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The general entshitification this article mentions is very real. However, if AI isn't making you 2-3x more productive than you were, you are doing it wrong.

When I was using, the answer was always "more." It was great at first, but as I habituated to each dose level, I was prescribed more and more until I reached the legal limit. At wh…

According to the mighty google (and other HN comments) we are running out of address space at about 1 bit per year or so. So most of us will not live to see the need for 128 bit co…

Most of the barriers for Alpha adoption were problems inherent in the 32-bit to 64-bit transition. Alignment problems, yes, but another killer problem was that 64-bit pointers were…

"I am old, and have lived through four ages of the west, (the 8, 16, 32, and 64-bit ages), and have seen many defeats, and many fruitless victories."

Oh and BTW we are nuking 20% of the world's oil. If somebody were deliberately trying to wreck the U.S. energy picture, they would be hard pressed to do better than this.

I'm tired of articles which try to make us not feel bad about being eclipsed by AI. We've got to change from the mindset of an artisan--who stakes his being on mastering skills and…

At this point, they simply cannot let themselves. Admit all their bloviating at family reunions was bullshit? Admit that annoying socialist nephew was right all along? They simply …

The real problem isn't the price of the missiles. I wouldn't even care about the price of the missiles if they actually worked. But Iran kicked our butts. We don't have air superio…

Trump doesn't give a flying flip about Iran having Nuclear weapons. If he cared at all, in the slightest, he wouldn't have unilaterally broken our treaty with them.

This. Since it has been demonstrated that we can no longer guarantee the shipping of oil through the straight of Hormuz, nobody has any reasons to price oil in USD or to finance ou…

It stops being puzzling when you recall that Trump is a con man. This whole thing was never about making America great again, it was about lining Trump and his family's pockets. By…

Both the reasons (AIPAC + pricing Oil in USD helps finance our deficits) are why we were there. But both of those reasons have been severely weakened, to the point of probably bein…

(in a Forrest gump accent) my momma said that locks on doors only keep honest people honest. I'm not Forrest Gump, but my mom actually did say that and it's true. What ever we have…

Bring this together with another headline on HN.... "Google fixed more bugs in Chrome during June than in the previous two years" (or something like that). Either it is the biggest…

chuckle it is oddly reassuring to hear somebody's worries and complaints, Especially when from a country like New Zealand--apparently, New Zealand is so great that even our billion…

I'm still refactoring my theory of mind in the face of the obvious successes of AI.

Depends upon how laze-faire you want your capitalism to be.

Sure, better ethical principles might solve this. But extracting maximum profit is the prime directive of capitalism. This might be shit ethics, but it is brilliant capitalism.

Sure, they are your problems, but to expect capitalism to solve your addiction is just magical thinking.

It's not capitalism gone wrong. It's a great example of a historic success of capitalism. You can't expect capitalism to solve your addiction problems.

The point that taxation is qualitatively different from having your 401k's value cut in half is well taken. But it sure was a "very heavy brake on compounding", though---even at 8%…

Well, I'd wager most of the people who are advocating for the wealth tax have already felt economic disaster. Many economic disasters. During the dot-com bust, my 401k was cut in h…

A couple of things happened. One, the Supreme Court handed the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, and not Al Gore. Bush did not continue the policies of Clinton. He cut …