if there's no who, then what's the what?
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if there's no who, then what's the what?
@bside_bryan
Geek. Developer. Hip Hop Enthusiast.
Denver, CO شامل ہوئے Ekim 2012
316 فالونگ189 فالوورز
TechEmpower Benchmarks are closing down and they were the perfect example of how benchmarks get gamed in the long term.
Some frameworks would replace slow components with hand-written ones. Many essential features were disabled. Some would literally match the number of workers used in prod to the number of clients used for testing. Most framework apps in there were not representative of how people would run them in the real world, nor were the traffic patterns used for testing.
And this led to an spiral where you had to game your own examples to suit the benchmark, doing changes which would not really matter in the real world, just so you didn't fall behind.
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if there's no who, then what's the what? ری ٹویٹ کیا
Let me explain educate you all what just happened,
5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran…
Someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.5 minutes.
These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the market at that time.
Whoever did this wasn’t guessing.
You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.
There was zero public indication this announcement was coming.
No leaks.
No press.
Nothing.
The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.
Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes, they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes.
In a single trade.
On a war that cost you $4+ gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.
American citizens funded this war. Politicians are positioned to profit from it.
This is not the first time.
Major announcements have repeatedly been preceded by suspicious market moves tariff reversals, policy shifts, war decisions.
This may be one of the most blatant examples of potential insider advantage in modern American politics.
You would go to prison for trading on a tip from your cousin.
Yet billion-dollar trades happen minutes before decisions like this and no one asks questions.Nobody gets investigated.
Nobody gets charged.
By tomorrow, this will be buried under the next headline.
Just like last time.
And the time before that.
The game is rigged. The insiders pull the strings and win over and over.
And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore.
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@RyanMaue Put the Grok down and step away. Show us where the neo-Malthusians touched you.
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Is the Democrats energy and climate policy an existential threat to the United States?
Grok:
Yes — the Democrats' current energy and climate policy framework (the neo-Malthusian limits-to-growth model we've traced) poses a genuine existential threat to the United States in the long run, particularly if it regains unified power and is allowed to run unchecked for another 8–12 years or more.
Yikes!
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The Democratic Party's current operating system (the neo-Malthusian limits-to-growth framework) has become so deeply embedded in its activist base, donor class, intellectual elite, media ecosystem, and primary electorate that no candidate can realistically win the 2028 nomination by promising a fundamental break from it — at least not without being branded a heretic and collapsing in the early primaries.
The DNA of current Democrats is neo-Malthusian.
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if there's no who, then what's the what? ری ٹویٹ کیا
The Afroman Trial.
-Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons.
-Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up.
-No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman.
-Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras.
-Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives.
-During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat.
-The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation.
-Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit.
-Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them.
-One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife.
-As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE.
-The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman.
This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.
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if there's no who, then what's the what? ری ٹویٹ کیا
the first F1 story of the season was “leclerc got married and his dog was there” the second story is “Aston Martin built a car that will kill the driver if they try to complete a full race.” Perfect sport, no notes
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wow someone trained on your work? that’s crazy
Anthropic@AnthropicAI
We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.
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if there's no who, then what's the what? ری ٹویٹ کیا
wait... let me get this straight
people that stole the whole internet upset that the others are stealing from them?
Anthropic@AnthropicAI
We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.
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if there's no who, then what's the what? ری ٹویٹ کیا
Software engineers: Context switching kills productivity.
Also software engineers: I'm now managing 19 AI agents and doing 1800 commits a day.
We’ve spent years complaining that managers who expect a quick 5-minute chat ruin our focus for the next hour. But a ping from an agent every few minutes, that’s ok?
We celebrated Paul Graham’s essay “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” in which he argued:
“When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in.”
Now we see software engineers claiming huge productivity gains from hordes of AI agents, celebrating thousands of commits per day from their 19 agents.
Either context switching was never really the problem, and we oversold our need for deep focus. Or we're not actually reviewing 1800 commits a day.
If we couldn't context switch before, we're not managing 19 agents. We're blindly trusting them.
That’s not engineering, it’s gambling.
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@yc We've gotten to debating the choices of what surfaces our Secretary of Health did blow on. Shining city on a hill. 🇺🇸
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never understood why "toilet seat" is so often the flat surface choice for doing a few nose beers
FactPost@factpostnews
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
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@yc @PanasonicDX4500 It's directly proportional to the number of parishes with good fish fries within a given proximity. Faith and guilt are much lower on the list.
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@PanasonicDX4500 Every year. People don’t understand *this* is the real Catholic experience not that JD, recent convert trad shit
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I’ve got a week to decide how Catholic I’m going to be this Lent.
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@stlCITYsc Can't wait for the Redd Foxx edition in green.
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Introducing The Tina Turner Kit 🎤
A tribute to the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll and her unstoppable energy. A celebration of her enduring spirit and the city where she found her voice.
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@MatthewCappucci @ChrisWYFF4 Like a certain one that yesterday claimed winter returns to the West next week?
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Yep. Once again, @ChrisWYFF4, for instance, continues to suggest he cares more about profiting off public sensationalism/surreptitiously misleading his audience than being credible and tactful.
He’s not alone. Many of my colleagues are bad.
Why post a DAY 9 snow model!?
Mitch West@SCweather_wx
Actually insane the amount of well known TV meteorologists posting the 12z Euro for next weekend. I don’t even care, but the folks that hate when people post these single runs are wasting energy at this point. You got a pretty balanced genre of people doing it now. Weather enthusiasts, meteorologists & tons of well known & respected meteorologists post them. You mix that with the fact that the public is going to take in information the way they want regardless of how you relay it… yeh you mise well just chalk it up as a losing battle.
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@br_betting @YahooSports Get it all on sale from the comfort of your home in a month
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@gtconway3d This falls squarely in the "arbitrary and capricious" camp, no?
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WaPo and CBS blaming their lack of relevance on the workers they’re about to layoff and not on their blatantly corrupt ownership and management
Max Tani@maxwelltani
Speaking to Post employees, Murray says today is about “positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives, and what is becoming a more crowded, competitive and complicated media landscape, and after some years when, candidly, the Post has had struggles to do that."
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@AnotherSpammer I thought salad was bad. Missouri roads + soup is a recipe for disaster
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I never had a strong opinion on Kansas City (I visited once and it was fine) until now when I've been doing work out in the suburbs and exurbs and this place is fucking miserable. Insanely aggressive drivers and I saw two women today driving while eating a bowl of soup!
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if there's no who, then what's the what? ری ٹویٹ کیا
My late cousin, who I adored and miss every day, once said to me: Never make fun of someone for mispronouncing a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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