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New comment by rapind in "Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries"

rapind — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:31:51 +0000

> I believe people are getting sick of every interaction being monetized and are finally seeking out spaces where you can learn and interact with others without that threat.

Shhh... you're going to get libraries monetized.

New comment by rapind in "Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard"

rapind — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:28:22 +0000

Luna is great but makes a lot of mistakes at high and lower in my experience (large rust codebase). I use Luna Max for asynchronous subagent reviews and am very happy with its work, but it’s slow af.

New comment by rapind in "Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard"

rapind — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:25:05 +0000

I’ve been very pleased with DS 4.1 flash. Not so much the 4.0 models, but for coding (Rust) it’s been great so far (3 solid days of work).

I’ll give Mimo a try.

New comment by rapind in "Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America"

rapind — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:25:43 +0000

You're taking a small slice of left progressives and applying it to all democrats to try and push this "the left are all commies" narrative. ICE is running around like the gestapo in targeted blue cities, so of course it's an issue. If they were doing this in red cities (where the crime actually is), there'd be the same push back. It's obvious that republicans are intentionally trying to create issues and division using every tool at their disposal. There won't be enough leopards for all of these faces.

New comment by rapind in "Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America"

rapind — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:17:35 +0000

> Butt out of our political commentary.

Don't be ridiculous. I'd love it if I didn't have to care about US politics, except it has infected the rest of the world. Telling someone to butt out when your dear leader is invading other countries, intentionally influencing foreign elections (Vance stumping for the AfD), and claiming others are 51st states, etc. I also have friends and family in the US that only ever want to talk politics these days.

For the record, I think Biden deserves kudos for pursuing a far more progressive and labour oriented strategy than people expected. The Bernie Bro's soured on Democrats in the 2016 elections. I'm not sure they were a real problem in 2024.

New comment by rapind in "Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America"

rapind — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:09:09 +0000

> The "Bernie bro" to MAGA pipeline is very real, as was the "I wanna make sexist or racist jokes" to Alt-Right pipeline.

It would have been so easy for the Democrats to embrace economics and labour over culture war and scolding. To push for getting money out of politics (Citizen's United). They could have kept the Bernie crowd, Gen Z men, and maybe even Rogan (that guy went from left of centre to right of right so quick though... there's more to it for sure).

Losing in 2024 was insane though and it still feels like the Democrats might screw it up again. FFS people scolding South Park...

New comment by rapind in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

rapind — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:49:41 +0000

Multiplayer, demographic, community, and probably because it mainstreamed the genre. I'm pretty sure people, especially early teens, like to socialize on Minecraft with their friends. There is also the pseudo campaign of defeating the ender dragon. Minecraft is a juggernaut.

New comment by rapind in "Mistral raises €3B"

rapind — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:24:51 +0000

China's model for decades has been to do it cheaper and then do it better for cheaper. Just accepting this makes you an economic vassal state. We've seen this play out over decades now with other industries. I'm not blaming China for this approach, but if you want to stay relevant, then you need to compete.

You don't need to view China as some scary boogeyman who's going to use AI to attack you or w/e the current conspiracy is. They just need to continue peacefully outperforming while everyone else gets fat and lazy.

New comment by rapind in "Mistral raises €3B"

rapind — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:09:19 +0000

I think the route to profitability is super clear and simple. To be a reasonable alternative to Chinese and US models.

I think you're probably better off using the Chinese open models right now if you're concerned about vendor lock-in or capabilities disappearing because someone's economy seems a bit fragile atm. There's no guarantee China keeps releasing open weights though, so supporting a pragmatic alternative isn't a horrible idea.

New comment by rapind in "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"

rapind — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:54:41 +0000

Also, JD Vance and the AfD...

New comment by rapind in "Netherlands pulls gold out of the US"

rapind — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:16:58 +0000

Also tons and tons of coal. Hopefully just a stopgap.

New comment by rapind in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"

rapind — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:10:11 +0000

At least we've discovered that trying to get people to behave differently at scale without the presence of an *immediate* emergency is a failed endeavour... So maybe now we can stop that nonsense and focus all of our energy on technological solutions?

New comment by rapind in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

rapind — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:48:00 +0000

> The escalations continue in complexity and speed to the point that almost all humans are left in the point of "wtf is going on".

Humans are paper clips long before that.

New comment by rapind in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"

rapind — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:36:32 +0000

If Trump tomorrow says communism is great, then every Fox news host, MAGA content creator, and MAGA bot would be extolling the virtues of communism. The republican house and senate would enable it, maybe with a small bribe here and there. There is no line. There is no integrity. It's just looting.

New comment by rapind in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

rapind — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:25:09 +0000

Everyone who started using claude clode when it came out in early 2025, knew it was coming (not quite yet). That felt more like reporting than prophesying.

New comment by rapind in "Hy4 preview"

rapind — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:48:06 +0000

I always figured that was part of the joke, because a writer came up with it, and a writer would know (I assume?).

New comment by rapind in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

rapind — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:19:11 +0000

It's not about the prompt, it's about the guardrails. Static types, compiled, massive test suite, etc. That what I mean by extreme level of test coverage like SQLite. You'd actually need to be an expert in C and SQLite and the SQLite test suite just to sneak a bug into it. Testing and other verifications are going to be an exciting area for the foreseeable future.

You can still write non-performant code even with tests, but you can also test performance!

New comment by rapind in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

rapind — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:52:04 +0000

Extremes on both sides. I'd wager were moving in Yegge's direction though, like it or not.

> Though it's being argued that you could still be responsible for it without looking at it?

If you have a much test coverage as SQLite, I'd be tempted to trust it, and I think that's where we are headed. Someone still needs to define these guardrails though, so IMO the developers job is just mutating into something else, but is still necessary. Long term, who knows.

New comment by rapind in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

rapind — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:11:29 +0000

> Not because they care about doing the right thing, but purely for self preservation reasons

Call me crazy, but this is something I want in a democracy. Less ideology and more pragmatism.

New comment by rapind in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

rapind — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:55:18 +0000

These open models serve as price / performance pressure. Not all tasks require frontier models and cheap open models can be quite good for in-app assistants, if you're building that sort of thing. We also aren't sure the subscriptions will continue to be sustainable. They're currently subsidized to the tune of 50-70x. As someone who is hitting limits weekly that would easily cost me over $10k month per sub.