Christian (LDS). Husband. Father. Engineer. Be a peacemaker.
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Jake Rogers retweeted
Dads, please remember, the most powerful leaders lead with persuasion, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, love unfeigned, kindness, and knowledge.
Control, dominion, and compulsion may produce temporary compliance, but they also breed resentment and rebellion. You may get compliance, but you won’t get conversion. And without conversion, the relationship becomes a house of cards, just waiting to collapse.
Control is easy. That’s why it’s so tempting. It’s a shortcut. It allows us to get the behavior we want without doing the difficult work of building trust, developing relationships, and earning influence.
Think about the contrast between God’s approach and Satan’s.
God tells Adam, “By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” In other words, meaningful things require effort, patience, and work.
Satan, on the other hand, tempts Cain with a shortcut: “You don’t have to earn it. You don’t have to wait. Just take what you want.”
Control is the shortcut to compliance. Love is the long road to conversion.
And while control may change someone’s behavior for a moment, love has the power to change someone’s heart forever.
Jake Rogers retweeted
Leftists be like: “They're using the guy beheading your brother in the street to distract you from your real enemy: Jeff Bezos delivering medicine to your front door overnight.”
Jake Rogers retweeted
Opening prayer offered at the BYU-Notre Dame game welcomed “our brothers in Christ from Notre Dame” to Provo and requested a special blessing upon Pope Leo. 🥺🙏🏻🤙🏻
Jake Rogers retweeted
MOTHER OF HERO SPEAKS OUT 🙏🏼
Kaylub Giamanco’s mom just described the phone call she got moments after her son stopped the school shooter in Bend, Oregon.
“He said, Mom, I just shot and kiIIed somebody.”
She asked him to tell her about it.
“A man went into my daughter’s school and shot kids. And I looked at him point blank and I shot and kiIIed him, Mom.”
She told him he saved a lot of lives.
His answer: “Mom, I couldn’t save them all.”
He was driving home from lunch when he heard the shots. He pulled up onto the grass, grabbed his gun, and followed the gunman back into the school. He army-crawled through a window the shooter had already blasted out and ended the attack.
Three kids and a teacher were already gone. His own daughters were safe. Now he’s struggling with the ones he couldn’t reach and asking himself what he could have done differently.
This is what happens when a good man with a gun runs toward the sound of gunfire instead of waiting for someone else to show up.
THAT is what stopped more of them from dying.
Kaylub Giamanco is a hero.
I’ll be honest it’s because of a situation like this that I put as much time into dry fire and live fire and training as I do.
Uvalde showed me that I could not leave my children to the tender mercies of the authorities. Many of the manifesto of these shooters claim that they attack schools because it gives them more time.
God forbid something happen to the children you know or that you parent and your excuse for not being able to do anything about it was that you didn’t have the money or you didn’t have the time or you didn’t think it would happen to you.
Oregon used to preempt local carry bans, including at schools.
Giffords hated that, and encouraged the state to end that preemption. Oregon did what they asked.
Bend-La Pine Schools, the district that runs Silver Rail, banned carry by concealed handgun license holders on school grounds in December 2021. They were one of the first to do so.
Someone appears to have ignored that today, thank God, and saved lives.
Elder Christofferson’s talk this morning is exactly what I want more of at conference.
He talked about gambling directly. He talked about the apps, the odds, how the industry makes its money, and what it costs the people using them. There was no question what he was condemning.
We still need talks about faith, prayer, repentance and endurance. But people can hear general counsel every six months without ever applying it to the specific habits the culture has made normal: porn, sports betting, putting off marriage indefinitely, treating children as optional, letting convenience crowd out covenant obligations.
Sometimes you need to actually name the thing. He did. I want more of that.
Jake Rogers retweeted
Here is Elder Gilbert's (@ClarkG_Gilbert) full "big tent church" quote:
"The recommend questions are clear and straightforward, but this is a big tent church. We want people to feel a sense of belonging and inclusion, but we also are true to the teachings of the Savior Jesus Christ. … [Apostle] Jeffrey Holland once [pointed out] that Christ never once said, 'because I love you, you are free to choose which commandments to keep,' but [Jesus] also had an infinite capacity to forgive when we made mistakes. ... Christ was the one who taught God’s laws and never once backed away from them."
I don't see how anyone could disagree with the big tent phrasing with this context.
Pointing out that the Church is a place that every believer of Jesus Christ belongs in no way undermines God's laws and high expectations.
Nor do God's laws and expectations undermine Christ's power to redeem and forgive.
Is Bralla’s Design for Manufacturability Handbook a good reference or is there something everyone likes more?
I’m currently in the process of reverse engineering, obsolete parts from machinery and getting it to local machine shops to start supplying us.
Many of them were originally cast, but I need to redesign them for a machine shop.
Jake Rogers retweeted
"Men do not stay for platitudes. Platitudes do not carry a soul through the winter. When the child is in the ground, when the marriage is in ruins, when the diagnosis comes back and the floor drops out of the world, no one was ever held up by 'be kind and stay positive.'
They are held, if they are held at all, by something with iron in it. By a witness that the heavens are real and open, that God still speaks, that the dead are not lost, that there is power on the earth greater than the darkness.
The early Saints had that, and they knew they had it, because they had felt it in their own bodies. They were healed under hands. They spoke in tongues. They saw visions and buried their children in the certainty of resurrection and crossed a continent on the strength of a fire they could not have faked. That is what converts a man and that is what keeps him, not a well managed self-help program, but the living evidence that what we preach is true.
So the cure is not complicated, and it is not new. It is to be again the Church of our fathers. Stop apologizing. Stop trimming the glorious truth into something the world will pat on the head.
Speak with authority and with the hammer, the way Joseph spoke, the way Brigham spoke, the way men speak when they actually believe the heavens have opened over them.
Reach again for the gifts of the Spirit, and stop pretending they were a founding era curiosity, because a testimony built on argument crumbles in the first storm and a testimony built on the manifest power of God does not. And above all, live as though the heavens are open, because they are, and they have only ever felt closed to a people who stopped expecting them to answer.
The Saints are not leaving because the gospel is too much. They are leaving because we have made it too little. Make it glorious and demanding again, and watch who comes back through the door. The hungry have not gone anywhere. We simply stopped setting the table."
Dear Mormons,
If you are a Saint today, you descend from the pioneers, by blood or by the grafting that makes you no less their child, and that means there is iron in your bones whether you have learned to feel it yet or not.
You come from people who buried their children in the snow and kept walking, who were driven from state after state and did not break, who crossed a thousand miles of nothing and built a civilization out of salt and sand on the strength of pure covenant.
That inheritance is not metaphor.
It is in you, the same marrow, the same refusal, the same fire that no mob and no winter and no extermination order could ever put out.
So let the haters on hate, let them sneer from their screens and their safe little distances, because they are screaming at a people who have outlasted far worse than them and forgotten more courage than they will ever own.
You carry the essence of a covenant nation in your chest, and a people who know how to make cities rise out of a wasteland are not a people who bow. Stand up straight under what you were handed, square the shoulders this Church was built on, and remember in your bones that you were forged from the unbreakable.
Jake Rogers retweeted
“Every faithful Methodist that has lived up to, and faithfully fulfilled the requirements of his religion, according to the best light he had, doing good to all, and evil to none; injuring no person upon the earth, honoring his God as far as he knows, will have as great a heaven as he ever anticipated in the flesh, and far greater. Every Presbyterian, and every Quaker, and every Baptist, and every Roman Catholic member, every reformer of whatever class or grade, that lives according to the best light they have, and never have had an opportunity of receiving a greater light than the one in their possession, will have and enjoy all they live for.” - Brigham Young
God loves ALL His children. God is fair. God is good.
Jake Rogers retweeted
the canonical workflow that ships multi-file agentic builds on a 24gb consumer card. lands in my dms weekly. here is the full stack everyone running local ai should bookmark.
hardware: any 24gb card (3090 / 4090 / 5090 mobile)
quant: q4_k_m for dense 27b models, fits 262k context with q4_0 kv cache
flags: -ngl 99 -c 262144 -np 1 -fa on --cache-type-k q4_0 --cache-type-v q4_0
harness: hermes agent on local llama-server openai-compat endpoint
prompt pattern: BUILD → TEST → ITERATE → SERVE baked into the prompt, no human in the loop after fire
the model writes the code, runs it, finds its own failing tests, fixes them, ships when all green. you watch the logs, you do not touch the code.
ship the same stack and the same result is yours. that is the whole game.
Did Codex usage metering get effectively uncapped, or is the accounting just not catching this path?
I’ve got GPT-5.5 xHigh acting as orchestrator into DeepSeek V4 Pro through Hermes, running for ~3 hours, and my 5-hour token window still shows 0% used. Weekly also untouched.
Either I found a weird billing/metering path, or Codex isn’t counting orchestration the way I expected.
Exactly my experience with our littles (3 year and 3 month old so far).
it’s strange how sleep training opponents always make the exact same claim that it’s bad because it “traumatizes your baby into learning that their cries will be ignored.”
this is plainly testable—it would be profoundly apparent if it were true. post-ferber babies would cry way less than other babies or maybe not at all. they’d show all sorts of signs of trauma like failure to respond to caregivers, poor weight gain, etc.
but nothing like this happens. the only change is that they happily fall asleep independently. my baby still cries at 4am for food many nights, and we feed him. he cries when he’s bored or tired or wants affection. he knows he’ll quickly get what he wants and that crying is a highly effective way to communicate.
if a few minutes of crying were traumatizing, things like cars and baths would be extremely bad for many babies. but nobody claims that the 20 minute drive to the grocery store is gonna turn your kid into a russian orphanage trauma case.
the most frustrating part of mom discourse is that it feels like there’s a huge group of people just saying things that they’ve heard other people say and that feel good to repeat, but they aren’t thinking about what these things really mean. a bunch of stuff is being memed into existence and it just isn’t true, and it’s damaging to the vulnerable parents who desperately want to do the right thing and happen to hear this bad advice.
This is actually a good example of one of the more sad/disappointing things I’ve seen over the past year.
People whom I respect, whose content I appreciate, and whose passion I love feel so bold as to say something here that they would never say to me in person.
Just because it’s a trendy punching bag.
A complete flagrant disregard for the principle of not saying anything at all if you don’t have anything nice to say. It’s hard to reconcile evidence of thin moral character like this with pre-existing knowledge that this is actually a really cool person and they do really cool stuff.
Jake Rogers retweeted
In US doctrine, the purpose of theatre missile defense (TMD) is not to provide an impenetrable shield for friendly forces for an indefinite period. Rather, it is a tool to buy time for your own offensive assets to neutralize the enemy's theatre missile capabilities.
6/17
ALT Joint Publication 3-01.5
Precisely why me and my wife (who has a teaching degree) are going to homeschool. Teachers are not set up for success and the expectations all around are ridiculous.
"You shouldn't homeschool. You should let experts educate your kids."
"Ok. And we get bad results, the experts will be held responsible for their failure?"
"Good heavens, no. Outcomes are your responsibility as parents."
"Ok. If I'm responsible anyway, I think I'll just homeschool."
"You aren't smart enough to educate your children. Leave it to the experts."
"But...you just said..."
"You obviously still need to be involved. You need to spend time at home ensuring good educational outcomes."
"Ok. How much time will I have?"
"We'll have them most of the day. After homework and everything else, you'll have 2-3 hours, tops. Far less if they are in extracurricular activities."
"So you get my children for far longer than me each day, and take no responsibility?"
"Yes. We're the *experts.*"
"Well, if those 2-3 hours each night is all it should take to ensure good educational outcomes, I think I'll homeschool and be done before noon everyday."
"..."
"..."
"Why do you spew such hate toward teachers?"
Can I filter to never see these accounts?
If you can't talk/engage and are just shouting into the echo chamber I don't want your opinions on my feed.
