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New comment by scotty79 in "The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet"

scotty79 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:03:12 +0000

Suddenly war and associated killings stopped being theoretical. Bunch of people that used to be as dangerous (in practice) to civilization as paintballers started actually using real weapons on real people.

Military in peacetime is cosplaying (larping?) war. So there's little resistance to aiding them in their silliness. When they actually start to bomb people, it's another story.

They deal was, we aid you in your pretend-wars, but you don't start actual ones. This deal has been violated and people don't abide by that.

New comment by scotty79 in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

scotty79 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:42:01 +0000

> Scoped context: Our tests gave models the vulnerable function directly, often with contextual hints (e.g., "consider wraparound behavior").

To be fair, nothing stops anyone from feeding each function of given codebase separately with one out of the predefined set of hints.

It's just AST and a for loop. Calling it a system is a bit much.

New comment by scotty79 in "How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home"

scotty79 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:14:10 +0000

I wonder when celulose and silica will get their microplastics moment and it turns out we were always full of micro garbage.

New comment by scotty79 in "How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home"

scotty79 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:11:15 +0000

With cars there are higher energies involved, and things like that tend to grow with square or cube of the energy. I wouldn't be surprised if car was causing orders of magnitude more plastic pollution than a bike per person per mile.

New comment by scotty79 in "How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home"

scotty79 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:08:13 +0000

The article focuses on the airways. The commenter probably takes more hollistic approach and you are gonna eat way more palstic in yoir life than you breathe in.

New comment by scotty79 in "How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home"

scotty79 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:05:41 +0000

Indoor air has way less particulates than outside air. I'll take polipropylene dust over rubber and silicw dust and chimney and tailpipe exhaust any day of the week.

New comment by scotty79 in "Claude mixes up who said what"

scotty79 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

It makes sense. It's all probabilistic and it all gets fuzzy when garbage in context accumulates. User messages or system prompt got through the same network of math as model thinking and responses.

New comment by scotty79 in "When war crimes rhetoric becomes battlefield reality"

scotty79 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:35:46 +0000

That would require presence of conspiracy (which I don't doubt) with coordination and consistency (which I totally doubt).

While my explanation requires just one idiot who likes to disregard input. Which is self-evidently true.

New comment by scotty79 in "When war crimes rhetoric becomes battlefield reality"

scotty79 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:06:39 +0000

> Should we start our own extortion program?

Isn't US already doing that with Venezuela and/or Cuba?

New comment by scotty79 in "When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality"

scotty79 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:02:23 +0000

US physically confirmed Iran's ownership of the strait. Now everybody should just get off their lawn. US spits on international laws and institutions so why should anybody respect them?

New comment by scotty79 in "When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality"

scotty79 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:23:12 +0000

> immense intelligence failure

There's a singular failure point. Trump was properly informed and just said "nah, they are gonna collapse before they do it".

New comment by scotty79 in "When war crimes rhetoric becomes battlefield reality"

scotty79 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:17:18 +0000

You can definitely guess what are they gonna do with it now since the inept US attack obliterated every incentive there was to not do that.

New comment by scotty79 in "When war crimes rhetoric becomes battlefield reality"

scotty79 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:16:01 +0000

It's basically what russia is trying to do for years in Ukraine. Beating populatuon into submission. Which is even dumber in case of Iran since it's not a democratic country where population has much of a say.

New comment by scotty79 in "When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality"

scotty79 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:13:56 +0000

Hypothetically civilians can be used by the military and provide some military advantage as future soldiers or weapons manufacturers or even army rations providers. So let's bomb them too, right?

New comment by scotty79 in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

scotty79 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:39:53 +0000

I just wished people were more original in choosing beliefs to hold deeply instead of just subscribing to a multi-billinon dollar church that has multiple governments in their pockets.

New comment by scotty79 in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

scotty79 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:29:24 +0000

Yeah. Things are never simple, and rarely binary.

I exaggerated my claim to draw attention to the fact that it's not like many people believe, that income tax burden lands fully on the worker.

While my claim sound proposterous the opposite claim that is also false (maybe even equally so) rarely ever raises an eyebrow, which I think is very telling.

New comment by scotty79 in "Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?"

scotty79 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:44:19 +0000

service-to-service boundary is easiest to keep with the way we are using LLMs to code right now

New comment by scotty79 in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

scotty79 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:39:17 +0000

I stuck with WinForms. It was the last tech that made your app look and feel like Windows app.

Everything that came later was basically a struggle to make something that Electron actually delivered.

New comment by scotty79 in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

scotty79 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:21:27 +0000

From the same paper:

"Higher marginal tax rates are associated with increases in gross wages and earnings."

The part that you cited is where they cite the old papers by other authors. They also say why conclusions of those papers might have been wrong:

"Moreover, we show that ignoring the potential labour supply response to a tax change, following the methodology of Gruber (1997) or Anderson and Meyer (1998), as well as ignoring the endogeneity of the marginal tax rate, may lead to the erroneous conclusion that the tax is fully incident on equilibrium earnings."

New comment by scotty79 in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

scotty79 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:20:35 +0000

It's really not as straightforward as they make it to be:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...

Higher taxes cause gross pay to raise.

There's evidence that increasing cost of operation of corporations through taxation is not fully born by workers. It falls in large part on the owners and landlords (who were omited in earlier works on income tax incidence).

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...