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New comment by joe5150 in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

joe5150 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:31:59 +0000

They actually don't need to sanction Anthropic as a "supply risk" in order to not contract with them, and doing so is obviously an insane overreach.

New comment by joe5150 in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

joe5150 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:39:43 +0000

The military can work with someone else's product or use a bit of their trillion-dollar budget to come up with their own.

New comment by joe5150 in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

joe5150 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:34:55 +0000

This is pure sophistry. Your complaints about the movie's tone and dialogue are strictly and specifically problems of your own taste, not filmmaking quality. The movie is (objectively!) well made with respect to "craft, skill, storytelling structure and emotional impact".

New comment by joe5150 in "My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary"

joe5150 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:32:28 +0000

A movie which doesn't satisfy your specific tastes and expectations in science fiction hasn't "failed".

New comment by joe5150 in "Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development"

joe5150 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:30:39 +0000

I don't think this drivel helps explains anything that's not stated in very plain English in DHH's blog.

New comment by joe5150 in "CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns"

joe5150 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:56:04 +0000

Flock has a series of bizarre, obviously LLM-generated blog posts trying to convince the public that they are working "toward a future where compliance and community trust walk hand in hand"....

[1] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-compliance-doe...

[2] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-the-work-alrea...

[3] https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/policy-pulse-transparency-c...

New comment by joe5150 in "Monotype font licencing shake-down"

joe5150 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:05:35 +0000

You'll get a downvote at 500 karma.

New comment by joe5150 in "Monotype font licencing shake-down"

joe5150 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:43:25 +0000

Wikipedia suggests:

Letter: https://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/monsterletter.pdf

Exhibits: https://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/exhibits.pdf

Response: https://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/response041408.pdf

New comment by joe5150 in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

joe5150 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:40:54 +0000

It's honestly very hard to even care at that scale.

New comment by joe5150 in "Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse"

joe5150 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:43:55 +0000

Does the Containerise extension do what you want? I've used it in the past for wildcard subdomains but not for ports.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/

New comment by joe5150 in "Getting syntax highlighting wrong"

joe5150 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:08:46 +0000

I don't get this either. My code doesn't have "base text"...everything is something! I can see that not being the case for something like HTML, but not for most programming languages.

New comment by joe5150 in "Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny"

joe5150 — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 19:12:04 +0000

More like the 80s but true. Also maybe worth remembering that Thiel was outed by Gawker. He didn't come out as gay of his own volition and perhaps never would have.

New comment by joe5150 in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

joe5150 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:11:03 +0000

It helps that the rebrand may lead some people to believe that there are actually new and better inputs into the system rather than just more elaborate sandcastles built in someone else's sandbox.

New comment by joe5150 in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

joe5150 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:02:56 +0000

Surely Jim is also using an agent. Jim can't be worth having a quick sync with if he's not using his own agent! So then why are these two agents emailing each other back and forth using bizarre, terse office jargon?

New comment by joe5150 in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

joe5150 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:56:59 +0000

Jim's agent replies, "Thursday AM touchbase sounds good, let's circle back after." Both agents meet for a blue sky strategy session while Jim's body floats serenely in a nutrient slurry.

New comment by joe5150 in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

joe5150 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:04:57 +0000

You might as well use your natural intelligence instead of the artificial stuff at that point.

New comment by joe5150 in "How University Students Use Claude"

joe5150 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:24:19 +0000

Being able to do basic math in your head is valuable just in terms of basic practicality (quickly calculating a tip or splitting a bill, doubling a recipe, reasoning about a budget...), but this is a poor analogy anyway because 3x2 is still 3x2 regardless of how you get there whereas creative work produced by software is worthless.

New comment by joe5150 in "How University Students Use Claude"

joe5150 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:48:40 +0000

> Google Search made intuition and deep understanding and encyclopedic knowledge MORE important, not less.

Not to mention discernment and info literacy when you do need to go to the web to search for things. AI content slop has put everybody who built these skills on the back foot again, of course.

New comment by joe5150 in "A university president makes a case against cowardice"

joe5150 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:56:38 +0000

Resentful of what? Directed at whom? There are lots of options that cost less and many are shorter than four years.

New comment by joe5150 in "A university president makes a case against cowardice"

joe5150 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:52:22 +0000

What does "gorging themselves on endowments" even mean? If they did that, they wouldn't be very endowed in quick order.