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by smcl 3mo ago
Another signal that prominent mentions of "AI" in your marketing sends is "this product is going to shoe-horn AI into this somehow". Plenty of products that people use every day at home or in work - Google search, Facebo
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by smcl 3mo ago
Just adding another "this is fucking stupid" comment for when this all burns down
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by smcl 3mo ago
Hold on, you're doing a little gymnastics here. People are very deliberately talking about Israel being in favour of the genocide, and quite understandably saying that their government should not be supporting Israel - with "not
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by smcl 4mo ago
This is all dumb, it's like picking your fave cryptocurrency
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by smcl 4mo ago
Hell yeah
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by smcl 4mo ago
This entire story started because the corporation took control of the franchise though
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by smcl 4mo ago
Google are infamously ruthless with their products, see https://killedbygoogle.com/
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by smcl 4mo ago
Deliberately imposing constraints on yourself is actually a very well-established way to spur creativity and innovation. For example this movement was inspired by something similar from back in the 1990s: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by smcl 4mo ago
> A general lack of ideological “mind viruses” Yeah when Poland banned abortion and declared a number of "LGBT free zones" a lot of Poles I know came here to Czech Republic
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by smcl 5mo ago
> Before the acquisition, Bun had to figure out how to monetize at some point. I think it is insane that people got into a situation where they had committed to a javascript runtime that had to "figure out how to monetize at some
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by smcl 5mo ago
fuck off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796830
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by smcl 5mo ago
It's incredible that in 2026 your best bet for getting support from Google is still posting to HN and hoping a Product Owner at Google takes pity on you (or feels shamed...)
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by smcl 5mo ago
Absolutely not
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by smcl 6mo ago
I am saying that 2-to-3 has not affected Python becoming the most popular programming language whatsoever. So I guess in a way you're right to say the two things are "unrelated" but you're not exactly disagreeing with me
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by smcl 6mo ago
> The switch had nothing to do with Python's rise in popularity though You don't realise it but you have actually made my point. People are acting like was a suicidal, harmful move that fucked over Python and ... it didn't
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by smcl 6mo ago
I cannot believe people are still acting like Python 2->3 was a huge fuck-up and an enormous missed opportunity. When in reality Python is by most measures the most popular language and became so AFTER that switch. Since the switch we ha
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by smcl 6mo ago
You’re on the right track here but I don’t think it should be hand-waved away as “the least of your problems” - it’s yet another weapon that police in the USA can use against the population with impunity. They’re going to have to reckon wit
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by smcl 7mo ago
You realise you are doing the “Thanks Obama” thing
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by smcl 7mo ago
Come on man, you're a "founder" and you can't even write your own comments on a forum?
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by smcl 7mo ago
Your argument is no clearer. Someone's claiming US is beginning to resemble China in that they hide criticism of the ruling parties - they have not mentioned Europe once and you're saying ... something about censorship in Europe?
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by smcl 7mo ago
Europe doesn’t bill itself as “the land of the free” and doesn’t proudly tout itself as having free speech above all else no matter the cost. So famously fascist symbols - like the swastika/hakenkreuz among other things - are banned a
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by smcl 7mo ago
The Waymo driving model: hire some guys in Philippines: https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-wo...
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by smcl 8mo ago
I think if it's stressing you out then it's fair to step back from reading the news for a bit. It's still worth at least trying to form an understanding and an opinion on various issues - whether local, regional or internatio
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by smcl 8mo ago
Yeah so I know it's meant to be an estimate, but my experience of it is kinda fucky. I would really love to swap watches with an Olympic athlete (idk if they'd bother with an Apple Watch but bear with me!) and run 10k to see what
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by smcl 8mo ago
Apple Watch is pretty poor at estimating VO2 max and it seems to be more correlated with how often you record exercises with said watch than with your actual health. For example I watched mine climb slowly as I prepared for my football seas
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by smcl 8mo ago
This was my experience too - they're visibly angry at you for following the rules
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by smcl 8mo ago
Heathrow is a fucking miserable place with spiteful staff and it would not surprise me one bit if someone decided to fuck with a traveller this way. I saw a girl running to catch a bus to another terminal for a connecting flight, and the gu
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by smcl 8mo ago
The "fracture" being referred to is a weld that somehow failed. The gap you are seeing is because an enormous, heavy train travelling at 200km/h hit that fracture and the rear half of the train derailed, tearing up sleepers a
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by smcl 8mo ago
The mention of FSB is downvoted is because it was near-immediately clear that this was not the cause. It's total amateurs doing wild speculation for who knows what reason - some stupid upvotes on a website or because it makes their lif
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by smcl 8mo ago
Anyone serious about rail engineering or safety isn't excitedly dashing off comments pointing fingers before the dust has even settled. Those who are doing that - such as the comment I am replying to - should be ignored

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