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rgbrenner commented on You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say   404media.co/you-cant-refu... · Posted by u/nh43215rgb
TrackerFF · 2 months ago
Because who's going to stop them?

What happens right now is this: ICE can run loose and do whatever they want. If some judge finds their activities illegal, they can block ICE from doing the illegal things.

But...who's going to stop them? Not the DOJ. Stephen Miller has said that ICE have "federal immunity". The keen observer will of course know that there's no such thing as "federal immunity", so a charitable way to interpret that statement is that no-one federal will go after them.

So what about states, and local police? Sure, they could start arresting them, but then again, Miller et. al have warned the states about not interfering, threatening with going after LEO's etc. with federal charges if they do so.

The long story made short is that they can (and will) keep doing illegal shit until someone stops them, and that's not going to happen as long as Trump is POTUS. DOJ and ICE leaderships has explicitly said that their workers should just ignore the law and courts.

rgbrenner · 2 months ago
The keen observer will of course know that there's no such thing as "federal immunity"

The scary thing is that there is.. you should look up "sovereign immunity". The government has complete immunity, except where and how the law permits it to be held accountable. And while we have a constitution, defending those rights through the courts requires legislation to permit it. For the most part, federal law permits lawsuits against states that violate the constitution, but have permitted far less accountability for federal actions that violate the constitution.

For example, Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act only permits individuals to sue state and local governments for rights violations. It can't be used to sue the federal government.

There's many court cases, dating back decades, tossing out cases against the federal government for rights violations. Look how SCOTUS has limited the precedent set by Bivens over the years, basically neutering it entirely.

rgbrenner commented on Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)   endpointdev.com/blog/2013... · Posted by u/pera
jedberg · 2 months ago
Nowadays I'd agree with you, UTC is probably the best bet. But back then, it wasn't.
rgbrenner · 2 months ago
using utc on servers was very common in 2005
rgbrenner commented on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator   larslofgren.com/codesmith... · Posted by u/SilverElfin
Jensson · 2 months ago
> Freedom of speech we don't like is the true litmus test of free speech. It is trivial to say I support free speech when someone says nice things about me.

People are free to say mean things, they just aren't allowed to encourage violence. There is a difference between saying "I hate how Trump runs the country, he is an idiot" and "Can't someone kill Trump already".

I have seen a lot of the second kind on reddit. The first kind gets you arrested in Britain though, they don't have any meaningful free speech there.

But as you say what constitutes "encouraging violence" is not entirely clear, but most agrees that encouraging violence shouldn't be protected by free speech laws.

rgbrenner · 2 months ago
the second case isn’t illegal in the USA because it’s not a specific credible threat.

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rgbrenner commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
Topfi · 4 months ago
OpenRouter (and potentially Azure in the near future) are options if verifying for enterprise API use is too hard to stomach.
rgbrenner · 4 months ago
openrouter requires an openai api key.
rgbrenner commented on Media's AI Anthropomorphism Problem   readtpa.com/p/stop-preten... · Posted by u/labrador
rgbrenner · 5 months ago
the media but also the llm providers actively encourage this to fuel their meteoric valuations that are based on the eminent value that would be provided by AGI replacing human labor.

the entire thing — from the phrasing of errors as “hallucinations”, to the demand for safety regulations, to assigning intention to llm outputs — is all a giant show to drive the hype cycle. and the media is an integral part of that, working together with openai et al.

rgbrenner commented on Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base   businessinsider.com/repli... · Posted by u/jgalt212
AnimalMuppet · 5 months ago
Deserves the blame? Absolutely.

Deserves all the blame? No, the LLM Agent (and those who wrote it) deserve some of the blame. If you wrote an agent, and the agent did that, you have a problem, and you should not have turned such an agent loose on unsuspecting users. You have some of the blame. (And yes, absolutely those users also have blame, for giving a vibe coding experiment access to their production database.)

rgbrenner · 5 months ago
why would the llm share any of the blame? it has no agency. it doesn’t “understand” anything about the meaning of the symbols it produces.

if you go put your car in drive and let it roll down the street.. the car has 0% of the blame for what happened.

this is a full grown educated adult using a tool, and then attempting to deflect blame for the damage caused by blaming the tool.

rgbrenner commented on Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs   github.com/Maciek-roboblo... · Posted by u/Maciej-roboblog
jjice · 6 months ago
Very neat! Is the limit on Pro really only 7k tokens? So less than 7k words? I feel like I get more out of that. It feels like that would blow up pretty quickly with an ongoing chat, but I never hit that.

Or is this a Claude Code specific limit? I haven't used Claude Code extensively yet.

rgbrenner · 6 months ago
pro is the $20/mo plan that they recently started allowing access to claude code.. but i’ve heard users hit the rate limit with a few queries.. so imo that sounds about right. the chat interface has its own limits separate from claude code.
rgbrenner commented on How I program with agents   crawshaw.io/blog/programm... · Posted by u/bumbledraven
zOneLetter · 6 months ago
Maybe it's because I only code for my own tools, but I still don't understand the benefit of relying on someone/something else to write your code and then reading it, understand it, fixing it, etc. Although asking an LLM to extract and find the thing I'm looking for in an API Doc is super useful and time saving. To me, it's not even about how good these LLMs get in the future. I just don't like reading other people's code lol.
rgbrenner · 6 months ago
if you work on a team most code you see isn’t yours.. ai code review is really no different than reviewing a pr… except you can edit the output easier and maybe get the author to fix it immediately
rgbrenner commented on OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%   twitter.com/sama/status/1... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
rvnx · 6 months ago
I think I could share a trick that could help:

From my experience (so not an ultimate truth) Claude is not so great at taking the decision for planning by its own: it dives immediately into coding.

If you ask it to think step-by-step it still doesn’t do it but Gemini 2.5 Pro is good at that planning but terrible at actual coding.

So you can use Gemini as planner and Claude as programmer and you get something decent on RooCode.

This “think wisely” that you have to repeat 10x in the prompt is absolutely true

rgbrenner · 6 months ago
I think you misread my comment. I wasn't asking for help. I get consistent good output from Sonnet 4 using RooCode, without needing Gemini for planning.

Edit: I think I know where our miscommunication is happening...

The "think"/"ultrathink" series of magic words are a claudecode specific feature used to control the max thinking tokens in the request. For example, in claude code, saying "ultrathink" sets the max thinking tokens to 32k.

On other clients these keywords do nothing. In Roo, max thinking tokens is a setting. You can just set it to 32k, and then that's the same as saying "ultrathink" in every prompt in claudecode. But in Roo, I can also setup different settings profiles to use for each mode (with different max thinking token settings), configure the mode prompt, system prompt, etc. No magic keywords needed.. and you have full control over the request.

Claude Code doesn't expose that level of control.

u/rgbrenner

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