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New comment by monadgonad in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

monadgonad — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:19:41 +0000

You think that they have “days leading up to consultation”? Please don’t be so disingenuous; I’m sure you know exactly what the person you’re replying to meant.

New comment by monadgonad in "DeepSeek v4"

monadgonad — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:12:54 +0000

"Not about moral high ground. One's an ideology my morals agree with, one isn't."

New comment by monadgonad in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

monadgonad — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:33:43 +0000

The current situation really has zero bearing on the principle that it’s better to inform users of this.

New comment by monadgonad in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

monadgonad — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:47:33 +0000

> The difference is that electricity wasn't being controlled by oligarchs that want to shape society so they become more rich while pillaging the planet and hurting/killing real human beings.

Yes it was. Those industrialists were called "robber barons" for a reason.

New comment by monadgonad in "McDonald's removes AI-generated ad after backlash"

monadgonad — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:44:02 +0000

I think it is humorous exaggeration

New comment by monadgonad in "When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)"

monadgonad — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:29:33 +0000

> Should I be familiar with every step of Dijkstra’s search algorithm and remember the pseudocode at all times?

Somehow, I think you already know the answer to that is "no".

I've been working as a software engineer for over 8 years, with no computer science education. I don't know what Dijkstra's search algorithm is, let alone have memorised the pseudocode. I flicked through a book of data structures and algorithms once, but that was after I got my first software job. Unless you're only aiming for Google etc, you don't really need any of this.

New comment by monadgonad in "The past was not that cute"

monadgonad — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:19:58 +0000

Antibiotics don’t stop you suffering from poison ivy. At all. In other posts you say you had a broken skin barrier that’s vulnerable to infection, so you presumably know that this is not the same as actually having a bacterial infection, and that antibiotics are only a prophylactic, not a treatment. So stop making out that people are dying to deny you treatment.

New comment by monadgonad in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

monadgonad — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:10:07 +0000

> I won't call clickbait on this

But you are going to imply it by bringing it up at all.

> They didn't kill him, they failed to save him.

The post does not say otherwise.

Please give this, of all topics, the respect it deserves, respond to the article as it is actually written, and don't use this, of all things, as an opportunity to get on your high horse about some other article you have problems with.

New comment by monadgonad in "The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)"

monadgonad — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 10:57:17 +0000

> very well understood and documented by a huge community

Is this article not someone in the community documenting what's understood? I'm sorry if it doesn't meet your expectations, but it's fine for me.

New comment by monadgonad in "The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)"

monadgonad — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:25:40 +0000

Me. I'm a backend developer who occasionally wants to make a web frontend for a side-project but knows essentially no CSS. The solutions are not "well understood" by me because I know no CSS.

New comment by monadgonad in "How can England possibly be running out of water?"

monadgonad — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:56:11 +0000

The article, and especially much of the discussion here, is about how privatisation has led to this situation. Privatisation of a public utility which _even in many other developed liberal capitalist countries_ is not privatised. Yet to you this is not evidence that we are an extreme example of neoliberalism, but somehow “defacto socialist” and your solution is throwing fuel on the fire with more privatisation. You’re living on a different planet, mate.

New comment by monadgonad in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

monadgonad — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:07:29 +0000

Fruiter Aero is a term that retroactively applies to the style of a certain time. Look at Windows Vista. Windows Vista's design is what we now call Fruitger Aero. Windows Vista came out in 2007. It's a retroactive term, yes, but how can you claim the thing it refers to didn't exist before 2007, when Windows Vista is a shining example of it?

New comment by monadgonad in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

monadgonad — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:15:29 +0000

I'm not sure how you've come to that impression. The boards I used to frequent are hobbyist ones, not political, yet they have people calling each other the n-word all the time. On /fit/ anything done by a large corporation or as a moneymaking scheme is talked about as if it's a Jewish conspiracy, to the point where they call highly-processed food "goyslop". /g/ hates Indians and calls software and technology that it likes "the white man's choice." I could go on. This pervasive background of racism is all over 4chan, and I wonder why you're trying to downplay it.

New comment by monadgonad in "Thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making"

monadgonad — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:12:22 +0000

You're talking about a completely different phenomenon.

New comment by monadgonad in "Fork of the popular “I don't care about cookies” extension"

monadgonad — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 09:35:48 +0000

> Why not pick a good option? Why go through the trouble then be like, fuck it, Ill pick a shitty option?

You're assuming way too much active thought and choice on the part of the people who don't care about cookies. You're assuming that it was a choice between options at all. In my case, a website I was happening to read mentioned the I Don't Care About Cookies extension, and I thought, "oh, it'd be nice to have something that stops all of those annoying cookie pop-ups" and installed it. That is all. Is such an action really an "anti-progressive and pro-shitty attitude"? Am I really harming you or myself or society by doing that?

New comment by monadgonad in "Kiwi Farms response to CloudFlare"

monadgonad — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:16:31 +0000

You clearly did not read the post you're replying to at all. They are not talking about ignoring it or claiming that they are not liable.

New comment by monadgonad in "Probiotics can support the effect of antidepressants"

monadgonad — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:04:53 +0000

Neither dietary cholesterol nor saturated fat nor sugar are bad in moderation, and that's completely orthogonal to the point of them providing probiotics.

New comment by monadgonad in "US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982"

monadgonad — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:17:24 +0000

Tech workers are extremely ununionised, especially in the US. While this may be the case in other industries (though I doubt it - Germany famously has much better labour laws than the US and other European countries), I don’t think it has any effect on developer salaries.

New comment by monadgonad in "Blockchain-based systems are not what they say they are"

monadgonad — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:44:03 +0000

Sure, to the technical definition of assets, but the point is that by definition fractional reserve banks don’t have the money on hand to pay out if all of their customers decided to withdraw at once.

New comment by monadgonad in "NIST is broadcasting a test signal on minute 8 of the hour on WWV and 48 on WWVH"

monadgonad — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:25:35 +0000

Approximately every house has an aerial, its presence is not a good indicator of if there’s a TV hooked up to it. I think most likely they just look through your window.