RalfMaximus

49% Evil Is Not Half Bad

Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Multi-fandom nerd but lots of Star Trek.
Multiple careers, but centered around software & technology & public healthcare especially EH.

I write sometimes, mostly science fictiony things.

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2025-09-10 16:26:46 UTC

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This *feels* like Putin testing for NATO response. If NATO/USA does nothing (i.e. fails to invoke article 5) he'll be emboldened to push farther.

2025-07-25 19:48:58 UTC

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There are billions geography facts on the internet. This includes fictional data sets too from popular SF/fantasy.
There are millions of human<->human interactions where geography facts are discussed, some of them accurately, many of them not.
Train a LLM on all that. Ask it geography questions.
The results will be the most likely next chain of text based on all those weighted interactions. That's it. There's no lying, no truth. It's making predictions.

2025-06-04 19:18:52 UTC

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Unless you're paying for business class, they'll start throttling you.

2025-05-15 22:59:56 UTC

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Well that makes sense. Radiology AI is not generative LLM, it's neural networks trained to identify patterns. You still need humans in that particular loop to verify the findings.

2025-03-14 23:42:20 UTC

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Safe to assume a decent malware solution (e.g. Malware Bytes) would guard against this?
Not the WIN+R or Powershell command, but the moment that .exe payload hits the system it'd get detected, right?
For that matter, wouldn't UAC block installation?

2025-03-03 20:46:27 UTC

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Understood. I grew up in hurricane country and we'd go through the typical stages of panic every coupla years whenever a Big One approached. Please stay safe

2025-03-03 20:42:47 UTC

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Oh. OH. Good golly

2025-03-03 20:39:43 UTC

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..what are we not panicking over today?

2024-12-05 19:43:01 UTC

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Seriously. Laws are the civilized alternative to dragging the accused out into the street and beating them to death. When legal justice fails systematically, expect vigilantism to rise.
This feels like the beginning of something massive.

2024-10-03 17:06:45 UTC

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I can find only one reference to P41, on page 34. And it's in reference to Michigan, not Nevada. Very confusing.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/244/581/875/641/765/original/c69d16f6031b2a77.png

2024-09-17 20:07:50 UTC

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I drive a lightly modded go-fast daily driver, and have been SO TEMPTED to max it out but realized how silly that would be. The urge is real. Good job resisting The Impulse™

2024-09-12 15:57:13 UTC

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So is that it? Or is this tedious appeal process headed for SCOTUS? *Can* it go to SCOTUS?

2024-09-12 13:57:40 UTC

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Historically wasteful.

2024-08-29 18:35:54 UTC

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Seconded.
It also bears mentioning that the primary reason he focuses on those specific soldiers dying due to the Afghanistan drawdown is because he likes blaming Biden for that. DESPITE THE FACT that it was Trump who initiated the Afghanistan withdrawal in 2020. https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/timeline-of-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/