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New comment by nozzlegear in "That Methyl Methacrylate Tank"

nozzlegear — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:01:38 +0000

Humans have used god (capital G or otherwise) to justify their actions since time immemorial.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

nozzlegear — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:50:23 +0000

Gotcha. Hard to parse tone and intent through text on the internet.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

nozzlegear — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:59:43 +0000

Well, maybe so, but how did you feel about 5.2 when it was OpenAI's frontier model? That's what I'm getting at – it was the equivalent of your gpt 5.5 high reasoning just six months ago.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

nozzlegear — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:02:47 +0000

As a git rebase enjoyer, I've completely switched over to jujutsu. The whole experience is more ergonomic in my opinion, and the default workflow which I use (using `jj new` to create a new change that clearly delineates work on a different "thing" before I start working on it) fits my mental model much better than the traditional write-then-commit workflow we all grew up with.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

nozzlegear — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:59:09 +0000

Oldheads remember when GPT 5.2 was at the forefront of agentic programming. December 2025 feels like eons ago, but alack it was an entire half year!

New comment by nozzlegear in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

nozzlegear — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:09:20 +0000

I love F#. It's my go-to language and one that I work with every day. Personally I feel that IDE support (as in perf, QoL features, etc.) is the only area it lags behind C#, and outside of that it's a clear winner for everything that I want to do with it.

New comment by nozzlegear in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

nozzlegear — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:00:58 +0000

What about having a window on the wall you're facing, so you can look out it?

New comment by nozzlegear in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

nozzlegear — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:41:04 +0000

In my experience (I sued my town for violating my first amendment rights), the city will have insurance that will cover any damages or settlement they have to pay. Their premiums will likely go up, but the impact to taxpayers is probably minimal.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

nozzlegear — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:38:09 +0000

This is newsworthy because it's a clear and flagrant violation of her rights.

Source: I was threatened with a lawsuit by my own town for criticizing them online, but the ACLU helped me counter sue and win a settlement for violating my first amendment rights.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

nozzlegear — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:41:44 +0000

I actually do use AI, I wouldn't say I'm ideologically opposed lol. Maybe I'm ideologically opposed to thought terminating clichés, or how FAANGers see it as a cudgel to cram in wherever we find an open gap just to shit infinite tokens into?

New comment by nozzlegear in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

nozzlegear — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:20:15 +0000

Isn't windows notoriously shoddy right now, so much so that Microsoft is making a big public effort to try to improve its quality?

New comment by nozzlegear in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

nozzlegear — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:18:21 +0000

It should go without saying that the 2 million lines of zig wasn't generated and shat out into the Bun repo as a single PR within a week.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

nozzlegear — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:13:17 +0000

What do you mean suddenly? People have been talking about it for as long as relatively early stage LLM companies have been noteworthy.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

nozzlegear — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:59:51 +0000

> Your proposal of relying purely on static analysis is over-idealistic and just not feasible for large, diverse codebases in the real world.

"Just not feasible" is thought terminating, but regardless, I thought we were talking about ideals? Ideally you want the static analysis to work, not to rely on the non-deterministic bullshitter.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

nozzlegear — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:31:03 +0000

> Ideally you use both. An AI model that has static analysis as part of the harness, so it can evaluate each potential finding.

Ideally the static analysis tools are improved so that we don't need to piss away yet more tokens like we're competing on Mark's leaderboard just to find vulnerabilities.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

nozzlegear — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:26:15 +0000

If I said what I think, dang would tell me to read the site's guidelines.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Nascar champion Kyle Busch dies, 41 after hospitalization with 'severe illness'"

nozzlegear — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:25:17 +0000

> The news comes 11 days after Busch radioed into his crew near the end of a Cup Series race at Watkins Glen asking a doctor to give him a "shot" after he finished the race. According to the TV broadcast, Busch had been struggling with a sinus cold that was exacerbated by the intense G-forces and elevation changes at the New York road course.

Not much information about his death right now, but this is interesting regardless. I never considered that g-forces could make a sinus infection worse, but it makes sense.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling"

nozzlegear — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:46:44 +0000

Good point! It'd be interesting to learn how that math ultimately shakes out for the average recycling plant.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

nozzlegear — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:24:26 +0000

> and 100% uptime over past/present/future

On GitHub?!

New comment by nozzlegear in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

nozzlegear — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:55:08 +0000

> That, and "buttery emails."

I'm not familiar with the term lol

> Delusional take, considering Dems delivered "nothing will fundamentally change" Biden

Progress != fundamental change.

> followed by the most unpopular nominee in recent history, resulting in Trump Term 2. Controlled opposition by definition. "Oopsies, how did we ever lose this time?"

You're not talking about Kamala Harris here, right? The general candidate who lost the popular vote by less than 1.5%? That doesn't sound like the most unpopular nominee in recent history, surely you'd need a gap wider than that. Donald Trump himself lost the popular vote by much more than that (4.5%) to Joe Biden in 2020. Mitt Romney lost it by 3.9% in 2012, McCain lost it by 7.3% in 2008, and Kerry lost it by 2.4% in 2004. All wider margins than Harris.

How did you come up with the definition of "most unpopular nominee in recent history"? Are you basing that off of her performance in the 2020 primary – which she dropped out of before it even began? Are you constraining "recent history" to just mean the last four years? Do you mean "unpopular" as in "unpopular within the social media spheres that I frequent"?

You're not looking at the electoral college results and using it as a proxy for popularity, are you?