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(do people still at dang? don't read here often anymore)

@dang something about this website triggering content blocking filters. hate to say that i don't have time to investigate but it seems worth mentioning

Predictably, if you say anything sane on the internet, you get a longwinded rude nonsense reply for your effort. The consistent message from social media in the last 10 years is: d…

propaganda. "the economy isn't actually good!" they won't even show a chart in the article. 493 is up ... look at a 2025 5y chart. not that "basically flat" (actually 2023) chart g…

“Needless bullshit” is a bad take. What if I have a mission and I like it and it’s totally authentic? My customers like it too. Are you calling me full of it for achieving that dif…

Cool idea and I like the format. Transformer circuits and attention would be a cool thing too.

Speculating about existential risk is certainly important, but way too easy to overstate. It can easily become distracting and actually dangerous in itself. Here’s a good take on i…

Yeah I should have left the Rumsfeld part out because the conversation naturally got distracted. It isn’t accurate to attribute it to him. His was perhaps the most prominent recent…

Haha. Thanks for sharing that. Rumsfeld definitely has a sense of humor. He’s also one of the best candidates for that type of conspiracy theory. His career history is flabbergasti…

Yes I like the zero joins on hot paths approach. It can be hard to sell people on it. It’s a great decision for scaling though.

I’m reminded of one of my favorite sayings: You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. You may want to ignore that this this…

What was the workflow to create the icon? It looks great.

I have always agreed with Vinod Khosla about doctors. Much of what they do today should be replaced by AI. My own opinion: their arrogance is the most offensive part of the situati…

It really depends. If the chat is high quality and actually doing something helpful, then I want to talk to it. The adoption rate and usage stats of ChatGPT disagree with the tile.…

Yeah

Definitely lost any respect I had for her here.

Anyone able to infer what volume or mass of this substance they're claiming to have produced? How many unit cells?

Absolutely no thanks. Where to start? There are so many poorly thought out ideas here it's like a firehose. Videos of crazy intersections somewhat "working" in the third world does…

They are a large portion of ER cases and ambulance calls. If you go to an ER in an urban area, especially late at night, there's always a few crazy people raving in some sort of ep…

Yeah this seems like the title should be edited. @dang (not sure how to get his attention)

Maybe it’s too harsh that I used the term “whining idiots ”, but if you’re going to make a retort you shouldn’t play into “whining” by being sarcastic. Sarcasm doesn’t win anyone o…

Seems fine to me. I’m still on it. It’s still active, I still see content. So some community is dark? Who cares. If i wasn’t subbed to it I don’t really care.

Yeah that’s exactly right. The reddit mods are the worst type of drama queens. They should have no special power to control the user experience or site traffic.

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Hey how did you do the tilted / perspective effect on the browser window screenshots on the landing homepage?