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Re:Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:54AM (#49876075)
Master Mazu sat on the chair. Baizhang stood up and rolled up his sitting mat. Mazu stood up and went back to his quarters.
Re:Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:52AM (#49876057)
Which “that”?
Re:Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you on Saturday September 05, 2026 @09:57AM (#49576558)
Having offline for free, why would we need online for a price?
Re:Tell HN: I want to see the same moon as you on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:54AM (#49573179)
Offline is a shared experience.
Re:How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs on Monday August 24, 2026 @10:39AM (#49420462)
Whining on the order hand is always easy.
Was it illegal?
Re:How to Exist on Saturday August 01, 2026 @03:47AM (#49132110)
You are onto something, brother. Nirvana is samsara, samsara is nirvana. Buddha mind is every day mind.
Re:Germany is quietly falling apart on Thursday July 09, 2026 @06:23PM (#48853172)
That’s everyone’s approach in fact. As soon as “reaping rewards” becomes “resting on laurels”, one loses the ability to do anything but protectionism.
www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html (90s and on)
Re:The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @09:37AM (#48817660)
There’s no second Don Knuth vOv
I’m genuinely confused. Was there any doubt before this study that sport makes people healthier?
This is the funniest “fun project” I’ve seen <3
Until you can sleep on the road.
Re:Turning Claude Code hooks into a live racing dashboard on Thursday May 28, 2026 @07:27AM (#48307454)
I cannot believe he wasn’t paid enough.
Re:Am I a Bad Friend? on Thursday May 28, 2026 @07:26AM (#48307445)
Doing it late(r) only adds to the pain of missing out before.
Re:Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @02:27PM (#48298380)
AI has no doubt.
Re:Resist Less, Not Try Harder on Monday May 25, 2026 @02:34AM (#48264054)
Very Zen. Will sell well.
Re:Why Physical Reality Is a Collective Construction on Sunday May 24, 2026 @05:32PM (#48261201)
Someone’s got an AI psychosis.
What do you get if you drop a teaspoon of business into a barrel of X? A barrel of business.
I hear this every 5 years for the last 15. And IBM is far from irrelevant.
Just in case you are not aware, a joke loses its fun factor if you explain it.
Apparently the world went dumber in the last 20 years and staged commits are DIFFICULT now.
Re:Cisco Workforce Reductions on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:24AM (#48132153)
The message is for the investors.
Re:How the world has avoided an oil catastrophe so far on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @11:47AM (#48123476)
It is almost as if Trump is shorting oil...
Re:Arene Base on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:05AM (#48105519)
The repo has `.DS_Store` files committed. I am questioning the competency of the author(s).
Privacy is not the issue. Limited use beyond trivial tasks is.
I have not known them either.
Re:The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions on Monday May 04, 2026 @04:40AM (#48006118)
> In the world of computing, we tend to abstract away complexity. Doing so seems liberating. It enables us to focus on the bigger picture. Unfortunately, in doing so, the fidelity of our understanding often decreases. We sometimes end up blinding ourselves.

Some “Java in the 90s” understanding of abstraction. Proper abstractions break complexity into composable elements. Hence, fidelity of our understanding increases.

Re:The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions on Monday May 04, 2026 @04:36AM (#48006093)
I had to burn out to obtain the insight :-/

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