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> People love hating on x and nikita but both the app & web experience have improved dramatically over the last year+. This feels like a blatantly unrealistic opinion to have, which goes comple…

> Fortunately we are humans, and professionally trained humans at that, and we can judge readability and comprehensibility of methods through better measures than whether it crosses a boundary of n…

> Those are interesting points. The US military is optimised for limited strike "special military operations", which it does all the time, and deterrence. I don't think so. The US mi…

> This logic doesn't hold under closer scrutiny. The timeline to expand missile production is on the order of years. You're missing the whole point. The point is not that missiles are eas…

Trump's Iran war is known as "operation Epstein fury" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_2026_Iran_war …

> That's the one glaring weakness of relying too heavily on missiles. They are expensive and difficult to manufacture. And they have a limited shelf life, making stockpiles also expensive I do…

> I will say that yes, sadly, I have browsed through code written by people, and sadly also have browsed through code written by LLMs. Who do you suppose wrote the code the LLM was trained on? Divi…

> LLM speedups have always been predicated on not understanding the code they produce as well as if you wrote it yourself. Reviewing even well written code to understand it in depth, has always tak…

> Where in the heck are the efficiency gains? I think there's some confusion in your post. You're seeing people claiming that the rate their code changes is so fast that they find it hard…

> (...) it's been a bit horrifying to watch the Western world consistently decide withholding tech from China and giving them no other option but develop their own tech, is a good idea. This i…

> Eventually AI will be able to just bootstrap solid security, payment, accounts, DB management, backups, customer support services that automatically link to the correct department or sub-system Y…

> Genuine question, does anyone here ITT working in software still have dedicated QA? A few years ago I worked at a company who had a team of QAs dedicated to do manual acceptance tests. Up until t…

> Differences in opinion can be on major issues and are important. Invading Greenland, annexing Canada, and helping Russia invade half a dozen neighboring nations while waging economic war on Europ…

> It's clear by reading all this that you are arguing against some boogieman you've made up in your head because I didn't say any of those things. Your cognitive dissonance is fantas…

> This feels like a very American way of designing things - just throw more horse power at it, bigger is better! I don't think so. Bruteforcing problems is a well established strategy in any f…

> Just last week in Europe we had - Islamist ramming a vehicle in pride parade in Berlin and Islamist stabbing in France - in which three women were seriously hurt. What's really interesting r…

> You can't imagine any situation where the people are seeing this for themselves? I am not sure you understand how this works. If you are bombarded with a barrage of fear-mongering content th…

> REST seems to bring out people who like to define specs and correct others on following the spec or not. There are many other things in tech like this. Yes, and this blog post is exactly yet anot…

> As a UK citizen, it's interesting to think back to Barack Obama's attempt to convince the country not to vote for Brexit (saying the UK would "go to the back of the line" for …

> The original statement was: (1) The branch to the left from A is a dead end. This is where you get things wrong at a very basic and fundamental level. Just because you failed to explore branch A,…

> I think the first part of this is political alignment right? No, no it's not a mere misalignment. Opposing fascism supported on dehumanizing policies such as racial supremacy is not a mere d…

> I think the real difference now, isn't so much that the US is applying more pressure on european politics, but that it's politics is so much further away from most european countries th…

> I wish more people would publish the things that didn't work. This would be a pointless endeavour. One of the most basic mantras of science is "absence of evidence is not evidence of ab…

> What if a single email cost $0.001 cent to send, and it was paid to the recipient? For $10, you could send 10,000 emails. For recipients, every 1,000 emails they get is a dollar in their wallet. …

> If it were possible to charge $0.25/email for delivery, I'd be more than happy . I'm baffled by this blend of replies. What exactly do you believe charging for an email would do? I…

> where it turns out that you didn't even disagree It's really strange how some people unconsciously try to push the idea that the only possible and acceptable feedback comes from those t…

> No, a compromise can also be a win-win. Exactly. This whole discussion is baffling. For the "compromise is lose-lose" mentality to even have a chance of being valid, you first must beli…

> However, most folks (not just designers) have a difficult time with compromise, these days. It's become a value judgment (You're "weak," if you compromise). I think you got it…