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CombatWombat

@ CombatWombat @feddit.online

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In the fediverse since 2017. I mostly talk sports. If something on the internet doesn't spark joy, mute it.

Do not yell at me simply because I am in front of you and the people responsible for the problems are not. It is extremely unpleasant.

  • I am extremely fatigued with the constant negativity

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  • Me too! It's exhausting, and the most frustrating part is that it's contagious. Generally, this means it's time for me to turn off my phone and go outside in the sunshine and watch a soccer game. I dunno what your "watch a soccer game" is, but things like riding a bike or walking in a park or dangling your legs in the ocean definitely qualify. Mostly, the idea is to remind myself there are good things too, and to remember that the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.

  • AI outperforms law professors in blind study

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  • This study doesn't really improve my impression of LLMs, but it does really hurt my impression of the value of a law degree:

    Participants created 40 representative contract law questions that students might ask after class or during office hours, wrote their own answers, and then evaluated responses without knowing whether they came from AI or other participating professors. The AI systems performed comparably to the best human instructor in the study.

    Perhaps most striking: professors flagged AI responses as pedagogically harmful only 3.5% of the time, compared to 12% for peer-written answers.

    “In most fields where AI gets tested, there’s a right answer. In law, there often isn’t,” said Sarath Sanga, co-author and professor at Yale Law School. “Two opposing arguments can both be good. What we wanted to know is whether AI can meet the latent professional standard that lawyers use to evaluate each other’s arguments. In this case, the answer was yes.”

  • US House passes war powers resolution to curb Trump’s authority in Iran

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  • The meme was a response to my top-level comment on a Guardian article. I am chaffing because I am not, and will not, discuss this in terms of what House Democrats should do, I am continuing to frame this as what the Congress must do, and the meme mischaracterizes my position.

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  • I keep telling you we need a big goal line stop from the defense, and you keep asking me what I want our running back to do about it. The fact that running backs aren't going to make big defensive tackles doesn't reduce the need for the defense to make a play.

    (edit for our non-American readership: “I keep telling you we need to pump crosses into the box to look for our target striker, and you keep asking me what I want our center backs to do about it. The fact that center backs don’t get into the attack doesn’t reduce the need for us to score a goal”)

  • US House passes war powers resolution to curb Trump’s authority in Iran

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  • This story is not about House or Senate Democrats. This story is about four House Republicans who broke ranks with the White House. Focus up.

  • US House passes war powers resolution to curb Trump’s authority in Iran

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  • Saying vetoing this bill would be bad for Trump is like claiming he couldn’t survive appearing in a tan suit

  • US House passes war powers resolution to curb Trump’s authority in Iran

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  • I will answer this! My argument is not about Democrats and Republicans, my argument is about the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches of the US government. My point is that the showdown over the ongoing military operation in Iran is a disagreement primarily between the Congress, which has not authorized a military action, and the White House, which is pursuing a “military action” which is manifestly a war that requires authorization from Congress. My frustration is not that the Democrats have succumbed to the Republicans, but that the Legislative branch has cowed to the Executive. I am not arguing with you about which of the two parties is the “good one,” I am telling you that the important part of this showdown is whether the United States has three branches of government or one. I want congressional republicans to be backstabbing, power grabbing, self interested assholes and make a naked play for political power against the most unpopular man in the world on his weakest issue because the Congress cannot possibly be organized enough to be as evil as Stephen Miller.

  • Switzerland dug a hole the size of two soccer fields to install the world’s most powerful underground battery, able to output 1.2 GW within milliseconds.

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  • Yeah. A lot of USLW games are played in gridiron stadiums, and the touchline is way further out than the sideline. They’re not required to be strictly uniform like gridiron, though, it’s more like a baseball diamond in that regard, so I’m not sure if they’re strictly wider, or just usually wider.

  • Switzerland dug a hole the size of two soccer fields to install the world’s most powerful underground battery, able to output 1.2 GW within milliseconds.

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  • Right?! It’s just so puzzling a choice.

  • US House passes war powers resolution to curb Trump’s authority in Iran

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  • Yes, in fact, I do require an actual resolution to have actually passed both houses that actually has a chance of constraining the use of executive power before I will have considered the legislature to have done something. My greatest concern is not that the Ds aren't standing up to the Rs; my concern is that the legislative branch is letting the executive do whatever it wants.

  • Switzerland dug a hole the size of two soccer fields to install the world’s most powerful underground battery, able to output 1.2 GW within milliseconds.

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  • I am also fascinated by the measurement “two soccer fields.” Americans largely play soccer on American football fields, so any American would just say “two football fields.” But everyone else hates calling it “soccer” and prefer to use metric rather than comparisons? This just seems like they chose all their measurements to be maximally irritating.

  • US House passes war powers resolution to curb Trump’s authority in Iran

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  • Surprise! It doesn’t actually matter at all 🎉

    The vote’s impact is symbolic, with the margin well short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto.

  • Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time

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  • I think you are correct that there are a fair number of people who are accidentally classified as bots, but I think that pales in comparison to the number of bots who are accidentally classified as people. My guess is we passed this threshold quite some time ago and just didn’t notice because bot creators spend a lot of time trying to pretend to be people.

  • Democrats don’t get why they’ve lost most working class voters

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  • Nope! Most all everyone just reacts to headlines and doesn’t even click through.

    I guess I’m just a coastal elite, but I didn’t find the argument that Dems have tacked left and the electorate has stayed the same particularly compelling. The part about the working class identity was annoying — there’s so many people who want to think of themselves as some kind of merchant or artisan class that I don’t think really exists, and they would be much better off if they realized that if you live off the income you get from your work, you’re working class. Overall, I didn’t find the analysis persuasive.

  • What cities have bad vibes or just feel "off"?

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  • You have a broad definition of what a city is. Tracy is more of a highway truckstop with aspirations. Gustine is barely a hamlet. Hilmar isn't even incorporated.

  • The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯

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  • I had given up on contributing to open source, but I might dust off my keyboard for this one: 

       
        
How to Contribute  

Find a corporate chatbot that can answer general questions  
Reverse-engineer the API (WebSocket, REST, etc.)  
Build an OpenAI-compatible proxy (follow chipotle-llm-provider as a template)  
Submit a PR adding your provider to packages/opencode/src/provider/  
See the chipotle-llm-provider source for the proxy pattern: Express server + WebSocket client + OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions endpoint.

  • President Trump Claims New Drug Can Bring People Back From the Dead

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  • What do you think he was talking about with his doctor that made them bring up a drug that brings people back from the dead?

    The president went on to address how such medications get tested, adding, “And some [drugs] don’t work. You learn very fast. It’s called the ultimate test, I think, right? They test all these things. They use animals all over the place, they use everything to test because a person’s going to die.”

  • Road rage

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  • The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way galaxy, is over 10 million light years, so you can easily see that I have no choice but to own a car to be able to get around.

  • Road rage

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  • Synthesis is: no-one should be allowed to drive