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Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:24AM (#50290555)
Has nothing to do with monopolies, having the market slowly condense into one mega company does not create competition and results in higher prices for the consumer.
2 things. 1, hallucination is a sensory perception of something. LLMs don't have senses. The term doesn't make sense when confabulation is literally lying right there. 2, ai bros really like their ai, and run interference when people find flaws in it. This includes derailing conversations with nit picking terminology. Yes i'm aware of the irony in my post.
It’s generally a fascist viewpoint to say that dissenters should consider leaving the country.
I rented it at blockbuster, loved it, bought it, and then played many hundreds of hours on it. I don’t know if I agree with your statement as written.

That said, I don’t know if I would even touch a RTS on a console these days. So maybe I agree in spirit.

Re:Claude Is a Contrarian on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:28PM (#49699573)
part of Claude’s capability is reliant on its verbosity to push its responses into new vector spaces. If you instruct it to be terse, its capability is potentially reduced
Re:'Old Person Smell' on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:06AM (#49586687)
> “It’s just a natural byproduct of skin ageing – not dirt, not poor hygiene,” Javid says.

Did Javid really say this

I raised my eyebrows at this statement, but I had forgotten that blog post where he griped about the UK becoming less white.
Okay that was always allowed
Re:Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good? on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:49PM (#49467705)
These had a lot of blood sweat and tears poured into them.

Most Hollywood game adaptations are the same as the Disney live actions. They have their hands on an IP, they want to flip it into easy money. Those turn out excruciatingly bad, because for an easy flip, you need to target for mass appeal, which waters down the material.

Re:Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:44PM (#49368122)
My Claude.md has one line that says to read agents.md, this is a bit of a nothingburger
You are not understanding how the market works. Rarity and value do not always correlate with demand. Otherwise I have some beanie babies to sell.
I mean really, all of my examples involve on-demand flame at a BTU higher than a torch, so I suppose the list doesn’t go on if you exclude things like charring eggplant for baba ganoush.

Induction is super awesome for maintaining temp. But one isn’t superior over the other in all cases. My point was purely, people need high BTU fire sometimes based off how they cook. I mean, you won’t see me cooking tagine, but surely someone in the world cooks tagine?

You absolutely cannot do the same thing with a cast iron, I promise.
Can’t (properly) cook a tortilla on an electric burner, though you can get subpar results in a pan

Can’t char a pepper on an electric burner

Can’t heat a nabe on an electric burner

Also during hurricane season, my gas burner still works when the power goes out.

The list goes on of things that electric simply cannot do. To claim one is superior over the other ignores a lot of the ways people cook. They are just simply different cooking tools.

Drop the disdain, it makes your argument look uninformed.

Try talking IRL with what people dislike about datacenters. You might be surprised.

Re:Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:01PM (#49147764)
Thank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.
Tattooing company logos has already been done https://www.huffpost.com/entry/billy-gibby-aka-hostgator_n_2...

So really, they are just boring and derivative. Probably an analog to be drawn here for modern SV.

Re:The End of an Era on Friday July 31, 2026 @06:07PM (#49129090)
> Printing presses also write words better than humans.

False equivalence, printing presses do not write.

Re:The Strongest El Niño Ever on Sunday July 26, 2026 @03:19PM (#49061433)
You don't seem to understand how this works. El Niño is one half of a 2 part cycle. You don’t get permanent hurricane reduction.
Re:Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter on Monday July 06, 2026 @05:20PM (#48810665)
I don’t want to be mean, but try to run a large project and you’ll realize there’s more to it than “can I find some bodies to crank out code”
I don’t understand why this is a problem.
Re:How H-E-B Became Texas' Most Beloved Brand (2024) on Saturday June 27, 2026 @10:56AM (#48698846)
I don’t think that ruling distills down that far. But I will grant you that if you’re leaving enough obvious money on the table, activist investors will come knocking.
Re:I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life on Friday June 26, 2026 @10:00PM (#48694417)
lol of course he’d go to Bari’s rag to complain
Andy Ngo is an awful person, surely there’s a better source
Re:Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube on Monday June 08, 2026 @12:24PM (#48447403)
Yes? Can’t take 10 minutes to speak (or at least redraft) with your own voice?

I’ve written PR copy solo, and in committee. It’s not rocket surgery. It’s a group of people standing around with a thesaurus. But if you leave AI-isms in, just feels like you whipped it out while coffee was brewing.

Re:Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube on Monday June 08, 2026 @12:11PM (#48447206)
> You're right to raise this

Is this LLM generated?

Re:First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas on Thursday June 04, 2026 @09:32AM (#48398419)
What? Texas Tribune is excellent; it’s a nonprofit here that does investigative journalism. Are you upset they’re quoting the current administration? I can’t help you there, that’s the times we live in.
Only if that 3 in 4 number is increasing (documenting a trend) But that doesn’t appear to be the case.
This is an obtuse comment because it doesn't mean anything. Yes we all know that every country has for-profit elements. We also all know that every country has social elements in their system. And non-profit elements.

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