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New comment by tdeck in "Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit"

tdeck — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:24:21 +0000

> is one election away from fraud charges.

Nothing in my lifetime of experience in the US so far, or in the demeanor of the "opposition" party suggests he'll face real consequences for this.

New comment by tdeck in "DIY Soft Drinks"

tdeck — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:10:43 +0000

I have tried malta, and I like it. But it's a bit sweeter. I think it's a worthwhile substitute if you don't want the fun of trying to make something that might go wrong.

New comment by tdeck in "DIY Soft Drinks"

tdeck — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:26:44 +0000

Or more recently Switchel, which was popular in 19th century America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchel

I think the ready availability or citrus fruits caused their decline.

New comment by tdeck in "DIY Soft Drinks"

tdeck — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:23:09 +0000

I enjoy the flavor of kvass - a Russian / eastern European malt flavored soda - but it's hard to find where I live. The process involves really aggressively toasting some rye bread, boiling it with eaisans and sugar, straining it, and then brewing it with ordinary baking yeast in 2-liter bottles until it reaches your desired carbonation level. The end result is really refreshing.

New comment by tdeck in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

tdeck — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:04:57 +0000

> The item you have requested had an error:

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which prevents us from displaying this page.

New comment by tdeck in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

tdeck — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:04:04 +0000

Isn't the biggest problem with creating neurotoxins not poisoning yourself while doing it?

New comment by tdeck in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

tdeck — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:53:50 +0000

So basically the standard online scam script for 20+ years but in a TikTok. I remember seeing AdWords text ads in the 2000s for "make $$$ working from home".

New comment by tdeck in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

tdeck — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:48:39 +0000

Consider the kind of people who would staff this white house.

New comment by tdeck in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

tdeck — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:46:48 +0000

These companies were blatant about operating illegally in the US. I remember being shocked to see the live billboard polymarket ads in Philadelphia on the eve of the election. I guess there are too many scandals these days for this to stand out.

New comment by tdeck in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

tdeck — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:27:27 +0000

These kinds of accidents seem to be particularly common in wars waged by Israel for some reason.

New comment by tdeck in "Running out of disk space in production"

tdeck — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:42:16 +0000

Fwiw you can also do this with

    head -c 1G /dev/urandom > /home/myrandomfile

And not have to remember dd's bizarre snowflake command syntax.

New comment by tdeck in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

tdeck — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:34:05 +0000

This will be the one ceasefire that Israel respects?

New comment by tdeck in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

tdeck — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:04:30 +0000

> Who know what it is doing with your codebase.

People who review the code? The code is always going to be a better representation of what it's doing than the "thinking" anyway.

New comment by tdeck in "Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use"

tdeck — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:14:55 +0000

Remember the Long Island Ice Tea Company that renamed to Long Blockchain Company? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp

New comment by tdeck in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

tdeck — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:35:10 +0000

You forgot cryptocurrency. At least some of this LLM stuff is genuinely useful.

New comment by tdeck in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

tdeck — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:14:32 +0000

When I worked at Square 10 years ago it was either Google Slides or occasionally a Keynote presentation. I doubt they've switched to PowerPoint.

New comment by tdeck in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

tdeck — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:05:54 +0000

I think I'm pretty good at cooking, but still working on the part where it tastes like food and doesn't make you violently ill.

New comment by tdeck in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

tdeck — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:05:07 +0000

They didn't say the "folks" from those companies were engineers! Maybe it's a group of PMs from Nvidia, ByteDance, Tencent and OpenAI that are working to harden the codebase.

New comment by tdeck in "Adobe wrote to my hosts file. I've never had an app do this before"

tdeck — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:32:55 +0000

It's because Adobe grew through acquisitions and they have a philosophy of "let teams keep working in the way that works for them".

New comment by tdeck in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

tdeck — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:16:29 +0000

Apparently is the "idiomatic text element".

Maybe we can bring back all the fun tags by making them acronyms? can be "make a really quite entertaining effect".