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Yep, much like having access to a circular saw won't make me a carpenter, having access to an LLM won't make the average person a software engineer.

I think we're at the point where people are making the opposite conclusion from the premise: Let's let the computer make the decision because then we can't be held accountable.

Do you think the Trump administration really gives a damn about wildlife?

There is of course some danger to wildlife but compared to things like planes, cars and boats its pretty minimal and can be managed.

They could absolutely moderate this at scale. They would just make less money so they have no incentive to do that.

It's really not the same thing. The coating is significantly thicker and more closely resembles real chocolate.

So your argument is that they could have won in an alternative reality where it was worth paying a much higher cost for victory, therefore they didn't lose?

Eisenhower would be considered a woke commie by today's administration

If you set out to achieve an objective, but the enemy prevents you from achieving that objective, you lost.

Hydro has the benefit of being available at night when you're unlikely to be using your car.

In fairness Norway does have ludicrous levels of hydro per capita which makes electricity very cheap.

StatCounter is a joke.

Two of my most commonly used apps are my personal nutrition and workout tracking apps. Vibe coded and hosted on a Raspberry Pi. They're exactly customised to my usage pattern so infinitely better than anything I could buy, and they cost me a few hours and a basic Claude subscription.

Those things are at least well intentioned, and honestly the lane keeping has once or twice saved me from accidentally leaving my lane when distracted, which might have saved my life.

An ad for a spiderman movie has no upside and is another small step towards a Minority Report vision of the future.

Yeah it was a disaster really.

Funnily enough it was Infantino who lead the introduction of the Nations League.

Most Irish people (save a few in Dublin) are basically Americans.

This post would make sense if we didn't live a world where the head of the most powerful country in the world says climate change is a scam.

Also, plenty of middle class, comfortable off people refuse to change their comparatively luxurious, king like lives even a little bit unless there is financial upside to them.

I would say ignore them. It was well written an informative. Some people have just gone insane and see LLMs everywhere.

"It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words."

Is an evergreen take on Nolan's movies for me.

Wait 'till you hear about the special criminal court...

Countering the nonsense prevalent in a lot of evolutionary psychology counts as a big positive in my book.

If you thought Afghanistan was a disaster, Iran would be at least 10 times worse.

The guy watched Citizen Kane and his takeaway was "what a great guy and what an incredible life he lived."

Curious how you are responding to this? Are there viable alternatives you are moving budget to or are you just hostage to their new tactics?

I've stopped installing software updates to my car. They never seem to do anything useful and often will cause things to break or get reset. I no longer see the upside.

Cool, so what have you personally done to reduce your co2 emissions? How do your co2 emissions compare to the global average? Or are you just pretending the problem is other people?

Building the nuclear power plants should solve the problem in about 50 years...

> So the boring 2005 design wins.

As an old guy reading this I had a lot of wtf moments during the setup. Then I laughed pretty hard when we eventually got to this line. Like there's a reason we invented cookies and all mature web frameworks use them for auth.

While there are some interesting nuggets of context in there we could have done without the passive aggressive tone and personal attacks.

It's not rational. China has even less interest in invading the USA than the USA has in invading China. And I think the USA's interest is effectively zero.