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Re:Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model on Friday June 26, 2026 @01:20PM (#48689214)
Because he likes attention and wants to feel special
Re:Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig – 5x faster than MuPDF on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:08PM (#46439234)
If he made something legitimately useful, who cares how?
Re:Atuin – Magical Shell History on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @07:07PM (#39461408)
just commenting for my discworld homies
Re:What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @05:22PM (#32336791)
I wholeheartedly recommend it
Re:The Atlantic Daily: QAnon Is a New American Religion on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:40AM (#23310355)
I believe "cult" is the word they were looking for
Because we're losing jobs to automation.

The simple menial jobs of 1939 are robot jobs in 2020

"Fixed population" We gonna kill a grandparent everytime someone has a kid?
Re:David Attenborough calls for ban on deep sea mining on Sunday March 15, 2020 @10:03AM (#22583528)
You're kidding, right?
Re:My dudes, it is New Year's on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @08:59PM (#21926145)
Happy new year my dude
There are clips you can find of kids saying it in school to their teacher, and then the teacher freaks out, to the same degree as if they were just called a racial slur, or something of the same magnitude
Yang2020.com Google Andrew Yang
Re:Andrew Yang: Yes, Robots Are Stealing Your Job on Friday November 15, 2019 @08:34AM (#21544602)
Where is he wrong though? Self-driving trucks WILL be terrible for millions of truck drivers. Self serve fast food kiosks? Self checkout? Automation isn't coming, it's HERE, that's his point. Freedom dividend won't be a handout for the lazy paid for by the working, it's paid for by these robots putting those people out of work