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donkey_brains··on 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
Thanks man, got me right in the nostalgia.
donkey_brains··on 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
I would! And Cthulu willing, someday I will.
donkey_brains··on 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
Awesome chatting with you Jev. I never thought you were a bot despite what some people said. busysignal93
donkey_brains··on 13 Months Sober (2025)
Woah man, don't advocate that people synthetically drink and fly! There may be non-wirehead kids in here who don't need that kind of influence.
donkey_brains··on Sousveillance
Damn, that’s so cool. I just learned it today! I love when that happens. Now I have all this reading to do!
donkey_brains··on Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack
And I wish I was flying though the night sky on a magical talking pony but here we are
donkey_brains··on Diesel prices could crush Republicans in the heartland
No, they’ll just blame the libs
donkey_brains··on Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now
Of all the misguided, abusive studies. It beggars belief that a board somehow approved this.

What happened here is simple: the autistic kids got better at masking in order to placate the researchers who were shoving poop up their butts. In the hope of making it stop.

donkey_brains··on A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs
Well I for one found it quite titillating
donkey_brains··on Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know
Having seen the quality of some projects on there, yes.
donkey_brains··on Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
It's missing a few elements for realism: - Passengers on either side of you taking both your armrests - Continually crying baby seated just in front of you - Person behind you coughing without covering mouth every 2 minutes - Kids fighting for control of a tablet across the aisle from you - Tiny cans of Coke
donkey_brains··on I'm going back to coding by hand
So do you make the LLM restrict its output to small, individually-reviewable chunks per PR?
donkey_brains··on I'm going back to coding by hand
Yeah this is a very very common and fundamental operation in programming. Always use the “refactor” tool in your IDE instead of trying to change every instance of a variable name by hand.

It’s like using a linter: you do it because it’s the right thing to do and doing it without the tool confers no benefit and is prone to error.

donkey_brains··on New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal
Grift while the grifting’s good.
donkey_brains··on AI Isn't Making Everyone a Creator
It means something different _to you_ because it represents the experience _you_ had in taking/making it.
donkey_brains··on Your AI Generated Menu Triggered My Trypophobia
Oh, what the hell?!? This is nightmare fuel.
donkey_brains··on Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf]
I generally agree with you, but I do think that terrorism is objectively the wrong way to protest. I’d say the Unabomber’s victims and their families were slightly more than “bothered”.
donkey_brains··on Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf]
High frequency trading has been a reality for decades. What’s different now?
donkey_brains··on Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha
Flagged? This is a story about technology and its effects on society. Get stuffed with this censorship BS.
donkey_brains··on Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha
“The device is not effective through clothing or hair and can be degraded on individuals and animals that are extremely hairy.”

Black bloc for protesting is going to become more popular.

donkey_brains··on Harvard Agrees to $53M Settlement in Body Part Theft Scandal
Argh I’m not making an account even to read something so lurid and juicy
donkey_brains··on Flock impersonates journalist in order to cancel his hotel reservations
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donkey_brains··on Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request
I’ll join your movement but we won’t be popular among our peers or our servers
donkey_brains··on At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
I dunno, having had it at least once now it’s pretty obvious when it happens, and pretty quick to resolve with antibiotics when it does
donkey_brains··on Yes, Code Review Is Still Necessary
No, it’s not. The piece reads like it was written by an LLM, because it was. Just write your own thoughts in your own words. It’s really not that hard.
donkey_brains··on Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
Nope. The article’s assertion is that governments will start to put enormous pressure on tech companies in their borders to include backdoors in their systems for LEO use. This in turn may lead to “nationalized” software e.g. what Russia and China largely do now, but in many more countries. You may have no choice but to use phones, computers, and software that is backdoored by your government - everything else will be illegal.
donkey_brains··on The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood
Go crabs go!
donkey_brains··on Bumble gives up on women making the first move
Surprised it took them this long. I gave up on that years ago.
donkey_brains··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
“ we're limited by Christian taboos to only ever mentioning abstinence until marriage, so porn becomes the only way men learn about sex and intimacy, and they learn to see their own self worth as a function of their sexual prowess, and women as sexual currency.”

Holy…what the actual…get out of my head. Where can I read more about this idea/how to recover from this type of upbringing? Please?

donkey_brains··on AI's real threat to jobs isn't job loss, it's lower paychecks, new research says
I think it’s more useful to apply OP’s question to about real, established businesses that already price products at the market rate. Not companies riding an unsustainable speculative bubble and playing pricing games in a desperate attempt to attract and retain users who they can later upsell or raise prices on to show “growth” and keep getting investor money.
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