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I think that’s a drastic oversimplification.

Impressive project and maybe it's just hubris talking but I think he could have made this a whole lot easier on himself if he built a duplex modem program and implemented something like TCP on top of it rather than trying to raw dog 100MB through a string.

This video feels like a triumph of working harder not smarter.

little matter called respect

To hell with nature! I have never understood this argument even a little bit.

Depeche Mode warned us about this. Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares...

US domestic culture war bullshit is decidedly not global politics.

Sure there are. "Is the universe really billions of years old, or did it pop into existence three seconds ago in its current state including all of your memories?" It's impossible to answer this question scientifically because no empirical test could ever possibly be devised.

The way you phrased it definitely made it sound like you were implying it was a bad thing lol

Science doesn’t say anything about consciousness because there is no known way to study it empirically. That doesn’t mean we should start accepting metaphysical woo though.

Yes, preserving my own life is worth more to me than passing resources to “future generations”. I’m not having kids anyway.

Death is a natural part of life, but so was smallpox until it wasn’t. Nature fucking sucks and we should bend it to our will.

This blog post takes a lot of words to say “look at how smart I am! there’s no way this could possibly go wrong!”

Maybe it makes me an asshole but I’m rooting for a rates hike or something to give this guy a dose of reality. But I think we all know mummy and daddy would get him out of it.

The transistor was unequivocally the biggest technological breakthrough since fire

You do know headers are transferred whether you look at them or not, right? A request to icanhazip.com results in a response that is 90% completely wasted bandwidth.