polothesecond

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by polothesecond 6mo ago
If donating money is free speech why don’t you try giving some to a group categorized as a terrorist organization
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
Even as an American reading some diaries of English colonists provided a lot of insight into the culture to this day. I remember one where a man decided to move to America to escape religious persecution. Of course said religious persecutio
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
> having kids and raising them unlocks completely new human skill trees that were previously hidden from you Holy mother of autism. “my life is like a video game”. Please tell me you don’t have kids. They’re doomed if so.
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
Trump is a puppet. At least since his second term. Isn’t it funny in this country, how people will shoot at some figurehead of a subsidiary company or a fat geezer with narcissistic tendencies, or a political pundit. But a whole global elit
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
> And aside from algorithms, it usually comes down to avoiding memory allocations. I’ve heard about HFT people using Java for workloads where micro optimization is needed. To be frank, I just never understood it. From what I’ve seen hear
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
Very cool thread. Middle school jokes and culture wars. I’m so glad we don’t allow political threads on here and can instead bask in the intellectual might of people talking about TV man the did/didn’t like.
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
> We're about to pull the rug underneath all knowledge workers. This will disrupt wage earners lives. This will disrupt the economy. It will put and end to the middle class entirely, but that’s the intent. The reality is a lot of pe
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
> The behaviors of NFT advocates and AI advocates are shockingly similar. It’s the same people every time. Stupid, gullible idiots. Remember when HN was obsessed with the room temp superconductivity fraud a few years back? Remember the z
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
Sadly indie developers are only just starting get into my preferred genre. I am excited to see how a number of upcoming titles turn out, but for the time I’m stuck waiting for $AAA_DEVELOPER to change. I’ve had half the mind to just try my
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
> Then cut to 2026 and suddenly its like we just collectively decided software quality doesn't matter Is this new to people? I figured this out when I first entered the industry. The messages have never been particularly subtle.
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
Nowadays you need ID to buy dextromethorphan cough syrups even. Being sick got a lot more miserable when I learned Id have to interact with the doordasher to get my remedies delivered.
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
It happened in the Simpsons.
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
You say that, but I’ve been watching a lot of those body cam channels over the past few years. I remember one quite well, in which the police were raiding some suburban Texas home and decided to steal the guns and cocaine they found in it.
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
> Even in utopia of automation and post scarcity society good location land will be truly lucrative and unimaginably expensive if not outright prohibited to own by private individuals. Indeed, there’s a reason you see silicon valley exec
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by polothesecond 6mo ago
It’s all fun and games games until you’re municipality starts banning adult co-living situations. You underestimate how intrusive these people will be to protect the value of the single largest asset most of them will ever own