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You’re “taking responsibility” for doing nothing wrong.
Re:Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo on Monday August 24, 2026 @10:10AM (#49420054)
It went, primarily, to their politicians and warlords. The West needs to face the fact that we aren’t the world’s savior, and fixing other countries problems is not our job.
A dollar bill is exactly the same (roughly) always. Banning models of gun parts (or anything 3D printed, for that matter) is like trying to ban the patterns of dust in the wind. There are millions of permutations and ways to slice the problem.
Re:Google has the same AI adoption curve as John Deere on Monday April 13, 2026 @04:17PM (#47757280)
This is a very smug post with very little substance.
I'd immediately chargeback any subsequent charges. That's what it's for. You have nobody to talk to and no other recourse (unless you hire a lawyer.)

Probably a great reminder for everyone not to park your domain in the same place you do everything else.

Also, why are you paying 18k for resources you aren't using?

Re:AI employees don't pay taxes on Monday December 29, 2025 @06:00PM (#46427050)
What a weak argument against the “it’s just a tool” defense.
Re:Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness" on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:16PM (#46412584)
I think it's important to agree with you and point out the obvious, again, in this thread. The people behind Sage are responsible (or, shall I say, irresponsible.)

The attitude towards AI is much more mixed than the attitude towards guns, so it should be even easier to hammer this home.

Adam Binksmith, Zak Miller, and Shoshannah Tekofsky are _bad_ people who are intentionally doing something objectively malicious under the guise of charity.

Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:15PM (#46284704)
Are they really much more complicated than a hybrid? Think RAV4 Hybrid. I’d much prefer a fully electric drivetrain with an electric generator to the joyless CVT.
Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:08PM (#46284665)
If a shelf stable fuel like LP could be integrated into an EREV, I think that would be the perfect combo. All the dynamics of an EV with the extended range and easy fuel availability.

I’ve owned a M3P and MY, and I really want a truck, but it needs to be more capable than the electric offerings. An EREV truck would be fantastic.

What we really need is standard two way charging on these cars. Every home with an EV should have a backup battery built into the deal.
Why is eSIM related? I want to understand. To me, SIM cards always seemed ridiculous and pointless.
Love my P365, but I'm not buying another product from Sig after the P320. I can't trust them to make a dangerous tool in a safe and reliable manner.
Their reputation is absolutely shot. It's not just the P320 either, the XM7 and XM5 were also poor choices.
It’s just engineers getting high on their own supply. All the hype men for the software are software engineers (or adjacent.)

Frankly, any time I see research indicating software engineering is at a high risk of being automated, I outright dismiss it as pseudo science. It ain’t happening with current tech.

Re:Go is still not good on Friday August 22, 2025 @09:16PM (#44992018)
> caused a production issue

that's not a production issue, and it's a very niche use case

Honestly, I’d take the $200 and run.
While I have no empathy or patience for Amazon’s support model, you’re really asking for it when you write backend code in Node.

I get that some big businesses are using JavaScript on the backend, but I’ll bet almost every single one would be better off switching to a type-safe, compiled language.

Re:Silly job interview questions in Haskell on Thursday May 22, 2025 @11:36PM (#44069650)
Fifteen years into my career, and I'm finally realizing that "expressive" languages are practically unreadable.
Re:Try Switching to Kagi on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:35PM (#43841009)
I tried it a few months back, and it blew me away how much search could be improved. I am now a paying customer and extremely satisfied with the product.
Re:Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API on Saturday December 21, 2024 @11:21PM (#42484366)
Haha. No...it's just a _distributed system_. One with firm, precisely-defined boundaries around each horizontally scaled sub-system.
Re:Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @11:08AM (#42442505)
Yes. The use cases are very different, as far as these things go. To say otherwise is borderline misinformation.

You can build services internally with gRPC and serve a public graphQL API that aggregates them.

Re:Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @12:01AM (#42438477)
Why? I'm going to encourage my engineers and other teams to use it. Using this API would 100% have prevented bugs created by accessing the generated structs directly, especially in the presence of an optional value.
Re:Steam releases new built-in recording feature on Thursday November 07, 2024 @12:58AM (#42073839)
With screenshot and video recording built in for so many years, this kind of rolling recording is a natural fit. I suspect most gamers will ditch Nivdia ShadowPlay.
Re:ChatGPT Search on Thursday October 31, 2024 @07:52PM (#42012720)
I gave Kagi a shot two weeks ago, and it instantly impressed me. I didn't realize how much search could be improved. It's a beautiful, helpful experience.
Re:M4 MacBook Pro on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:57PM (#42010848)
I upgraded to the M2 Air and I could have just kept the M1 Air this whole time. It was a perfect laptop.
Re:Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @06:11PM (#41989959)
I apologize, dang. I thought that was an appropriate response.
Re:Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO on Monday October 28, 2024 @09:47PM (#41978555)
American tipping culture is unbelievably toxic and insufferable.
Check out his interview on The Primeagen. They couldn’t pry a direct answer to that exact question out of him.
Have you spoken to a lawyer, Matt? That’s a terrible course of action. It’s like talking to the police. You never do so, no matter how innocent you are.
He has no self control. His interview on The Primeagen was especially telling. It’s deeply personal for him. His interactions with the WPEngine staff are all spoken about like casual personal relationships. Nothing was handled professionally. No matter who’s right, or to what extent, he’s publicly digging himself a hole.

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