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New comment by jedimastert in "Felony Bench"

jedimastert — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:48:52 +0000

> I don’t know exact parallels in current law, but I presume there will be things like that.

This is the difference between "knowingly" doing something (i.e. intent) and "negligently" allowing something to happen.

In American law, typically intent is more for criminal law and negligence is for liability of civil damages.

New comment by jedimastert in "Felony Bench"

jedimastert — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:35:46 +0000

So far, no one. It's like prosecuting an accident.

New comment by jedimastert in "Felony Bench"

jedimastert — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:33:37 +0000

> Generating images isn't a crime?

Oh boy, have I got some bad news for you...

New comment by jedimastert in "A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber"

jedimastert — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:30:36 +0000

> Iz it too late now tsh to say sorry? I think tsk the id-eology of time described here....

New comment by jedimastert in "A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber"

jedimastert — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:28:56 +0000

The question might be asked "why would we assume the singer isn't singing about themself?" In modern pop music it's become it's become standard that the "character" an artist "plays" when they're performing or writing is themself; there's no suspension of disbelief like with a play where there's an entire context around knowing that what you're seeing is a portrayal. Same with a book or movie or other works of fiction, and with those forms of media it's clear when you're seeing or reading fiction or non-fiction.

In a sense, some artists write novels and some write memoirs.

New comment by jedimastert in "Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]"

jedimastert — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:02:56 +0000

It's cool to see Chris Staecker's channel getting some love, he brings a a kind of joy I miss from the old internet. I know it's still around, but it certainly feels more difficult to find and suppressed in many ways.

New comment by jedimastert in "Darktable"

jedimastert — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:13:45 +0000

I can also recommend Raw Therapee as an open source raw editor.

New comment by jedimastert in "Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions"

jedimastert — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:18:46 +0000

I'm reminded of a graphic novel by Barry Jones called "The Book of Niall" about an actor going through "depersonalization-derealization disorder", a similar form of dissociation that the author himself struggled with. It's really difficult to describe but the graphic novel I think does it well. Highly recommend it

New comment by jedimastert in "The Artist Who Colored Ghibli"

jedimastert — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:13:28 +0000

The blog itself, Animation Obsessive, is also all high quality if this kind of thing interests you

New comment by jedimastert in "Did They Ghost You?"

jedimastert — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:06:38 +0000

Yeah I thought it was gonna be a static page

New comment by jedimastert in "Claude Opus 5"

jedimastert — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:34:16 +0000

Kinda? Routing can be compared and benchmarked pretty easily so I'm not as worried about it

New comment by jedimastert in "Claude Opus 5"

jedimastert — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:11:00 +0000

How many tokens did it burn doing that instead of just vendoring?

Like I said in a separate comment, these tools are written and trained by corporations first and foremost, they'll always have conflicting interests.

New comment by jedimastert in "Claude Opus 5"

jedimastert — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:01:21 +0000

> Model Routing will always be done better by models themselves.

> The models themselves will get better at this and frontier companies will simply give that capability

I would never trust something like model routing to the same company that would profit from it, and that goes for telling models doing their own routing when that could easily be trained into the model to make things more expensive. Sort of a conflict of interest.

Models are first and foremost trained by corporations.

New comment by jedimastert in "Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker"

jedimastert — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:06:16 +0000

I mean you could probably say that for most crud applications, the difference is somebody else is already done the work of setting everything up and it looks nice

New comment by jedimastert in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

jedimastert — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:33:33 +0000

I'm seeing surprisingly few comments about OP getting homeopathic treatment

New comment by jedimastert in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

jedimastert — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:21:27 +0000

The blog post itself has pretty a pretty strong un-copy-edited ChatGPT vibes.

New comment by jedimastert in "Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?"

jedimastert — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:30:13 +0000

That's a pretty strong assertion just throw out like it's obvious

New comment by jedimastert in "Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?"

jedimastert — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:22:03 +0000

These kinds of policies are exactly what I meant by "distractions", those policies tend to help the wealthy far more than workers, and then those same policies are turned towards the workers when there aren't any more immigrants to hurt

New comment by jedimastert in "Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?"

jedimastert — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:18:21 +0000

I would call that holding steady worldwide in the last decade, which honestly is still unacceptable with how much more wealthy the world has gotten

New comment by jedimastert in "Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?"

jedimastert — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:57:16 +0000

And yet we are also living in some of the strongest wealth inequality in the last 100 years at least.

https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality