true_religion (u/true_religion)

true_religion commented on The Boss Has Had It with All the Office Activists wsj.com/lifestyle/workpla... · Posted by u/petethomas

sugarpimpdorsey · 3 days ago

>To be fair they were also wiretapping/stealing stuff, which makes it slightly more serious than breaking in just to protest.

Funny you should mention that because the group also planted listening devices in his office, under couch cushions and behind books, so no, they didn't break in "just to protest".

Source: Brad Smith 8/25 press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6tl7KoIVgA

true_religion · 3 days ago

All things being equal, I don't think you can trust people who try to secretly spy on others so I see why they were fired.

What did they think they were going to find with the listening devices? This sounds like the tactic of someone who is looking for a specific admission when they already have enough evidence to know something illegal is happening, but not how far up the hierarchy it goes.

true_religion commented on The Boss Has Had It with All the Office Activists wsj.com/lifestyle/workpla... · Posted by u/petethomas

gruez · 3 days ago

>Recall a President of the United States resigned because someone broke into an office.

To be fair they were also wiretapping/stealing stuff, which makes it slightly more serious than breaking in just to protest.

true_religion · 3 days ago

Now adays, ordering a B&E to wiretap & steal won't cause a US president to resign. If such news ever made it out, it would immediately be called fake by the administration, and if proven, it'd only be deemed the indulgences of a 79-year-old man born during a different time so we should let it go.

Considering what era we are actually living in, B&E to merely protest should not be a first time firing offense.

true_religion commented on Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

meshugaas · 4 days ago

The "model as company" metaphor makes no sense. It should actually be models are products, like a shoe. Nike spends money developing a shoe, then building it, then they sell it, and ideally those R&D costs are made up in shoe sales. But you still have to run the whole company outside of that.

Also, in Nike's case, as they grow they get better at making more shoes for cheaper. LLM model providers tell us that every new model (shoe) costs multiples more than the last one to develop. If they make 2x revenue on training, like he's said, to be profitable they have to either double prices or double users every year, or stop making new models.

true_religion · 4 days ago

It's model as a company because people are using the VC mentality, and also explaining competition.

Model as a product is the reality, but each model competes with previous models and is only successful if it's both more cost effective, and also more effective in general at its tasks. By the time you get to model Z, you'll never use model A for any task as the model lineage cannibalizes sales of itself.

true_religion commented on I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked overbring.com/blog/2025-0... · Posted by u/overbring_labs

drumnerd · 17 days ago

I would never ever let an LLM anywhere near C code. If you need help from LLM to write a NIF that performs basic C calls to the OS, you probably can’t check if it’s safe. I mean, it needs at least to pass valgrind.

true_religion · 17 days ago

Security is a spectrum. If you totally control the input going into a program, it can be safe even if you didn't test it for memory leaks. The only errors that occur will be truly erroneous, not malicious and for many solutions that's fine.

At the very least, it's fine for personal projects which is something I'm getting into more and more: remembering that computers were meant to create convenience, so writing small programs to make life easier.

true_religion commented on Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers fortune.com/2025/08/11/st... · Posted by u/zdw

thrown-0825 · 20 days ago

Hard to do when starbucks is a real estate holding company that sells coffee. They have sucked all the air out of the cafe space and driven out their competitors.

true_religion · 20 days ago

Is this to the point that no internet cafes exist?

true_religion commented on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms(XVideos,BangBros,GirlsGoneWild) myfloridalegal.com/newsre... · Posted by u/Improvement

oriettaxx · a month ago

GirlsGoneWild.com oh, I missed that, thanks

true_religion · 25 days ago

Quick check shows they (GirlsGoneWild) are actually violating the law by not blocking users from age-verification required states, and continuing to happily accept credit card payments too.

Pornhub blocks so I don't know what they are doing wrong.

true_religion commented on Claude Opus 4.1 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

onlyrealcuzzo · a month ago

When people post this stuff, it's like, are you also confused that Nike sells shoes AND shorts AND shirts, and there's different colors and skus for each article of clothing, and sometimes they sell direct to consumer and other times to stores and to universities, and also there's sales and promotions, etc, etc?

It's almost as if companies sell more than one product.

Why is this the top comment on so many threads about tech products?

true_religion · a month ago

This is like being told to buy Nike shoes. Then when you proudly display your new cleats, they tell you "no, I meant you should by basketball shoes. The cleats are terrible."

true_religion commented on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms(XVideos,BangBros,GirlsGoneWild) myfloridalegal.com/newsre... · Posted by u/Improvement

true_religion · a month ago

I thought they blocked Florida and other states which require age verification? Is this not enough?

true_religion commented on The untold impact of cancellation pretty.direct/impact... · Posted by u/cbeach

Aurornis · a month ago

> I have had almost exclusively positive interactions with the other parents and kids at the playground.

These stories were all over Reddit for years. I remember a thread asking for examples of things Reddit led them to believe that weren’t true, and the top voted comment was that Reddit made them think that going to the playground as a lone dad would cause women to view them as a predator. In reality, going to the playground as a dad in most places is a non-event. It’s common for dads to be there alone with their kids. When I go, it’s a mix of moms and dads and we all talk and interact.

Yet to a non-parent reading Reddit it seemed like going to the park as a dad was asking for trouble. The story was repeated so often.

I’m sure these events do happen some times. When it does, I wouldn’t be surprised if the accuser was reading their own Reddit equivalent social media website where stories about men being creeps at the playground get passed around as fact. To them, it’s just how they see the world working because they’ve heard it repeated so often.

true_religion · a month ago

What if people who have children approach them differently from those without, and it's noticeable?

Before my male friends had kids, they were tense and apprehensive around toddlers. They worried they would hurt them, etc.

Now, they act like Dads, even with kids who have nothing to do with them.

These guys weren't bad people to begin with. They just didn't radiate "dad energy" for lack of a better phrase.

true_religion commented on The untold impact of cancellation pretty.direct/impact... · Posted by u/cbeach

firefax · a month ago

The correct response is to stand your ground and say "No, I'm trying to connect a hurt child with their parents. Are you their parent? If not, we'll cut this favor short and just call child services".

Then do it. Call 911, say there's an injured, unattended child at the playground, and you're getting a hostile response from folks as you try to locate the guardian so you'd appreciate it if a social worker collected the kid until the parents can be found.

There is nothing illegal about speaking to a child, and when you soft play people like this you empower them. Let them have to show a cop a DL to get their kid out a squad car to learn their lesson if they can't handle polite help.

(Also, what is this narrative around HN about being accused of nefariousness at playgrounds? I used to eat my lunch at one near me because it was the only park with a trash can nearby and I didn't want to lug my trash back to my apartment before going on my way towards the city -- nobody ever said a word to me aside from asking for a ball if it rolled over.)

true_religion · a month ago

I agree with this statement. While it's not 'your job' to save the child, if you've already started along the path, you might as well see it through to the end.

If you never found the child's parents, you'd have to call CPS. Being prevented from finding the child's parents, just necessitates you move that step forward.

Of course, it's not 'your job' so technically you could abandon the child at any point but it does feel a bit heartless to give a kid hope, then say 'meh you're on your own, this is too troublesome'. As for just leaving the child with others who are complaining, I doubt that's a good idea. They were making no move to help, and bystander effect will probably keep them from ever doing a thing.