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thesamethrowawa

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    Comment #48399378

    Still up here a few hours later huh, despite clear propaganda that is nothing to do with TFA.

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    Comment #48397830

    What has your comment (and the GP comment) got to do with the featured articles?

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    Comment #48397723

    meta_gunsligner is just going back through Elons X posts to find us some examples.

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    Comment #48397704

    It is interesting that any US-centric article causing political flame wars immediately sinks here, but anything generating similar "debate" on UK issues is allowed to sit on the fr…

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    Comment #48384450

    lol.... but they are still data driven decisions, everyone loves those, especially when you lose millions of dollars and need to justify it.

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    Comment #48382749

    OOI, and my own total ignorance, what does a mathematician by trade do if they are not doing formal research? What does corporate modelling entail?

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    Comment #48328436

    > I know a bunch of Orthodox folks in the US and their idea of a reasonable lifestyle doesn't include two Teslas and three holidays, they do just fine on less than that without a t…

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    Comment #48324597

    Good luck to you. I did something similar, with a big list of projects on my backlog (including a game) and just burned out in a totally different way after 8 months. I found for m…

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    Comment #48324495

    Impressive to take such a stand, doing something they believe is the right thing. The home depot line says a lot though. I guess tech has been good enough to provide some kind of e…

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    Comment #48296610

    This is honestly terrifying and a perfect example of where AI can end up leading us.

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    Comment #48294086

    HN self-loathing distilled in a pointless thread.

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    Comment #48294021

    Thanks. I'm going to take that as a compliment.

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    Comment #48293485

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48293296

    The article is spot on. It's so disrespectful to just forward an AI output to someone. The logical conclusion and end game to this is everything becomes AIs talking to each other, …

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    Comment #48293242

    Flowers for Algernon has something to say about this.

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    Comment #48293105

    > That's just rude and borderline psychotic behavior. With some notable exceptions, this describes almost every business owner I've worked with.

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    Comment #48278365

    Early, very early, in my career unit testing was becoming a thing. A few middle managers (non technical) read some articles and decided this was going to fix all the quality proble…

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    Comment #48194788

    Oh 100%, and that's the brilliant thing about running, it's a very personal sport and you take what you want from it, which can also change as you get older or life changes. But- A…

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    Comment #48193443

    It's eye-opening when a subject you have first hand deep personal knowledge of is posted on Hacker News. You realise how confidently people post about topics they know absolutely n…

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    Comment #47919955

    > Meanwhile I haven't found more content, relaxed people than when I visited my distant family in sub-Saharan Africa, taking life as it comes. My point still stands. You seem to be…

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    Comment #47272961

    Are you able to share your prompts to Claude Code? I assume not, they are probably not saved - but this genuinely surprised me, it seems like exactly the type of task an LLM would …

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    Comment #47216288

    I feel very similar. I'm not sure if it's all the issues you listed, or just being at a specific point in my life and career, or a combination of both. Nothing is enjoyable to me a…