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New comment by cholantesh in "Generative AI Vegetarianism"

cholantesh — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:07:38 +0000

Until I guess the mid-2010s there was a really pervasive stereotype of vegans as obnoxious pseudo-religious sticks-in-the-mud.

New comment by cholantesh in "Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known"

cholantesh — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:50:42 +0000

Most 'modern' Christians are barely even aware of the content of the Bible, and most adherents of all three religions are not acting on those commands anyway.

>They self-governed and organically evolved beyond several parts of their source material

Ah yes, wars, revolutions, general strikes, all famously acts of self-governance.

New comment by cholantesh in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

cholantesh — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:12:17 +0000

>There were parts where I had to manually switch off the top layer because transparent stuff (such as clouds) would completely block my view

Yeah, that was my experience too; Dome 16 was a total annoyance. I did also use it to 'cheat' in sections of games where you had limited FOV, the alternative of having eyestrain and headaches wasn't really desirable.

I don't think I'd have gotten through a lot of my favourite RPGs without savestates, save points were always so ridiculously spread out while the random encounters were interminable. Still some of the best experiences I've had in the medium though.

New comment by cholantesh in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

cholantesh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:15:06 +0000

Enjoy; I especially liked learning of the 'rebuttal' album that the Black Dog released lol

New comment by cholantesh in "Iran war has drained U.S. supplies of critical, costly weapons"

cholantesh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:49:53 +0000

>It's best to differentiate groups and not generalize about religions/people/groups down that path often lies justification for evil.

But broad generalizations about one of the principal denominations of a religion/its adherents are entirely above board?

New comment by cholantesh in "Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known"

cholantesh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:30:34 +0000

Wait till you see what God asks of his followers in the Bible.

New comment by cholantesh in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

cholantesh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:02:55 +0000

Not as weird as this really persistent delusion that Linux is anywhere as user-hostile in 2026 as it was in the early noughts.

New comment by cholantesh in "Iran war has drained U.S. supplies of critical, costly weapons"

cholantesh — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:41:29 +0000

You effectively are, none of the groups you listed sprang from the ether, summoned by Islamofascist wizardry, they exist as responses to Israeli conduct in the region, something made structurally possible almost entirely through US patronage.

>Hopefully Israel and Lebanon can work together to rid themselves of Hezbollah and restore peace.We know the UN peacekeepers certainly couldn't help here.

Case in point - the historic collaboration between Israel and Lebanon was what created the context in which Hezbollah first came into existence, and UN peacekeepers have largely been ineffective there because the IDF kept firing on them. The ceasefire agreed to a week ago doesn't push for Israeli withdrawal in any term or really any other measures for accountability on their part or the US', so 'peace' in this context is effectively just capitulation to both those parties' hegemony, I suppose because it's a law of nature or something.

New comment by cholantesh in "Iran War Has Drained U.S. Supplies of Critical, Costly Weapons"

cholantesh — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:46:39 +0000

Nowhere near as bad as the question-begging premise your comment leads with.

New comment by cholantesh in "Iran War Has Drained U.S. Supplies of Critical, Costly Weapons"

cholantesh — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:44:56 +0000

More like you are ignoring the US' prodigious client in the region running amok.

New comment by cholantesh in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

cholantesh — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:41:12 +0000

I was hoping to see discussion of this - to my knowledge it was sold to a few airports who removed it after it was poorly received: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twentieth-century-mu...

Personally 1/1 has been absolutely sublime for me as a tool for meditation, but I don't know that I could imagine it in an airport.

New comment by cholantesh in "The pope moves to police AI"

cholantesh — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:56:01 +0000

I find that this is fairly normal for Axios: mechanically, an article will look like a kind of executive summary of a phenomenon or event but editorially it has a very confrontational argumentative style. It's been getting worse in the last year and I have to assume it's because the editorial org, like that of many other outlets is pushing for LLM use by its writers.

New comment by cholantesh in "Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church"

cholantesh — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:34:35 +0000

I was aware that Aramis and of course the various royals and aristocrats were real, but not the individual soldiers. Loved this novel growing, seems like the Count of Monte Cristo is seen as more 'serious' literature, but the Three Musketeers will always have a special place in my mind.

New comment by cholantesh in "God, I hate .env files"

cholantesh — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:57:03 +0000

Such low karma for a numinous presence!

New comment by cholantesh in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

cholantesh — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:40:09 +0000

The only thing that I find AI is consistently excellent at is giving me a snippet to do something particularly esoteric in my shell and parsing out errors from a massive logfile that I would probably have taken an order of magnitude longer to find myself.

New comment by cholantesh in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

cholantesh — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:48:37 +0000

There's no maybe about it, he has openly identified as such.

New comment by cholantesh in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

cholantesh — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:47:41 +0000

Practically every major company in the LLM space claims to have a core mission of pursuing AGI, just like Keen.

New comment by cholantesh in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

cholantesh — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:28:05 +0000

>I didn't do it to make a career, I did it because I believe in the greater ethos of OSS.

The greater ethos of OSS, as it is conceived of by most of its practitioners isn't "source availability is the same thing".

New comment by cholantesh in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

cholantesh — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:52:59 +0000

This rather implies that simply being elected casts a binding on officials that forces them to pursue popular will with their mandate.

New comment by cholantesh in "He saw an abandoned trailer, then uncovered a surveillance network"

cholantesh — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:46:21 +0000

The last article you opined on with this really bizarre line of reasoning was written by a journalist and published in an outlet who have been critiquing all those administrations. You chose to steer the discussion toward political affiliation. So for you, torturing children for 'crimes' of their parents is much less prescient morally than who raises the complaint.