I am not willing to share my sheepish prompts with my team. Sorry!
I'm with you.
I start every new prompt with: "Good morning", even at midnight.
I'll be so embarrassed if that leaks.
Readit Newsschaefer commented on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents entire.io/blog/hello-enti... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
It's legal by default on US federal land, (e.g. BLM or USFS) which covers about a fifth of the country, and is especially concentrated in areas with mountainous and other earthen terrain that is favorable to BASE jumpers. We just take a very small portion of that land, designate it national parks or forests, make everything illegal there, dump all of our tourists there, and charge them to park.
There's far more to see outside of those national parks and forests than there is inside. Look up any paragliders or bush pilots on YouTube that live near federal land, and they pretty much go wherever they want to go.
If you're an avid hiker or camper and are visiting the US, find local documentation on where to visit or befriend someone in the area who can make recommendations, and you'll get to see our natural landscape without all of the tourists or regulations. You can legally BASE jump off a cliff, hike in the nude, mine for gold, set up an impromptu gun range, and camp there for a couple of weeks, or indefinitely if you hike two miles each day.
okay.
But is there a place I can actually look up known jump points that are steep enough to be viable base jumps but are not also in a Park?
I am not a base jumper (I am a rock climber), but it's my observation that many base mountains with faces steep enough for base jumping are also in the parks and therefor restricted to base jumping.
Or are so remote they require some serious skills to summit in the first place. -- Not quite the tram ride you can get to the jump point in Europe.
Read my post on this from 9 months ago:
https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/designing-agents-architectur...
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there aren't that many accidents. It's also more dangerous to jump in ways that attempt to skirt laws (jumping near dark, trying to evade capture, etc)
I’m convinced this is how Dean Potter died. Jumping at dusk to try to evade capture my Yosemite rangers.
If it had been legal, and had he jumped in broad daylight, I think he’d have survived that day.
There are lots of places to legally BASE jump in Europe. You can even take a gondola to the jump point. But very very few legal options in the USA.
I wish there were more places to legally enjoy BASE jumping on US public lands.
schaefer commented on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/robotsliketea
Can you be more specific? I have no idea what you're talking about re loopholes, DHS staff exclusions, etc.
Sure.
I am not a lawyer, but I can give one example to the best of my ability.
One Civil liberty I see Ice violating is the Fourth Amendment which protects against unreasonable search and seizure. But, for Boarder Patrol (under the Department of Homeland Security) there is a border search exception to the forth amendment. Border patrol can conduct searches without a warrant or reasonable suspicion.
You might be on the fence about that. We do have to protect our boarders... sure. but the way the law is written, this border exception is applicable anywhere 100 miles from the border.
That area covers 2/3rds of the population of the United States. --
So if you are wanting a power grab against your own citizens you would definitely try to use that loophole in creative ways. And that starts by using DHS staff that can claim their actions fall under the border search exception.
This write up is a little off the cuff, so the details might be loose, but I hope this demonstrates the rough outline.
schaefer commented on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/robotsliketea
Correct. In the US, the TSA is just a government jobs program for the lowly skilled or unskilled. It's all security theater.
TSA Chief Out After Agents Fail 95 Percent of Airport Breach Tests
"In one case, an alarm sounded, but even during a pat-down, the screening officer failed to detect a fake plastic explosive taped to an undercover agent's back. In all, so-called "Red Teams" of Homeland Security agents posing as passengers were able get weapons past TSA agents in 67 out of 70 tests — a 95 percent failure rate, according to agency officials."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-...
> It's all security theater.
It’s so much worse than that. Because the department of homeland security was formed in the panic following 911, many of the laws meant to protect our civil liberties (which have existed decades/centuries before the DHS was formed) haven’t been amended to explicitly apply to DHS staff as well.
So what ICE is doing right now could only happen with the loopholes that apply only to DHS staff.
So if not for the security theater of the TSA, Stephan Miller might not have had a mechanism to get the ball rolling on his murder squad that is ICE.
schaefer commented on Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 openculture.com/2026/01/d... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
> ... gaping demon butthole
for someone bad at naming things that gives me an idea! a software named gdb ?
boooo!
:)
Oh, Memories.
I helped build out this target during my student gig as an undergrad.
Can I hop in here and ask: As someone who hasn't done any systems programming in a decade, what would be more interesting to learn on the side, Zig or Rust? I've been in the Python world and seeing tools like uv and ruff, makes me biased towards Rust but Zig seems to be attracting a lot of hype recently?
Edit: Thank you all for your responses!
only you can decide what you find interesting.