anal_reactor

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by anal_reactor 6d ago
I'm a coomer, but when it comes to the internet, I only see things getting worse.
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by anal_reactor 6d ago
HN is for me the last bastion. And I wholeheartedly agree that intelligent people should have their own separate space from the rest. I used to be a very progressive guy "everyone deserves equal chances" but the older I get, the m
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by anal_reactor 6d ago
Can you summary the video? I cannot change the audio track and the AI dubbing makes my gut bacteria cry.
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by anal_reactor 7d ago
That doesn't really matter. Currently we're in the "this is a dog" (marks a muffin) stage of "AI as a scientist". It's totally reasonable to expect that considering how rapidly AI is advancing, the frontie
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by anal_reactor 8d ago
Yeah I get that. But treat them like candy - it's okay to eat a small dessert after lunch, it's okay to eat entire bucket of ice cream once in a while, but you know, your main diet needs to be quality stuff.
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by anal_reactor 8d ago
Stay open for more nuggets of wisdom!
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by anal_reactor 8d ago
Travel. It's cheaper than ever.
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by anal_reactor 8d ago
The answer is simple. Limit your time on social media the way you'd be limiting a child and focus on IRL interactions.
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by anal_reactor 9d ago
I don't think I'll ever learn what the folder structure on Linux actually means
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by anal_reactor 11d ago
> If you believe gender equality is an intrinsic good First, I believe that women have privileged position compared to men. So tipping the scales in favor of women removes gender equality. Second, comparison with black emancipation makes
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by anal_reactor 11d ago
> Which is awfully convenient for the men that don't want to do those things. I do. Now what.
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by anal_reactor 11d ago
I don't think this is going to change because it helps automate code production. As in, once we reach a point where this method produces acceptable results, we can fire all engineers and automate the process.
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by anal_reactor 11d ago
> And of course the exclusion. Inside a group, then outside it. People I ate lunch with went quiet. The chats went quiet. I became a story other people told carefully. This is why I don't rely on workplace being the place where frie
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by anal_reactor 12d ago
Eh. I'm just tired of feminism. It promised equality but instead brought the gender war while driving down salaries.
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by anal_reactor 13d ago
> How does this happen? Simple. Evolutionarily, the dumber you are, the higher the risks of dying, because you do stupid shit. Inversely, the safer the environment, the dumber people become, because not doing stupid shit stops being evol
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by anal_reactor 14d ago
English is the only big language that doesn't have a recognized standardization body.
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by anal_reactor 14d ago
We are wired to be > needed If I died today, I wouldn't even get a slack memo "we miss anal_reactor". Modern economy proved that humans are totally fungible. > wanted I have a dream that someone would take me on a date.
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by anal_reactor 14d ago
It's actually funny because Italy, France and Germany used to be much more linguistically diverse but then public education happened and it all collapsed to the standard language. Dialects and minority languages are being pretty much e
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by anal_reactor 15d ago
> So what do people actually do? In the ancient times you'd ask your friends and neighbors for referrals, but nowadays we don't have friends and we don't talk to our neighbors, and even if we did, they don't know shit
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by anal_reactor 16d ago
> It is like saying having a gluten free option on the menu takes away the enjoyment of a meal's target audience. Having a gluten-free option takes away resources from other parts of the restaurant. Considering the fact that gluten
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by anal_reactor 16d ago
The game has both puzzle and platforming elements. A similar argument could be made "they could make puzzles easier for people who don't like puzzles" which is silly because one of the reasons why the game got so popular is t
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by anal_reactor 16d ago
Nah, for light switches I'm all-in Philips Hue because it's both pretty and convenient. Plus LEDs synchronized with that via House Assistant.
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by anal_reactor 17d ago
> Overall, it seems like the LLM are really straining the internet economy, the openness of it I feel like it's the same issue that public resources are facing. Step 1: public resource is freely available Step 2: asshole shows up, d
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by anal_reactor 18d ago
> You could meet cool new people My first date was a guy with fake photos. Ten dates later I settled for a married guy cheating on his wife. He eventually divorced but then I left him.
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by anal_reactor 18d ago
We already have associate options - not joining Schengen, not adopting Euro. Anything more than that results in a horrible mess of legal agreements. Imagine that suddenly each US state gets more sovereignty and they just... make different d
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by anal_reactor 18d ago
The core purpose of EU was not to have a war with each other. I think on that front it's been astounding success - there have been zero wars recorded between EU countries. This might sound like low bar, but my grandma was literally gen
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by anal_reactor 19d ago
TBH life taught me to wait until after release so that we know if it's actually good or the hype wasn't worth it. For all the good work done in GTA V it just sucks IMO. You can see the 180° flip between GTA SA "do whatever yo
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by anal_reactor 19d ago
To pay off the mortgage.
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by anal_reactor 20d ago
On my favorite browser (Opera Mobile with desktop mode) Cloudflare verification never works. It just says "failed, please try again" forever.
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by anal_reactor 20d ago
I live in the Netherlands. My apartment has two floors. The upper floor is basically a greenhouse, so 40C is absolutely normal if I close the windows. During the summer I always keep at least one window open, which cools down the house to a

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