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New comment by aqme28 in "Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera"

aqme28 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:37:06 +0000

Though sometimes a prosecutors office will use a grand jury to fail to indict intentionally, like when the accused is a police officer they work with. It's a good way to launder away a prosecution that the DA doesn't want to pursue for political reasons.

New comment by aqme28 in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

aqme28 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:30:12 +0000

OpenCode is also a pretty good harness.

New comment by aqme28 in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

aqme28 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:23:24 +0000

How would Poker fit into that definition?

New comment by aqme28 in "Where Human Sleep Went Wrong"

aqme28 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:52:18 +0000

> It's still very odd that no species has ended up evolving a continuous maintenance system that can run while conscious, the benefits when hunting other animals that need sleep would be enormous, so there has to be significant evolutionary push for it.

I disagree. Endurance hunters walk an animal down throughout a single day. Sleep isn't the bottleneck. Efficient bipedalism and sweat are enough.

New comment by aqme28 in "Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with"

aqme28 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:43:16 +0000

> you still would not structure your training as they did in that paper, because it makes zero sense.

That isn't relevant. The paper is not setting out to find the optimal way for people to train.

New comment by aqme28 in "Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis"

aqme28 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:54:42 +0000

Do you have any evidence that this model is bench-maxxed? I know that's particularly difficult to quantify. If there is an indicator of bench-maxxing, that just becomes the new benchmark to benchmax.

New comment by aqme28 in "Dear people who work at the airport"

aqme28 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:11:20 +0000

Yes, this is a thing too. It's confusing for people who don't fly often for the obvious reasons, but experienced travelers have it just as bad because the rules vary wildly by airport and country.

I can't remember which airports/countries/systems require which procedures, so I just have to go in blind every time.

New comment by aqme28 in "Dear people who work at the airport"

aqme28 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:09:13 +0000

Also, two neighboring gates saying "Now boarding for Vienna" will confuse people too. You're a bit screwed either way.

New comment by aqme28 in "Dear people who work at the airport"

aqme28 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:57:58 +0000

I flew out of JFK a few days ago. Delta has about 50 check-in kiosk, and a few gate agents. With so many terminals, I was wondering why the area was so packed, with ten-minute lines to use an check-in kiosk.

I went to see a gate agent because I had a question. Right after yelling at someone else for the same reason, they told me "No, you have to use the kiosks."

By the time I got to the check-in kiosks I figured it out. Maybe they worked for some people but it had to be like 20% at best. Everyone else had to have help, myself included. It wouldn't scan my passport for the first 5 attempts, and then it wouldnt print my bag tag so I had to see the agent anyways.

What is the purpose of an automated system that drives everyone to the manual system? It just added an extra step.

Sorry for venting.

New comment by aqme28 in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

aqme28 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:46:30 +0000

Having just "asked" my opencode instance-- Yes, but it's behind an experimental flag and not necessarily feature-complete.

New comment by aqme28 in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

aqme28 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:03:12 +0000

ArtificialAnalysis puts out benchmarks for harnesses now as well, and OpenCode seems to be winning it. https://artificialanalysis.ai/agents/coding-agents#coding-ag...

I only found this yesterday, and it inspired me to start testing out OpenCode.

New comment by aqme28 in "Grok 4.6"

aqme28 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:43:30 +0000

If it's purely about $$, what about the newer open models. DeepSeek and Kimi are roughly equivalent performance for a hell of a lot cheaper.

New comment by aqme28 in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

aqme28 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:57:25 +0000

Wait, what are you disappointed by? Seems like a significant jump in performance, and it competes handily with other models.

New comment by aqme28 in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

aqme28 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:34:35 +0000

If you're an engineer and your job is to defeat ublock origin, your work is not ethical. You're a facebook engineer-- you'll do just fine working elsewhere.

New comment by aqme28 in "Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland"

aqme28 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:54:19 +0000

Yeah, exactly. I didn’t say anything to dispute that so I’m not sure what your point is. The time it spends as methane before turning back into CO2 is really bad

New comment by aqme28 in "Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland"

aqme28 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:37:27 +0000

Not following your logic. A decade is a long time for such a powerful greenhouse gas.

New comment by aqme28 in "New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner"

aqme28 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:24:48 +0000

In some places, like Germany, that reasonable expectation of privacy standard extends into public. You’re not allowed to just film strangers that have nothing to do with you. In some ways, I feel like this is a better system for our future.

New comment by aqme28 in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

aqme28 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:32:01 +0000

Life in prison is a bit harsh but I otherwise agree.

New comment by aqme28 in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

aqme28 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:30:20 +0000

I think the "American" version is the one that's outdated, if anything. The German one is a bit too restrictive, sure, but I'd rather lean a little towards too much privacy than too little.

New comment by aqme28 in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

aqme28 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:21:20 +0000

I think it’s rational to say “I don’t want this bad thing that exists to be more ubiquitous.”