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Ah ninja smoke bomb out w/o proposing any alternative. Handy.

Not to mention hilariously conflating public comment on data centers (massively unpopular) with local weirdo NIMBYism on things like "coffee shops" and "fire hydrants". We all know every city has people that just love to speak at the city council meetings. Can't take it in good faith that you seriously think it's the same thing that's going on with opposition to data centers.

Timescale is a relative measure.
Sure, public jobs program, or sell it. In case you can't tell my comment is hyperbolic, but I feel like we should start at a point of hyperbole and move backwards to reality instead of what's happening right now: fuck all, on a geological time scale.
An ordered list of officers of the company who go to jail depending on how many years must be served as determined by sentencing. Assume something like 10 years per person. If it's 300 years of sentencing, then 30 people. If the sentence exceeds the list of people, the company is nationalized. (And everybody goes to jail.)
Whatever it takes to sleep at night man
"Oops the computer did the war crime"

I'll ask again, who's going to jail?

Re:OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:07PM (#49667129)
Ok, that's a crime then, right? So who's getting charged?
Re:That time when I failed the Microsoft interview on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @11:45AM (#49170583)
What? They were still asking these Mt Fuji ass questions in 2016??
Came here to ask about this too. I was doing CSG stuff in the early 2000's and got physically and mentally sick from the pure hell that floating point accuracy created for me. Literally led me to quit my job. Full crashout. iykyk
Re:Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:28PM (#49014332)
They're still a thing
if you get into a config system that's complicated enough, and has modularization or inheritance, you'll know that the semantics of "remove this" "add that", override this, default to this, this stuff is hard to express in most config languages, or worse, you start enforcing application level semantics. when you have turing complete language you just ... do those things. we reduced the configuration data of a tool suite once by 90%+ by moving from json to python. there was a tremendous amount of duplication and overlap, with tons of TINY exceptions and variations. it was so hard to see those differences, brittle to maintain, things would get stale, ... moving to python you basically had the "base" thing expressed in one file, and a bunch of tiny delta files encoding the exact deviations. All those deviations were of the forms I described above. Adding a thing to a list. Removing a thign from a list. Overriding a whole list. Do a thing if not already done. And so on. It's also then easy to build all kinds of diagnostics, validators, etc, right into the same framework, without having to munge the data into some other form first.
God bless you
Interesting variation on the "I cut you choose" game mechanic!
Re:Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization? on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @07:33PM (#48563768)
that may have been true in product orgs but the infra and dev infra orgs were pretty strong imho.
Google is historically terrible as a product company (and has succeeded in spite of that) As their technical innovations become less of a moat (we're already there) they won't be able to win on engineering alone (they are no longer winning on engineering alone)
Oh shut the fuck up
Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @03:23PM (#48388621)
Having "accidentally" purchased one, I can tell you that doing anything 8GB or RAM on a mac laptop is impossible. I have no idea what people are doing with this laptop. Macs are absolute dogs at 8GB.
It's also a useful signal for AI value. Looks like it's a max value add of $18,000 per engineer per year.
Re:Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40 (2025) on Thursday May 21, 2026 @04:14PM (#48228317)
Sorcery TCG
Re:I don't think AI will make your processes go faster on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:42AM (#48169925)
I literally can’t tell if this comment is a joke or not.
ok sure good luck. more like conbase anyway
Re:"People who don't use AI will be left behind" on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:20PM (#47954015)
all those words and not one concrete claim made. in other words, FUD. the whole point of the article.
Re:CS Professor: To My Students on Monday April 27, 2026 @08:55PM (#47929225)
The engineer who only does high level system design and never codes has existed for decades and is often the most useless and derided engineer in the org.
Re:LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua on Sunday April 05, 2026 @09:14PM (#47655770)
I stand corrected!
Re:LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua on Sunday April 05, 2026 @04:34PM (#47653602)
SDL3
Claude didn't "think" anything
S-tier schizoposting
Re:Ball Pit on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @03:28PM (#47522032)
nevermind i see the ssgi/traa code. looks great!
Re:Ball Pit on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @03:26PM (#47522010)
path tracer?
Re:A Review of Dice That Came with the White Castle on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:56PM (#47481446)
how many mg of oil can accumulate on a die due to handling?

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