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BAN ME COWARD DANG leave this trash website and save your.brain

dang 13 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]

Please stop trolling. I don't want to have to ban you. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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1 point by bob29 11 hours ago [flagged] | root | parent | next [–]

No. I vow to never stop trolling. Please ban me with the most severe methods at your disposal. Ban every account I've ever made, every device, browser, user agent, and every IP I've ever used to visit this site. If you do not, I will use every ounce of my vitality to incessantly troll the comments here. I realize now this site is an echo chamber amplifying only what I consider to be the most dispicable parts of humanity: cruelty, exploitation and greed. I want no shred of my uniqueness and diversity of thought to contribute in any way what so ever the conversation here, (except in trolling form, to diminish it, which I will do unless you ban me as I requested in the first paragraph).

It will save me the time of remembering/figuring out where the hosts file is to block this domain on the OS of every device that I have.

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bob29··on “Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers
So PepsiCo can utilize others prior breeding work, but prevents others from using their variety’s to breed with ?

If everyone who bred a potato patented it, we all suffer as breeders would be limited in what they can work with.

http://www.jwz.org

bob29··on “Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers
He doesn’t respond so I win by default . Righteous troll:1 Capitalist corporation defender: 0
bob29··on “Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers
No, they have been cross pollinating parents with desirable traits to produce an offspring with more desirable traits. The same thing Pepsi did to make FC5 potato.

Here is the patent for the FC5 potato.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6940004B2/en

Read it carefully because while the patent claims that it also would apply if transgenic modifications are added, the variety was developed through just classic breeding techniques, which are described in the patent in case you aren’t familiar.

bob29··on “Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers
Our illiterate ancestors have been doing it for thousands of years.
bob29··on “Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers
No. Objection when they are overly broad generic obvious and\or trivial

Am surprised even need to explain on this forum of coders. Many examples of bad boy software patents.

bob29··on “Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers
[Square bracket number citation link thingy https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-pepsi-farmers/pepsi...]

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bob29··on “Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers
People have been sued for growing patented potatoes, unrelated to round up . . . Ok?

U take tuber u put it in ground it grows more tubers u try to sell BOOM illegal son .

bob29··on Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not going to be fun
emperor has no clothes but this forum is full of people who wasted their money investing it and/or get paid to work on it.

today "AI is just spicy autocomplete" gets flagged off front page.

For MONTHS, front page has been full of sub-script-kiddie level "AI" tools that are just `curl "{static_prompt} + {user_input}" http://chatgptapi`

or mediocre examples of things that would have been impressive a computer could do in 1960, but are absolutely easier to do since 2010 with google or other tools.

bob29··on My Journey from R to Julia
Being technically correct is the best feeling in the universe
bob29··on Batch Box Rocket Stove: Ergonomic, Efficient Wood Combustion
What scale what feedstock?
bob29··on Google calls in help from Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. fight
Lol dude I just googled “script list IAM roles that contain policy” and this was the top result. Probably less typing than the usual silly authoritative tone people use when composing an “AI” prompt , like they’re Tony Stark or Captain Picard .

And trust me, once u google stack overflow enough pretty soon you won’t need to ask anyone how to output a csv

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66127551/list-of-all-rol...

bob29··on Batch Box Rocket Stove: Ergonomic, Efficient Wood Combustion
There is at least one misconception here that I can see. You don't need pure oxygen to initiate pyrolysis, combustion with atmospheric air is suitable to initiate pyrolsyis as well as gasification systems that pyrolyze biomass without any oxygen/combustion using electric resistive elements eg powered by solar pnaels if you want to learn more about gasificatoin theres soem great resources in the internet
bob29··on LangChain: Build AI apps with LLMs through composability
Useful compared to writing a regex in notepad yeah.

Last time I was challenged by regex I easily found very fancy web page with so many nice features. Actual documentation, ability to select a specific regex engine (or implementation or whatever you call it) , real-time results on test data, highlighting that shows how the regex works, etc. and that was years ago I’m sure there’s even better web apps now.

I can’t imagine having a better experience asking AI chat than using a web app made for the purpose

bob29··on LangChain: Build AI apps with LLMs through composability
>but... we could already do that? that sums up so much. the emperor has no clothes. few see it. its inferior to the modern purpose built tools. we act impressed a simple program can be created from a prompt, what has every programmer been doing already for the last 10 years with google search and stackoverflow?
bob29··on What the hell is Forth? (2019)
DSL just a library that exports a lot of functions that work together any language that allows naming functions does that?
bob29··on Japan, US to step up cooperation in developing next-generation nuclear reactors
Explain the trash islands
bob29··on Japan, US to step up cooperation in developing next-generation nuclear reactors
and green peace super soldiers
bob29··on Dedicated biomass is not a good idea
Really beating up a strawman. No one's proposing or implementing "dedicated" biomass.

Corn ethanol utilizes the starch from corn, and leaves behind proteins, fats, minerals, and yeast cells which are used as animal feed, where its superior to plain corn.

Likewise woody biomass isn't coming from clear cutting forests, its from necessary thinning to keep forests healthy (thats otherwise burned in slash piles) and mill waste thats a byproduct of lumber production.

bob29··on Death by vegetable oil: What the studies say (2020)
Correlation IS causation
bob29··on Why was Roman concrete so durable?
All this pedantry is turning this place into Reddit
bob29··on Why was Roman concrete so durable?
Please don’t do this it’s also against the rules:

Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead.

Live by the sword die by the sword

bob29··on Why are antennas popping up over the Salt Lake City foothills?
Worth it for the upvotes tho
bob29··on French startup unveils new residential thermo-acoustic heat pump
how do you reply to them?
bob29··on First LNG tanker arrives at Germany's new floating terminal
Love the confidence, keep it up
bob29··on Automating heating with Home Assistant
Where's the robot to pat you on the back?
bob29··on PG: MIT freedom statement feels like a turning point
the real story here, Peter Gregory goes grovelling back to twitter.
bob29··on A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003
Yes
bob29··on Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework
by the physics definition work is kilograms * meter^2 / sec^2 what computer users do on a computer is not work in the physics sense, maybe in the economic sense
bob29··on Texas Bitcoin Miner Made Millions More in Power Credits Than Selling Bitcoin
no facility, no maintenance, no labor.

just as one can invest in commodities without owning a warehouse and taking physical possession of them.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A1_Houston_Office_...

bob29··on Texas Bitcoin Miner Made Millions More in Power Credits Than Selling Bitcoin
you can do that same thing without the bitcoin mining.

the fact they got better returns on the energy market , they should have skipped the bitcoin part and used the extra capital they wasted on bitcoin miners to buy even more advance baseline generation to resell on the spot markets

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