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functionmouse··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
Spineless post
functionmouse··on AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T
Also, the most popular bear case being invalid helps the bulls, who largely control the discourse.
functionmouse··on C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior
float considered harmful
functionmouse··on ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children
I mean, are YOU going to try to stop them?
functionmouse··on Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
on one hand I wanna say you shouldn't make conflicting names

on the other hand what gives them the right to st but not you?

functionmouse··on Shitty Sleep
OP please check the article discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129990
functionmouse··on The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago
What a powerful statement
functionmouse··on OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI
Look, if nobody knows, nobody cares.
functionmouse··on OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI
Subjectively; as 100% of all laws and rules throughout history have been enforced.
functionmouse··on More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI Counterculture
I find it amusing that the anti-AI counterculture we discuss is comprised of things that you can tell an AI to replicate.

Just do your best, kids.

functionmouse··on Sit Down and Shut Up
None of this aligns with my lived experience. But I hope you find peace someday.
functionmouse··on Gates Heir's Shopping App Claimed Sales It Didn't Drive
Brave got caught injecting referral codes and people still consider it reputable. I don't, but I mean, people do.
functionmouse··on National Security Determination Threat Posed by Foreign-Produced Robotic Devices [pdf]
yea but they don't wanna do that
functionmouse··on Offer rates for tech jobs fell from 51% to 39% since 2015
39% seems like a lot
functionmouse··on Ask HN: I lost any interest in technology. What do I do?
go fishing
functionmouse··on I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here
We're waiting for the next call to action.
functionmouse··on California cannot keep rewarding utilities after catastrophic wildfires
I have to agree with you there.
functionmouse··on California cannot keep rewarding utilities after catastrophic wildfires
> That is not how democracy is supposed to work.

Eh. A system's purpose is what it does.

> paid by California families to Southern California Edison — whose equipment was investigated as the probable source of the Eaton Fire.

The electric company did not make Altadena a natural tinderbox. Nature did.

functionmouse··on Why Aren't There C Conferences? (2018)
> Second, C has a tendency to be conservative, changing and growing very slowly. This is a feature, and one that is often undervalued by developers. (In fact, I’d personally like to see a future revision that makes the C language specification smaller and simpler, rather than accumulate more features.)

ANSI C is cool!

functionmouse··on My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents
I currently need 4gb of RAM MINIMUM to send an email. AI didn't get us here.
functionmouse··on Yudkowsky and Soares' Book Is Lacking (2025)
> they don’t present any evidence, or discuss how computers might get to intelligence.

Rationalists don't need pesky things like data or evidence to assert their desired conclusions as fact. Don't you know, you can assert your vibes as science, now.

functionmouse··on Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition
You're telling me people lost access to their Minecraft accounts due to a transition BEFORE Microsoft owned it? I had no idea.
functionmouse··on Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition
This might have impacted me, had Microsoft not deleted my legacy account. So I suppose I'll just stick to Tekkit Classic on my pirated client.
functionmouse··on The Birth of the American 12-string Guitar (2013)
> That's the first time I've heard microtonal work in a rock setting. Pretty good!

Really? I highly recommend Flying Microtonal Banana.

functionmouse··on Books can't piss me off
Neither is better or worse than the other, in my humble onion. People have less space and move around more frequently these days, and also, E-ink is more accessible than physical books.
functionmouse··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
he could order possession of it treason and punishable similarly to other illegal numbers.
functionmouse··on BitMEX exchange will shut down
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitmex-token/

-91% today

functionmouse··on Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
For its own sake, not ours.
functionmouse··on Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
I think you're right. Thanks.
functionmouse··on Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
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