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Re:Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:17AM (#49918296)
not really, and you dry clean them pretty seldomly
Re:The new Firefox design is here on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:52AM (#49893295)
Re:Sonnet 5.5 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @06:47AM (#49891028)
robot make sandwich, robot drive bus, robot cook soup
Re:Punk, or why I don't stream anymore on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:20AM (#48860334)
Wasn't this obvious?
Re:Punk, or why I don't stream anymore on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:19AM (#48860328)
You are a good consumer, consumer451, because you don't judge other consumers' consumption habits.
Exactly. If social media apps had a configurable old style non-algorithmic feed the problem would be dramatically smaller.
somehow the invisible hand of the market is also blind af
I couldn’t be farther from the rationalists in my views but there are definitely a lot of valjd arguments against utilitariansim…
For all the grief they are getting GTK4/Adwaita/Gnome is doing a lot for performance and consistency of experience.
> We can either hold ourselves back an an endless and futile journey on solving the human condition of poverty and inequality, or we can explore the stars. It's an easy choice.

Wait... Are you suggesting that "exploring the stars" is less of an endless and futile journey than dealing with poverty and inequality?

But he's not blaming his poverty on "whitey on the moon" but the lack of healthcare. There is an opportunity cost to war, Moon/Mars missions etc.
Kind of a false dichotomy. How about medical care as a right for a big abstract concept? He's not anti-science here, he's against the inequality of its distribution.
Of course, yes. Yes. It is also sad when it is hungry so best feed it with its preferred food, which is dollars. Loves to eat dollars.
Because they think this is good writing. You can’t correct what you don’t have taste for. Most software engineers think that reading books means reading NYT non-fiction bestsellers.
Re:Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:46AM (#46882349)
boot taste good
Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:08AM (#46835912)
As opposed to.. the harsh realities of the Bay Area tech scene?
Re:Moltbook on Friday January 30, 2026 @03:23AM (#46821877)
Reads just like Linkedin
Re:Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern" on Monday December 01, 2025 @06:31PM (#46115068)
The fact that a theory exists does not mean that it is not garbage
Re:Ilya Sutskever on Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @08:24PM (#46053056)
Best time to sell his ai portfolio
I upvoted both posts
Not sure what their intention is of course, but nowadays there is A LOT of Cortexes in various sound gear. Plenty in things like Eurorack but also outboard equipment like the Eventide H9000 etc.
Re:Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (I.e., Notes to Myself) on Saturday October 25, 2025 @03:40AM (#45702035)
Welcome to Hacker News blog posts
Re:Becoming the person who does the thing on Friday September 12, 2025 @08:53AM (#45221582)
Most tech people are only good at trite linkedin type writing and larping as pg.
Re:Being Good Isn't Enough on Sunday September 07, 2025 @03:48AM (#45156242)
The problem is of course that there isn’t that many good managers.
Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:42AM (#45060630)
Did you intentionally pick your career to make the AI look bad?
Re:Claude Sonnet Will Ship in Xcode on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:41AM (#45060622)
He asked what he was doing wrong?
Re:I don't read your email threads on Friday August 08, 2025 @07:51AM (#44835944)
i agree but nobody gives a shit about this unless you have the authority to impose this in your own company
Watch Zoolander
Make center for kids who can’t read good and wanna learn how to do other things good too.

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