I see two meanings: 1. He's protesting DOGE's reignition of the SSA codebase overhaul 2. He's making a joke that you don't dare touch a running legacy system because you'll break it
He probably means the second, but the first was my initial thought (I hear COBOL programmers make upwards of $1000/hr). Fixing these old systems has been on my mind.
That’s me in the photo. I don’t trust the guy behind recalled Cybertrucks and exploding rockets to oversee a total rewrite of a functioning, mission critical system.
These guys just wiped 14,000 tapes to put the government's backups and record keeping in the cloud. To "save" $1m. And bragged about it.
They aren't competent, they are malicious. Musk scraped some racist blackhat Kiwifarms posters together and is their leader in a putsch with the goal of systematically destroying the United States government.
The fact that you couldn't fathom people are opposed to his machinations suggests to me you exist within a heavily-manipulated and controlled media environment. These guys are literally white supremacist fascists plunging the global economy into depression, disappearing the populace into foreign death camps, and arming up for WW3. This is not an exaggeration.
> Waltz had “potentially exploitable information” sent to his Gmail, such as his schedule and other work documents
Says nothing about him sending information from the account
Goes on to say one of his aides "used Gmail for more sensitive material, such as discussing military positions and weapons systems" which is pretty vague as far as accusations go
My understanding was that to start working on a product, you must have prospective users/customers that you can talk to to get the the gist of what they would like, the build a MVP and then iterate with the feedback you receive. In this case you already know that what they're asking for is possible or not.
I don't recall any big media stories pushing deliberate release.
Now that I think of it, I DO recall many bullshit spouters, commenters, fringe blogs, "independent journalists," who pushed deliberate release on their little corners of the internet, but who pays them any attention?
There was, bluntly, a mountain of bullshit from many angles. When trying to keep tabs on stuff for my sanity, I determined there’s multiple variants of the lab leak theory:
First, there’s the question of if it was an accident or a deliberate release
Second, (and on top of the first) that it was a lab-engineered strain or research on a naturally occurring strain.
The fringe sites seemed to overwhelmingly adopt the “deliberate release + lab engineered” theory.
There was a reasonable level of reporting stating that the wet market theory was one of a few possibilities, and that a leak was possible but couldn’t be conclusively determined.
My takeaway and bias is that we’ll never conclusively know the root cause. It became a blame game. The effort would be much better spent preparing for the next pandemic.
I could really use objective benchmarks for rules. Mine looked like this at one point, but I'd add more as I noticed cursor's weaknesses, and some would be project specific, and eventually it'd get too long so I'd tear a lot out, not noticing much difference along the way and writing the rules based on intuition.
But even if we had benchmarks before, cursor supports different rules files now in the .rules folder, so back to the drawing board figuring out what works best
Turning leadership of an already radicalized organization is not what he means. New converts to a group who are actually informants will provoke an organization to radicalism.
When I wrote my original comment I did end up removing that as an option because I couldn't think of any instances where I had reason to believe that it had happened. I'm not saying it doesn't, but I don't see any evidence in that article to support that it does.
