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Re:I don't want to read what you didn't write on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @06:24AM (#49798991)
I think you missed the import bit: "transfer of information from your brain to my brain." Including some third-party necessarily adds more that was not in your brain. So by using an LLM, you are transferring what is in your brain + some sludge that may or may not be useful for the other person's brain.
Alas, the age of slop is inevitable. We must unleash the kraken of slop upon us all! Rejoice, for resistance is futile!
Re:The American Age Is Over on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:49AM (#49727021)
It only took twice electing a mendacious and profoundly dangerous buffoon to bring about the end of American hegemony. Good riddance.
This is a direct quote from DHH [1]:

> When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them. This isn't hard, it isn't cruel. It's the basic logic of self-preservation.

Dehumanization of an entire ethnic group by comparing them to animals. Use of violent rhetoric to forcibly ethnically cleanse a region.

There's a word for people who employ this rhetoric. Can you guess?

[1] https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a

Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:59AM (#49464178)
Does putting our own people first look like using immigration officers to kill its own citizens?

Or is that okay because now there will be less brown people here.

I made a service specifically to translate Wikipedia entries to DNS with Anna's Archive as the main use case: https://whither.link/
It would indeed be surprising to hear people say this if you completely ignore the words and actions of the Epstein class and the overwhelming amount of pain and suffering they afflict on everyone else.
Re:My Software North Star on Sunday June 07, 2026 @08:17AM (#48434073)
> There is a pretty clear and important difference between a program that does something wrong, and a program that just doesn't do something somebody wants.

Your argument hinges on all parties agreeing on what "wrong" means. Take a step back and consider that parties do not agree on a common definition of "wrong." Does "wrong" mean a gap between the spec and the implementation or a gap between a reasonable user's expectation and the implementation? If one party assert that it is clearly the former and the other party asserts it is clearly the latter, does that make the situation more clear or less clear?

> But as a lifelong American, I've never heard anyone make a negative comment about Mexicans.

What an absurd statement on its face that comes from a place of extreme privilege. I am a brown-skinned man in America and I lost count of all of the times people that look like me have been denigrated and lambasted in this country.

Re:Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? on Monday December 22, 2025 @08:58PM (#46361569)
This is exactly how I do it in KDE:

  > cat ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/convertHEIF.desktop 
  [Desktop Entry]
  Type=Service
  MimeType=image/heif;
  Actions=convertHEIF

  [Desktop Action convertHEIF]
  Name=Convert to JPEG
  Icon=image-bmp
  Exec=/bin/sh -c "heif-dec -q 95 %u $(dirname %u)/$(basename %u .heic).jpg"
"Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much."

- On Tyranny by Timothy D. Snyder

Keeping your head down and just dealing with it as a choice that you can make and it is the choice that they count on you making. But it's not the only choice.

Re:Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @07:17PM (#43910650)
This is so great! I wrote a short blog post about how well this fits into my Windows 95-inspired bootc project Blue95: https://blues.win/posts/chatting-with-ai-like-its-1995
Re:Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers on Friday September 08, 2023 @10:19AM (#37433846)
> Can you “anonymously” report this without too much backlash? (I assume the answer is no: you clearly know it's wrong, and haven't done anything about it yet.)

This is so extremely common that I don't believe that there is anything to report. I reviewed dozens of papers under my PI's name throughout my entire PhD. Now that I have completed my degree, I never want to review another paper again.

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Re:Ways to Get Better at C++ on Friday June 23, 2017 @10:04AM (#14619207)
High performance computing / supercomputing is dominated almost exclusively by C, C++ and Fortran.
Looks like this is trying to solve the same problem as https://bop.fm/