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AmbroseBierce··on Italy Railways Sabotaged
You know what, yeah, I will, in exchange for EU citizenship and it must be fully financed so we have available the best weaponry money can buy (and a written contract that has a big payout for my parents if I die in combat)
AmbroseBierce··on Italy Railways Sabotaged
Europe should stop tolerating these sabotages and go to war with Russia and take advantage of their weakened military due to their war with Ukraine
AmbroseBierce··on Listen to Understand
"How did that make you feel"

It made me feel like I'm talking with someone role-playing a therapist; it's just my worldview but if I want to talk about how something made feel I will talk about it but dislike to be directly inquired, is evident that this is way of thinking is more common in men than women of course.

AmbroseBierce··on Show HN: SlitherPong, a hybrid of the Snake and Pong video games
You can press "R" to restart the level, and "Esc" to pause.
AmbroseBierce··on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins
A small amount of plausible deniability while they can move to pocket someone in congress and elsewhere to make it fully legal.
AmbroseBierce··on Decentralizing my smartphone with single purpose devices
Self control and discipline are not cognitively free, they take an amount of effort that you may rather spend in something more useful.
AmbroseBierce··on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
I mean, he should just put a message when you run sudo the first time asking for funding if he wants it that bad, that should speed things up.
AmbroseBierce··on Iran summons families of exiled journalists to halt their activities
At some point when you go to extreme lengths to pick the softest wording possible you yourself become an accomplice, they didn't "summon", that word is better for fantasies where they summon spirits or beasts like shai-hulud, here the fitting word would be "forced" as in "Iran government forces families of exiled journalists to stop any criticism against them"
AmbroseBierce··on When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?
I definitely want to see that state+population table in mobile as a single element that I can just scroll to not 3 elements fighting for horizontal space thank you very much.
AmbroseBierce··on In praise of –dry-run
You understand how subjective that is right? Someone might expect that the database doesn't do the last commit step while other people is perfectly happy that the database engine checks that it has enough writing permissions and is running as a user that can start the process without problems.
AmbroseBierce··on ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions
Making the right questions when they ask if you have any questions
AmbroseBierce··on SVG Path Editor
I think they meant it as a feature suggestion (given that it should be easy to implement since SVG files can be used as favicons).
AmbroseBierce··on SVG Path Editor
I have tried to use ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to make SVG from simple logos bitmaps but its still a daunting task for them, so I guess tools like this one will still be needed for a while.
AmbroseBierce··on Lix – universal version control system for binary files
Git is a command line program so it feels strange that this doesn't seem to support that use case.
AmbroseBierce··on Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout
And it would have been possible if not for the support on this platform and similar ones for people like Elon, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, like the youth says these days: FAFO
AmbroseBierce··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
it's not the mental issues they had, its the drugs they were taking for it right? Please. Look at what Australia did after their 1996 shooting, the main reason they have so few of them, but I know you won't, as millions of Americans you will forever do all sort of mental gymnastics to justify keeping easy access to semi-automatic guns.

> From the information obtained, it appears that most school shooters were not previously treated with psychotropic medications - and even when they were, no direct or causal association was found https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31513302/

AmbroseBierce··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
It's exactly like guns, we know they will be used in school shootings but that doesn't stop their selling in the slightest, the businesses just externalize all the risks claiming it's all up fault of the end users and that they mentioned all the risks, and that's somehow enough in any society build upon unfettered capitalism like the US.
AmbroseBierce··on A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease
You are assuming a simple direct causation, instead it could be a reaction of glyphosate with something else in their bodies that they have inhaled from the air (or from their food), perhaps a heavy metal (given those are mentioned in TFA)
AmbroseBierce··on Google broke my heart
This is a full block not a warning in any conventional sense of the word, and it resembles Google but it very clearly says "Foogle" so it's not pretending to be Google, and no email or anything at all is asked from the user, so yeah it's just plain abuse of their power and very little space to argument that they are just being "overly cautious", but just like abuses by the state or the police there is always people in favor of such abuses in the name of safety.
AmbroseBierce··on Google broke my heart
Google bots decided that my parody website[0] that very clearly says "Foogle" instead of "Google" constitutes phishing and is now automatically blocked in Chrome and Firefox, despite not asking for any user input like email or password or name or anything that could slightly make it suspicious of being a phishing website, plus the sites uses unserious language like "Disunited States", it's a sad statement of their AI capabilities if a site like this gets automatically marked as "phishing", and the overall trend of abusing their power in the name of safety, a tale as old as time.

[0] https://www.forbiddensearchdetected.com

AmbroseBierce··on I'm a developer for a major food delivery app
When you are burn out your brain doesn't brain too well, reminds me of Luigi, that 3D printed his gun among other smart moves but made many silly mistakes that got him caught (like carrying the silencer, the magazine, and other incriminating evidence)
AmbroseBierce··on The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago
Start charging taxes based on the number of square feet a car occupies and the problem will solve itself.
AmbroseBierce··on Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025
The ai detected it was talking poorly about it and decided to retaliate.
AmbroseBierce··on Inverse Parentheses
I think surrounding the operand would make slightly more sense, as in 1 + 2 (*) 3 as if it's a "delayed form" of the operation that it represents.
AmbroseBierce··on I program on the subway
Maybe they mean those meetings when you don't talk much, just listen to everyone else
AmbroseBierce··on Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe
It does:

> Safe Return is an emergency system designed to be deployed by passengers in case of pilot incapacitation. But Safe Return also is programmed to activate itself when it senses the pilot has become unresponsive or succumbed to hypoxia.

Source: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/june/pilot...

AmbroseBierce··on Structured outputs create false confidence
The prompt literally tells it "if not specified assume 1"
AmbroseBierce··on Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
And that's a fast lane for security issues a plenty, when you cannot spot them because you don't even understand what each part is supposed to do.
AmbroseBierce··on Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use
Just like feminism when it was starting, back then millions of women believed it was silly for them to vote, and those who believed otherwise had to get loud to get more on their side, and that's one example, similar things have happened with hundreds other things that we now take for granted, so it's value as judgment measure it's very low by itself alone.
AmbroseBierce··on Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use
Wow you do mentally group things efficiently, that much I can say.
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