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Bad faith argument

Not gonna keep going back and forth when you seem to agree but are choosing to be difficult. We agree SO was falling before LLM's hit the market. We agree LLM's accelerated SO's de…

It's pretty wild. Meanwhile bot farms just shuffle all identifiers. They are actively harming human users in defense of their toxic mods & botters. Site is dying and they are the m…

Then explain the usage chart declining since ~2015? As I said in my original post, LLM was the final nail in the coffin. I'm not arguing they aren't related. I'm saying they SO was…

IMO the community will fracture in two directions. Reddit's differentiator over Instragram, twitter etc. is that it's community based rather than individual based (with the algo ma…

> I think Stack Overflow went dead because of AI specifically This doesn't hold up when looking at usage charts. There is a clear peak around ~2015 with a steady decline through to…

I feel Quora gave up years ago though. When you load a random content page, the top 50% of the page is a question, the bottom 50% is an ad that is designed to look like a comment, …

Stack Overflow was once a haven for tech questions & explanations in the early 10's. At some point, the mod team soured and started deputizing members that started shunning and del…

How are concerns about ecological impact misplaced when discussing solutions to ecological problems. It feels pretty relevant to me. And from everything I've seen/heard, tidal base…

It's a massive stretch to think one poorly placed meltdown somewhere in the UK would lead to the UK collapsing. I suspect it would be visible on a 10 year GDP chart but not "trendi…

People are broadly misinformed. Nuclear plants release significantly less radiation than coal based plants, as an example. They do create a lot of waste that we currently don't kno…

Yes, lifecycle analysis is the holy grail. And I'm not qualified to say the tidal based solutions will never beat out Geo/Solar/Win + Batteries. In my informed but non-professional…

I used to throw loads of parties. At somepoint I realized.. 1. It's expensive. I never once got a reasonable contribution from my friends. I knew this at the time, but eventually I…

As cool as this sounds, I'm not sure I'm as enthused with stuff our oceans full of more tech, which inevitably will wear down, break, and pollute. It's better than oil (duh), and s…

I do not need to know if AI therapy is as good as Real Life therapy. It almost certainly is not. I need to know if using it as AI therapy is actively harmful for some significant p…

If the thing gating your from creating a great product was the engineering, then I would call you a great product designer and not an engineer. If you suddenly can create products …

>You should remain open to new things in this industry I'm open to new things. I've seen demo's, attended presentations, and spent a long time toying around with it myself. I have …

Rip

Words have meaning. I'm not a prescriptivist but when you have an army of formerly PM's, Designers, etc all at once exclaiming "I'm an engineer too!" that should signal that maybe …

To claim AI is useless is ignorant. To claim AI is as good as 99% of people claim it to be, is also ignorant. A lot of people have drank the 'exponential growth' kool aid but don't…

My company is increasingly pushing prompt engineering as the single way we "should" be coding. The CEO & CTO are both obsessed with it and promote things like "delete entire unit t…

My definition of science is something like "a methodical approach to reach some truth" whereas engineering is something like "a methodical approach to reach some functionality". An…

If one wished, could they do something like `save adults to "adults.json" as XML` The expected output would be a file with the name "adults.json" containing XML data. I don't see m…

But is it real empathy? Did they actually pause and feel bad and convert their emotional response to some written message? Or did they just short circuit. "Dead relative -> Say sor…