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"Machado’s risky gambit in escaping Venezuela and relying on Trump"

I think what I find most annoying about this clearly astroturfed media barrage, is basically no one in the media willing to just come out and say that Machado is far-right

in reply to she hacked you

well that assumes there is any legitimate media (nope.) And also that they aren't going to bend over backwards to paint over the fact that she's literally far right of Hitler and declared she'll make voters "accountable" just because she's not Maduro.





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I am the Mcdonalds French fries of humans
in reply to Roknrol

needs ketchup? Only good fresh? Don't reheat well?
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in reply to Benf

In that I've just ordered you from the drive through and I'm going to eat you and then feel guilty?


Got lots of these "Import PGP key" messages while updating my #manjaro system. How should I be able to decide and trust those?


#writingCommunity
If you have e-books published on Amazon, this is something you should know:
writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k…

#selfpublishing #selfpublisher #writerslife #kindle #noAI

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Narcopentecostalismo bem estabelecido, acordo com PCC e expansionismo pelo Brasil. O sonho dos pastores, de uma teocracia evangélica dá um passo à frente.

A 'facção evangélica' que virou a terceira força do crime organizado do Brasil

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> Três agentes da Polícia Civil (PM) do Rio de Janeiro arremessam uma estrela de Davi enorme do alto de uma caixa d'água em Parada de Lucas, na Zona Norte da c...

in reply to Rosa Luxemburgo

Uma imagem mostra um mapa da América do Sul com ênfase no Brasil. O país é destacado por um fundo escuro, com uma série de ícones de rostos em círculos azuis sobrepostos em diferentes estados. No canto superior esquerdo da imagem, há texto branco que diz: “A ‘facção evangélica’ que se espalha pelo Brasil”. No canto inferior esquerdo, há o logotipo da BBC News. Há mais de uma dezena de ícones de rostos espalhados pelo mapa do Brasil, cada um representando uma localização específica.

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Listen to the wind blow
Watch the sun rise
Run in the shadows
Damn your love, damn your lies


The Legal Minefield of the EU’s Ukraine Loan Plan byteseu.com/1625438/ #Economics #Europe #EuropeanUnion #InternationalLaw #Russia #Ukraine


Zelensky mostrou o vídeo "from Kupyansk": onde foi realmente filmado?

#Zelensky, con fins de propaganda,
Un videófono foi feito de antemán no vídeo do narcofuhrer do búnker, xa que a área de Kupyansk está literalmente chea de dróns que destrúen o equipo e a infantería da AFU todos os días a quilómetros da propia cidade (temos literalmente centos de confirmacións de vídeo).
Zelensky non se arrisca a ser alcanzado por dróns de fibra opica, dos que #РЭБ non pode salvarte. #Зеленский #Купянска



European Union Critical Chemicals Alliance Meets January byteseu.com/1625436/ #Europe


Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes
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We must prepare for war with Russia, says Nato chief in stark new warning byteseu.com/1625434/ #Europe #NATO


What is the AI vibe at work like for you?


I have a boss who tells us weekly that everything we do should start with AI. Researching? Ask ChatGPT first. Writing an email or a document? Get ChatGPT to do it.

They send me documents they "put together" that are clearly ChatGPT generated, with no shame. They tell us that if we aren't doing these things, our careers will be dead. And their boss is bought in to AI just as much, and so on.

I feel like I am living in a nightmare.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

While this sounds like a good idea, leaving individual decisions to people, longterm it is quite dumb.

  • if you let an LLM solve your software dev problems, you learn nothing. You don't get better at handling this problem, you don't get faster, you don't get experience in spotting the same problem and having a solution ready.
  • you don't train junior devs this way, and in 20 years there will be (or would be without the bubble popping) a massive need for skilled software developers. (and other specialists in other fields. Better pray that medical doctors handle their profession differently..)
  • you really enjoy tweaking a prompt, dealing with "lying" LLMs and the occasional deleted harddrive? Is this really what you want to do as a job?
  • (bonus point) Would your company be ok with someone paying a remote worker to do his tasks for a fraction of the salary, and then do nothing? I doubt that. so, apparently it does matter how the work gets done.
in reply to mavu

Old enough to remember how people made these same arguments about writing in anything but assembly, using garbage collection, and so on. Technology moves on, and every time there's a new way to do things people who invested time into doing things the old way end up being upset. You're just doing moral panic here.

It's also very clear that you haven't used these tools yourself, and you're just making up a straw man workflow that is divorced from reality.

Meanwhile, your bonus point has nothing to do with technology itself. You're complaining about how capitalism works.

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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

All the technologies you listed behave deterministically, or at least predictably enough that we generally don't have to worry about surprises from that abstraction layer. Technology does not just move on, practitioners need to actually find it practical beyond their next project that satisfies the shareholders.
in reply to zbyte64

Again, you're discussing tools you haven't actually used and you clearly have no clue how they work. If you had, then you would realize that agents can work against tests, which act as a contract they fill. I use these tools on daily basis and I have no idea what these surprises you're talking about are. As a practitioner, I find these things plenty practical.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I've literally integrated LLMs into a materials optimizations routine at Apple. It's dangerous to assume what strangers do and do not know.
in reply to zbyte64

I'm not assuming anything. Either you have not used these tools seriously, or you're intentionally lying here. Your description of how these tools work and their capabilities is at odds with reality. It's dangerous to make shit up when talking to people who are well versed in a subject.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Your description of the tools was to make an inaccurate comparison. But sure, I am the "dangerous" one for showing how those examples are deterministic while gAI is not. Your responses with personal attacks makes it harder to address your claims and makes me think you are here to convince yourself and not others.
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in reply to zbyte64

I didn't make any inaccurate comparisons. The whole deterministic LLM argument was just the straw man you were making. I'm merely pointing out your dishonesty here, if you choose to perceive it as a personal attack that's on you.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Honestly not sure what I expected in terms of a response but this is certainly an interesting reaction. "Calling someone dishonest is not a personal attack" is certainly a take. It's also interesting that dishonesty is your automatic conclusion when there are other alternatives when someone approached you with a different professional experience; absent is the tendency of expert practitioners to be curious about contextual clues that can lead to different outcomes. I'm going to take your criticism in good faith and recognize this is probably the standard you hold yourself to: that any part of yourself that does not comport to the current ideal is to be treated with suspicion.
in reply to zbyte64

I gave you the benefit of the doubt initially assuming you simply haven't used these tools. Now, you've come back and emphatically stated that you have. Given that what you describe is not how these tools work, it's very clear that you are being dishonest by your own admission. Now you're just using sophistry to paper over that.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Just as you questioned my intention with accusations of dishonesty I am wondering what your intention is when disparaging a random person's professional pedigrees (with no effort to make the person known to yourself first). I made my perspective on this known to you and I am trying to understand what your intention was as it does not aide in the debate you so vigilantly protect.
in reply to zbyte64

I can only go by what you say here which is frankly nonsense. I've explained to you that any serious software project relies on practices like tests and code reviews to ensure quality of the code being produced. Whether the code is written by a tool or a human is entirely beside the point. It should be treated the same way. Anybody who's actually written code knows that humans are fallible and make plenty of mistakes, so your argument about hallucinations applies to human written code exactly the same way. The way to deal with it in both cases is by having contracts that the code fulfills. My intention is to correct misinformation that people such as yourself are spreading.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Yeah, I wasn't asking for your professional opinion on gAI but why you feel the need to attack people's professional reputation when it can only detract from your argument. I have no intention of debating someone who levels such insults but I am happy to talk about the emotional needs around such actions.
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in reply to zbyte64

Stop playing a victim. If you don't want people to call out your bullshit then don't post nonsense. It's that simple. The only one being emotional here is you. Feel free to actually address what I said instead of whinging.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Interesting, I didn't accuse you of being emotional just that you have emotional needs. Everyone has emotional needs. Nonviolent Communication is a great tool for disentangling judgements from needs; for example, calling me dishonest speaks to a need for integrity.
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in reply to zbyte64

What you're doing here is called sophistry. You're intentionally trying to derail the discussion from the actual substantive points. It's rather artless and transparent.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

If it is as transparent as you say then you wouldn't have the need to comment any further. So why did you?
in reply to zbyte64

For the benefit of other people who might be reading this thread. You're the subject here, not a conversation partner.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Old enough to remember how people made these same arguments about writing in anything but assembly, using garbage collection, and so on. Technology moves on, and every time there’s a new way to do things people who invested time into doing things the old way end up being upset. You’re just doing moral panic here.


If this is an example of your level of reading comprehension, then i guess it's no surprise that you find LLMs work well for you.
Your answer addresses none of the points i made, and just tries to do the Jedi-mind-trick-handwave, which unfortunately doesn't work in real life.

in reply to mavu

Correct, my answer does not address obvious straw man points of scenarios that don't exist in the real world.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

that don’t exist in the real world.


A bit like your ability to reason and provide arguments. But i guess that happens when you have used LLMs for too long.

in reply to mavu

I guess using personal attacks like a child is all you can do when you don't have any actual point to make.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I'm sorry?

You have the gall to tell that to me, after the first thing you do is falsely accusing me of using straw man arguments and making things up.

And then come here, after providing zero actual counterpoints and tell me I am acting like a child?

Incredible.

in reply to mavu

You haven't made any arguments that warrant counterpoints. Go do your trolling somewhere else.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Of course, the end point of everyone who doesn't really have any facts and just vibes on the internet.

Very predictable.

in reply to mavu

Even a chatbot could come up with a better comeback. 🤣


When I first watched Dexter I thought it was unrealistic that he had so much plastic wrap and then I came to America. To a business Costco, specifically

I was just telling someone how it’s taking me years to finish my 1000 sq ft roll of aluminum foil from Costco

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@WTL all imported cheese is much more expensive here vs local cheese
@WTL
in reply to Adrianna Tan

@WTL

this comparison is interesting: price per pound of cheeses versus cars

@WTL


With his back still hurting from the job in Calhoun City, Brett Hamilton pulled his truck around behind the Cart Barn and went to a gazebo there to rest. “I finally went in and opened up an unlocked room expecting more of the same, only to be blown away by how huge, spacious and elegant the room I saw was," he said.

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