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New comment by octopoc in "All 5 units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample"

octopoc — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:58:19 +0000

But doesn’t that mean that there must be life elsewhere? I.e. those Lego blocks must have come from a complete set somewhere else, right?

New comment by octopoc in "US officials underwhelmed by French far-right's plans for economy"

octopoc — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:18:00 +0000

How is this supposed to make me agree with Kushner?

New comment by octopoc in "Women were never meant to give birth on their backs"

octopoc — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:12:34 +0000

I have a first responder friend who helped a guy who wanted to have sex with his cousin, but she wouldn’t unless he got a circumcision, so he chopped his dick off. I personally think he was not using it the way it was meant to be used at two distinct levels:

- you shouldn’t have sex with relatives

- you shouldn’t chop your dick off

The emergency room doctors sewed it back on. Not sure what to think about that.

New comment by octopoc in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

octopoc — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:54:31 +0000

It sounds like gp is saying non Africans are more narcissistic than Africans. So yeah that needs a citation (or clarification)

New comment by octopoc in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

octopoc — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:12:14 +0000

Just say something that would violate AI safety. Then you can be sure they’re a real human.

“Auntie, it’s me! N*** k** f**! X is really a man! ** did 9/11!”

“Oh it really is you Johnny!”

We’re all going to have to start communicating this way. Best of luck.

I offer consulting services on the side to help professionals hone these skills. $250 / hour.

New comment by octopoc in "US expected to send thousands more soldiers to Middle East, sources say"

octopoc — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:20:00 +0000

Epstein represented the Rothschildes, the family that founded Israel. His girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell is a Mossad asset. Separating Trump’s influence by Epstein from Trump’s influence by Israel isn’t possible. The two are intertwined.

New comment by octopoc in "How Ford burned $12B in Brazil (2021)"

octopoc — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:27:41 +0000

No, that’s exactly what it is

New comment by octopoc in "Dataframe 1.0.0.0"

octopoc — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:16:29 +0000

> There is now a DataFrame.Typed API that tracks the entire schema of the dataframe - column names, misapplied operations etc are now compile time failures and you can easily move between exploratory and pipeline work.

This makes complex dashboards so much easier to build, because in Python you have to test everything in the dashboard to make sure a change to a common dataset didn’t break anything.

Is there a good web dashboard library like streamlit for Haskell I wonder?

New comment by octopoc in "Ukraine deploys units to five Middle East countries to intercept drones"

octopoc — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:24:40 +0000

This behavior makes sense for Zelensky, who is strongly pro-Israel, but I don’t think this is in Ukraine’s best interest. I really hate how many people have died in the Russia-Ukraine war and this will only serve to lengthen it. Imagine getting drafted to go fight Iran.

New comment by octopoc in "Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware"

octopoc — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:41:09 +0000

Imagine if you could physical disconnect your country from the internet, then drop malware like this on everyone else.

New comment by octopoc in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

octopoc — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:01:44 +0000

How do you square that with Germany’s miraculous economic recovery pre WII? Obviously they were doing something right. It took every other major power on the planet to take them down.

New comment by octopoc in "Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein Had a Yearslong Relationship"

octopoc — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:34:45 +0000

Exactly. Trump is a populist. He backs down on issues he finds are unpopular. But he’s doubling down in his pro-Zionist, pro-Israel, anti-Iran stances. When a populist stops doing what is popular, they are revealing their core values—or in this case, he’s revealing who owns him.

New comment by octopoc in "Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation"

octopoc — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:33:44 +0000

.NET standard isn’t the biggest issue with making source generators. You can’t add dependencies to your project, which is an absolutely huge oversight IMO.

New comment by octopoc in "Build Android apps using Rust and Iced"

octopoc — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:00:33 +0000

This is a good summary of the problem with rust I think:

> Pretty much all UI can be modeled as a tree–or more abstractly as a graph. A tree is a natural way to model UI: it makes it easy to compose different components together to build something that is visually complicated. It’s also been one of most common ways to model UI programming since at least the existence of HTML, if not earlier.

> UI in Rust is difficult because it's hard to share data across this component tree without inheritance. Additionally, in a normal UI framework there are all sorts of spots where you need to mutate the element tree, but because of Rust’s mutability rules, this "alter the tree however you want" approach doesn't work.[1]

[1] https://www.warp.dev/blog/why-is-building-a-ui-in-rust-so-ha...

New comment by octopoc in "Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere"

octopoc — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:29:48 +0000

Yes because the alternative is extinction, any price is worth avoiding that

New comment by octopoc in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

octopoc — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:57:13 +0000

Seems like SCIP would be a better fit, although not as widely supported by languages I suppose.

New comment by octopoc in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

octopoc — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:55:32 +0000

I really enjoy Junie, I find it working better out of the box than Claude code. I do wish they integrated their amazing refactoring tools into it though.

New comment by octopoc in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

octopoc — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:10:13 +0000

Zionist Jews wield a lot of political power in the US. It’s difficult/impossible to get elected at the federal level if you don’t support Israel.

Supporting Israel is valuable to Trump because many of his donors are these Zionist Jews.

New comment by octopoc in "Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen"

octopoc — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:55:25 +0000

Devs should not recommend rewrites until they have a workable plan on how to move forward without a rewrite, so they can compare the costs of rewrite vs. no rewrite.

New comment by octopoc in "AI adoption in US adds ~900k tons of CO₂ annually, study finds"

octopoc — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:00:09 +0000

I believe gp was saying that density is an advantage for fossil fuels. Nobody thinks it’s a disadvantage/problem for fossil fuels.