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AllegedAlec

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    Comment #49086672

    > We cannot possibly expect all parents to take proper care of their kids. This has never been the case and never will. That's why we have schools and other institutions that overs…

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    Comment #49083419

    You're missing my point. Shortage and conflict is the default . It's not a fault unique to capitalism, and to say that it's its fault is missing the mark. I'm not saying it's an ou…

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    Comment #49083075

    > Capitalism has defined ‘health’ itself as a capacity to submit oneself to labor People keep mindlessly saying this but I have never seen evidence for it. Before money was ever in…

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    Comment #49031878

    > Well not everyone has the privilege to buy new books, especially course-mandated books that the professor "coincidentally" wrote and costs hundreds of dollars. Do you even unders…

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    Comment #49008510

    We could also fit more people in if you crushed everyone, dehydrated them and stored they remains in huge compressed cubes. Efficiency is not all we want

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    Comment #48340928

    > The actual cost is going to drop 99% in ~4 years. And fusion power is just 2 decades into the future!

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    Comment #48313734

    So many China shills running interference and whataboutism...

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    Comment #48208313

    "Hey guys, good news! You will all be made redundant by AI and we, some intellectual elite who somehow think we're not going to be affected by AI think you're going to be happy abo…

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    Comment #47729292

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    Comment #47674904

    Today it's Trump, yesterday it was something else. Tomorrow it'll be a third thing.

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    Comment #47673926

    We've had this discourse happen again and again over the last... Christ, 20 years fuck me. At some point people have to start realizing "oh wait, maybe the current situation isn't …

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    Comment #47673734

    > No, it works not worse, but better. "Is it me who is wrong? No, it's everyone else!"

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    Comment #47571965

    I really want to like Ruby; it's my Smalltalk-lite for small projects, because it's easier to run and get going than spinning up VMs. However, it's retarded shit like this drama th…

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    Comment #47306600

    I found that the drivers I had were no longer compatible with the newer kernels. After upgrading to newer drivers it was able to offload again.

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    Comment #47295554

    > Well, for a time greek city states did fight pretty much like this. Small armies of hoplites were raised outside harvest season, went out, fought almost show-battles with very fe…

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    Comment #47248336

    Absolute insanity

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    Comment #47229480

    Totally! I'm sick of not being able to see what tools they use. In fact, I feel that we should also start tagging devs that use an IDE instead of properly coding games in notepad.

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    Comment #47205238

    I'll have to try projects I guess, but I just want to sometimes ask questions without it bringing up shit I asked about in the past which isn't relevant to what I'm asking this tim…

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    Comment #47204748

    In online Claude I often use incognito mode precisely because I don't want results to be influenced by what we talked about earlier. It's getting rather annoying to be honest.

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    Comment #46926677

    While I'm on the fence about LLMs there's something funny about seeing an industry of technologists tear their own hair out about how technology is destroying their jobs. We're the…

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    Comment #46885818

    Still a vacuum so the same heat dissipation issues, adding to it that the lunar dust makes solar panels less usable, and the lunar surface on the solar side gets really hot.

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    Comment #46856760

    My concern isn't really clarity of intention, but that 'allowlisting' just doesn't flow as well when reading as whitelisting does.

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    Comment #46854478

    Not entirely related to the content but man 'allowlisting' reads so badly. We should just out of ease of reading return to whitelisting.

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    Comment #46716778

    "I disagree with this point of view so it's objectively wrong"