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New comment by DontchaKnowit in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

DontchaKnowit — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:19:37 +0000

Sometimes yelling fuck shit piss bitch cunt fuck ass whore etc works. They have them setup to detect swear words to figure out when youre pissed off and need to talk to a human lmao

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "Teaching Claude Why"

DontchaKnowit — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:37:45 +0000

No, THIS is radical denial. You WERE born to toil for your survival.

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "I'm scared about biological computing"

DontchaKnowit — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:48:31 +0000

Why cant it grow on its own? Once it is capable of generating and integrating resources for itself

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

DontchaKnowit — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:41:58 +0000

Do open weight models have similar content gaurdrails in place?

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

DontchaKnowit — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:47:25 +0000

Not remotely surprising to anyone whose ever counted calories or carbs

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true"

DontchaKnowit — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:22:22 +0000

Has never been true in my career.

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

DontchaKnowit — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:29:33 +0000

I kinda feel like vegetarians are right but consuming animal derived products is fine.

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

DontchaKnowit — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:18:06 +0000

I mean, you could probably make these comparispns in 2006 when the movie came out. Perhaps it wasnt prophetic but rather just a sature of the general human condition

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem"

DontchaKnowit — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:15:32 +0000

Are you kidding? Plumber seem really in demand. Finding a conpetent plumber with reasonable pricing is difficult where im at

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later"

DontchaKnowit — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:04:46 +0000

Problem is that they dont, actually

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "AI-First Company Memos"

DontchaKnowit — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:44:28 +0000

I mean I think I stayed exactly on topic. Used by experience devs, its not slop, and if you arent usuing the people who are areprobably going to outpace you

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "AI-First Company Memos"

DontchaKnowit — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:20:39 +0000

How is that the point of AI. The point is that it can chug through things that would take humans hours in a matter of seconds. You still have to work with it. But it reduces huge tasks into very small ones

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "AI-First Company Memos"

DontchaKnowit — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:17:19 +0000

Well 6 years experience here and I personally saved about 4 hours of work today using claude. My coworker also just solved a problem I had been looking into for a few days in about an hour with claude. So, I think maybe you are just a bit behind the curve.

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled"

DontchaKnowit — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:22:14 +0000

What do you mean by spin off?

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "How I Became a Quant (2007) [pdf]"

DontchaKnowit — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:51:41 +0000

How is that not a restatement of what OP said?

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]"

DontchaKnowit — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:41:34 +0000

"The CIA are probably for the most part reasonable people"

What CIA are you talking about? Maybe we have diferent definitions of reasonable, but the CIA I know of are absolutely fucking wicked, morally bankrupt snakes.

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

DontchaKnowit — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:23:44 +0000

What makes you say that? This sounds like denialism to me

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

DontchaKnowit — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:03:54 +0000

There is no direct correlation between dollars and calories though. I could spend 10 dollars on 400 calories of strawberries or 10 dollars on 4000 calories worth of cheetos. So theres no way to do that kind of math on this, really

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "Say No to Palantir in the NHS"

DontchaKnowit — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:28:40 +0000

The "government does nothing for itseld" thing..... I am not sure thats true. Pretty sure the government is the single biggest employer in the country a d I dont think that even counts contractors

New comment by DontchaKnowit in "The Rise of SQL:the second programming language everyone needs to know"

DontchaKnowit — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:17:01 +0000

Cerner millennium is built entirely this way. There is a custom sql language called CCL that is used for everything interacting with the DB. All the applications just call CCL scripts.