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Re: Turn And Face The Strange

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Post by tptacek » Mon, Jul 27, 2026, 1:54 AM UTC

holden_nelson wrote: post #159

tptacek wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not dying on this hill. I punched up this post and that paragraph is mostly mine, and I'm telling you it's a random Seinfeld reference and not a joke about an actual tragedy, any more than me joking about the Andrea Doria would be. I'm not arguing with you about whether the actual event is something worth making fun of.

> it's a random Seinfeld reference and not a joke about an actual tragedy, lol ok so I wasn’t deeply offended by the dingo reference for what it’s worth, but this attempt to distance yourself from it is weird. Both this post and Seinfeld are referencing the event directly. And that’s fine with me, to be clear! I’m not clutching my pearls, I tend to have fairly edgy humor, not trying to put you on blast or die on this…

I don't have edgy humor, like at all, so I take notice when people call this stuff out, is all.

Re: Turn And Face The Strange

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Post by CoolCold » Mon, Jul 27, 2026, 8:53 AM UTC

ofjcihen wrote: post #55

danielvf wrote: post #43

Sprites are a beautiful place to make an abstraction. But I have never used a buggier infrastructure product in 30 years of development than when I tried sprites. Data loss left and right, sprites going into unconnectable zombie mode. Couldn't use even load snapshots because half the system seemed to think the sprite was fine, and half seemed to think it was dead. I gave up after two weeks of losing stuff over lunch…

Can second this. I had an enterprise client that was interested in using these for fast development etc. Wasn’t my project or the reason I was there but I was curious so I kept up with it. Eventually they abandoned the company but stuck with the concept by going with another company. Complaints were the same, extremely buggy interface, dataloss, but also terrible support. That may have been there fault though for not…

> but stuck with the concept by going with another company.

Mind giving a hint on another company name?

Re: Turn And Face The Strange

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Post by satvikpendem » Mon, Jul 27, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #151

satvikpendem wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never said your post did, and anyway I'm talking about today in 2026.

I wouldn't write the same post in 2026. What would be the point? Everybody already accepts the arguments in it.

I think you are misunderstanding me, when I replied initially to the first comment to Simon, I was talking about my opinion on the general matter unrelated to your post's specifics, as in, I personally wouldn't debate AI anymore, not that I was speaking in relation to what you wrote.