gherkinnn

7 ms·

151.
by gherkinnn 7mo ago
> This conflict lights a fire under the behinds of all nascent nuclear states. Iran would not have been invaded if they'd managed to build nuclear weapons. Replace "Iran" with "Ukraine", the difference being that
152.
by gherkinnn 7mo ago
The ability of a state to run on energy pulled out of thin air is an obvious strategic benefit. Surely the resources required to build and maintain solar panels, turbines, dams, and nuclear reactors are logistically more stable than oil has
153.
by gherkinnn 7mo ago
Paying WoR subscriber here. Kofman likes to talk a lot and can't interview others because of it. He is also clearly pro-Ukraine. But I never saw him as a cheap propagandist. Not even an expensive one. Despite his obvious allegiance, he
154.
by gherkinnn 7mo ago
On Killing further develops the idea [0] by looking at a wider set of battles across time and, crucially, finds that by adapting training methods, the kill rate went up to beyond 90%. This then appears to come with higher rates PTSD. 0 - h
155.
by gherkinnn 7mo ago
It's either vague notions like "more important than the invention fire", or concrete cases like booking trips that the likes of Google can enshittify at lightspeed. I am not optimistic, not because the techs is lacking, but t
156.
by gherkinnn 7mo ago
It is dangerous to believe a problem goes only as deep as one's understanding of it.
157.
by gherkinnn 7mo ago
Going on a wild tangent here, why do these office suite companies stick to MS Word's principle of emulating paper and typewriters? Or rather, why do people kling to that metaphor? Surely, Notion showed us that there are better working
158.
by gherkinnn 7mo ago
It's the Vercel way to first run broken previews for several years. Next started with Turbopack alpha as a Webpack alternative in Next 13 (October 2022) and finally marked Turbopack as stable and default in Next 16 (October 2025). They
159.
by gherkinnn 7mo ago
To some, being independent of a finite and politically unstable resource like oil is woke . It was abundantly clear that one of Iran's methods would be to shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Sadly, there are people in charge who think the
160.
by gherkinnn 7mo ago
The irony of replacing one coping mechanism (the elites are 4D chess players) with a different one (the elites are morons) is not lost in me.
161.
by gherkinnn 7mo ago
As others have said, my money is on the banal. They're just morons. Successful morons, but morons non the less. The fact that neither you or I are part of the global elite isn't entirely due to a lack of merit, but a lack of luc
162.
by gherkinnn 8mo ago
In practice, Iran posed a local threat. It wasn't Iran that exported Wahabism around the globe. Iran didn't fund the Mujahedeen, nor was it the source of IS. It wasn't Persians flying the jets of 911 nor were any Iranians or
163.
by gherkinnn 8mo ago
> This is an elite narrative. What happened to normal people? In the real world? What a rubbish point you're pushing. Millions and millions died or were exterminated. Countless fled or were forcefully displaced. The country was occu
164.
by gherkinnn 8mo ago
> Look at Germany after they lost WW2; they still speak German. Their cultural identity is still very strong; maybe it affected their foreign policy a little but apart from that, it's hard to tell. What a comically bad take. I am lo
165.
by gherkinnn 8mo ago
Maybe the act of writing code will die. I still have hope that the act of transforming ideas and vibes in to something that works remains valuable. The means might change but the end remains.
166.
by gherkinnn 8mo ago
I am growing comfortable with bouncing between the confused and the losers. In this model, anybody between the losers and sociopaths are the true suckers. I am no sociopath so I better make myself comfortable at the bottom of the barrel. Mo
167.
by gherkinnn 8mo ago
What's with HN's apparent dislike of The Verge? Of all the tech sites I've been visiting for the past decade it is the only one that hasn't gone to shit.
168.
by gherkinnn 8mo ago
Maybe, just maybe, Meta bosses aren't even aware that what they're doing is nefarious. Just business as usual. Now, one wonders what constitutes "nefarious" or a grey zone worth hiding in their minds.
169.
by gherkinnn 8mo ago
Ah, Schrödingers Immigrant. Stealing all the jobs while leeching off the hard working nationals.
170.
by gherkinnn 8mo ago
How much of the big tech layoffs were because of over-hiring and, in some orgs at least, large numbers of employees "resting and vesting"? Elon took an axe to Twitter and his chums saw that it chugged along well enough so Google,
171.
by gherkinnn 8mo ago
Doesn't coke come with mania? Either way, OP is holding it wrong and vague hypebro comments like yours don't help either. Be specific. Here's an example: I told Claude 4.5 Opus to go through our DB migration files and the ORM
172.
by gherkinnn 8mo ago
The hype is the product
173.
by gherkinnn 9mo ago
My main source of AI fatigue is how it is the main topic anywhere and everywhere I go. I can't visit an art gallery without something pestering me about LLMs.
174.
by gherkinnn 9mo ago
I remember $CURRENT_YEAR taking off around 2016 where it was used in the innocent days of the culture wars alongside terms like "dongle" and "shitlord".
175.
by gherkinnn 9mo ago
Nonsense. Running at an Olympic level and pushing the boundaries of what we've evolved for might leave its mark. But that is not what is being talked about here.
176.
by gherkinnn 9mo ago
Meta storing WhatsApp messages requires one mental leap: they found a secret way to hoover up WhatsApp messages. Everything else is their MO, including breaking systems to their advantage and having absolutely no scruples. On the other hand
177.
by gherkinnn 9mo ago
Allegations against a company who circumvented Android's security to track users? I don't have any proof that Meta stores WhatsApp messages but I feel it in my bones that at the very least tried to do so. And if ever that comes to
178.
by gherkinnn 9mo ago
Yes, nasty salesmen are as old as time and possibly predate humans, but that is not what enshittification means. From Wikipedia[0]: > Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a process in which two-sided onli
179.
by gherkinnn 9mo ago
> Google Docs is not throwing up a blocking dialog in the middle of you typing a sentence. I rarely use the G Suite, but when I do I get bombarded with a queue of popups and alerts about this feature, this Gemini integration and whatever
180.
by gherkinnn 9mo ago
Simple. Your mistake is assuming that these surveys used to gather actual information. The 30 questions satisfy all of the bikeshedding smoothbrains in the survey-design-committee. The survey itself isn't used to make informed decision

More ›