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New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

ShadowOfThePit — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:06:16 +0000

I ran into a different site where every single action had a debug breakpoint pausing everything if you had devtools open. Luckily, you can disable breakpoints.

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life"

ShadowOfThePit — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:11:17 +0000

This is incomprehensible to me. What does the code mean? What are you trying to say? What's your point? Is this some kind of joke?

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM"

ShadowOfThePit — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:56:09 +0000

Huh, did you get this example from an LLM, or is it the bog-standard way of explaining it? I asked ChatGPT to explain what a "copper plate" is because I was lazy, and it used 1:1 the exact same example as you did (Germany,wind generation in the north paying a thermal plant in the south)

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"

ShadowOfThePit — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:41:46 +0000

wtf

Also, actual talk that goes with the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtM0Cjb0dEU

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "GIMP Development Update"

ShadowOfThePit — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:10:59 +0000

What? How? GIMP is just some latex thing, what does it have to do with disabled people?

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

ShadowOfThePit — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:03:29 +0000

Why not just use temporary chats for ChatGPT?

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

ShadowOfThePit — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:02:52 +0000

Why am I being tricked into playing another cookie clicker

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Discovery Loop"

ShadowOfThePit — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:53:57 +0000

Holy shit, you are so full of yourself. This is such a stupid take with zero nuance. As if banning fossil fuels will help with any of those things, besides the first one.

Little more than "Fossil Fuels are the root of all evil" performative bullshit.

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Western Sahara"

ShadowOfThePit — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:25:34 +0000

Canadians would celebrate en masse, were that to become a thing, eh?

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust"

ShadowOfThePit — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:03:19 +0000

I don't understand your point, or your quote.

Yes, if you try hard enough, you will find proof for any accusation whose outcome you've already decided. But what does that have to do with anything about society being a benchmark?

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison"

ShadowOfThePit — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:43:22 +0000

I agree with every point

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?"

ShadowOfThePit — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:29:30 +0000

I refuse to believe that the average american thinks a third of their population lives in New York City, Texas and California.

And that Black Americans think half of America is black???

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Doom Using Regular Expressions"

ShadowOfThePit — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:41:19 +0000

holy shit

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Show HN: 18 Words"

ShadowOfThePit — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:58:49 +0000

I feel the same way, haha. It's fun, but also so infuriating!

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Caught a .git/Config Crawler"

ShadowOfThePit — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:54:13 +0000

Fascinating

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)"

ShadowOfThePit — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:29:47 +0000

What are you talking about?

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

ShadowOfThePit — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:18:25 +0000

(Safe) Sex is beneficial. It also goes hand in hand with relationships, which itself has many positives.

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Never Give Them Your Face"

ShadowOfThePit — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:27:58 +0000

Straight quotes? I thought an LLMs thing was always using the curly ones?

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

ShadowOfThePit — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:47:56 +0000

I don't get it, so do you think "hanging around" is fun or not?

New comment by ShadowOfThePit in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

ShadowOfThePit — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:14:56 +0000

Did you just call nuclear reactors as "nukes"?