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by stickfigure 4d ago
I'm in my 50s and did the same. But even then the toy guns were often bright orange. Nerf guns are the modern equivalent of our dart guns and kids run around with them today all the time. They are pretty unmistakeable, I'm sure by
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by stickfigure 5d ago
I was also super confused because it doesn't do this if you are logged in (to google). I ran the same search in an incognito window and it showed the /goto links.
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by stickfigure 5d ago
> regions such as East Asia are clearly better off due to declining American hegemony Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines would very much disagree.
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by stickfigure 5d ago
I love programming and I have the exact opposite experience. AI has made programming even more fun. * I love programming, not typing. I type less! * I get to pick and choose which parts of the code to focus on. I hate spending hours on st
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by stickfigure 5d ago
> All other nuclear nations behave [...] What makes you think that Iran won't? Iran already misbehaves, exporting violence to the entire region. How do you think they are going to act when they have nuclear weapons?
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by stickfigure 6d ago
US military power does most of its heavy lifting without throwing bombs. We're seeing the end of Pax Americana and it isn't pretty.
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by stickfigure 6d ago
These takes are also a bit premature. Wait until the new apps have rolled out and users are happy. Most likely this will work out fine, but big rewrites like this have a big enough chance of going off the rails that I wouldn't shout su
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by stickfigure 6d ago
I'm perfectly competent at CSS and... at this point I don't even look at CSS. I just feed descriptions of what I want to the LLM and it nails it every time. The result either looks the way I want or it doesn't. I'm not u
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by stickfigure 7d ago
Nonsense. There have been perfectly good free date picker widgets available for every era of web development, going back to clunky server-rendered html templates.
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by stickfigure 8d ago
Even the people that voted for Trump didn't sign up for this, which is why his approval ratings are terrible even by historic standards. He didn't run on a platform of "attack Canada and suck up to Putin". Most Americans
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by stickfigure 8d ago
> I don’t think Americans are realizing yet how much has changed for us the past two years. In two more, possibly less, the current administration will be gone. The Trump agenda will be dead in the water by the end of this year. While I
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by stickfigure 11d ago
I think the parent's point - and what I more or less agree with - is that the problem is the hardware. Human arms and hands are incredibly intricate. Reproducing their facility with hardware requires a large number of actuators and fin
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by stickfigure 13d ago
I offer this, as someone who is heavy into AI development (as a coding assistant, not vibe-coding). I was pretty fast before and now I'm easily an order of magnitude faster. * I scrutinize every line of backend code and frequently make
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by stickfigure 13d ago
> most websites don't need any interactivity I dispute this. I don't have any statistics either, but my subjective experience is that most websites are not like newspapers or blogs. Even shopping websites have pretty heavy inte
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by stickfigure 13d ago
I picked my own age and location. My life expectancy is apparently 59, my friends average 4.3 children, and 9% of my cohort died as infants. Yeah, not even close. Neat idea, needs real numbers.
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by stickfigure 15d ago
In other news, Canada will be renaming Lake Michigan to Lake Epstein. (saw it on the internet, had to share)
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by stickfigure 15d ago
A large religious gathering is not my idea of a good time. It might be yours, that's fine. But these are not similar things.
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by stickfigure 16d ago
This is literal whattaboutism. We can be disgusted by violent acts and fraud. This post reads like you're trying to excuse the violece.
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by stickfigure 16d ago
I should add - if you want the "old school burning man experience" without big crowds and big expense, go to the exact same place for 4th of Juplaya. The art is smaller but still present; there are people who either got fed up wit
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by stickfigure 16d ago
I've been a dozen or so times, dating back to 1994. It's changed over the years - price has gone up, scale has gone up, and rules have become more strict. Not surprising when there are 70k people instead of 3k. Some people (fairly
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by stickfigure 17d ago
How prevalent is that kind of abuse? Quantify it. I am sketpical.
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by stickfigure 17d ago
The interesting thing here is that Samsung thinks they are going to get people to pay for API access to their smart devices, when "app access" is free. We are now past the point where LLMs can automate the apps. You don't eve
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by stickfigure 17d ago
I've been on the other side of this kind of thing (hero rather than villain, though I'm sure someone out there disagrees). You can fairly arbitrarily increase the difficulty of user registration, far beyond what users will tolerat
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by stickfigure 17d ago
How about just stop offering a html interface to the code? This doesn't seem like a critical service. Let people clone the repo normally. If someone else wants to run a public HTML service, let them deal with the bots. If you really wa
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by stickfigure 20d ago
> imagine a few hundred million people getting angry within one election cycle This isn't hard to imagine? We'll elect someone, they will put in place new policies. Maybe they will help, maybe they won't. Nice thing about
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by stickfigure 20d ago
Absolutely true, but I will say that LLMs have changed the equation somewhat. With a rather short prompt, claude/codex will take your code, write a harness, profile it, build experiments, profile those, and give some pretty solid advic
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by stickfigure 21d ago
From a strictly utilitarian perspective, more redundancy will result in more deaths, since food handling expertise is concentrated in larger organizations. I say this as someone who gets most of my veg from a local CSA. It's not becaus
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by stickfigure 21d ago
They are famously good at ignoring large code snippets.
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by stickfigure 21d ago
...along with more than half the country at this point.
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by stickfigure 21d ago
"I personally know more skydivers injured by parachutes than whatever they are supposed to prevent"

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