support policies that promote childbearing.

...like making abortion legal in all 50 states again? Like comprehensive sex education in schools? Like treating women as people and not property?

The most effective way for the Southern Baptists to promote childbearing would be for them to stay the fuck out of politics!

Who knows, maybe ~~we might even let them come back to US soil~~ they might leave CECOT alive—some day.

FTFY.

When you kidnap people without due process on the regular you're encouraging people to fight back. When you send them to foreign gulags known for literally torturing and killing people and forcing them into slave labor you're encouraging them to fight back with deadly force.

Dying—fighting for your life—sure sounds better than just giving up and letting ICE take you away. At this point the Trump Administration and ICE cannot be trusted to execute due process. They're operating outside of the law. They are the lawless ones.

They're hoping for deadly conflict and I fear they're going to get it. Though, on the plus side I'm 100% certain they will be unhappy with the outcome. In both the short and long term.

This is why combining religion and government is always a bad idea.

The point of regular quizzing is for the teacher to keep track of the student's progress. It's the entire point of quizzes!

Any classroom that includes quizzes in grading is already off on the wrong foot. They're doing it all wrong.

When it comes time to grade a student—via a test—the student should be so used to the questions—that they don't have to think much about it. They should already know the answers and have a strong command over the process used to answer them. If they're not ready the teacher should already know that because of regular quizzing.

This needs to happen in the classroom. Not at home. When students are outside of school they shouldn't be thinking about their schooling. They should be allowing their brains to rest and not stress over the possibility that their entire life trajectory could be made or broken based on how much time and effort they put in to homework or studying.

We're creating a society where no one spends time together because they didn't have time for that growing up!

To be fair, the world of JavaScript is such a clusterfuck... Can you really blame the LLM for needing constant reminders about the specifics of your project?

When a programming language has five hundred bazillion absolutely terrible ways of accomplishing a given thing—and endless absolutely awful code examples on the Internet to "learn from"—you're just asking for trouble. Not just from trying to get an LLM to produce what you want but also trying to get humans to do it.

This is why LLMs are so fucking good at writing rust and Python: There's only so many ways to do a thing and the larger community pretty much always uses the same solutions.

JavaScript? How can it even keep up? You're using yarn today but in a year you'll probably like, "fuuuuck this code is garbage... I need to convert this all to [new thing]."

Define, "reasoning". For decades software developers have been writing code with conditionals. That's "reasoning."

LLMs are "reasoning"... They're just not doing human-like reasoning.

I'm not convinced that humans don't reason in a similar fashion. When I'm asked to produce pointless bullshit at work my brain puts in a similar level of reasoning to an LLM.

Think about "normal" programming: An experienced developer (that's self-trained on dozens of enterprise code bases) doesn't have to think much at all about 90% of what they're coding. It's all bog standard bullshit so they end up copying and pasting from previous work, Stack Overflow, etc because it's nothing special.

The remaining 10% is "the hard stuff". They have to read documentation, search the Internet, and then—after all that effort to avoid having to think—they sigh and start actually start thinking in order to program the thing they need.

LLMs go through similar motions behind the scenes! Probably because they were created by software developers but they still fail at that last 90%: The stuff that requires actual thinking.

Eventually someone is going to figure out how to auto-generate LoRAs based on test cases combined with trial and error that then get used by the AI model to improve itself and that is when people are going to be like, "Oh shit! Maybe AGI really is imminent!" But again, they'll be wrong.

AGI won't happen until AI models get good at retraining themselves with something better than basic reinforcement learning. In order for that to happen you need the working memory of the model to be nearly as big as the hardware that was used to train it. That, and loads and loads of spare matrix math processors ready to go for handing that retraining.

The only reason we're not there yet is memory limitations.

Eventually some company will come out with AI hardware that lets you link up a petabyte of ultra fast memory to chips that contain a million parallel matrix math processors. Then we'll have an entirely new problem: AI that trains itself incorrectly too quickly.

Just you watch: The next big breakthrough in AI tech will come around 2032-2035 (when the hardware is available) and everyone will be bitching that "chain reasoning" (or whatever the term turns out to be) isn't as smart as everyone thinks it is.

Note: Hall effect sticks aren't that much more expensive than potentiometer sticks (difference is less than a dollar at scale). However, they require more space than potentiometer sticks and if you're doing something custom (which Nintendo always does) it can be a great big expense to change your manufacturing processes to insert tiny magnets into injection molded parts.

I suspect the latter is the reason why they abandoned using hall effect or TMR sticks for the Switch 2.

My wild speculation: Nintendo probably gave their engineers some design constraints that limited their ability to use off-the-shelf HE parts (everything I've seen really is too big). Rather than change the constraints slightly in order to make the product usable with such parts they stayed stubborn in the hopes that their engineers would come up with an innovative solution. This sort of thing can work to force innovation at really big companies—if they're not super top-down in terms of decision making.

I'm sure that the Nintendo engineers came up with their own perfectly-workable HE/TMR stick designs but had them shot down in meetings where they discussed the manufacturing costs.

Hall effect encoders/sticks are not new tech. They've been around for decades.

Remember the Sega Dreamcast? It came out 26 years ago and featured hall effect sticks in the controllers.

This just proves that Google's AI is a cut above the rest!

Everyone that works with Trump always regrets it eventually. Everyone.