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by BryantD 5d ago
Not really. They’re a couple of months behind OpenAI and Anthropic, although arguably ahead of the Chinese labs. And these attacks seem to require leading edge models. I worry that when and if Grok gets there, we’ll find out that SpaceXAI i
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by BryantD 7d ago
I'm not getting a first generation of these things but if I could replace my iPad and my iPhone with this, the economics start to make more sense. Not for everyone, of course, but it'd be within my budget for replacing both device
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by BryantD 17d ago
I’d bet a small amount of money on 4) the people who noticed had been conditioned by prior experience to believe that their management/escalation channels would react negatively or not at all to anything which might slow down the train
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by BryantD 19d ago
Although I certainly don't blame anyone for thinking of right-wing terrorism as primarily domestic, some degree of research will demonstrate the multi-national nature of the problem. We can start with The Base, founded by Rinaldo Nazza
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by BryantD 21d ago
It’s the rubric the government is using here: Trump designated the mythical centralized organization as a terrorist threat.
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by BryantD 21d ago
No, they did not. Jerry Nadler is often cited as an example here and that’s wrong; what he actually said is that it was a myth that Antifa provocateurs were behind the ongoing violent protests in Portland. Not the same thing. Don’t make vag
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by BryantD 21d ago
Parent comment was flagged but fair point. There’s nobody calling the global shots. I wouldn’t say “little to no coordination” but I think I’m splitting hairs.
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by BryantD 21d ago
Ha ha, but no, you weren’t. You were told that there’s no such thing as an organized centralized group called Antifa. You were told that it’s an ideological approach to fighting fascism, not a terrorist organization. You were told that labe
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by BryantD 27d ago
Wasn’t even that — Black Rifle was founded in 2014 and the Starbucks announcement was in 2017. Note that as of 2025, they only have 500 total employees. Which I think only proves your moral harder. (I don’t have this at my fingertips, I jus
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by BryantD 29d ago
I agree: the stated steps are what I’d expect. I still don’t trust the company that made the decisions that led to that code being shipped in the first place.
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by BryantD 29d ago
The section marked “Examples” has no examples. Not even anecdotes. This is impressively lazy.
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by BryantD 1mo ago
I think there are a large number of people I’d trust with my code before Musk, and some of them are already running public Git repo hosting. xAI was caught uploading any repo their coding agent touched to their storage only last month. This
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by BryantD 1mo ago
Yes. That’s a great historical precedent — Reconstruction was a hotly debated topic and the more radical forms would have banned former Confederate soldiers for voting, for example. Many Southern states had military governors imposed by the
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by BryantD 2mo ago
While it shouldn’t be necessary to resort to third party services to resolve these issues, it’s worth noting that JustWatch will tell you where a movie can be found and Letterboxd (among others) will give you a somewhat more clunky unified
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by BryantD 2mo ago
“Safety” is overloaded here. I agree with the author; the new front end doesn’t seem safer for end users. It probably does make it safer for Reddit in that it’s harder for scrapers to do their thing.
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by BryantD 2mo ago
They kept at least the main floor in Russell Investment Center. I don’t know if they have all ten+ floors any more. They were trying to sublease around 100K square feet right after the pandemic but I haven’t seen any news since then.
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by BryantD 2mo ago
Think it's significant that Zillow's one of the few significant tech companies to maintain full remote working? They don't leave an Amazon-sized hole in downtown, but they had quite a few floors.
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by BryantD 2mo ago
The cross-lake rail is just amazing. I commuted to Bellevue up until my retirement recently and I really liked it the couple of times I took it. I don't want to pretend Seattle's perfect. It is very difficult to build new housing
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by BryantD 2mo ago
No, that's the rhetoric. The reality: states like Massachusetts which have passed higher taxes on millionaires haven't seen the predicted exodus of millionaires. Mayor Wilson knows this and isn't taking dire predictions serio
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by BryantD 2mo ago
The regulatory process in Seattle is fairly painful, which raises the bar for even some of those smaller, older buildings. It'd help to change that, even though it wouldn't consume the majority of the surplus.
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by BryantD 3mo ago
It’s a shame Graham has failed to understand the point of the statement he’s trying to critique. The argument isn’t that earning money is inherently immoral. The argument is that you can’t earn a billion dollars without assigning a higher p
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by BryantD 3mo ago
Yeah -- mostly for media, though. Occasionally with my laptop while traveling for work, for the sake of the huge screen.
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by BryantD 4mo ago
I was not a software engineer but yeah, I think so. Every now and then we’d have to go get Mike Burrows to do some consulting work to rewrite a bit more of the code in assembly.
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by BryantD 4mo ago
It was a fun place to be. Sorry if I came across as curt — rereading that I was a bit more blunt than I intended. Sick cat has been stressing me.
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by BryantD 4mo ago
This is inaccurate. When I was running AV operations around 2000, we were running on a couple dozen huge Alpha machines for the index layer and queries. We had a bunch of smaller machines for Web serving, and a high memory set of Alphas as
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by BryantD 4mo ago
Even if it’s true that most unhoused people are mentally ill — and I agree with Tim’s reply — you have must consider causation versus correlation. Is an unhoused person dysfunctional because they were always that way and thus doomed to lose
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by BryantD 5mo ago
Thanks right back at you. FWIW, I don't think "don't get to participate in that society" is exactly the same as punishment, but it certainly can have that aspect for the theoretical abuser so I'm probably quibbling
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by BryantD 5mo ago
Judges don't have that ability. They have the ability to determine punitive damages within guidelines (many states have caps, for example), and if the defendant feels the damages are unreasonable they have every right to appeal to a hi
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by BryantD 5mo ago
The key element you’re missing is that the lawsuit accused Alex Jones of knowing that he was lying. I.e., it’s not that he was speculating — it’s that he knew he wasn’t telling the truth. To quote Jones: “We’ve clearly got people where it’s
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by BryantD 5mo ago
The cost seems really high. On the other hand I thought bringing the Onion back as a print comedy newspaper was insane too, so possibly they know things I don’t. There is a business plan here, even if it’s a dumb one.

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