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That's one hell of a stress test. I'm betting the aftermath is the community doubling down on how well the entire system withstood the attack as designed.

Is there a word that explicitly captures the fear and stress induced by hitting "save" on a stack overflow question you've spent 30 minutes formatting and triple checking to ensure that it won't get thrown out by mods?

This is how you know the reality distortion field is very real.

Remember "gorilla arm"? Icky fingerprints? Toaster ovens?

Good times.

I like to wonder if there are alien civilizations out there with no music or art.

We really missed a trick by not normalising the term passphrase.

Eventually the party will be over but for now it should be a no brainer first choice tool for some 90% of dev tasks

We're probably fast approaching the scenario where the cheapest models will win out.

Here's a surprising anecdote I've discovered living in South Africa wrt traffic lights.

When they're not working at a busy intersection in my area, the intersection effectively becomes a four way stop. And I've found that as long as everybody follows the rules, traffic actually seems to flow FASTER than when the traffic lights are actually operable.

I've timed this a few times.

Precisely what has effectively killed off the "building in public" trend that was all the rage just a two years ago.

Played around with it.

Does what it says on the tin. Great work.

Chefs kiss would be this post having been written using AI.

We're living in the golden age of the grifter

My son (8 years old) is a bit of a unicorn in that he lives his devices and his books pretty much equally.

On any given day we're either telling him to put away his switch or his book because that's how engrossed he gets.

So I've always thought what if each of our individual consciousnesses is like a radio frequency that is unique to each individual? This would explain why we regain consciousness when we wake up, because our physiology is locked to whatever that frequency happens to be.

Under this model, 'you' don't actually reside inside your skull. Instead, your brain is just biological hardware translating a non-local broadcast, meaning our core identity exists independently of the body.

That unique frequency "fingerprint" is close enough in pattern to every other human being that we're able to "understand" each other a process that might manifests in interesting but complex ways eg love and empathy

Bats might be a whole frequency band up!