anal_reactor

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by anal_reactor 8d ago
AI didn't steal any culture. It just made mediocre culture more accessible. Turns out, most people do like mediocre culture. Previously, public TV channels could at least pretend that people enjoy educational content or classical music
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by anal_reactor 8d ago
> porn I would totally accept a job for a legit porn company. Regarding harmful stuff... "harmful" is such a broad definition, because it heavily depends on the culture. Having "volunteered for an LGBT organisation" o
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by anal_reactor 8d ago
Mainstream politicians refuse to even acknowledge the problem
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by anal_reactor 9d ago
Media literacy is hitting record lows
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by anal_reactor 9d ago
Phrased the story the way you did, Person 2 is a total asshole. They decided not to honor an agreement based on vibes? Something I'll never understand about American culture is that morality and legality are equivalent, and scamming yo
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by anal_reactor 10d ago
X360 / PS3 are totally hackable, and those games were released before the PITA of modern gaming began. Maybe the real question is whether these games are worth preserving. Most valuable games have a PC port anyway and those get cracked
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by anal_reactor 16d ago
I'm a coomer, but when it comes to the internet, I only see things getting worse.
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by anal_reactor 16d ago
HN is for me the last bastion. And I wholeheartedly agree that intelligent people should have their own separate space from the rest. I used to be a very progressive guy "everyone deserves equal chances" but the older I get, the m
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by anal_reactor 16d ago
Can you summary the video? I cannot change the audio track and the AI dubbing makes my gut bacteria cry.
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by anal_reactor 17d ago
That doesn't really matter. Currently we're in the "this is a dog" (marks a muffin) stage of "AI as a scientist". It's totally reasonable to expect that considering how rapidly AI is advancing, the frontie
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by anal_reactor 18d ago
Yeah I get that. But treat them like candy - it's okay to eat a small dessert after lunch, it's okay to eat entire bucket of ice cream once in a while, but you know, your main diet needs to be quality stuff.
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by anal_reactor 18d ago
Stay open for more nuggets of wisdom!
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by anal_reactor 18d ago
Travel. It's cheaper than ever.
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by anal_reactor 18d ago
The answer is simple. Limit your time on social media the way you'd be limiting a child and focus on IRL interactions.
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by anal_reactor 19d ago
I don't think I'll ever learn what the folder structure on Linux actually means
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by anal_reactor 21d ago
> If you believe gender equality is an intrinsic good First, I believe that women have privileged position compared to men. So tipping the scales in favor of women removes gender equality. Second, comparison with black emancipation makes
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by anal_reactor 21d ago
> Which is awfully convenient for the men that don't want to do those things. I do. Now what.
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by anal_reactor 21d ago
I don't think this is going to change because it helps automate code production. As in, once we reach a point where this method produces acceptable results, we can fire all engineers and automate the process.
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by anal_reactor 21d ago
> And of course the exclusion. Inside a group, then outside it. People I ate lunch with went quiet. The chats went quiet. I became a story other people told carefully. This is why I don't rely on workplace being the place where frie
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by anal_reactor 21d ago
Eh. I'm just tired of feminism. It promised equality but instead brought the gender war while driving down salaries.
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by anal_reactor 23d ago
> How does this happen? Simple. Evolutionarily, the dumber you are, the higher the risks of dying, because you do stupid shit. Inversely, the safer the environment, the dumber people become, because not doing stupid shit stops being evol
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by anal_reactor 23d ago
English is the only big language that doesn't have a recognized standardization body.
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by anal_reactor 23d ago
We are wired to be > needed If I died today, I wouldn't even get a slack memo "we miss anal_reactor". Modern economy proved that humans are totally fungible. > wanted I have a dream that someone would take me on a date.
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by anal_reactor 23d ago
It's actually funny because Italy, France and Germany used to be much more linguistically diverse but then public education happened and it all collapsed to the standard language. Dialects and minority languages are being pretty much e
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by anal_reactor 24d ago
> So what do people actually do? In the ancient times you'd ask your friends and neighbors for referrals, but nowadays we don't have friends and we don't talk to our neighbors, and even if we did, they don't know shit
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by anal_reactor 26d ago
> It is like saying having a gluten free option on the menu takes away the enjoyment of a meal's target audience. Having a gluten-free option takes away resources from other parts of the restaurant. Considering the fact that gluten
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by anal_reactor 26d ago
The game has both puzzle and platforming elements. A similar argument could be made "they could make puzzles easier for people who don't like puzzles" which is silly because one of the reasons why the game got so popular is t
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by anal_reactor 26d ago
Nah, for light switches I'm all-in Philips Hue because it's both pretty and convenient. Plus LEDs synchronized with that via House Assistant.
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by anal_reactor 27d ago
> Overall, it seems like the LLM are really straining the internet economy, the openness of it I feel like it's the same issue that public resources are facing. Step 1: public resource is freely available Step 2: asshole shows up, d
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by anal_reactor 28d ago
> You could meet cool new people My first date was a guy with fake photos. Ten dates later I settled for a married guy cheating on his wife. He eventually divorced but then I left him.

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