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Comment · 3 years ago
They will then need to find an pay those mods.
Comment · 3 years ago
Who is going to mod it.. couple reddits that I follow daily are public again, however there are no new posts as mods stopped accepting anything.

I am genuinely curious how this is going to work going forward.

Comment · 3 years ago
Kids learn A LOT from being left alone, if them being left alone results in TikTok daily binge.. well it is time to do something about that. Parents can not supervise their kids 24/7 they need some time to themselves and making a living.

The "frowned upon" part is why you really need to be picky about where you live. Having kids spend time with friends roaming the neighbourhood without morons calling cops or child services is a priceless benefit to them.

Comment · 3 years ago
Computers we had access to did not have ML generated crack being served by every app on them. Even so I had addiction issues, thank god this was before ML.

And no I did not have access to my parent's bar to drink vodka and brandy whenever I felt like as a 12 year old to "prepare me to real world".

Comment · 3 years ago
There is a lot of discussion about prices, weather etc. but the key here is that their family died out. Being 80 and 74 and the only ones running the farm..
Comment · 3 years ago
Those things are used in mountains in Japan without any issues at all, they are very light.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is just factually incorrect.

"In the Middle Ages when the feudal lords . . .concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige and their wealth they declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street, go to war."

Feudal lords most definitely went to war, died in those wars, their who families were exterminated in those wars. This was the case everywhere in the world, from England to Japan.

In the end you can protest all you want but when dudes with guns show up, they care not about it. They will take your stuff, they will rape your wife and daughters, they will murder your sons and you. That is the history of humans from WAY before any feudal lords.

Comment · 3 years ago
Because "Racial achievement gap" sounds a lot better and gets more $$ for panels, committees, researchers, administrators, unions and co. Then "Yes we still suck at teaching math please give us more $$"
Comment · 3 years ago
Interesting examples of what he thinks it is helpful with. For example the API one, how do you know that it did not make up the decorator example out of thin air and it is not garbage? You have to google it or know it beforehand(he probably knew it already).

For me the cognitive load of second guessing everything is just too painful.

Comment · 3 years ago
He was a really interesting, good guy. Getting stabbed by some filth.

Fucking shithole of a city. In the last 10 years every time I am there I can't help but wonder HOW??? How can such rich city with so much potential be turning into this?? I grew up in east Europe, in general few places in US trigger my prep for fight or flight.. SF you are having a nice conversation, walk wrong way 50meters and suddenly my heart goes to 170bpm. I started carrying a collapsible baton last time I had to stay there for business. SF is going full Detroit, 100% self inflicted.

Comment · 3 years ago
It all sounds like a very well orchestrated marketing campaign, HN would be the first place I would seed with stories if I was promoting it as a dev tool.

I spent few hours asking to do few things with a well documented public but uncommon api. It sent me on a wild goose chase of functionality that API never had..(contacted developer to make sure I am not crazy). It wrote some stuff that looked VERY good, except for the fact that it interacted with things that were never there. Would have been nice if they were..

It seem to exercise wishful thinking. You can ask it to implement functionality and it will just imagine that API/system has stuff needed.

Major problem is that I for one have no clue how it is "thinking" maybe over time we will develop better understanding of it.

Comment · 3 years ago
I think it is more of a coincidence. It is was not and is not KGB fault that US colleges are filled with every stripe of "ist" from your garden variety Maoist to Trotskyiest to some normalized now America is DEVIL repent NOW types. Whoever was responsible for what he says if he is still alive is probably completely dumfounded by Americans taking down Lincoln statues and destroying monuments to abolitionists who fought against slavery. I mean holy shit did we do KGB good job or what? (for the record I do not think they had anything to do with it, empire rots from the core)
Comment · 3 years ago
Ukraine was supplied with an insignificant amount of weapons before 2022. Their kit was basically USSR kit plus some new things like Stugna, lase guided shells, distributes artillery control app etc

If Ukraine had couple brigades of Lepards, HIMARS and few hundred 777 at the start of the war, this all would have went a lot differently. Alas lesson here is simple under no condition do you give up nukes.

Comment · 3 years ago
Isn't it incredible that now in 2023 web is still this bad? One of the biggest online outdoor retailer websites breaks catastrophically in fully updated Safari on Mac.. been going on for month. By catastrophically I mean you get a blank white screen with ui flashing in out. And this is normal, I find something like that regularly, stopped bothering sending bug reports years ago.

It blows my mind.. really it does, how did we not fix this shitshow? We have automated test on top of automated test on top of automated tests but web is so messed up we still can't have shit working reliably.

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