Frezik

There’s a lot to it. The campaign consultants who keep losing on a “don’t rock the boat” strategy keep getting hired for the next campaign. Doesn’t matter how many times they fail.

James Carville has made a career out of winning an election where the Dem was considered an underdog. Others have been trying to copy his style ever since, but it doesn’t work.

To those who have played around with LLM code generation more than me, how are they at debugging?

I’m thinking of Kernighan’s Law: “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.” If vibe coding reduces the complexity of writing code by 10x, but debugging remains just as difficult as before, then Kernighan’s Law needs to be updated to say debugging is 20x as hard as vibe coding. Vibe coders have no hope of bridging that gap.

Combine it with this quote:

Far-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec called people smoking weed outside a “huge factor” in violent crime in Washington, D.C. “States with legal weed you can just smell it all over in public,” he continued. “Can’t take kids anywhere.”

Because everything was so great when there was a nicotine haze in every restaurant. I don’t even like the smell of burning a joint, but I’ll take it over shitty cigarettes.

I do admit that a good cigar can smell really nice. But I have a family history of asthma as it is, and there’s no way I’m touching one.

Which does have backing. This is coming out because Trump said he wanted to reschedule THC. Not all of MAGA is behind this.

Anyway, release the Epstein files.

Also, the fact that in context, it was coming from an ignorant old man ranting on the floor of Congress while trying to pass an anti-net nutrality bill. The fact that the analogy even kinda works is an accident and missing the bigger problem.

The coffee pot protocol is such an interesting anachronism. Nobody would make a hardware control protocol by extending HTTP like that anymore.

For good reasons, really. It’s unnecessary to do it that way.

No big deal. They’re mearly heavily armed thugs in masks with the backing of the state’s monopoly on violence who are also incompetent.

Yes. The way this always works is through useful idiots. There’s a core group that knows it’s bullshit, but they want to use it to pursue some other agenda. They then filter talking points to their media contacts. Those people may or may not believe it, but their paycheck depends on convincing masses of people that it’s true.

The random MAGA guy on a Facebook post? He probably believes it. He’s two degrees removed from the people who don’t. The Enlightened Centrist who tries to mix both sides into a resemblance of an ideology is three degrees removed.

This is also why the only “journalism” outlets that aren’t financially struggling are conservative podcasters and YouTubers.

“You just don’t understand strong typing” when the problem at hand is about lifetimes.

I’m glad the Rust compiler is super helpful, because the community isn’t.

This is what happens when old men don’t take up model railroading.