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New comment by gunsle in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

gunsle — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:37:26 +0000

Insightful comment

New comment by gunsle in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

gunsle — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:43:24 +0000

What an absurd leap. OpenAI is the maga brand because they simp for government contracts like any massive company would?

New comment by gunsle in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

gunsle — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:49:59 +0000

I think literally everyone could agree CGI has been detrimental to the quality of films.

New comment by gunsle in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

gunsle — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:05:12 +0000

That would be because nearly all of those posts are entirely made up and somehow I guess people can’t tell that?

New comment by gunsle in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

gunsle — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:04:27 +0000

No, a Reddit post indicates whoever posted is fishing for large scale validation from internet strangers. Their relationship may or may not even exist. Most of the posts are pretty obviously fake. Just like 90% of interactions in general on Reddit these days. That site should be taken out back and put out of its misery.

New comment by gunsle in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

gunsle — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:02:10 +0000

Agreed completely. I’ve worked at a couple places that want to design session everything to death and then meticulously convert that design by committee into story requirements to the point that no actual engineering is even needed from the engineer. On top of that, the usual problem occurs - turns out there actually was a lot of unknowns, and now that 2-4 hours you spent with 5-10 other people meticulously crafting the story and execution plan has been completely wasted as the requirements and design shift by extension. It infuriates me to no end that others within the org don’t see how frequently we do redo these meticulously written stories and what a waste of time that is.

New comment by gunsle in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

gunsle — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:56:25 +0000

You have to show ID to pick up a prescription or open a bank account. You have to show ID for routine traffic stops. This is such a juvenile, tired argument.

New comment by gunsle in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

gunsle — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:41:52 +0000

Exactly. We are heading out of a time where soft power is stronger than hard. We are going back to the days of hard power being the only thing that really matters. As resource competition becomes more intense, and economies stagnate, you can no longer afford to play “nice” with your countries’ future. It’s pretty annoying to me a lot of commenters on the internet are apparently too ideological or immature to grasp that.

New comment by gunsle in "IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption"

gunsle — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:43:30 +0000

Unpatchable xp glitch

New comment by gunsle in "Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function"

gunsle — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:14:22 +0000

I can tell you from years of first hand experience, it certainly makes you far dumber. The biggest factor is loss of memory. Most stoners (myself included) have terrible memory. I used to have near photographic memory, where I’d only have to read things once to remember them nearly verbatim for months after. I genuinely wonder at times where I’d be in my life if I had never got sucked into it years ago. I’m doing great despite the problems it’s caused me, but who knows where I’d be without it.

New comment by gunsle in "Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function"

gunsle — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:12:19 +0000

I live in MN where it’s effectively been decriminalized for years. I believe 100% it has had extremely negative effects on the general populace. I see it in myself and all of my Gen Z/millennial friends that smoke regularly. The amount of money I’ve wasted alone on weed is frankly disgusting, and it’s not looked down upon like it would be if I was at the liquor store every other day blowing my paychecks.

Agreed completely on the day drinking point. That’s actually what got me to quit initially years ago. I realized, would I be drinking right now before work? Hell no. So why am I okay with getting high?

New comment by gunsle in "Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function"

gunsle — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:08:30 +0000

Except no one is going to outright lie to you that alcohol is “medicine,” that it’s not addictive, and that it’s entirely healthy to consume.

New comment by gunsle in "Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function"

gunsle — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:06:38 +0000

I think weed is actually far more insidious than most drugs, because it’s incredibly easy to be a functional stoner. The downsides don’t start to appear until you’re years down the road, and often the marijuana haze keeps you from fully evaluating just how detrimental those downsides have been on you. At that point, you’re legitimately addicted, and your brain begins to sweet talk any attempt at rationality.

For me, the downsides manifest as drarticlsly increased anxiety (I naturally have next to none), extremely poor sleep - I sleep but the sleep is so low quality it begins to feel like my brain barely works right, and the obvious one, the effects on your motivation. I naturally tend towards ADHD style dopamine chasing, and weed makes that about 100x worse. Instead of getting my work done, I will procrastinate with any number of cheap dopamine hits such as video games, internet sleuthing, etc.

New comment by gunsle in "Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function"

gunsle — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:02:45 +0000

I mean in my case, I never even considered drugs until I started smoking weed in college. So it was definitely a gateway drug for me. At first glance, weed has little to no noticeable downsides. This made me think that the other drugs must be the same way. It led me into a drug abuse phase of my life that I still struggle with. Prior to that, I barely did drugs at all and had no real inclination to do so.

I think part of it is the crowd you end up in when you smoke weed. Unsurprisingly, drug use lends itself to putting you in situations with other drug users. These users often completely ignore, leave out, or outright lie about the downsides of these drugs, from chronic weed use to LSD.

New comment by gunsle in "Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function"

gunsle — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:55:45 +0000

As a long time marijuana user, these pro weed articles always crack me up. Sure it has some limited legitimate medical usages for pain or other applications. Vast majority of users are just addicts in denial, myself included for the longest time. Anthropologists in the future will be studying the effects of drastically increased marijuana consumption on society for decades in the future. I do wonder when the general populace will wake up to the propaganda, for example, how it’s clearly a gateway drug and clearly addictive on some level.

New comment by gunsle in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

gunsle — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:56:22 +0000

That’s just not true. There are plenty of people in defense tech that clearly believe they are doing the right thing. Same with those in the military. Their version of “right” is just different than yours. To them, ensuring American hegemony is more right than whatever your definition is.

New comment by gunsle in "Over-regulation is doubling the cost"

gunsle — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:50:41 +0000

You’re never gonna get these people to understand basic economics if they don’t already. It’s mindblowing people do not understand that more regulation = more red tape = less competition as the only companies that can afford to do business in that environment are the ones already in power with resources. Taxation and regulation genuinely only further embed those in power. Ironically, most leftists that advocate for more taxation and regulation in an effort to help the poor and working classes seem to have no grasp of economic realities at all.

New comment by gunsle in "Over-regulation is doubling the cost"

gunsle — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:46:39 +0000

Ah yes, the best thing for society is surely to take the power from private people and businesses and to centralize it in government bureaucracy. Then only a small handful of people get to decide how we live! Along with the threat of imprisonment or violence if we don’t comply! Such a great idea.

New comment by gunsle in "The Hollow Men of Hims"

gunsle — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:40:21 +0000

So you’re not even willing to look into the issue, or understand what your problem is. You could have resolved this with like two calls to your pharmacy, but whatever keep shilling hims lol

New comment by gunsle in "AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings"

gunsle — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:30:00 +0000

You don’t “need” to foster social relations at work. They will naturally arise as people work together. This idea that we need to turn the workplace into a big “family” is nonsensical corporate propaganda pushed by HR departments primarily staffed by women. I promise, most men don’t give a single fuck about “fostering social relationships” at work. The guys I have respected and became the most friendly with at work have been the ones I’m in the trenches with, designing, building, etc. I don’t need to know what Susan in HR’s kid did over the weekend, it’s legitimately useless information to my entire life.

I’ve got ~90 years on this planet at best. I’m not interested in wasting 1/5th of my working career in meetings, listening to people I don’t even know, telling me personal details about their lives I will not retain for more than 5 seconds. To me, it’s genuinely insulting to my time to waste it with these pointless fake displays of familiarity instead of getting to the work at hand and ending the meeting early.