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New comment by neonstatic in "DARPA Heavy Life Challenge"

neonstatic — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:28:41 +0000

You think your life is heavy, huh? You might want to check out this challenge...

New comment by neonstatic in "The AI Hate Progression"

neonstatic — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:07:41 +0000

Resentment, projection, and scapegoating are all time favorites for concrete reasons.

New comment by neonstatic in "The AI Hate Progression"

neonstatic — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:07:13 +0000

It's been 19 years. Since then an entire generation has been conditioned to think that saying something bad about capitalism earns them social points. I have seen it so many times - people, who don't even know what capitalism is, saying they are "fighting to bring it down" just because they think it sounds cool. They should read a bit about bureaucracy (Kafka) and gulags (a variety of authors) to get a hint what "bringing it down" leads to. The very same people are happy to be participants in capitalism if it earns them money.

> and saw the perpetrators get off scot-free?

And your argument is that the reason for that is free market and private property? I would suggest it might be corruption in the political system, which happens to be "a federal republic" (since we are discussing the US).

New comment by neonstatic in "The AI Hate Progression"

neonstatic — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:01:17 +0000

The core ideas of capitalism are private property and free market, not "rich getting richer".

> It very necessarily leads to oligarchy when left unchecked.

Great, let's not leave it unchecked. Unlike other -isms, capitalism does not need to be treated like an ideology to work. Also, maybe let's not attribute obvious failures of the political system to the underlying economic system.

New comment by neonstatic in "The AI Hate Progression"

neonstatic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:12:01 +0000

This endless moaning about "capitalism" is lamentable. You are looking at an oligopoly, degenerated through the mechanisms of American-style democracy, but you attribute it all to capitalism, an economic system, not ideology, because it became fashionable to hate on it during the financial crisis of 2007.

New comment by neonstatic in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

neonstatic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:33:28 +0000

> You cannot leave anything to the imagination

I don't know if there's ever going to be a suitable environment to have this conversation, but many people in any society are just not smart enough to experiment with things especially if those things are non-physical or abstract.

New comment by neonstatic in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

neonstatic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:46:36 +0000

Re: cockroaches, I haven't seen them until my mid 30s, when I started traveling to warm countries.

New comment by neonstatic in "Migrate from OpenClaw"

neonstatic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:43:10 +0000

That's great, but did you invest in Eastern Poland?

New comment by neonstatic in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

neonstatic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:07:17 +0000

There is a way, it's called Polymarket.

New comment by neonstatic in "Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs"

neonstatic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:45:52 +0000

dumping on it certainly is

New comment by neonstatic in "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"

neonstatic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:46:16 +0000

Everything is an ad these days. The article was not useless, but for the information it provides, it could have been two paragraphs.

New comment by neonstatic in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

neonstatic — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:39:06 +0000

"Casuals" just use the web interface from the provider, which Z.ai also has

New comment by neonstatic in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

neonstatic — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:50:20 +0000

> I thought of another one: Messenger. I knew some smart people on Messenger but overall the product and the infra were, again, a dumpster fire.

That makes sense from a consumer point of view. I don't use FB much. In fact, I recently logged on a few times after a few years of a break. It's terrible. You can't even get conversation history anymore. You can talk to someone via the app on your phone, open Facebook in the browser on your computer and not see the messages there. Makes me wonder why is Meta still around?

New comment by neonstatic in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

neonstatic — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:10:40 +0000

I'm sorry for stirring up your communist fantasy.

New comment by neonstatic in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

neonstatic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:41:38 +0000

Well, it's a mania, it's stupid now and it will correct itself. There will be pain. There's always pain after stupidity. Then we will see if LLMs are as useful as we were told.

New comment by neonstatic in "CrankGPT"

neonstatic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:32:36 +0000

This website is satire, right?

P.S. I agree with you 100%

New comment by neonstatic in "Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin"

neonstatic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:22:01 +0000

5+ grams is considered a "heroic dose", i.e. the one that is needed for ego death and subsequent therapeutic effects.

New comment by neonstatic in "KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations"

neonstatic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:45:26 +0000

Yes, but not just COVID - it was the favorite fad around that time. When Trump lost the election there was a wave of grifters promising a reckoning to his fanbase with goal posts being moved roughly every two weeks.

New comment by neonstatic in "The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)"

neonstatic — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:33:27 +0000

> People say Electron is heavy and not great, but it's also the fastest way to support Mac, Windows, and Linux all at once

I am hesitant to call that "support". If even Meta can't get their Electron application to work reliably, who can? WhatsApp client for macOS is awful and it's getting worse. Discord is awful and it's getting worse. Spotify works better when running through the browser. At this point, when I see that the application is using Electron, I am assuming it's not supported on my OS and I move on.

New comment by neonstatic in "New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times"

neonstatic — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:34:34 +0000

I love his work (even though I know little more than what he says in interviews). I am also surprised it's not more widely known / applied. I am very skeptical of conspiracy-minded thinking, so I'd much rather assume his and his team's work hasn't reached escape velocity from obscurity. Especially with larger industries, it takes time and significant breakthroughs to become "a household name", so to speak.