I mean OP had them code something called "parse_csv_summary", which sounds like something a junior dev can whip up in an hour or so, since CSV manipulation in Python is one of the most basic tasks you can encounter in the problem space.

Banking, scientific data analysis, sales, etc. Everything uses and manipulates csvs.

So it was firmly in the bottom quartile of difficulty - and there LLMs actually do quite well.

How does it show that? Do you have any real-life examples of a manosphere leader legitimately challenging an incumbent government apparatus?

Does the current administration not fit the bill for you?

Are you seriously implying the entire administration is a manosphere army?

I'm implying that Trump is the paragon manosphere avatar, and his administration is filled with little versions of him. The purpose of the entire administration is to challenge incumbent government apparatuses (it opened with DOGE which broadly did precisely that, they reoriented the DoD from defense to committing war crimes, they took over DOJ and turned it into a personal law firm for Trump, etc.) for the benefit of Trump.

The men in his cabinet like Hegseth and Kennedy try to appeal to the testosterone laden (and deficient) crowd. Women like Bondi and Noem also tried their best manosphere impression, but of course in classic manosphere fashion, both women were booted out of the cabinet first.

To the extent that the military believes, as its leader does, that they are not operating under "stupid" rules of engagement, and their purpose is "maximum lethality" with a policy of "no quarter" for adversaries, the US Military is currently a defacto manosphere army.

In your view, what would a manosphere leader legitimately challenging an incumbent government apparatus look like?

You have completely confused manosphere and far-right authoritarians in your mind.

The manosphere movement is about fighting misandry, for men's rights, and, to be a little reductionist - how to get laid easily and avoid committing resources to women. It's basically the fan club of Andrew Tate and the likes. They are not competent or resourceful enough to take control of a government.

There's an overlap in the venn diagram, sure. But it's much smaller than what you think it is.

No my friend, it is you who have the manosphere confused. Because the manosphere is not a sphere at all but a pipeline to right wing authoritarianism. It's not separate and apart from far right authoritarianism, it's what creates far right authoritarianism. It starts with the "fight misandry" and "men's rights" but it quickly leads men toward MAGA grifters. It's not a men's rights movement it's a movement that exploits vulnerable men.

> There's an overlap in the venn diagram, sure. But it's much smaller than what you think it is.

If the overlap is small, you'll have to explain why there are no major left wing manosphere personalities. Everyone on the left I know and follow who are fighting for men's rights and fighting misandry (a fight I've joined) does not consider themselves "in the manosphere".

> They are not competent or resourceful enough to take control of a government.

They definitely have resources -- more than a few billionaires were responsible for that.

But taking over the government, apparently, does not require competence. All it takes is a thirst for violence, a willingness to break the law and constitution, the backing of major corporations and the richest person in the world, and for enough good people to do nothing.

So far it seems to lead to "let's play some co-op slop on Steam" this weekend, rather than anything else.

The US is wealthy enough that the hedonistic treadmill works even for poor-ish disenfranchised men.

> If your combat system is so complex that people find (or even feel that they need to find) “exploits” in it then your system probably sucks.

Couple of things.

1. People will try to find exploits in just about any system. That's kind of part of the fun.

2. If the difficulty curve sucks in a particular D&D campaign - that's the DM's fault, not the system's. Plenty of tools at DM's disposal to make campaigns less combat focused or being more lenient to players.

Eh, I don’t find it fun because if you can break the combat then you either decide not to play “optimally” or GM has to purposefully create situations to fuck with you specially which is just antagonistic

I don’t know how you go to difficulty curve

It also doesn't help that Google's free tier (15GB) is laughably small in 2026.

HDD capacity and Google's profits grew many-fold since that was last increased (in 2012-ish?).

It is small, but if you look at their competition it's still competitive.

Only Mega offers more for free (20GB).

Microsoft offers 5GB.

Ente.io offers 10GB.

Proton.io offers 2GB (if you jump through some time-limited hoops, most of which defeats the purpose of using a privacy cloud, you get a whooping 5GB free instead)

Filen.io offers 10GB, but you can get 30GB if you do a similar dance to proton and spam your referral code everywhere.

Notably Microsoft used to offer 15GB until decreasing it a decade ago.

So while I would say 15GB is pretty typical, I would not say it's competitive. I would say the competition died in 2013.

If the top offer is 15 GB, then 15GB is competitive, even if multiple providers offer it.

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this.

Competitive implies competition.

The competition ended over a decade ago, and 15GB stayed 15GB even though the price of providing it dropped 5x.

Even though they're near the top, none of those companies are "competitive" in my book.

It does seem ridiculous that over 20 years ago, gmail was advertised with a real-time allowance ticking away increasing, which started at an incredibly generous 1GB allowance and you could watch it tick up in real time faster than you could fill it with mail.

People designed "gmail-as-storage" apps to take advantage of this.

20 years later and we get a pathetic 15GB for mail, photos and everything else combined.

1GB that grew to 7GB over about 4 years and then 15GB over another 5 years. And has been stuck at 15GB for about 13 years. https://lifetourer.com/gmail-and-storage-capacity-cmon-googl...

The limit used to cost a whole dollar of hard drive space (plus redundancy), sometimes more than that. If they kept that up with adjustment for inflation then 100GB would be the free tier today, not a $20/year tier.

TBF that's a little bit apples-to-orchards, since publicly routed e-mails have certain expectable size/frequency characteristics compared to, say, all the videos someone possesses.

Mandating renewables for data centers would have left you with checks notes a shitload of renewables after the AI bubble bursts.

Something that should (with good governance) lower energy costs.

If you or Google have a plan to make the federal government stop shutting down renewable projects, we can re-examine the data center question after you carry it out.

Usually those contracts do exempt the company from paying you interest.

San Junipero is a SAAS hedonistic treadmill for your mind, for perpetuity, designed to siphon all your estate into corporate profits.

Maybe it's not so bad after all, I think one can interpret it positively or negatively depending on your current state of mind.

> Not a guarantee of course, but I think if you can't steelman your opponents

There's no point in steelmanning opponents who would not do the same to you. There isn't enough time in the universe to argue against all of them and all of their gaslighting and logical fallacies.

I think willing to admit one is wrong and maybe thinking for an extra second before opening their mouth to give another opinion would get people 90% towards being right and away from being Homer.

I don't mean you should spend endless amounts of time arguing with people. Lots will just try to waste your time and exhaust you. It's more a hypothetical for when you're thinking about your beliefs/position on your own time.

> There's no point in steelmanning opponents […] There isn't enough time […] to argue against […] gaslighting and logical fallacies.

I think there's a separation in how people are using "steelman". A steelman argument by definition contains no (or a minimal amount of) gaslighting and fallacies. As for the worth of the exercise, it's about personal knowledge seeking. If you're totally confident in your beliefs, than certainly, steelmanning will hold little value.

> Ah, the perennial dream of the technologist. Here's a Le Corbusier quote on the same theme from 100 years ago

Except this time, the dream is actually real and cheaper than ever thanks to small EVs, batteries and solar power. 100 years ago it was limited to people with large estates who owned cars (and probably needed secretaries for their work).

These days it's more affordable than ever (except land/housing)

Some of us are living it. I plan to raise and slaughter cattle. Building a house now.