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ppqqrr

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    Comment #48533671

    it usually takes a little longer than this, but yeah, everything in the world eventually caves in for whatever makes more money. you can't tell me you're surprised, look at the sta…

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    Comment #48101107

    ...says yet another company hell bent on integrating it into every facet of our lives. This reads like a celebration, if you ask me.

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    Comment #48038710

    the discourse around "code quality" has always attracted the least nuanced minds, ones who see the world and the phenomenon of life as nothing but territory to be divided up by the…

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    Comment #47918797

    i'd use a 2D canvas browser. not sure why anyone would need live multiplayer for their browser, just let them save canvas state to file and share it. that's how it works with Blanc…

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    Comment #47897632

    i intend to invest $40B in my wife's pottery business; she will invest the same amount in my uber-for-dogs AI SaaS startup. our GDP is gonna be wild.

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    Comment #47593490

    i've learned in two years of unemployed hacking that there is a camp 3: you treat code like an evolving life form, requiring both ingenious introspective craft and utilitarian grit…

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    Comment #47508894

    yes. it's like a giant finger pointing at the moon, and everyone's talking about the finger.

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    Comment #47482041

    what do you expect? if you’re “automating” an audit, it already means you don’t care. the LLM is there to blur the calculus of responsibility, take the blame if someone cares enoug…

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    Comment #47480750

    false dichotomy. neither company will make it. the winner will be some solo dev with a singular vision and ruthless dedication to quality. “teams” do not have visions, individuals …

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    Comment #47353055

    i’ve been doing this for a while, you create an extra file for every code file, sketch the code as you currently understand it (mostly function signatures and comments to fill in d…

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    Comment #47188871

    Even the most cockeyed reading of history will tell you that it is absolutely vital to the survival of humanity and all that is good on this earth that the US military be tied down…

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    Comment #46889023

    i’m confused now. if he’s a serial child rapist sending mexican goons into american cities to murder white nurses, does that mean he’s more of a populist, or less? figured i’d chec…

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    Comment #46874246

    copyright is not “broken,” it was always a two-faced scam designed to protect “owners” at the expense of creators. don’t expect this blatant hypocrisy to kill copyright, either - d…

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    Comment #46760031

    anyone who has to look that far back in history for examples of righteous resistance… is serious about neither history or resistance.

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    Comment #46759702

    in a world where getting 3 people to show up to dinner is a challenge, a coherent, organized group large enough to be visible as a percentage of the population is an exceedingly ra…

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    Comment #46702057

    if you wanna cheer for fascism, you should do so openly. no one is fooled anymore, and no one will think any higher of you for being in denial about it

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    Comment #46698079

    yeah, he’s a real populist with the <15% that wants the federal boot on everyone else’s neck. i think there’s a name for that specific type of “populism”.

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    Comment #46620615

    https://livingsoft.net

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    Comment #46073653

    not for the indians.

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    Comment #45716402

    nothing lives forever. software comes into life out of necessity, develops complexities, eventually becomes incomprehensible, obsolete and dead. it’s a natural cycle that we should…

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    Comment #45706064

    most web pages are about to be HTML/JS/CSS generated by LLMs directly for users. Truth is, pre-LLM web frameworks were designed for two things: save developer keystrokes and delay …