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New comment by clark_dent in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

clark_dent — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:51:10 +0000

It didn't, but the advent of spellcheck and autocorrect has made everyone completely give up on proper grammar or word selection as long as no squiggly line appears.

New comment by clark_dent in "Microplastics found in multiple human organ tissues correlated with lesions"

clark_dent — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:42:23 +0000

Well, no. Some common plastics like polycarbonate aren't biodegradable, and will basically never break down without application of significant heat/water/enzymatic activity/etc. For some of these, the half-life could be a great deal more even than 10s of millenia:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b06635#:~:te....

New comment by clark_dent in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

clark_dent — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:37:09 +0000

12" viewing distance?! It sounds like you should be spending more at the optometrist and less at Best Buy. I cannot even imagine sitting that close to a screen--don't you have to turn your head just to see both sides of a document?

New comment by clark_dent in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

clark_dent — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:30:56 +0000

TVs generally have more input lag, poorer color fidelity, and except at the high end like 8k the pixel size is often inappropriate for viewing close up.

There's less of a gulf now than in the past, but TVs are generally made for media watching at a distance.

New comment by clark_dent in "Leaked Microsoft pay data shows how much software engineers report making"

clark_dent — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:08:55 +0000

Why in the name of all that is unholy would you ever think that?

The people in charge of pay and hiring will never, ever, ever set things up such that they're considered less important or are paid less.

New comment by clark_dent in "[dead]"

clark_dent — Wed, 15 May 2024 18:02:36 +0000

The link is completely incorrect, it points to the submission form for /r/technology.