighted warning when the limit has been exceeded and I need to clear my session. I've applied AI to feature changes, refactoring, and debugging over 63 different projects written in C, Go, Rust, Python, and shell. I've written documentation with it. I've decompiled a DOS binary into readable source code. It's now routine that whenever I have to touch one of my projects I start by running the regression tests, then fire up codex and asking it to audit the code for bugs and suggest improvements. My experience is that LLMs are excellent and tremendously empowering tools. Their worst limitation is a kind of architectural tunnel vision - they're extremely good at generating code to specification but sometimes blind to higher-level patterns. Which is okay, it's my meatbrain job to be good at that. The most valuable thing I find about LLMs is exactly that they *don't* screw up details and edge cases. I'm a very, very good coder by human standards (I'd better be, with 50 years of experience!) but the LLMs are better than me. Because if a code change needs to touch (say) five places in the code, they reliably find all five rather than doing the human thing of fixing four and then having to debug for hours before you figure out that there's a fifth one you missed. Are the downshouters living in a different universe than me? Are they using old, weak models? Or do they have some kind of skill issue that I can't see because I have mental habits and communication skills that are a good fit for the handles on these tools? I don't know. And I think this is an important thing to figure out, because I'm seeing lots of stories in the news that suggest billions of dollars are being wasted on misdirected token spend. It all seems very simple to me. Be clear in your thinking, tell the model what you want with precision, and good things happen. What...what am I missing here?

@zenzen65935550 @fwprism Most modern optical discs don’t contain the game, they just act as an authentication token to the license. The game downloads over the net. Sony is just dumping the disk.

@fwprism What's he talking about, "illusion that you have control"? I could exterminate 99% of the human population and my PS2 will still load my copy of Kingdom Hearts 2. Because this was taken from us, does not mean that we did not have it, nor was it an "illusion" the whole time.

Asmongold goes OFF, saying "It's mind boggling that people still don't understand this. No matter whether it's physical or digital, you never truly own it” after people complained about "having" less ownership following Sony's PlayStation decision to move away from physical media copies 👀😬 “This is what makes me so mad about this just because you buy a digital version doesn't mean that you should be giving up any of your consumer rights. And this concept and this dichotomy between physical and digital editions they are just almost assumed that you have less ownership of them is bullsh*t. It is a false dichotomy that has been created by companies in order to give you the illusion that you have control. Whenever you buy a disc of something, but the disc is running on software, they can choose not to run the program”

@rachelannacole @richardhirschs1 China: Property, Korea: Property, UK: Property, Japan: Property. All of these countries have overpriced housing and collapsed birth rates.

@richardhirschs1 Ok so on all the countries with declining birth rates identical to Australia who have had no property boom in the last 30 years. What do you put that down to?

Australia exchanged its productive economy for a housing bubble. Young families don’t have kids if they cannot afford shelter, hence Australia’s fertility rate has crashed to 1.48 kids per couple. Either the property market must be allowed to crash, or Australians will become an endangered species. It’s that simple.

@VoteLewko @Starlink Cell networks aren’t generally linked to satellite targeting. Radios that literally talk directly to satellites are quite different. The accuracy will be sub-millimetre. There’s also little incentive for an Australian telco to harm an Australian. Foreign entities different rules

@DarkMJC @Starlink You're very naive if you think this isn't already the case by any number of agencies.

Having just driven 7,325kms around Australia I can say that Starlink worked on every highway while Telstra didn't even work on the main street of some of the towns. I was getting better speeds in the middle of the desert via @Starlink than I do in my home in the middle of a city. Elon Musk can't enter telephony soon enough.

@wangzhr4 @DanielW_Kiwi Windows 11 is the worst performing OS I've ever used. Random freezes all the time, lags and delay all over the shop. Talk about a slop code OS.

@DanielW_Kiwi That is interesting, Windows is more non-breaking I think.

I bought a $1200 laptop shipped with Windows. Installed Ubuntu 26.04LTS. Bluetooth doesn't work on Linux, although it works on Windows on the very same machine. Checked the driver, buggy. I have to patch the driver from the source tree. With the story above, you tell me "Linux desktop is rising"? It is 2026, and a decent Linux Distro cannot even deal with bluetooth.

@bowtiedstocks You do realise that this won't improve productivity once people just start going into the office while sick instead of dealing with a dr for a cold. Then the entire office gets sick and productivity gets smashed.

Beautiful to see productivity enhancing initiatives such as these If our Australian politicians had a spine, which they don’t, they would consider something similar in order to actually improve productivity Rather than just talking about improving productivity and the ‘productivity challenge’

@Potstirrer111 It’s even worse. While you’re getting into debt to work an IT job, people in India and China are getting free on job training at large tech firms and their certifications are preference over your degree because they have work experience.

The 50 billion dollar international education sector at work. It’s the fossil fuel industry of the left

@RennickGBR Australia hasn't got an IT skills shortage Australia has a broken training system where students get big debts and undercut by overseas ex cisco/juniper/palo alto etc employees who got trained on the job for free at large multi-national tech firms that skip out on paying tax.

Last week Australia's richest person wanted to give our land away. This week our richest companies ie banks are giving our jobs away. 👇 And people wonder why Australians are fed up with the major parties who have allowed this to happen. People First is the only party that has a policy to tax offshore transfers by corporations at 25 percent. It's time to put Australia First. •••••••••••••• "Two of Australia’s biggest banks, National Australia Bank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, will dramatically increase the size of their Indian operations, cutting down their reliance on external IT suppliers to build a bigger army of internal tech stars on the subcontinent. NAB is poised to add up to 3000 staff to its Indian operations – which hints at problems for suppliers such as IBM, Genpact and Infosys, which currently provide significant numbers of workers for the bank in India – as it plans to conduct higher-value work in its offshore innovation centre outside of Delhi. CBA currently has 3500 staff working in a business park in Bangalore, where it is looking for new premises to expand its Indian tech ranks by 1500 people to take it to 5000 staff. Local sources say CBA is seeking an option on a lease that could expand headcount to 10,000 people down the track."

@RennickGBR If you wanted to change it you'd need to start by smacking a tariff on IT product imports that are supported by overseas technical support. You'd also need to push for Australian IT Trade credentials to be more valuable than imported credentials. No party has committed to that.

@JLarky I’m using it to develop a 3d modelling app. A desktop environment and remaking some old games. It’s excellent for upgrading legacy 3d engines to modern 3d standards. Something that a lot of developers struggle with. None of this is really new research and development.

Truth is hard to accept, but here it is: - LLMs can output a lot of code quickly if you don't care about quality - LLMs can marginally speed up the process of writing quality code but you have to be very specific with your prompts and validate every line - LLMs sometimes could be used to recreate something that was already created, that's basically what they are designed for. It's still hard to find a way to explain an LLM what you are recreating - LLMs can give you a sizable speedup for outputting boilerplate code. You have to have a lot of tooling and ceremony to validate that this boilerplate is still making sense A lot of "AI discourse" is basically people overprescribing solutions that work for one category to everyone else. "Oh, just use loops" or "just prompt harder". Or I guess the one that I'm guilty of is: just use a better framework :) And also unless you are working in an outsource slop factory your job is rarely just one category of this and _your whole job would never be replaced by AI_ (it's kind of like saying an automatic door replaces the whole job of a doorman). No one works at a company that constantly keeps rewriting GCC using the GCC test suite. No one works as a "guy who rewrites software from zig to rust with 90% success rate". Neither does anyone work where their whole job is just to add endpoints to the crud app --- you still need to design it and talk to customers and plan for v2 and so on.

@JenR0810 The point of superannuation is they’re meant to scrap the pension. Pension is literally for broke people that don’t have super.

Boomers doing boomer things #whatsinitforme

@DJ_Link AI is just a tool like photoshop. What’s killing gaming is the lack of good storytelling. Games are either story driven or gameplay driven. The number of good stories has been steadily decreasing along with writing quality.

It's kind of ironic that AI is trying to present itself "the solution" for game development (among other stuff), when in fact it's helping killing the market.

@skumWgmi Adam smith called rentiers parasites and you’ll struggle to find a more capitalist economist.

LANDLORDS Landlords who inherited property from their parents and have no mortgage are still charging $2,000-$2,300/month rent. They fuckin did nothing. They fuckin risked nothing. They fuckin built nothing. And they collect more per month than most people earn. Explain to me again how that's earned income.

@PeterCr58710847 @ausstockchick Ah yes, savings and an emergency fund? Do you shill for banks selling cars at 2x price after interest payments?

@ausstockchick They are going to tank the economy because they have no idea what they’re doing tearing the arse out of the housing. Market means thousands of people have no equity in their houses so they have no borrowing capacity to buy another car if their car blows an engine. 🤡🤡🤡

Labor are celebrating fast tracking their tax changes through parliament today. Quickly pushed it through I see. These traitors are going to tank the economy. Strap in and get ready for the middle class to be obliterated. Good luck getting super rich in Australia now unless you are well connected.

@ausstockchick All the people I know that got super rich did it with by starting businesses not by investing in housing. My uncle made millions on shipping containers. My bosses made millions on IT companies that deliver services/labour.