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As much as I'd like to endorse the decentralization model of Mastodon, it's annoying that I'm constantly shown Mastodon messages from new, often very suspicious looking domains tha…

Giving up anonymity would be giving up on the entire idea wholesale.

> I think we simply don't know how to create online communities that make any sense yet. We do, and we knew decades ago. The problem is, they can't become large or useful. That lim…

> a big part of it is just how incredibly toxic the web has become.... Like what [person in my ideological group] did [allegedly, with no explanation or description] with [thing th…

I have heard people speak of AI agents as our "successor species" or words to that effect, seemingly thinking this to be a good thing.

When I saw the initial discussion I was confused as to how it's supposed to actually add functionality, but I see the current draft proposes an `ExportWarning` for explicit use of …

> Isn't DDR4 like, old and obsolete? I'm posting this from a machine that uses DDR3 and is still perfectly capable of meeting my needs.

> For the skeptical ones The words after this point make you less convincing, not more, as they only serve to confirm the egregious slippery slope of your reasoning.

> we have already regressed at least... It seems worth noting here that DDR5 RAM is faster than DDR3 RAM, and was not even available until 2020.

Nice to finally have this (assuming it goes through) but it's still not a general concept of immutability. It's only being applied to dicts and sets, which have immutable counterpa…

> The game has been offered to you. Again, this is the text that is shown to me: > You’ve probably done something like mow a lawn or vacuum a rug hundreds of times without thinking…

I would conjecture that the long tail of GH users are not dependent on any of the CI stuff in the first place.

> You are allowed to skip the game. No, I'm not. If I don't have JavaScript enabled, then I don't see the post-game content. > But offering it is not egregiously unnecessary. It ha…

> How can I be clearer? You can try understanding that it is not acceptable for the page to look like this with JavaScript disabled. There is no good reason why the "next sentence"…

> Using LLMs for hobby programming is like using a computer to solve sudoku puzzles. The whole point is to do it yourself. (I absolutely relate to your experience with sudoku etc. …

Clearly, the solution is to judge society by how many currently-un-gamed benchmarks it has produced.

Oof. What's going on here in Canada with that recent uptick? Last I checked it seemed like all the trends were good.

Making progress requires first not dismissing your ideological outgroup along such lines, and instead trying to understand what actually motivates them.

In what sense is solar energy not already economical?

It is egregiously unnecessary to expect me to play the game in order to present the finding . Or even discuss the finding. I will not admit my reaction was wrong, because it was no…

No, there is not "text after it". There is also no button . https://files.catbox.moe/8nxbo5.png The logos at the bottom are images from the page footer.

I don't understand what the title has to do with the content.

In my experience, anti-AI coders are nowhere near as obnoxious (or even outright harmful) about it as their artist/graphic-designer counterparts.

There are all kinds of projects out there that have had significant impact on the world, which were written and maintained over the course of years by a single, highly capable deve…

By the way, it seems that your comments are getting automatically "killed" by the HN system. I don't see a clear problem with them, but I can see why people might think they've bee…