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New comment by goosejuice in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

goosejuice — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:59:04 +0000

No. It's irrational at that level of wealth. He can make it back in a year. Billionaires very commonly see 20% returns a year.

I'm not in favor of the billionaire tax, there's better ways, but if the people want it he can just put his big boy pants on and fucking deal.

New comment by goosejuice in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

goosejuice — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:42:19 +0000

A few generations from now, everyone will talk like a beat poet. Jazz speak.

New comment by goosejuice in "Grok Bot"

goosejuice — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:49:35 +0000

Like payment networks? I dunno, this just seems like commerce to me. If the inference doesn't return value it won't be used

New comment by goosejuice in "The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood"

goosejuice — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:26:18 +0000

They are indeed real.. weird. Like something out of starship troopers. I've held quite a few. Haven't given one a phlebotomy though.

New comment by goosejuice in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"

goosejuice — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:19:49 +0000

Personally I think most modern art museums have plenty of sanity threatening material :)

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

goosejuice — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:22:30 +0000

That's to protect the hospital. Inappropriate access to any medical record covered by HIPAA carries the same weight, it's just less of a legal shit show and less tempting for employees when they aren't rich powerful or famous.

New comment by goosejuice in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"

goosejuice — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:28:50 +0000

I agree art lags text, but it's not that it isn't good enough, it's that it isn't controllable and it lacks expression that comes from an innately human thing.

Self driving cars are pretty fucking good, that's not doing the work you think it's doing.

New comment by goosejuice in "The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)"

goosejuice — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:33:16 +0000

See gastronationalism. It's not "a very specific usage." Black and Kurdish nationalism are political movements. You're welcome to say Persian national cuisine, but that can be interpreted in a number of ways. I wouldn't advise it.

Anyway. My point is that ethnic cuisine is not easily replaced by another term.

New comment by goosejuice in "Software for One"

goosejuice — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:52:39 +0000

Awesome. How cold?

New comment by goosejuice in "The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)"

goosejuice — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:26:18 +0000

It mostly does, yes. Nation is political. National cuisine and the claim of certain dishes, if official, are driven by government. See gastronationalism.

You won't find Persian national cuisine. Iran however, yes, and it's mostly ethnically Persian. You'll find food traditions of other ethnic groups in Iran as well that aren't Persian. Iranian cuisine encompasses all of that within a political border.

New comment by goosejuice in "Staging patches with Git add -p"

goosejuice — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:38:14 +0000

I always use git add -i which is just one level up. The tui is pretty intuitive for day to day tasks, including staging partial chunks or lines of code.

New comment by goosejuice in "Superlogical"

goosejuice — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:28:35 +0000

The agents have to live somewhere. They address your question in the post.

New comment by goosejuice in "Superlogical"

goosejuice — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:23:31 +0000

Perhaps they should build a mosh too.

New comment by goosejuice in "The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)"

goosejuice — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:09:42 +0000

Here ethnic cuisine more or less means regional cuisine, where the region is outside of the speaker's own cultural identity. It goes beyond national, which is very broad. Therefore I think it's a fairly useful descriptor.

For example Oaxacan and TexMex are ethnically Mexican, but seen as regional within their borders by the respective nations. There's deeper indigenous roots there too. Food traditions of the Jewish diaspora can't be said to be Israeli cuisine. Things that start as regionally unique become seen as ethnic over time: I dunno like rocky mountain oysters, fish and chips, buffalo wings, as they become more intertwined with the culture of those people and that culture is exported.

Ethnicity was coined to avoid the racial connotations but in the US, ethnic studies brought it right back. If one wishes to avoid the word here maybe cultural is probably the best substitute but still a bit too narrow. You'll also see Global/International/Continental/Intercontinental as well, much like in music.. but I think that misses the point too.

New comment by goosejuice in "Our position on open-weights models"

goosejuice — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:20:53 +0000

> this is anthropic advocating for a ban on open weight models

Is the pessimistic view. Their message on safety has seemed pretty consistent to me.

"Second, we recommend a testing and auditing regime for new and more powerful models similar to cars or airplanes. AI models of the near future will be powerful machines that possess great utility, but can be lethal if designed incorrectly or misused. New AI models should have to pass a rigorous battery of safety tests before they can be released to the public at all, including tests by third parties and national security experts in government." Amodei in front of Congress three years ago.

New comment by goosejuice in "GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization"

goosejuice — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:01:40 +0000

There was even a hl mod with an esports league.

New comment by goosejuice in "Understanding the Odin programming language"

goosejuice — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:24:35 +0000

I'm not seeing strong claims here on improved token efficiency for general use cases, but it's absolutely not my area of expertise.

Completely understandable why this would be valuable research though. Will be interesting to see how it evolves.

New comment by goosejuice in "Understanding the Odin programming language"

goosejuice — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:58:15 +0000

Sorry are we referring to the efficiency of generating programs (i.e. optimizing LLM software development) or the efficiency of the output (i.e. optimizing software through the generation of assembly)?

New comment by goosejuice in "Understanding the Odin programming language"

goosejuice — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:36:57 +0000

That would be less efficient

New comment by goosejuice in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

goosejuice — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:04:37 +0000

Hmm but as I understand it, dementia begins in your 30s. It's just that we don't see the signs of it until much later. So if it is protective, waiting doesn't seem wise (on the dementia side of it).