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DHH's beliefs are fine and valid, and no, I'm not easily offended. The author is slimy because he doesn't contest anything DHH says, he just wags his finger vaguely in DHH's direction and cries "I quit" because some guy that he's never even met has views different than his own.
God I hate these screeds. Especially not a fan of the slimy shots taken at DHH.
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:01AM (#50072816)
"Hey Siri, change the channel to ESPN!"

"Sure, I can call 911 for you"

Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:11AM (#50072080)
Looks so soulless. I really prefer Google's approach with the fabric textures.
Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:55AM (#50057331)
Bringing charges is at the discretion of the prosecutor, and the CEOs of these companies are dining with the president. Learn a little bit about how power works.
Re:What should we tell our students? on Friday October 09, 2026 @08:02AM (#50019290)
Stop the nonsense. 99% of monks are not scientists.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:35PM (#50015685)
what?
Re:What should we tell our students? on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:28PM (#50015643)
The difference between math and all the other professions AI has been obsoleting is that math is actually not a useful pursuit. The tired old line about math someday discovering something that will be useful in an entirely unrelated field is mostly baloney, and the problems that mathematicians spend their years broadly have no real world applications at all. A modern day mathematician is much closer to a monk than a productive worker.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:32PM (#50009957)
The people that deserve the jobs are Americans. It doesnt matter if a foreigner is more skilled--the American people don't want to complete for jobs in a global labor market.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:05AM (#49993073)
I find this argument to be extremely ridiculous. They solved some math problems and published the results for free. No one asked them to do it, they weren't paid, and they don't owe anyone anything. Who exactly is exploited and excluded? The entire notion of open public information is that you can do anything you want with it, including build private systems. Is a baker "exploitative and exclusionary" for reading a recipe in a book and then turning around and selling that bread to customers, without sharing the recipe with the customers?
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:19AM (#49991737)
You were never stripped of anything
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:10AM (#49991637)
Math isn't scientific, none of that is "problematic"
Re:Questions for Believers in AI Consciousness on Monday October 05, 2026 @03:34PM (#49969455)
I think you mean a "lecture on AI". Funny to imagine a person in the year 2000 thinking about why this clarification would be necessary.
Re:Questions for Believers in AI Consciousness on Monday October 05, 2026 @03:33PM (#49969424)
Things can not have an "internal world" and still be conscious. Newborns are conscious but they still have no idea what is going on for a while.
This is not a very useful comment
Can someone please explain to me how the recent llm cache breakthrough doesn't alleviate this memory shortage issue? https://intl.cloud.baidu.com/en/article/8937874
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:23PM (#49895946)
Sure, will fix
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:51PM (#49882680)
believe me, im not in support of the delinquents. but they dont just go away. they stay in society. they vote and consume resources. if you dont get them to a point of self-sufficiency, they will happily become leeches on the rest of society anyway.
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:56AM (#49879047)
and then what? they become adults that live large on food stamps and medicaid.
Re:We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:14AM (#49856235)
> There is a failure to understand that the process is the result

I'm glad to hear people say this now, because for the longest time they've also been bullshitting the public to think that pure math studies would someday lead to some kind of useful outcome.

"transforming the mind" is an exercise in ego-driven self-gratification, no different than getting ten degrees and never getting a job, nor any different than straight up porn or gambling. You have been put on earth to contribute to the progress of humanity, so get dirty and start making commodities. no more useless math-monks.

Re:Anthropic: The Situation Report on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:38AM (#49843171)
Tldr: Claude makes reports and dashboards for ebola health workers
Re:Meta Muse Charm on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:58PM (#49839704)
Woke is over dude, you can take the mask off now
Re:OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:38PM (#49839587)
It doesn't
Re:'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:40AM (#49830445)
people this young don't even know all the words in your comment
Re:Meta Muse Charm on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:19PM (#49825416)
Tamagotchi 2: Electric Boogaloo

It's only a matter of time now before all software is gamified with globular nonbinary mascots and pets

Re:Meta VR Glasses on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:42PM (#49825156)
I can and do wear my meta glasses in public. There's no way I can ever wear this in public
Re:Meta VR Glasses on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:39PM (#49825137)
The battery life on these devices is way too low for that
Re:Meta VR Glasses on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:38PM (#49825125)
I do admire mark's tenacity
Re:OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:19PM (#49824013)
See mens rea

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