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Sure, and in the meantime, we become less efficient at doing legitimately useful tasks and more efficient at making rent seeking slop that collects money for the upper classes. The…

1. Make shit inefficient software for basic tasks 2. Say it's infeasible to have enough compute locally to do basic tasks 3. Force usage of centrally controlled, subscription-based…

It's even more hilarious because all along there has been this complaint, and then people have been like "no no who cares, features are important, dev time is important, just ship …

This is exactly what I have and it doesn't work well

Ok so what is the correct way to tell it "I don't care what is happening, you must uphold these rules at all times"? If it's not any configuration of .md files?

Yeah checks out with my anecdotal experience with Claude. It is pretty great at following instructions - for about 10 minutes, after which it seems to ignore things I told it befor…

Maybe we can keep going to a point where it's so ridiculous that people realise the financial markets are the useless money laundering loop that they actually are

Uhh but then what am I going to do with my 7 cars?

B-b-bb-b-bbb-but then how will I have my 3 storey house with a 100 acre backyard, 2 pools, and 14 cars??? Don't you know it's LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE to live without these basics?? Wh…

No bro you don't understand bro, supply and demand maths said capitalism is the only way forward bro and give me money now

I have learnt that very few in tech hold themselves to a complex moral standard. Most seem to have an attitude like "well company X is offering money, why not take it?" Some seem t…

You can make adjustments on a guitar to make a note flatter by pushing the neck/headstock forward, relaxing the strings slightly

They just know their constitutional rights as law abiding american citizens to die from easily preventable illness they can't afford treatment for!

Just wait until genome sequencing becomes cheap enough...

When someone wants a huge backyard to do nothing with it: valid desire When I want a commute to work/family/friends that isn't 2 hours: invalid desire Hmmm

God most of the "discussion" around housing is such copium by obviously-biased people trying to convince everyone that we shouldn't have access to high quality housing. Yes, in the…

This thing is amazing. The kind of nasty extreme optics I love to see. Good stuff! The final images are pretty gorgeous. I'd love to shoot on this thing

The thing is, Lightroom is simply very good at what it does. There are infinite photo editing apps out there and many of them don't fit my workflow. I want: RAW input, light/tone c…

The webpage seems to advertise itself as a Lightroom replacement sort of software? Which if it is, it better be damn good at it. Adobe may generally suck and Lightroom has many rou…

"advanced" in 2026 is closer to "using the app how you want to as rather than the way that will generate the corporation maximum profits"

Ah yes in the second paragraph I definitely meant condemn, thank you.

I recently saw a lecture by neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky [1] which discussed the complexities of human violence. We both condone and don't condone violence all the time, dependin…

Yeah most of these "issues" are surely caused by programmers trying to be too smart. The dumbest possible solution which messes around with the input at little as possible is almos…

Finance is like an oil well. You can do just about anything technology-wise and as long as it more or less pulls the oil from the ground, the money just keeps coming. So good code …

A suspiciously upvoted hyperspecific critique of niche features of the project which are not relevant to most users