writing “admirably pathological'’ text, “crazy and wonderful” types, and “igniting quite an interesting discussion”

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Joined August 2015
Might dress up as a 100-question ballot for Halloween. Spooky! Vote yes on prop D.
It's 2 weeks to election day and yes I sure do indeed have a voter guide for you!
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It's 2 weeks to election day and yes I sure do indeed have a voter guide for you!
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Support small voter guide at benkraft.org/ballot!
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Sure starting to look like any sufficiently large repo's agent hooks will soon contain an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
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Which feels more feelings?
47%Claude Opus 5.5
13%the average shrimp
7%other/see results
33%meaningless/unknowable
15 votes • Final results
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Which feels more feelings?
25%Claude Opus 4.6
62%the average shrimp
0%meaningless/unknowable
12%other/see results
8 votes • Final results
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back on my shit (handing my boss a copy of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions when he asks for my Q3 plans)
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for the late voters my guide remains here and I have UPDATED governor to vote for steyer for strategic reasons (sigh)
thank you for waiting patiently, the official benkraft voter guide is here! come for yes I do have an opinion on the governor's race, stay for footnote 8 with 200 words of my best opinions on CEO pay data
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soliciting catchier names for my voter guide, "elect boring competent candidates so you won't be pissed off" doesn't have the same ring to it
thank you for waiting patiently, the official benkraft voter guide is here! come for yes I do have an opinion on the governor's race, stay for footnote 8 with 200 words of my best opinions on CEO pay data
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oh yeah and while I'm picking fights with Big Voter Guide, let it be known that said footnote 8 is more accurate than GrowSF's research on the same point
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thank you for waiting patiently, the official benkraft voter guide is here! come for yes I do have an opinion on the governor's race, stay for footnote 8 with 200 words of my best opinions on CEO pay data
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Ugh why do they remind the agent about malicious files after every read
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forget model context protocol, who is building model cost protocol, a standard for ingesting inference cost data?
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thinking about becoming a kubernetes brother
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update: k8s is fine but I'm returning to my roots as an aws iam girlie now xitter.cf/bnkrft/status/17357504…
There are more things in AWS IAM, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
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You are in a maze of twisty hypertext passages, all alike.
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this ain't my first time living in a glass house, bucko
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tired: do you thank your large language model? (obviously) wired: do you sigh in commiseration with your large language model at the code it's dealing with?
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inspired: do you wish your large language model good luck when it might need some?
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I'm also very conflicted about this, because on the one hand, obviously the rename is stupid macho nonsense, but on the other hand, where I come from, lefties have been complaining about "Department of Defense" being doublespeak for my whole life and probably longer
Replying to @sarahmsachs
It's only sorta official! See e.g. military.com/feature/2025/10…
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