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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig and Kelly Morrison showed up at the Whipple Federal Building and were initially allowed in, but shortly after, asked to leave and blocked from touring the facility. What pisses me off about this st
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
You simply don't know what the goal was. I would think that breathing life into a vile monster would, among other things, tend to make his monsterism more obvious to observers, and perhaps elicit responses exactly like yours. For all y
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Yeah but then go watch the Rush documentary. Seems like if the band decides to just retire to their hotel rooms and read, there's none of that.
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Makes sense. If you're an island surrounded by water, you don't have to go through the hassle of finding a piece of land to put them on.
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
It's sad how surprised the author and all of us are. Has it really become the norm to create crap that you pay for, that just stops working one day and becomes e-waste? If that ever happens to me, that's a company I'm never g
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Past experience has me asking whether this was drafted with the help of the Real Food Lobby. (I jest, but not all the way.)
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Is he saying humans have become this way because of the influence of LLMs? Because actually the reverse is true.
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
I feel like it's time for me to hang up this career. Prompting is boring, and doing it 5 times at once is just annoying multitasking. I know I'm mostly in it for the money, but at least there used to be a feeling of accomplishment
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
That's how you know the "culture" and the "vision" really do have to come from the top, and how you know Steve Jobs really was providing value.
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Stuff like this gives a satisfying sense of restoring order. This is the way things were before dramatic human intervention. The ironic part is that the restoration itself requires human intervention. I always find myself wondering what wou
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
It's important to challenge that assumption.
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
"This sort of semiconductor would go on to be in the 5G tower in which you get your mobile phone signal, it's going to be in the car charger you plug an EV into, it's going to be in the latest planes." LOL! Talk about
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
No, it's long gone. I even managed to botch the backup I tried to make, so it really is gone.
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Just sayin
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
If it's fair game to do this in Venezuela, it's fair game here in the US.
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Yep, you can put me in the "used to have a blog" category! Toward the end I just got busy on other things and drifted away from it. Been thinking about starting up again lately though, which is why all of this stuff is top-of-mind
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Just going by their HN profile I'm betting it's https://allaboutberlin.com/
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Yeah, a blog isn't just a place to quickly jot things down, it's actually work. And because it's work, and it's optional, you sort of have to feel like it's "the work you should be doing," or at least part
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
It gives me hope for the future to see the young'uns recognizing instances where progress isn't necessarily progress. If you oversimplify audio history as 70s=vinyl, 80s=cassettes, 90s=CDs, 00s=MP3s, and 10s=streaming, they'v
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
As of 1816 UTC, every top-level comment here talks about Rob Pike. But read the footnotes: It's not about Rob Pike. I'm not accusing anyone, but the shallowness is consistent with and reminiscent of bots. And being so doggedly aga
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
Portland OR has "Vantucky" (Vancouver WA)
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
It's all rather dumb, but your examples are really counterexamples, because a watt is sadly not something most people understand. One would at minimum need to have passed a physics class, and even that doesn't necessarily leave a
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
I still don't see the problem. You can criticize things you're part of. Probably being part of something is what informs a person enough, and makes it matter enough to them, to criticize in the first place.
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
What makes you think platitudes are always dishonest, first of all? Your writing sounds like fuckin' AI, so I wouldn't complain if I were you. "Beggars can't be choosers." Also, "You can't always get what
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
I want nothing to do with Waymo or any of the others, but they're all being forced on me. I think self-driving cars are one of the biggest and stupidest misallocations of resources and talent we've seen yet. And they're being
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
Just stopped in the middle of traffic for no reason? Approximately zero.
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
So this makes it desirable for someone's robots to block roads during an emergency?
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
I was actually wondering more about the people whose streets they are. Didn't mean to indicate that I or anyone cares what HN thinks.
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
I've seen plenty but about the wrong things.
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by rdiddly 10mo ago
No one seems sufficiently outraged that a private company's equipment blocked the public roads during an emergency.

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