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New comment by csoups14 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

csoups14 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:54:41 +0000

Late in replying to this, but just wanted to say I found this pretty compelling. I generally think people are too quick to assign to malice what could be assigned to incompetence. In this case I'm not convinced of that anymore especially given their public statements about these third-party harnesses. It does seem unavoidable that they'll have to move away from subscription-based pricing and towards token-based, but they're managing this in a really ham-fisted and user hostile way regardless.

New comment by csoups14 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

csoups14 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:14:31 +0000

Would imagine it's the simplest answer: they're flying by the seat of their pants, there's 1000 things happening every day that demand attention and there's not enough of it to go around. They toss their LLM at it, give it a cursory glance, and ship it. A quick glance at the Claude Code source code bears the result of this process out. The fundamental question is, if their model is so powerful, why do they keep fucking up such simple things? We're led to believe this is a serious company with a model so powerful they can't release it to the general public.

New comment by csoups14 in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

csoups14 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:16:25 +0000

Surely there's a middle ground where improved APIs can be leveraged by both people and LLMs alike while keeping those APIs approachable? Why is it necessary that changing the python APIs would lead to "need[ing] LLMs for Blender"? I'm nowhere close to an AI maximalist but this criticism seems grounded in execution concerns. I'm definitely not saying that they won't mess this up and make the APIs overly complex, I just don't think that's necessarily going to be the case.

New comment by csoups14 in "Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs"

csoups14 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:07:06 +0000

We should focus on effective means for change. Focusing external influence on low-level individuals with no decision making power might feel good but it has accomplished a sum total of nothing in the past. Why would we think it will make the situation better this time? They swap people in and out of projects all the time and it's really not disruptive at all. The only ways these tech behemoths have made any meaningful positive changes is through sustained governmental pressure either through oversight or regulation.

New comment by csoups14 in "Where did my taxes go?"

csoups14 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:40:30 +0000

You'd also have some very large but currently unknowable number of people underfunding Medicare and Social Security but still expecting to be able to draw out of it when they're older and demanding they be allowed to do so when they're seniors.

New comment by csoups14 in "How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page"

csoups14 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:29:54 +0000

Why should someone need to start a business just to have as good a life as their parents did? Why is today's wealth inequality optimal for society? Rich people in the past got by just fine. They started businesses, succeeded, lived incredibly comfortable lives, all while earning a smaller multiple more than the people working for them. The centralization of wealth is a sign of a sick society, especially when people who provide labor suffer and get less of the pie.

New comment by csoups14 in "EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown"

csoups14 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:09:17 +0000

They're trying to call attention to it. This thread is one example of how taking that action is helping to accomplish that task.

New comment by csoups14 in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

csoups14 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:35:48 +0000

So let me get this straight, I save hundreds of dollars a month, I drive my cars "for free", I get paid at the end of my net-metering year, and somehow this is a bad deal because I've wanted (not needed) to wash my panels once? It sounds like you optimize your life around not maintaining the things around you which is fine, but I'd much rather save thousands of dollars.

New comment by csoups14 in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

csoups14 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:17:59 +0000

I got solar panels installed two years ago and I've washed them once. I'm still getting great production. Are you trying to convince yourself that maintaining solar panels is difficult? Because it isn't.

New comment by csoups14 in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

csoups14 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:33:27 +0000

> periods of extreme like this are followed by a reversion to the mean more often than not.

Cite evidence please.

New comment by csoups14 in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

csoups14 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:13:00 +0000

> That's what it was

Fake electors plot, Georgia phone call to "find 11600 votes". You seem convinced that he just talks, we have ample evidence that isn't true.

> Even if they took over Congress, would that need they would be the new Congress? You really believe that?

I was unaware conspiracies are only illegal if they succeed.

New comment by csoups14 in "Eat Real Food"

csoups14 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:44:52 +0000

My mistake, apologies

New comment by csoups14 in "Eat Real Food"

csoups14 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:45:40 +0000

"That putting other substances (e.g. vaccines) in your body will make you unhealthy."

This, obviously.

New comment by csoups14 in "Eat Real Food"

csoups14 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:15:58 +0000

That's clearly true, given people by and large know what's good and bad for them but their consumption choices need to factor in a much larger set of pressing constraints like price, availability, and readiness and more abstract constraints like "am I able to be at home with my child and cook for them or do I need to work a second job to make ends meet?" I will not trust a single word from RFK's mouth until he has something to say about food deserts and prices and a plan to do something about it. Until then, he's done the easiest part which bureaucrats specialize in, which is publishing an updated set of guidelines.

New comment by csoups14 in "Eat Real Food"

csoups14 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:42:55 +0000

Evidence please.

New comment by csoups14 in "Eat Real Food"

csoups14 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:41:24 +0000

That a majority of your populace not caring about how they're governed is bad for a democratic republic.

New comment by csoups14 in "Dude, where's my supersonic jet?"

csoups14 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:27:13 +0000

Most major airports are at their physical limit in terms of both airfield and gate traffic and are charging extremely high gate fees. I'm not in airline logistics but I would bet my bottom dollar that is the true constraint in having more traffic fly into hubs.

New comment by csoups14 in "Dude, where's my supersonic jet?"

csoups14 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:16:32 +0000

That depends entirely on how much "slightly more expensive" is. For the vast majority of the travelling public, they'll choose the cheaper option and we know that because that's what they choose already.

New comment by csoups14 in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

csoups14 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:49:28 +0000

The easy answer: Google simply does not care. Some mix of: they don't measure it, they don't look at it, they don't goal around reducing it, nobody's performance review is going to be better because they reduced it, no director is asking product teams why they're increasing the app size. It's not surprising why these companies don't care, because it's a tragedy of the commons. The better question is why is Apple allowing these companies to ship apps that unnecessarily take up a meaningful amount of storage space?

New comment by csoups14 in "How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants"

csoups14 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:24:51 +0000

Nowhere in the article is the author suggesting that local or state governments manage these algorithms, just that they be audited for fairness given the amount of power these algorithms hold in the market. Google operates something of a monopoly in Google Maps and its recommendations. You don't find an attempt to understand the efficacy of its rankings or how Google or market participants could be manipulating the rankings to benefit themselves interesting?