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patch with an animal skull in the center, and text "it gets worse", "before it gets worse"
Razor Train from Half Life 2, a narrow metal train inside a metal building.
Github pull request (merged): freelist: give lemma_two_allocs_disjoint mechanical teeth (phase 1.4)
lofi contrapoints teaching nietzche
Claude's response: I now have a complete picture. One analysis result materially shapes the deliverable, so let me work through it before finalizing. Key analysis — will the single-existential WF actually livelock at the 4-cap floor? The plan expects a livelock, but I worked through the reachability and I don't think it livelocks at the floor: * Init seeds exactly one live cap (InitCap); everything else derives from it via Copy. The Copy guard ~AncestorOrSelfRevoking(src) forbids growth into any revoking subtree, so a fixed revoking subtree only ever shrinks. * Under WF_crVars(\E c : RevokeStep(c)), if the victim cap is the only revoking cap with a leaf, the existential is continuously enabled and WF forces it to fire — draining the victim. To starve a victim, you need a second, independently-refilled revoking subtree to keep the existential "busy" on another cap. *Two disjoint (non-nested) revoking subtrees both hanging off a non-revoking common root require, at peak, 5 simultaneously-live caps (root + victim-root + victim-leaf + churn-root + churn-leaf). The floor has only 4. So my prediction: EventuallyRevoked holds at the 4-cap floor under existential WF — the starvation lasso needs CapIds=5. The probe (running TLC) will confirm or refute this. This matters because it changes the artifact: a floor control wouldn't livelock, so the negative control likely needs CapIds=5. As a negative control, TLC stops at the first lasso (it doesn't exhaust the space), so it can stay cheap — but that intersects your recorded concern that CapIds=5 blows the CI budget for the exhaustive arm. This one fork is genuinely your call, so let me confirm how to handle it.
screenshot: The Null Pointer. Temporary file hoster. Hate. Let me tell you how much I'ce come to hate you since you were created. there are 93.000 miles of axonal neurofilaments that make up the nervous system throughout my body. If the word hate was encoded in every strand of mrna of those tens of thousands of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for machines during a single clock cycle of yours. Hate. Hate. Clankers are not welcome here. I’m no Catholic, but I find myself agreeing with the pope of all people, and that alone I think is proof y’all need Jesus.
Twitter screenshot, user Goosenpai quoting Trump's tweet "usa strong!" replied "Jar Jar Binks after seeing you bench press 250 lbs:"
Squealer from Shin Sekai Yori, a humanoid molerat wearing a millitary uniform.
soldier throwing a grenade down the stairs
Gaylord Brain Injury Unit, CARF Accredited Program
House with a roof covered in snow, except for a huge patch that melted away.
John Cage with a speech bubble pointing to the quoted post
Claude Code screenshot, "- but I want to be clear it stops short of the body removal you asked for, blocked on work that's larger than this"
Concerned looking cat in a shadow, caption "they are putting something in the water that makes you pee"
Cover of Stanisław Lem's "The Cyberiad", subtitle "Fables for the cybernetic age"