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All of these comments aged well.

When it comes to fossil fuels, there's no such thing as 'energy independence' because fossil fuels are traded on a global market. In addition, not all oil is the same. So you have …

To be fair, though, electricity is usually cheaper at night. So discharging solar charged batteries well into the evening is still a net benefit for the grid (and your wallet).

people were worried about deepfakes with AI but instead the propaganda is doing pretty well, and arguably better, when it's not a deepfake but instead silly, catchy, youthful, and …

They've fallen victim to a catastrophically easy scare tactic, unfortunately. "The sun only shines during the day therefore solar is bad!" Dumb, but easy.

> I often wonder why tech has so many reductionist, materialist, and quite frankly anti-human, thinkers. I think it comes from a position of arrogance/ego. I'll speak for the US he…

Sure, but this is absolutely not how people are viewing the AI lol.

This is a way too simplistic model of the things humans provide to the process. Imagination, Hypothesis, Testing, Intuition, and Proofing. An AI can probably do an 'okay' job at su…

This is it right here. I've long thought about this one and whether I should bother with an AI agent that can do all of this stuff for me, but the reality is both what you said and…

Could you imagine hitting a rest api and like 25% of the bytes are comments? lol

To be fair, the first point is a good point. But I'd argue that you should deploy them everywhere in order to not be racist since we already generally know that the red light camer…

Likewise. I once got pulled over by the police because they insisted that my license plate had been turned in and I was driving without valid plates. They called other officers, ra…

While I'll make no judgment specifically on whether or not she is telling the truth, because the article itself isn't enough validation to say she is telling the truth here; I'll c…

I hadn't considered this so eloquently with LLM text output, but you're right. "LLMs make everything sound profound" and "well-written bullshit". This has severe ramifications for …

I can't believe the person you replied to thinks that they're going to get some magical more amount of equity because you can hopefully do more with fewer people. That's assuming t…

I question that as well, it's also why Go is extremely popular. Could it just be a pendulum swing back towards static linking? Wonder when some enterprising OSS dev will rebrand dy…

Why are you excited for this? They’re not going to give YOU those peoples’ salaries. You will get none of it. In fact, it will drag your salary through the floor because of all the…

Wanted to reply though it's been 10 days! You are correct. But the one thing the words do is lend credibility to the eventual overthrow of the terrible regime, by allowing the word…

No, it's a solved problem for ad blockers , a very specific problem case that extensions have traditionally solved. But the entire concept of extensions is far greater than just "a…

I mean on iOS you do have a raw home storage path you can save arbitrary binary data stuff to, although Apple generally just has the option of "Save to Files"--but you have at leas…

Or in your scenario, understand the concept of 8.3 file names and why they existed, and when they were removed, and how :P

Thanks! That's one of them :) I had to look it up as it was bothering me. The other is "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire.

I'll distill it down into something you might understand a bit easier. On social media, such as Instagram, or Tiktok, you'll find a bit of a meme going around that shows the differ…

Because you're unable to understand art, honestly. Photography isn't just "taking a photo and making a grayscale image in Photoshop"; but rather a combination of a couple of differ…

It's certainly amped up in coordination over the last decade with the mixing of the tech oligarchs and the traditional religious oligarchs. What it reminds me of is the situation i…