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oglop

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    Comment #43418253

    It’s more that software books ruin your brain and make you incapable of enjoying good literature. Same for existentialism which you fled into out of despair from working in and rea…

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    Comment #43418214

    “We are no better than machines, I guess.” Well, our minds aren’t but we have legs and arms which is cool. But maybe that will change too.

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    Comment #43418191

    Stan Ulam has a great book discussing his worry about the change in research environments pre-wwII vs post-WWII. Before the war, they’d sit in cafes and draw in tables and just sit…

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    Comment #43418128

    I just talk to an LLM like it’s a person who is smart, meaning I expect it to be confidently wrong now and then but I don’t have to worry about hurting its feelings. They are remar…

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    Comment #43330133

    lol this thread is amazing. Hacker news is truly a place filled with confidently wrong smart people. Showed this to my wife, a barista in Seattle, and she asked me why I go to this…

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    Comment #43297764

    Oh I thought the worst would be the brand gets even worse promotion and goes even more in the tank in the public’s eye. Somehow.

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    Comment #43117633

    This might be the laziest shit I’ve ever heard come out of a slobbering consumers mouth.

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    Comment #43117619

    Imma blast someone right in the face if they get up in my mug with them shits.

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    Comment #43117441

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    Comment #43080258

    Tech companies are cheap as shit and most programmers are very subservient. Open source won’t go anywhere, I’d bet in there being more open source projects than less in a years tim…

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    Comment #42945552

    The fuck are you taking about? They can’t even fill the seats with the demographic bomb hitting. Dude, populations change. Therefore they have demand and supply they meet. I don’t …

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    Comment #42795092

    lol. Imagine realizing in 2025 twitter is broken trash. If you think your feed worked before, you’re a fool and lying to yourself. Fools everywhere, as far the eye can see. Fools a…

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    Comment #42635698

    Coders aren’t engineers, they are just bit bureaucrats. Everything in this post isn’t engineering, it’s autism.

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    Comment #42616507

    What better way to increase the hyperreality needed to sell products then to have you in the ad! But also this is HN, so someone needs tk lecture you on “what you mean” and also re…

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    Comment #42582092

    If you want to see how shallow and utterly stupid anyone in tech is that has money, read this post. It is golden. I was doubled over laughing at the DOGE part. What a chud. And the…

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    Comment #42009878

    Feel bad for the author. This was clearly an information pump. They just wanted info from them. That’s it. Of course google lies. Of course they steal. It’s Google and it’s not 200…

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    Comment #42009702

    Cool. Im underwater and have zero help an open source progect and AI has been crucial in saving some of the little sanity I have left. These things rule if you just speak with them…

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    Comment #41996990

    No surprise. I give my career about 2 years before I’m useless.

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    Comment #41996961

    lol. Judging a vehicle because people talked to you. Sad. You look like a chode driving that thing.

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    Comment #41996924

    Ballmer was a fucking moron.

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    Comment #41929154

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