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tototrains

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    Comment #47290065

    The nukes will fall before they give up power.

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    Comment #47290059

    It is not strange. Power serves power. Power lies without consequence. This is consistent.

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    Comment #47268423

    Duh, what do you think we were building for the last 10 years? Does anyone with two brain cells think that corporate surveillance wasn't going to be co-opted by authoritarianism? T…

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    Comment #47268358

    last time i tried they asked for an email to link the account to. I don't think they provide anonymous accounts anymore, but you can probably create one with another anonymous emai…

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    Comment #47268306

    Their trajectory was clear the moment they signed a deal with Microsoft if not sooner. Absolute snakes - if it's more profitable to manipulate you with outputs or steal your work, …

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    Comment #47229649

    Problems I've had with unity in my last 3 installs. All LTS default installations on windows. (I have delivered professional projects in Unity in the past): 1. Inspector for lists/…

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    Comment #47229607

    Exactly. The artist is in their output. Paul McCartney can't read music or speak in theory, is he not a musician?

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    Comment #47229599

    Having a compiler compile machine code for you no more makes you a software developer than ordering a happy meal makes you a chef.

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    Comment #47229557

    Writing code is not the hard part if you're a developer. Otherwise it's an insurmountable barrier. I think it's a bit like writing a novel. Everyone's got a novel in them, but you …

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    Comment #47229300

    Thanks Claude: "The core mechanics appear to be a weighted scoring function, a minimum threshold clamp, and a pinning list, all wrapped in terminology borrowed from differential ge…

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    Comment #47228944

    I am so bullish on this. AI is obliterating the barriers to game production for the next generation. Will this be the next flash revolution? Or is the underlying 'brainrot' actuall…

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    Comment #47228901

    I've build 10+ games which I am ashamed to show :) Straight JS/html/css front-end with zero dependencies works well. Ask for a node.js backend and can be instantly deployed as clie…

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    Comment #47223079

    Mossad is trafficking children to billionaires for blackmail material, and it's just led directly to a war on Iran because the president of the US is in CSAM. No conspiracy is too …

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    Comment #47214499

    I considered this and even built a claude code extension to bring history/chats into the project folder. Not once have I found it useful: if the intention isn't clear from the code…

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    Comment #47176265

    I regularly check geopolitical markets to see if a breaking news story is substantial or not, and find it useful. It can help distinguish between propaganda and intelligence there.…

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    Comment #47162585

    Don't care never going to use it

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    Comment #47146865

    Sauron might win, don't want to risk being on the wrong side of the post-apocalypse

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    Comment #47146822

    No, this is very unusual. The US government taking a 10% stake in intel is very unsual. There have been a few cases where national security has prompted the government to nationali…

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    Comment #46932383

    The question is, how much are they willing to pay for the kind of surveillance and control that they hope this data processing will get them? The economics are not all in profit.

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    Comment #46908447

    Opus 4.6 Extended thinking: ``` Finding the Inner Diameter The coaster sits beneath the glass on the table, meaning the glass rests on top of it. Assuming the coaster matches the o…

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    Comment #46399320

    Worth mentioning: I had claude code find a crypto miner on an infected system which had been running for ~5 months undetected. Up-to-date windows 10 machine. Single prompt saying "…

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    Comment #45908740

    Typically suspects of crime are arrested, which brings them to a trial (Habeus Corpus) in which that evidence must be presented and assessed, and then a consistent punishment is me…

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    Comment #45827476

    Remember: If OpenAI/Google does it for $$$, it's not illegal. If idealists do it for public access, full force of the law. Information wants to be free. Oblige it. Fools with tempo…

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    Comment #45299885

    There was a phone call, there was a human, this was not resolved until there was a public backlash.

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    Comment #45299865

    No, this was a decision that had negative effects and it makes you look very, very bad. But on the plus side you provided an excellent lesson to these teens and I'm sure they will …