The few times I’ve used LLMs for coding help, usually because I’m curious if they’ve gotten better, they let me down. Last time it was insistent that its solution would work as expected. When I gave it an example that wouldn’t work, it even broke down each step of the function giving me the value of its variables at each step to demonstrate that it worked… but at the step where it had fucked up, it swapped the value in the variable to one that would make the final answer correct. It made me wonder how much water and energy it cost me to be gaslit into a bad solution.

How do people vibe code with this shit?

As I understand it, it’s atomic Fedora with virtually everything you might need to game on Linux baked in (no need for layering) and more or less preconfigured. Off the top of my head, proprietary Nvidia drivers, Steam, Lutris, Hero launcher, support for Xbox One wireless controller dongle, plus a number of useful tools like Tailscale. An app with a catered list of gaming-oriented flatpacks, one click updating. Also a lot of effort into replicating the Steam Deck experience for handheld devices or devices connected to a TV.

I believe they also do Aurora, which is similarly geared toward workstations with a ton of container-related tools like distro box readily available to easily use containers instead of layering where possible. The same tools may be available in Bazzite but I never checked. I have Aurora on my laptop and use a dedicated gaming device with Bazzite.

I’m not a Linux veteran by any means but I was hopping distros looking for something I could install on my family’s computers I tried atomic Fedora. When using it for myself, I became frustrated with the number of tools I use that needed to be layered or run in a container and eventually found myself on Bazzite and Aurora. So far so good.

If you pay low enough wages and workers are too exhausted to do anything about it, lower productivity is profitable. It’s about the bottom line.

If the workforce makes a pittance and is too exhausted to rebel, the bosses win.

Your banal chattering is unnecessary. Are you able to grasp the importance of my experiments? Begone from my sensory range, lest I have you disassembled for servitor parts

Another comment links to an article that explains it generally. NETs and “microclots” can clump together.

One possibility first raised by physiologist Resia Pretorius of Stellenbosch University in South Africa in 2021 is microclots. These are tiny, abnormally persistent blood clots that are smaller than those seen in conditions such as stroke or thrombosis, yet large enough to hinder blood flow through capillaries.

Meanwhile, in 2022, Thierry and his colleagues showed that patients with long COVID have elevated levels of neutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs. These are sticky webs of DNA and enzymes released by white blood cells to capture and contain pathogens invading the body.

Normally, NETs do their job and then quickly break down, but when they are released in large numbers or persist longer than needed, they can contribute to blood flow problems such as thrombosis and atherosclerosis.

The new research – a collaboration between Pretorius and Thierry – suggests that these two separate markers, NETs and microclots, may interact in the blood of long COVID patients.

Are we now protesting that they reversed their decision?

…no? I’m not really protesting so much as offering what I think the other person is trying to say. I think they are saying that Google crossed a line, and walking it back doesn’t change that fact.

In my opinion, Google has crossed countless lines over the last 5-10 years. I’m looking for alternatives that meet my own needs. That search has accelerated over the last few years, when the things Google has done have been most egregious. This isn’t a protest. This is disillusionment. I’m abandoning ship.

I think it was fairly obvious that the move was going to piss people off, they just misjudged to what extent. Modern business strategy is to claim to listen to customer feedback and just quietly plan to implement it anyway, just do it more subtly, more quietly, and more slowly.

It is very hard to make a device that is affordable, compact, efficiently cooled, and modular. Offering complete support is also infinitely more difficult when hardware is not controlled for. GPU and CPU are both customized AMD chips and the power supply is designed for their anticipated power draw.

If you want to swap your GPU, build your own SFF. Hopefully they’ll have SteamOS available for general use soon.

There are more “low stakes” situations where removing the filibuster has been more or less normalized.

Passing the budget is a different beast altogether.

I don’t think it’s necessarily all Manchin’s but I wouldn’t be surprised if 30-70% were on a Manchin-like spectrum. I’m pretty sure that when most mainstream Democrats champion anything remotely progressive, they don’t really want it to fully succeed (if at all) and would actually vote against the original legislation as written. The supposed champions are depending on Republicans and the open Manchin’s to negotiate it down to something the champions would actually be willing to vote for.

I remember, years ago, Republicans put some extremely unpopular legislation up for a vote as a performative gesture knowing it would receive zero Democrat votes. Then one or maybe a few Democrats strategically voted in favor, knowing it would be catastrophic for the Republicans approval if they actually passed it in a Republican controlled Congress. Suddenly the remaining Republicans were forced to vote against the bill in order to prevent it from passing. I recall it was considered a very ballsy and impressive move from Democratic leadership.

Without the filibuster, the roles could absolutely be reversed… but the bill would be extremely popular and Republicans could show the true nature of the Democratic party as the Democrats purposely tank it to prevent it from actually passing.

They may have been “protecting” the filibuster. If Republicans removed the filibuster, it would pave the way for Democrats to do the same thing. If Democrats were to lose the excuse of the Republican filibuster stopping them from passing legislation, they’d be forced to reveal that there are many more fucking disingenuous pieces of shit just like Manchin and Sinema ready to tank progressive legislation.

Had an issue with Comcast today. They forced me to use their Xfinity app, but what I needed to do wasn’t an apparent option within the app. The only option I saw was a support chatbot. The chatbot listed a link to the option I was looking for. The link opened a webview within the Xfinity app, in which there was a link to download the Xfinity app.

Unnecessary Apps and chat bots. Two of my least favorite things referring me back and forth, forever, in an endless loop.

Plausible deniability.

Reports of a masked ICE Agent murdering an individual filming an ICE raid, then fleeing the scene. “That wasn’t an actual ICE agent. Don’t worry, it’s… ‘under investigation’ and we’ll never release any information about the incident ever again.”

And how would they be in a position to do any of those things, for good or ill? I reiterate that it’s via the electoral methods I mentioned.

Your view of politics is extremely narrow and simple or you’re continuing to argue in bad faith. Campaigns don’t happen in a vacuum and suddenly you’re handed a ballot.

Holy shit if only someone could have fucking forseen it!

You missed my point entirely. My point is you are beating a dead horse and achieving nothing, save for maybe making yourself feel superior?

And if that discourages people from voting, I don’t know what to tell you.

There’s nothing to say. You listen about as well as you think “those idiots” listen and you appear incapable of empathy or compassion. There’s no point in discussing this any further.

The way the game works is the person with the most electoral college votes wins the presidency and the party that controls Congress controls the country.

That’s not the game they are trying to play. I think you know this and you are, unsurprisingly, arguing in bad faith.

“The game”, in this case, is to influence politics. Perhaps to get the Democrats to take a firm stance on Israel’s genocide, to get them to push for more progressive policies, to get them to be as inclusive as they claim to be, to get them to be more democratic in their selection of leadership, something else, or a combination of some or all of these things.

You want to pretend this was some grand gesture against one particular genocide, go ahead.

It was many things, like frustration about any or all of the things I mentioned above. It was not a grand gesture. It was desperate flailing of a demoralized subset of people.

You sound like you just want to feel superior. You sound like you are rightly upset by the current situation and are looking for answers and someone to blame. It seems counter productive, if you want things to get better.

It’s been a motherfucking year and we’re needed in the voting booths again. Do you want these “idiots” to sit out again or do you want them to back the not-fascists and maybe steer the country a bit toward sanity?

Honestly, I suspect many of you people who won’t fucking get over it are actually just fascists trying to stir shit up and discourage people from voting.

I’m not condoning the game as it currently exists but we do have to live in the aftermath. Given that fact, there are optimal ways to play the game, like voting for the lesser evil when the alternative is clearly much worse.

I don’t think anyone who abstained from voting for Harris in 2024 made the right move, but I empathize with anyone who became fed up with the game and just sat out or tried to use their third party vote or something to send a message. There are ways to improve the game but they are, admittedly, very difficult to pull off and it can be demoralizing when it doesn’t work out, over and over. What I think they don’t understand is that the Dem leadership won’t get the kind of message that people sent in 2024 - leadership is too isolated and the message was too muddled.

Big, organized grassroots movements, like Mamdani’s in NYC are what is needed. The party leadership will need to be dragged kicking and screaming, possibly primaried and ousted, for things to get better. It’s way too easy to be the less-conservative-billionaire-funded minority opposition party and just campaign on that while only marginally pushing for change that the billionaires can agree on.

Weaken and divide the left like screaming Harris supports genocide?

Ah, so not only should they have voted for Harris, they should have been silent about the administration’s support of genocide. Even now, in retrospect, as everyone agrees that the genocide is a fact.

Clearly, someone so morally bankrupt as to feel the need to communicate their disgust at their candidate over such an insignificant issue as genocide should be subjected to, at every opportunity, public shaming, derision, and mocking.

It’s more important than they should feel ashamed now that their taking a stand over genocide had its own, worse consequences. I’m sure that, instead of putting them on the defensive and pushing them away, it will ensure they feel warm and fuzzy feelings for they next milquetoast candidate that refuses to take a stand on genocide. They’ll vote for them now, for sure.

Also, I love how everyone assumes I’m defending myself when I give people shit for being unable to move on. These people aren’t idiots. These people feel betrayed and hopeless. Explaining the way the game works is infinitely more productive than blame and derision.

Another immature, sniveling shit-bird that would rather weaken and divide the left than move on like an adult.

Lol. Imagine thinking you have any idea what the fuck you are talking about. It really shouldn’t matter so god damn much but I voted, for Harris. I’m just not an immature shitbird that can’t empathize and can’t move on.

They messed up, sure. Get over it and solve today’s problems instead of constantly, repeatedly, over and over again, bring it up and lording it over them. Infighting keeps Trump in power. You have no moral high ground.