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I would never have expected your answer to be “spend more of other people’s money”.

If the cure for cancer arrived to us in the form of the most probable token being predicted one at a time, would your view on the matter change in any way?

In other words, do you have proof that this medium of information output is doomed to forever be useless in producing information that adds value to the world?

These are of course rhetorical questions that you nor anyone else can answer today, but you seem to have a weird sort of absolute position on this matter, as if a lot depended on your sentiment being correct.

If you understood the systems you’re using, you’d know the limitations and wouldn’t marvel at this. Use search engines for searching, calculators for calculating, and LLMs for generating text.

Well done taking the high road, Marx.

That’s super unfortunate and I’m well aware, but it’s a separate issue.

“Bad things” is subjective, and you’d only want to start this war if you’re certain you’d win.

I think this is a subject that tends to bring the absolute lunatics out of their holes.

Holding such opinion is fine in my eyes, as long as you’ll be the one enforcing those measures. If you wish to be the one pointing the finger to have people assassinated or worse, I have no sympathy for you and would fight your ideology until the end.

I also like the example where if you break someone’s window and they fix it for $300, that’s at least an extra $300 in GDP.

What on earth are you saying? Money is money for some ultra rich people who have enough of it.

You’re a bitter conspiracy theorist, inviting nothing but ridicule.

What a silly conundrum you’ve got yourself into. It’s fine to take a step back and say oops, what I just said here was quite stupid.

That's great! My eldest is quite a few years away from understanding coding but I'm excited to take on such projects with him.

For the game itself, I played against a fire gollum dude and the pace felt quite slow -- it would have taken me some 10 minutes to beat him, I imagine. I also didn't know when I get to use my cool moves, since there was no UI indicator.

As a long time Tesla driver myself, I'd love to test drive some Chinese EVs. I'm getting bombarded with "China cars will explode underneath you!" sentiments, and the more aggressive they grow the less I'm inclined to believe in them.

It's not realistic that I'd make the switch long term today as Tesla is doing very well, but I'd at least like to form my own informed opinion on the matter.

The rise of manufactured controversy: the hidden work of seeking gender conflict in smart homes

Wolf discovers dessert menu.

You got hit with the classic anti-scammer technique of “go along until you see a chance to make a run for it”.

I don’t know the source or context of your claim but even if I take it at face value, yes, the CEO has leverage in negotiations. It’s up to the board the extent to which they should be able to exercise that leverage.

You either raise prices, cut costs, or go out of business. All are valid options.

As if shareholders can’t decide their own CEO’s pay.

More navel-gazing philosophy about software. Just write code, solve problems, and skip the martyrdom.

The author argues against absolutism in SWE, but makes absolute claims about experience requirements to understand what he’s talking about.

Really just depends on the quality of the other person's argument. Good to see that you're spending time going over my post history though, makes me feel special. Would never cross my mind in a million years to click on your profile and start scrolling.

The "I'm a tech guy so I shoot my printer if it makes a weird noise" meme essentially.

Yes, you can find the blog post and repo through a quick search.

Just like the “following” tab on X.

People would of course talk about the information found on the platform, not the platform itself.

It doesn’t look like reasoning to you since your bias is so strong. You get no exposure to people challenging your ideals.

I know your comment is just the traditional HN karma grab, but rejecting technological advancement in vehicles based on privacy concerns means missing out on significant improvements in safety, efficiency, and comfort. Would you also reject modern healthcare because hospitals use connected devices?

They don't owe the repo any updates, if there are none. As long as you have no evidence of foul play, you're just a run of the mill conspiracy theorist.