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by 1attice 2mo ago
I clicked blindly and I can't believe I wound up with the Nordic Times in my bloody browser history now. Yuck. Thanks, HN, have a normal one
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Context is everything. Look up.
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by 1attice 2mo ago
Cool, well, prove away! This is a nice immutable forum.
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by 1attice 2mo ago
This is the most facile bothsideist strip, even for SMBC. As though if we could all just take a minute to figure out what fascism does right , we would see the humanity in those who moved it along with a wink and a nudge. Complicity is a
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by 1attice 3mo ago
Some of us are on visa and have our online presence routinely scanned these days. Asymmetric vuln. If that's not you, why are you upset when it is acknowledged?
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by 1attice 3mo ago
Quick reminder to my fellows that if you discuss this story here, it will end up immutable and available to law enforcement and, e.g., H1B eligibility deciders. Dark forest
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by 1attice 3mo ago
because, intentionally or otherwise, your joke is 'too on the nose', as comedians put it, and 'will the oceans boil first' is, unfortunately, not an unreasonable question to ask, as during any positive feedback loop ther
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by 1attice 3mo ago
Ah, yes, an urbanist telling me to sell the thing that allows me to live far enough away from the metropole such that I can afford a home, which, in turn, is now the only alternative available to a pension, and those, famously, no longer ex
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by 1attice 3mo ago
Give the author their flowers. Honestly there are worse things to write about. I too am a hard nerd who migrated from backend to frontend and dabbled in design. The discovery of typography, design rules, graphing principles, etc. felt to me
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by 1attice 3mo ago
As someone who has been describing things as 'load-bearing' as something like a signature phrase for about twenty years, I'm beyond miffed that Claude has ruined my whole gimmick. A new catchphrase every twenty years is hardl
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by 1attice 3mo ago
So you're saying companies correctly estimated the need to cut staff to remain competitive and did so -- or at least, some state of affairs empirically indistinguishable from this. Not much of an argument, sorry to say
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by 1attice 3mo ago
So did typesetting. But now nobody wants me to ink pages with my bins of moveable type, so I have to go be smart somewhere else, in another field, where everyone is leagues ahead of me in all the ways that count. Signed, a fictitious 18th c
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by 1attice 3mo ago
Depends on the bigco IMO. I'm not sure what kind of layoff numbers for Year Three of genAI would grab your attention, but I assure you, hundreds of thousands have mine.
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by 1attice 3mo ago
Fuck. If the tea is true, this is such a gross way of handling it. I get that they're in an existential battle rn, but they have just Streisand-Effected their own technological pusillanimity. Here's hoping they get it together.
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by 1attice 4mo ago
"Normal" here requires a time bound. I would say it's pretty abnormal if the window is "the last thirty years", and pretty normal if it's "the last thirty days." Because of the thing.
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Ads first, then surveillance, as always. Also, recall that there is no confidentiality privilege when talking to an AI; any proprietary cloud-hosted model gathers text to be read out in court. You can now have your convo about your ex wife
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by 1attice 4mo ago
The barrier to getting a traditional therapist is enormous - for some problems you're looking at years, maybe decades of treatment, at anywhere from $150-250 a pop. In the USA techworld, your insurance will likely not cover this unless
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by 1attice 4mo ago
You have a great narrative there, with villians and deception, and sensible heroes who dismiss the nonsense with fresh air and clear heads. But do look at the actual data. The AMOC slowing is ahead of schedule. Carbon use is down, but atmos
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Trust me, the climate is in as rough a shape as those so-called extremists would have you believe. You can quite literally read it off the veniers, or at least we could until we hired a strong man to smash them. Nuclear is another matter --
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by 1attice 4mo ago
The spa is brilliant. Think of corporate rec days that also cut insurance costs. Good lord, its like you're new to hypercapitalism :)
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by 1attice 4mo ago
I forecast that you will not be bored, and may have other, stronger feelings. Ask Ukrainians
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Was thinking similarly. "Fable" is not the name I would have chosen for a product that has to argue for the fact of its own economic viability but it is the correct mood. Perhaps Anthropic is trolling Zitron.
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Thank you for this Prattfall
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by 1attice 4mo ago
I've been thinking lately that what underpinned the FOSS golden age was not actually decentralized VCS and high-quality forges, nor even ZIRP, but rather peacetime. After a period of branches and patchsets, full national hard forks are
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by 1attice 4mo ago
'Barring the invasion of Taiwan' might actually be quite a lot to bar in mid 2026. My hot take is that it's now or never for Xi, and from the specific things he is reported to have said to the US president at their last meeti
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by 1attice 4mo ago
History is long and never over, so he could easily be right both times before this is through.
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Without being mean, I encourage you to go look at some of simonw's writing on this topic, which he has addressed repeatedly (and IMO satisfactorily.) I know because I too had this initial take; however, upon analysis, it is not sound.
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by 1attice 4mo ago
in, what, six months and like two points of data? No thank you, I prefer my thinking science-y.
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by 1attice 4mo ago
The expectation of linear presentation of change in a bistable system is gobsmacking here. If this kind of argument were generally valid, it would imply that: - all change neither accelerates nor decelerates, which is absurd, on the face of
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by 1attice 4mo ago
...and as horrible as that writing is, Pythagoras would have still been telling you a true thing. So too, Zitron?

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