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'Cause the brain is in a glass vat. and brains have eyes too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc3uWxs9adw

If this is about safety, am I being too naive & idealistic to think that a "Kamar-Taj" rule would solve some safety issues? The "Kamar-Taj" rule is, no knowledge is forbidden, only…

If Quagmire were in charge of naming things.

You know it's interesting, because with the right treatment and support, people with diabetes can live long, fulfilling lives. It's the same for depression. It does not matter if i…

You said it friend.

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This is ableism.

There is no cure for depression. Like there is no cure for diabetes. There is a big difference between having the disease, and feeling sadness brought on by circumstances. There is…

Software quality, i.e lack of bugs, from the average user's perspective, is a hygiene factor. High quality does not get rewarded, and the instant it crosses below the threshold of …

The man with more than one watch never knows what time it is.

I genuinely do not understand why people think my comment on this is a bad take. I believe it is absolutely ridiculous to have token usage leader boards. But isn't it also ridiculo…

I'm guessing you aren't invested in any of these stocks. I'm also guessing, to take the perspective of a tokenamxxing GenZ employee, that their bosses are.

Excessive token burning as a tactic to annoy your employer probably does the opposite - it probably makes your employer money. The more tokens you burn, the more demand for hardwar…

Hacker news is not a representative subset of humanity. So you are restricting your range of understanding. Maybe that's necessary for mental health, (it is for me) but the tradeof…

In my mind this is what prototyping is for. Just get it working quickly and see if the concept has legs. But be prepared to completely re-write it because the "just make it work" m…

My status after reading your comment: https://imgflip.com/i/7yki7x Agentic tools are "burglary tools" -> Younger folks should not study CS?

Yes it is nauseating. And it's the norm. Whenever some company finds a way to make a boat-load of money by exploiting a weakness of human nature, the government will demand a porti…

5 internet points to you sir.

Maybe they could use this DDoS attack as their 17th round technical interview. Any candidate who successfully mitigates the attack would then make it to the 18th round. Win win!

I enjoyed reading this. I LOL'd when I read "eternal ball of sadness".

No apology necessary - I appreciate the straightforward offer of solutions to difficult problems.

I was curious about this so I looked around a bit. My interpretation is that GrapheneOS still has not cracked this nut. Neither has iPhone, unless you enable "Lockdown Mode" https:…

I guess I like the idea of having to think a little more deeply about how memory is used while I'm programming. I know that might sound a bit odd, but before I started learning and…

Okay I could see that - like implementing linked lists would be easier yeah? I just feel like not having GC is sort of a deliberate, core design choice for the language. Having str…

I really like rust because it does NOT have garbage collection. Can someone smarter than me help me understand the benefits of having GC in rust specifically? Does it enable things…