Ancapistani

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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
It all boils down to money/resources, like always. Pre-AI, the advantage went to the entities with the largest budget to hire the best and brightest security engineers. Post-AI, it'll go to the entities with the largest inference
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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
Yep. I'm using open weights models on a privacy-focused provider right now, and that's adequate for my current usage, but I'm rapidly getting to the point where my agent's access level to my data (and to a lesser extent,
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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
Speaking for myself - they may not have cared to. I can absolutely prompt AI to following established patterns and produce nice, clean output in a legacy codebase. I also have a completely separate set of skill files that I’ve been building
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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
I’d be interested in seeing a history of Mr. Langley’s movements for the past couple of years. Anyone know where I could obtain such a dataset?
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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
> the tyranny is in the room and the 2A bootlickers all signed up to enforce it . That’s not at all my experience, and I’m in “2A” communities every day. A few months ago you’d have found a few people in support of it; now you’ll find a
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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
With all due respect, have you taken a moment to see where these cameras are being destroyed by the public? It’s generally not in Democrat strongholds. There’s at least one case of a Tennessee congressional candidate shooting multiple camer
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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
Not in isolation, no - but this is effectively light industry we’re talking about, and at least some of the infrastructure necessary to support it is being paid for by tax dollars. If you cut taxes for those entities too far, they end up no
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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
I think you misunderstand - it’s not that you shouldn’t be capable of evaluating and improving the implementation, but that it’s usually irrelevant. A very large majority of the time, “good enough” is fine. Fix things people complain abou
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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
Voting statistics by sex show that it is a problem.
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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
No one who believed it definitely was has changed their mind, they've just at most gotten quiet about it. No one who believed it definitely was not has changed their mind, they've just at most gotten quiet about it. No one who bel
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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
I've not blogged since the rise of AI started in earnest, but I intend to do just that: the prompt I used in a collapsed callout at the top, and the actual post body below. Yes, I'll do a ton of editing, but the prompt itself is c
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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
Why is the left doing the opposite? There is no place for a young man who views masculinity through a traditional lens on the left.
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by Ancapistani 2mo ago
I’ve not been “plugged in” enough to current-generation hardware for over a decade to know what all that meant. There’s a place for a “decoder” for this stuff, and that should tell you something.
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
While I think there is in fact a way to implement ads for monetization without destroying the product, I’m not going to stand here and defend the idea any more than I’d defend a self-described ephebophile because that descriptor includes yo
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
The article is about how removing those books - for the very stated reasons you outlines - could, according to the author, contribute to the rise of the right and the destruction of those ends. (just an example; it really can be framed from
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
Somewhat meta: this is perhaps the most fertile ground for an online flamewar I've ever seen. It's got something for everyone. Any ideology I can think of could be applied both for and against with equal ferocity.
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
I worked with two philosophy Ph.Ds in corporate strategy years ago. An a chemical engineer, and a nuclear engineer. We were all managing excel documents at the time.
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
There is a lot of middle ground between ">100k cameras tracking the movement of every vehicle in the country and retaining those data indefinitely" and "cameras in a private neighborhood in response to a specific crime w
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
> If your definition of terrorist is "person on the news involved in some FBI entrapment scheme", then yeah they're probably not that bright. That's a great example of selection bias: if they were intelligent enough t
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
I kept running into it when building an app that did ballistics calculation.
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
I'd suggest starting with a 2mm Kolibri, if you can find one.
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
> I cannot imagine a personal computing usage which can justify a 10k machine. If Apple released a machine that would let me run, say, DeepSeek V4 Pro or GLM 5.2 locally at 100 tok/s for $10k, I might hurt myself running to get my c
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
I disagree. The general intent is fine, and I'm certainly not abandoning everything we've learned as an industry - but LLMs are not people, people are not LLMs, and there's no reason to believe that the coding practices we&#x
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
I’m about two hours SE of you. Towns around me include Lead Hill and Zinc. There’s also a road known locally as “Chemical Ranch Road” - it was one of the testing grounds for Agent Orange. Cancer rates are significantly above baseline, espec
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
Maybe?
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
AI note-takers have been a huge benefit to me. I have ADHD, and for the first time in my life I have a fairly complete idea of exactly what I’m not able to get done :)
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
It's becoming clear that it's not permanent. Discontinuing exogenous testosterone will lead to restarting your own body's production - it just takes a bit, and isn't fun to deal with.
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
> You have to be very sure that if push comes to shove, you won't ever be laid off, fired, company closes, etc I’ve been remote-only since 2017. In that time I’ve had interruptions in employment three times - it’s not nearly as blea
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
I’m using a Keychron K2 HE these days. It has Hall effect switches, so there is absolutely no clicky noise at all.
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by Ancapistani 3mo ago
I can assure you, it is trivial to make effective explosives from easily-obtained ingredients.

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