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> There are many valid critiques of AI, but “there’s not much there” isn’t one of them. I have solved more problems with tools like sed and awk, you know, actual tools, more than I…

Valve selling skins is just so trivial relative to dopamine-inducing doom-scrolling, social media in general, the toxicity of the news cycle, I can keep going. It would be super de…

More to the point, I think part of being a senior is being able to dig up code you wrote a few years ago and say “how awful”

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You really think if they had the unchecked power of Stalin or mao they would be… better? Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s a no-kidding literary tool used throughout history…

> Jacobin is not a whole journal on literal communism. It’s a magazine with a professed socialist view point but it’s more aligned with left-of-center American politics. Think Sand…

I worked on a C codebase once, integrating an i2c sensor. The vendor only had example code in asm. I had to learn to inline asm. It still happens in 2025

Gamed tests?

Using US VC dollars. Where their desks are isn’t really important.

Oh, the bill was 12.3k

Does a computer understand how hot or cold it is outside? Does it understand that your offspring might be cranky because they’re hungry? Or not hungry, just tired? Can it divine th…

Discover, not invent

Which bits cost 100k? The $75 ibproufen? The $47 towel? The $19,563 bed charge? Oh, the $32,925 imaging that NFL players get instantly? Insurance in America is a fucking joke.

I am a male breast cancer survivor. I had a mammogram the other week. $620. No, nobody benefits from insurance in America. Well, nobody ill.

If i could understand what the brain scans actually meant, I would consider it a good representation. I don't think we know yet what they mean. I saw some headline the other day ab…

> I expect to see responses like yours on Reddit, not HN. I suppose that says something about both of us.

> something fundamental has changed that enables a computer to pretty effectively understand natural language. You understand how the tech works right? It's statistics and tokens. …

The conflict has essentially been going on since Jacob and Esau, if you view the Bible as a historical record.

Just get a ps5. I went through the same adventure.

People pay for this?

Umm. I guess not? > Six years ago, I wrote that it was a terrible idea for LEGO to acquire Bricklink and revisiting some of my thoughts I expressed then, it sure seems like there’s…

“Statistical matrix math outperforms statistical matrix math!” More at 11

I graduated high school in 2005. I had been making and running websites and forums (phpbb anyone?) since 1998…ish? I went to a solid state college, started my degree in EE, bounced…

Don’t climb that ladder and eat that food! We will beat you!

Ah. I was responding to: > Your average web app can have security-critical issues but they probably won’t have safety-critical issues. How many air-gapped systems have you worked o…