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901.
by sph 6mo ago
They needed to make room for more AI posts
902.
by sph 6mo ago
Imagine writing this comment on 2013 Hacker News with a straight face.
903.
by sph 6mo ago
AI;dr: keyword arguments would be great in all languages, not just Smalltalk Also, obviously bot/bought account.
904.
by sph 6mo ago
Even the unobfuscated version is a work of art. You rarely see such concise and honestly beautiful C code.
905.
by sph 6mo ago
Learning to use a search engine would be a great start.
906.
by sph 6mo ago
As someone else that went on rotten in my formative years, the feeling of disgust was so immense to know I want to stay away from any sort of real-life gore. Yet your experience is so common (fascination, wonder) I wonder what the hell is w
907.
by sph 6mo ago
You are partly right but also prey to the same issue: yes, most technopositivists lack broad enough knowledge to even conceive that technology can be a net negative for society (usually a lack of foundation in humanities, a common issue in
908.
by sph 6mo ago
The bad thing about the Internet is that a machine can do that at scale and for very cheap, quickly drowning any human’s voice. I miss when the Internet was mostly a collection of myopic views from naive people.
909.
by sph 6mo ago
Then you need to read outside your bubble.
910.
by sph 6mo ago
No, perhaps continental European. When I moved to Britain I had some adjusting period at work because English-speaking countries are terrified of disagreement and confrontation, and I am not used to dancing around the point, especially in s
911.
by sph 6mo ago
More slop from the slop factory
912.
by sph 6mo ago
What annoys me the most is the half of these comments discuss the ‘protecting the children’ agenda when it is clear that it is all smoke and mirrors and it’s just a stepping stone for mass surveillance of adult citizens. You guys should kno
913.
by sph 6mo ago
Complaining about rent-seeking for $20/year? OK mate.
914.
by sph 6mo ago
And it’s been like this since ~2023
915.
by sph 6mo ago
A bit early to call it durable then when most of its competition is decades old.
916.
by sph 6mo ago
No, you soon realize it’s promoting the same ‘niche’ videos to a large cohort. You and half a million people worldwide have that video recommended from the same unknown Russian indie rock band
917.
by sph 6mo ago
Another certified neal.fun banger
918.
by sph 6mo ago
Sssh, don't give away the secret.
919.
by sph 6mo ago
> I'm hoping that something wonderful and entirely human-centered will come out of the anti-AI movement It will. That's why it's important to be a "Luddite" and to make our voices heard. Plenty are on the sidelin
920.
by sph 6mo ago
> It's a good time to be a debtor So you mean rich people, for whom loans are easy to get so inflation always works in their favour
921.
by sph 6mo ago
> equivalent to suggesting that going to school for instruction will cause me to forget how to learn I see plenty of “classically trained” people (as opposed to self-taught) that have no idea how to learn things on their own and at their
922.
by sph 6mo ago
I was being sarcastic.
923.
by sph 6mo ago
Personally I just accept that all technologies are great and must be embraced! This way I do not have to think about ethics and potential implications for society.
924.
by sph 6mo ago
Respect. I moved countries for lower cost of living, and I’m gonna become a starving artist, so to speak, trying to use my software skills to make myself useful and earn enough to buy food, in a field where human ingenuity still reign supre
925.
by sph 6mo ago
Good to see another Luddite (as they’d call us) on here! I am quitting tech in a month. I chose to go through 6 month of identity crisis, depression and reinventing my life after 20 years in software than having those bullshit generators im
926.
by sph 6mo ago
Damn, you vibe coders live like this?
927.
by sph 6mo ago
As long as it's protected by Cloudflare, that is.
928.
by sph 6mo ago
Take a sentence for a title, replace one of the verbs with SLAM, LAMBAST and CLAPS BACK, you're hired. The rest of the article can be AI generated, don't fret about it.
929.
by sph 6mo ago
Serious question: would Iran obtaining nuclear weapons make my gasoline more expensive? Would the US war make life better for anyone except the US military industrial complex and Netanyahu personally? I mean, even the goal of liberating Ira
930.
by sph 6mo ago
By credentials you mean, and I mean no offence, that she is an established artist and has a great personal website? She is internet famous, sure, but she still has to prove if her ideas on how to evolve GitHub are the right one.

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