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New comment by r2_pilot in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

r2_pilot — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:01:22 +0000

>Ditto for refusing to honor the 2nd amendment.

Honoring it, no doubt, by restricting firearms to duly registered militia personnel as written in the plain text for all to see? What about the 14th Amendment section 3, also written plainly?

New comment by r2_pilot in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

r2_pilot — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:52:18 +0000

Excuse me. The law(14th Amendment section 3 specifically) clearly prohibited Trump from being eligible for federal office. That the Supreme Court abrograted state's rights to run elections free of federal interference, not to mention the lack of recusal given the blatant conflicts of interest, is a separate matter altogether.

New comment by r2_pilot in "Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened"

r2_pilot — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:45:13 +0000

>>« occasional sabotage operations in Western Europe » – You mean like when the US (plus allies) sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline?

When is the last time you refreshed your knowledge about this? It's my current understanding that Ukrainians performed this sabotage.

New comment by r2_pilot in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

r2_pilot — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:54:56 +0000

Who is Gorg Prc?

New comment by r2_pilot in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

r2_pilot — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:37:52 +0000

From my perspective, I do not perceive the world as "falling apart" and I wonder how much of your perception of the state of things (as if there was a universally defined "perfection" to strive towards instead of humans creating these concepts) falling apart is derived from your faith, which has a vested interest in presenting itself as a real-feeling thing in order to promulgate its existence. As a meme, it appears to be persistent in the environment for roughly 2k years, so clearly there's some fitness to its host species. And contrast its feelings of apocalyptic end times to Buddhism, where things are more cyclical rather than ending soon, and I wonder how your feelings would be affected were you to have been raised in that environment instead.

New comment by r2_pilot in "Claude Is Not a Compiler"

r2_pilot — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:21:59 +0000

I believe it's more that the library contains the finite set of all books which have a (unique) permutation of the language's characters to size N. The challenge to finding the cure to cancer in such a collection of sufficiently large N is indeed finding which book it is in.

New comment by r2_pilot in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

r2_pilot — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:19:48 +0000

Aside from the low-effort snark and lack of empathy towards someone's project, this is also how you filter people out of caring about software development at at a young age, and then who's going to keep the computer systems running?

New comment by r2_pilot in "A US military exercise to launch a satellite on short notice"

r2_pilot — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:51:49 +0000

Yes, with lasers or nuclear energy

New comment by r2_pilot in "Let's Build the Dream Team"

r2_pilot — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:22:24 +0000

Thoroughly uninteresting

New comment by r2_pilot in "Let's Build the Dream Team"

r2_pilot — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:30 +0000

Why

New comment by r2_pilot in "Whistle"

r2_pilot — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:57:55 +0000

I still whistle. I whistle when I'm happy, when I listen to music, and when I'm summoning the dog. I'll whistle while I work, and I'll continue to whistle until I physically can't make the sound anymore.

New comment by r2_pilot in "Leave Me Behind"

r2_pilot — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:51:18 +0000

I'm glad that you find achievement in the personal challenge. At home, I'm just getting things done. Small things, bigger things, and best of all I get to pet the dog more while it works in the background.

New comment by r2_pilot in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

r2_pilot — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:34:22 +0000

Don't consign us here in Mississippi, voting in every election, to not be represented in a democratic society. It's hard enough living here without getting dogpiled by external people who never visit and think that just because our "representatives" are a certain way that everyone here is like them, instead of the messier reality that power structures here are misaligned with the actual population's collective will.

New comment by r2_pilot in "EFF is leaving X"

r2_pilot — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:51:30 +0000

I'm sorry, you didn't say anything about your reasoning behind your ad hominem attack, so I can't properly evaluate your point. I eagerly await your clarification as to the relevance of your observation with regards to this HN topic.

New comment by r2_pilot in "A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity"

r2_pilot — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:05:14 +0000

If you haven't experienced a spinthariscope, I can highly recommend it. I bought one as a Christmas present for a buddy and we both enjoy its demonstration of radioactivity.

New comment by r2_pilot in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

r2_pilot — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:21:22 +0000

Or wait 20 years for the panels to degrade...

New comment by r2_pilot in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

r2_pilot — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:49:06 +0000

POSIWID, the Purpose Of a System Is What It Does. A quick way to cut through bullshit and "But I meant for X to do Y"

New comment by r2_pilot in "Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral"

r2_pilot — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:51:25 +0000

Claude will routinely tell me to get some sleep and cuddle with my dog. I may mention the time offhandedly or say I'm winding down, but at least it will include conversation stoppers and decrease engagement.

New comment by r2_pilot in "19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack"

r2_pilot — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:39:32 +0000

>Sooner or later one of them will hurt a human, and then what do we do?

Considering this took place before I was born, you might not be aware of the multiple times it's already occurred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatalit...

New comment by r2_pilot in "Lidar waveforms are worth 40x128x33 words"

r2_pilot — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:53:26 +0000

Typically you use a pulse train and filter your train from the noise