I'm currently reviewing my CEO's vibe-coded slop courtesy of Claude as we speak.
Don't get me wrong- it's cool. I like what he built. But fuck me is the code bad.

Went through this recently with our CEOs new vibe coded "financial agent" ...thing.... It was a neat enough, although highly ceo-brained kind of app. But holy fuck was the code bad.

It took me all of 2 minutes to locate an exploit where you could get full access to any other customers bank account. I paid myself $10 finder fee with his bank account to show him that shit shit actually matters.

In the end I was too annoyed to progress further so handed it to one of the juniors to audit the rest and yeah, he found endless bugs and vunerabilities in it too.

This was all done with claudes highest end model too. I was honestly surprised it was as big a mess as it was.

The beauty of growing the chemistry with bugs is the limit to your production is really just the size of your bioreactor, and thats a very much known and solved problem

Chernobyl hit criticality. Fukushima did not. There is a *vast* difference.

The thing is, for consoles 30fps is entirely playable as long as its *stable* for all except the turbo-gamers who are unhappy with anything less than 120fps ultra 4k. 60fps is observably better. Beyond that... eh..... Not a lot of point outside of competitive PVP. Most gamers dont have reflexes fast enough to really make great use of it. But 30fps feels comfortable, just not perfect. But considering how shitty most loungeroom TVs are , your not gaining much.

People who really want high performance play on PCs anyway. Then higher FPSs start to matter, but you also have the high end of Nvidia cards for the speed fiends, and if it runs happily 30fps on a console, it'll run 60fps happily, and probably better on a 5070 or whatever.

Its a freaking fridge. A thermostat controller standard on those commercial fridges is $20 (I know, I installed one on a regular refrigerator I modified to use as a homebrew beeer keg fridge so I could keep the beer at a precise 6c . It doesnt need to be some insane IoT thing.

Chernobyl (actually in ukraine but whatever) was really the clusterfuck confluence of a very old design capable of a proper meltdown (modern designs literally can not) , incompetence, and a metric tonne of rotten luck. For modern designs the worst case scenario is Fukushima. An inconvenience not much worse than, say, blowing up an oil refinery, not an environmental omnicatastrophe.

Fukushima on the other hand, only led to MAYBE one death as a result of the accident, and a few handfuls of injuries. with 40 dead as a result of the evacuation, but keep in mind, it was a frigging earthquake, that did most of the damage, not the actual nuclear accident. If anything it showed in the very worst case scenario, destruction of the reactor, the design was safe. You'd have had more deaths if it was an oil refactory, because when THOSE things explode, there are significant deaths just because thats what happens when you blow up explosive fuels.

The real problem with modern nuclear is its just expensive and extremely complicated to get running compared with the cheaper energy from solar, wind, etc. But. the Environmental dangers? We solved that issue decades ago.

The problem for law enforcement (assuming theres an incentive to even catch it, which currently for the US there is not), is a lot of this influence stuff is domestic. Well funded right wing think tanks notably those around the heratige foundation (The motherfuckers behind project 2025 which is largely the blueprint for a lot of the current insanity) and the koch network, putting serious finances into disinfo campaigns. Theres not a lot that can be done about that because the first amendment doesnt just protect your right to speak truth to power, but also your right to lie through your teeth on behalf of despots and use shady techniques to land your lie. And in fact, somewhat mysteriously, with companies being given quasi-personhood and money the status of speech, this appears to even extend as far as doing some pretty corrupt shit, to get there.

As an Australian I kind of miss... 2 years ago?... when the ritual of waking up didn't involve turning on the news to see what terrifying madness the americans have inflicted on themselves in the preceding day.

Unfortuantely a lot of things have to go right at the same time to get a situation where you guys can be finally done with trump after november. And well. "lots of things going right at the same time" hasn't seemed like a thing the US does for quite some time now.

Thats literally who "Epstein class" is refering to. The billionares and tech bros. Many of whom are in the files (Though Musks entry is very amusing, with him pleading to be allowed to visit because of GIRLS and being basically told 'lol no')

That's it.

Bah. I want a nuclear hand grenade. It'd be a hell of a way to shutup that stupid neighbor who keeps complaining to my landlord about my drinking.

The job posting was created to itemize the exact skillset this developer had, and the exact job duties this developer did

The oldest trick in the book. I learned quickly not to bother applying for jobs at universities with overly specific job requirements, because these are almost always just designed to hire a specific graduate to continue previously unpaid research whilst getting around public service (australian universities are usually govt owned) laws that require new jobs be advertised. Its a technical workaround that *probably* borders on corruption, but gets ignored because academia has an obvious interest in letting graduates continue the research they did for their PhD into post-doc.

An example would be that I applied for a job once at a local university doing computational genomics. It was an unusually specific set of requirements and I thought "Im probably the only person in the southern hemisphere with this specific set of skills!" aaaaand didnt get it, and found out later on from a collegue the job went to a postdoc and was intended to let them continue their PhD. I could have thrown a fit, but it'd be hard to prove and I dont actually want to deprive some poor kid of their promised job when I had about 5 other offers on the table anyway.

Well except half the streaming services are rotten with ads these days.

Its exceptionally painful in election season too. Just ugh.

Nornally I can nuke most of it via ad-blockers, But that stupid 70" samsung TV, no such luck.

(Hey, hackers, how about jailbreaking these things. Be nice to have an alternative to loungeroom spyware again)

Never underestimate the insanity and abject incompetence of windows sysadmins when given power over infrastructure.

The fact that the companies doing this the most seem to be the ones with the biggest revenues is a pretty good clue this is only about increasing stock dividends (and thus C-Suite bonuses)

You know, contrary to what your leftist paranoia tells you, rich people are not psychopaths, don't project your own faults onto everyone else.

Let me guess, you not only yell at people for jokes, you also yell at people for being upset at jokes.