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What a fucking website this is! Farewell, cruel dang!

Nobody ever bikesheds me or makes me break flow to attend a Fun Team Event in Factorio :)

I encourage you to explore, as a thought experiment, what profit opportunities can arise from the intersection of mass medicalisation and body positivity.

What solution do you propose? No more UCLA?

I believe this is an example of ludonarrative dissonance. The camera is simply at a fixed offset from the train model.

Did you RTFA?

"This jaundiced real-estate porn is meant to satirize the housing crunch in cities like Hong Kong and Shanghai, and the commenters are all in on the joke"

I come from a cultural background such that I clued in on this when I first encountered the videos. Is the joke overplayed now? Definitely - but it's not braindead, it's equal parts over-the-top satire and wish fulfilment (if ONLY you could knock out your building's walls and extend your coffin apartment, Kowloon Walled City-style)

what does the

     # insert your code to print out some C code

mean?

The author's workflow sounds like writing ideas onto a block of post-its and then having them slosh around like they're boats lashed up at harbour. He wasn't actually gaining any new information - nothing that really surprised him - he was just offloading the inherent fluidity of half-formed ideas to a device which reified them.

Imagine an LLM-based application which never tells you anything you haven't already told it, but simply takes the statements you give it and, every 8 to 12 seconds, changes around the wording of each one. Like you're in a dream and keep looking away from the page and the text is dancing before you. Would institutions be less uncomfortable with its use? (not wholly comfortable - you're still replacing natural expressivity with random pulls from a computerised phrase-thesaurus)

Close! If Hollywood starts doing it, it will become copyrightable. (But somehow only if you can retain 5+ lawyers.)

People in meatspace are not (in James C. Scott's sense) legible to HN's user base, and never will be.

What was he selling?

You call some numbers in an ACHS a concrete achievement? I was thinking more like a dam or a school or something...