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New comment by obsoleetorr in "You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass"

obsoleetorr — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:52:06 +0000

or as a former Google executive likes to call them, "the eaters"

New comment by obsoleetorr in "You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass"

obsoleetorr — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:49:42 +0000

it's ok, the billionaires will be in the underclass too, maybe a month later

capitalism is artificial intelligence. we dont control capitalism, capitalism controls us and through us builds its next vessel

New comment by obsoleetorr in "Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation"

obsoleetorr — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:29:19 +0000

so?

agriculture is made by tractors now. should we ban them and return to the plow?

New comment by obsoleetorr in "LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick"

obsoleetorr — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:26:56 +0000

> After a while it will start going around in circles.

so like your average human

> FFS ask it to make an original joke, and be amused..

let's try this one on you - say an original joke

oh, right, you dont respond to strangers prompts, thus you have agency, unlike an LLM

New comment by obsoleetorr in "LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick"

obsoleetorr — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:12:37 +0000

it's also incredible we find people which can't differentiate physics/mathematics from the magic of the human brain

New comment by obsoleetorr in "The Gleam Programming Language"

obsoleetorr — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:12:27 +0000

so you need transactions?

I get what your saying, but can't you have the same issue if instead you have 3 local threads that you need to get the objects from, one can throw an exception and you only receive 2, same problem

New comment by obsoleetorr in "Code and Let Live"

obsoleetorr — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:40:53 +0000

something simpler I've did, in the same spirit: LXC containers (using Incus) in a VM. LXC containers look and feel like VMs, but are very lightweight. And the VM they all run in provide the hard sandbox.

and when I spin up a new LXC container cloud-init sets it up with the agents and my repos inside

New comment by obsoleetorr in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

obsoleetorr — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:49:37 +0000

github says in maintenance since 2022 and that users should move to next great thing, antidote