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> IMO we all need to start vibe coding PHP bulletin boards again. 'RETVRN' etc.

The most recent release of phpbb was 2 months ago

Lmao “You like nice things happening. You must be a fan of my weird techbro scam cult, that invented doing nice things”

I love that people see a website about one of musk’s ideas and go “wow this is real and happening” in the year of our lord 2026

Nobody defecating in public or play parties that are worse than going to the dentist 3/10

> Processed foods are not cheaper than healthier options.

I have bad news for you about flour

> Well, no

No to what? No, if somebody was making a totally different argument we wouldn’t be having a different conversation? Or no that I wouldn’t be proven wrong in your hypothetical where I’m wrong?

>You can't just make a broad assertion in support of your views and then complain "oh, I only meant a more narrow version" when people say it's too broad.

Lmao I’d ask what you mean by “you can’t clarify stuff” but

I like this complaint about a guy not using his merit, effort, or capability and taking the shortcut of inheritance to become a… prince

> and it was the core part of an argument that people need a minimum of 2 acres of farmland

Then we would be in an entirely different thread talking about something else? I was pointing out that trying to use “I refuse to understand what I read” as a dunk doesn’t really work. If you’re trying to say “What if I invent imaginary circumstances where I am right and you are wrong?” then yeah, I’d be helpless in that situation

I like the transition from “I have an issue with what you said” to “I have an issue with what I imagine you said” after getting clarification

That aside the statement was fine as written. For example it takes deliberate and active misunderstanding to twist the statement “people eat meat” into “there aren’t any vegetarians”

If a teenager did this the police would show up at his house

“A computer can never be held accountable” is from an internal IBM presentation

> I’m concerned that AI is going to make software much too secure.

Lmao this is like “I’m concerned the raccoons that I see in the storm drains are going to make our sewer system much too efficient”

Me, looking at an enterprise product: “Hmm, but do they guarantee FULL lore? I don’t really need to know what the lore is, just the assurance that it is full”

All the stupid made up names are taken, startups have to take regular words and make them meaningless now

I love to spend a dollar for a 70% correct search result

All of the worst websites on the internet are owned by people that are household names

Logging on to news dot ycombinator dot com for some Borat posting

I feel like being head of ethics and working for a CEO that keeps talking about inventing a genie would drive a person insane

What was the task that cost $40?

> > many non-vegans think (whether or not it is true) that vegans believe themselves superior.

> It's hard to imagine a reason why someone is vegan, that wouldn't logically entail such a self-image.

I know a guy that’s vegan because he shit himself after going to an Outback Steakhouse

I don’t think this article about Mark Twain, a famous guy one hundred and fifty years ago, lost all of his money betting on the wrong thing is about chat bots. He lost his money before all that

We will never know if Mark Twain would have or would not have lost his money betting on chat bots because he lost it all on a different machine that didn’t work

“I have exactly one ‘extremist’ belief that I’m willing to share and here’s why I think it’s correct” doesn’t do much to clarify what constitutes extremist other than stuff the author is too smart to believe

Reading about a machine from one hundred and fifty years ago and getting progressively more and more upset that the writing doesn’t give sufficient praise to the real topic of every article, my lovely chat bot

> At no point does anyone seriously comment "wtf do we even have alcohol|anti-depressants" when they see an add for one or the other.

People absolutely do talk about their opinions about alcohol/antidepressants. Also a lot of places ban or restrict alcohol advertising.

I like that the author doesn’t clarify what constitutes an extremist idea aside from suggesting that he doesn’t believe in any. “Extremism is when people, who are dumb, don’t know facts unlike me, who is very smart” is a kick ass theme for an essay

> These people commute to construction sites elsewhere during the day

While it is a shame that tptacek has to see “commuters“ going both ways it is good to know that the people of Aurora have this beautiful park

https://www.cyrusone.com/data-centers/north-america/aurora-i...

>are you saying office buildings bring less to the community because so, so, so many more people work in them than in data centers

>Mine is that office buildings are not generally filled with workers from the immediate municipality in which they're situated.

Since neither are data centers, which aren’t filled with workers, you could’ve just said “yeah”

“Office buildings bring less to communities than data centers because of all the people that work in them” lmao

That’s wild, where do all the people from Aurora work? The data centers? Also what does the specific building or set of buildings you hate in one town have to do with the concept of office buildings

Wait are you saying office buildings bring less to the community because so, so, so many more people work in them than in data centers

Do you think a community is your house