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> What rubbish - only fools will believe that Russia has an interest in starting a nuclear WW3. Putin's regime threatens western Europe in general with nuclear strikes on a weekly …

> So, call it USB-D or something, USB-C is the connector type, not the cable. The connector type supports multiple protocols, including for interoperability with other connector ty…

> There shouldn't even need to be a label. A USB-C cable should be a USB-C cable should be a USB-C cable. I think you are confused. USB-C refers to the connector type, not the cabl…

> In my setup my laptop is close enough that I can reach out and use the fingerprint reader on it. Some mechanical keyboards ship with an embedded USB hub that supports a couple of…

> It could even just be a wireless pass-through for USB to allow your yubikey to work for example Everyone would be better served with a generic USB hub in the keyboard, not shippi…

> People are still allowed to share their experience and opinions without citations being a requirement. Expressing feelings and staying assertions are two different things. If you…

> Office buildings take land and resources and generate almost nothing for the local community This reads like the prelude to Month Python's "what have the Romans ever done for us"…

> Opposition to data centers is like 90% hatred of Silicon Valley and its obstinate elites. One they amplified by trying to build these things sneakily. This is utter nonsense, and…

> The funny thing about data center concerns in Chicagoland, where I'm hearing it, is that data centers are better neighbors than almost any other commercial real estate. This base…

> People love hating on x and nikita but both the app & web experience have improved dramatically over the last year+. This feels like a blatantly unrealistic opinion to have, whic…

> Fortunately we are humans, and professionally trained humans at that, and we can judge readability and comprehensibility of methods through better measures than whether it crosse…

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> Those are interesting points. The US military is optimised for limited strike "special military operations", which it does all the time, and deterrence. I don't think so. The US …

> This logic doesn't hold under closer scrutiny. The timeline to expand missile production is on the order of years. You're missing the whole point. The point is not that missiles …

Trump's Iran war is known as "operation Epstein fury" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_2026_Iran_war

> That's the one glaring weakness of relying too heavily on missiles. They are expensive and difficult to manufacture. And they have a limited shelf life, making stockpiles also ex…

> I will say that yes, sadly, I have browsed through code written by people, and sadly also have browsed through code written by LLMs. Who do you suppose wrote the code the LLM was…

> LLM speedups have always been predicated on not understanding the code they produce as well as if you wrote it yourself. Reviewing even well written code to understand it in dept…

> Where in the heck are the efficiency gains? I think there's some confusion in your post. You're seeing people claiming that the rate their code changes is so fast that they find …

> (...) it's been a bit horrifying to watch the Western world consistently decide withholding tech from China and giving them no other option but develop their own tech, is a good …

> Eventually AI will be able to just bootstrap solid security, payment, accounts, DB management, backups, customer support services that automatically link to the correct departmen…

> Genuine question, does anyone here ITT working in software still have dedicated QA? A few years ago I worked at a company who had a team of QAs dedicated to do manual acceptance …

> Differences in opinion can be on major issues and are important. Invading Greenland, annexing Canada, and helping Russia invade half a dozen neighboring nations while waging econ…

> It's clear by reading all this that you are arguing against some boogieman you've made up in your head because I didn't say any of those things. Your cognitive dissonance is fant…

> This feels like a very American way of designing things - just throw more horse power at it, bigger is better! I don't think so. Bruteforcing problems is a well established strat…