rustystump's comments

On: Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority"

[rustystump]

We know teens love endless feeds but we know endless feeds is bad for them so we give them endless feeds…

[rustystump → rustystump]

To be clear social media is not as clear cut bad as the endless news/for you feeds which are designed to keep you scrolling vs seeing what friends are doing

On: We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler

[rustystump]

Implementing just enough to conform to a language is not as difficult as it seems. Making it fast is hard.

On: I miss thinking hard

[rustystump]

At the day job there was a problem with performance loading data in an app.

7 months later waffling on it on and off with and without ai I finally cracked it.

Author is not wrong though, the number of times i hit this isnt as often since ai. I do miss the feeling though

On: Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit

[rustystump]

My back breaks in cringe anytime i see an ai ghibli picture. It is an instant negative for me.

[qingcharles → rustystump]

When I saw the Italian PM post this it made me think about hara-kiri:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/i...

On: A lot of population numbers are fake

[rustystump]

I guess dune should be totally different given how distractingly wrong it is…

On: Video Games as Art

[rustystump]

What is art? An experience expressed through a medium. The number of viewers isnt a qualification.

On: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

[rustystump]

Or religious affiliation oops wait that one already happened.

On: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

[rustystump]

This is exactly right and why it is so dangerous. The bad guys dont think they are bad. The opposite is true.

There is the expression the road to hell is led on good intentions line with the heads of bishops.

On: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

[rustystump]

Reality is that once the next group is in power they keep all the same infra in place so they themselves can use it oft expanding it further. Then when they are kicked out, the next one comes in and does the same.

I dont like any of it but patriot act, covid vaccine tracking, flock, etc are all arms of the same hydra. This is just one more expanding arm of power and control in a long history of gov attempts to control populations.

On: GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

[rustystump]

I do similar proofing (esp spelling) but u need to be very careful as it will nudge u to specific styles that rob originality.