npongratz

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Comment · 8 days ago
I'll stick with RFC 1149.5.
Comment · 25 days ago
As much as I am a skeptic of household maintenance robots, I'll admit that the robots will probably 1) actually show up, 2) show up around the time they say they would, 3) won't be drunk, 4) won't ask me to join their MLM.

Though I'm less sure about (4), considering the Worldcoin eyeball-harvesting scammers and the AI-bailout scammers are one and the same.

Comment · 1 month ago
But you see, they just have to vote harder!
Comment · 1 month ago
Opus 5.5 is indeed on the Intelligence tab, but I don't see it on the Coding or Math tabs.
Comment · 1 month ago
> vote for people who are financially literate, can think long term, and can "conserve" rather than politicians who promise endlessly

I wish you luck. Endless promises and short term thinking are the main things the system incentivizes. Each politician is temporarily renting their seat, paid for by other people. Each bureaucrat is studiously, steadfastly avoiding learning anything that threatens their continued employment, which is paid for by other people.

Comment · 2 months ago
Many of us did, and I certainly still do, but there obviously weren't enough of us rebelling to convince them of how reprehensible it is to sue your own fans and sic the guns of the state on them.
Comment · 4 months ago
"Abysmal", but that's beside the point.

Suppose a US citizen, residing and working in the US and never traveling to China, crosses The Powers That Be. Which Power is more likely to do worse things to said citizen? Pretty unlikely they'll be rendered to one of the illegal Chinese jails in Brooklyn, more likely they'll be sent to Gitmo or a black site.

Comment · 4 months ago
Not only that, but given how I would phonetically pronounce it... ew.
Comment · 4 months ago
I suspect it's more accurate to say the private equity that bought out dental practices everywhere have the cash to burn. At least for now.
Comment · 4 months ago
They don't use their own product, and they don't want their engineers to use their product either. They want velocity, and you can't have velocity if you're bogged down by doing end-to-end testing and finding friction and whatnot.
Comment · 5 months ago
Just remember: "NO KIBITZING"!

Sadly, it appears ChatGPT 5.5 did not implement this crucial feature for this javascript port.

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
That's just a straight-shooter with "upper management" written all over him.
Comment · 6 months ago
> The PTO shaft is a spindle on the back of the tractor which drives things like your flail mower, wood chipper, etc.

... and kills/maims anyone with lose clothing trying to step over it!

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