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New comment by dualvariable in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

dualvariable — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:56:13 +0000

> There's a whole ball of wax here that boils down to whether a society would rather be individualistic or collectivist.

Yeah, but the US seems to me to be one of the worst places for individual responsibility. Everyone expects their environment to be perfect safe, and they can behave with a large degree of personal negligence, and if anything goes wrong they want to sue anyone they can think of. And then corporations take defensive actions against that, and you wind up with "do not take Flumitrol if you are allergic to Flumitrol" kinds of warnings everywhere. It is "individualistic" in the most narrowly narcissistic sense, which I don't think is what the founders envisioned either.

New comment by dualvariable in "Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block"

dualvariable — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:44:23 +0000

penalti para el real madrid!

New comment by dualvariable in "Claude mixes up who said what"

dualvariable — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:01:58 +0000

LLMs don't "think" or "understand" in any way. They aren't AGI. They're still just stochastic parrots.

Putting them in control of making decisions without humans in the loop is still pretty crazy.

New comment by dualvariable in "Am I German or Autistic?"

dualvariable — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:55:53 +0000

27% German, 31% Autistic. I think I'm old enough to have an awful lot of IDGAF which I think greatly suppresses those numbers. If I took this test back when I was 16, I think the numbers would be very different.

New comment by dualvariable in "Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3)"

dualvariable — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:06:24 +0000

I hope this was just some over the top sarcasm.