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He who dares not offend cannot be honest. - Thomas Paine

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and a fool. - Plato

The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Tacitus

The worst pain a man may suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing - Herodotus

We are refugees, not from a place, but from a Time — from an America that no longer exists. - Daniel D, Substack

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. - Dijkstra

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Dad · 2d
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>I wonder what the changes the publisher demanded were.

Devon wrote about it on Xitter. They nuked my account recently so I can't find his post for you. IIRC it started with viewpoint(s?) and perhaps about the male protag. I don't remember.

>even the audiobook is a fine production with great actors and sound design.

The author did the casting and direction himself. He wrote about this too. IIRC the male voice is some totally unknown trucker or something, and not a pro voice actor.

Then Devon's wife got skin cancer, and I'm waiting for the sequel ever since.
Dad · 6d
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Dad · 1w
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I'd recommend reading Devon Eriksen on Twitter and how he handled publishing. He tried taking his sci-fi book to a traditional publisher, who wanted stupid changes. He said screw that and self-published Theft of Fire. It's _very_ entertaining sci-fi and he seems to have been successful selling it and making money. I bought the hardcover and even bought a copy for a friend "you gotta read this".

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Dad · 6d
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RedTechEngineer · 6d
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Dad · 2d
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Really retarded if true.

>The USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier has been moved to within 250 kilometers of Iran’s coastline and hypersonic anti-ship missiles — with NO DESTROYER ESCORTS to protect it. A SECOND Aircraft Carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush (our newest carrier) has now taken up a position even CLOSER to Iran’s coastline: 170 kilometers from Iran’s hypersonic anti-ship missiles. The George HW Bush is escorted by two (2) Destroyers.

>I suspect the Iranians won’t take the bait. And even if they do, if Trump and the neocons think pair of aircraft carriers on the bottom of the Sea of Oman are going to whip Americans into a frenzy of support for Netanyahu’s war, I think they’ll be very surprised.

>And it wouldn’t surprise me if all four ships have skeleton crews and no aircraft on them. This is exactly the sort of Very Clever Gambit that the eternal Smart Boys think is genius.

https://voxday.net/2026/07/10/two-empty-aircraft-carriers/
Caek Islove 🍰 💖 · 3w
It really blew my socks off. This time, last year, I was using Windsurf and getting the agent to stop acting retarded was like pulling teeth. At times, I thought goddamnit I could have just done this ...
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Yes. A little over a year ago I didn't trust LLMs to write code more than half a screen long. And sometimes it even produced nonsense there.

I still don't trust it for entire projects like the one you posted. I doubt it can write production quality code without anything strange or unnecessary hidden inside. But it can do largeish merges and refactors rather nicely these days.
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Caek Islove 🍰 💖 · 3w
Yeah, this one-off was an experiment. When I prompt Codex on a daily basis it is in very tight, very defined phases. My normal workflow is brainstorming with the best model of ChatGPT and developing a plan with phases, developing the definitions of each phase, and prompting Codex one phase at a time...
Caek Islove 🍰 💖 · 3w
It really blew my socks off. This time, last year, I was using Windsurf and getting the agent to stop acting retarded was like pulling teeth. At times, I thought goddamnit I could have just done this faster myself. How times have changed!