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New comment by rebuilder in "this css proves me human"

rebuilder — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:23:34 +0000

When someone tells you about the hard times in their life and you find out they just made it up, you probably feel upset about it. Same thing. The experiences people have matter.

New comment by rebuilder in "A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran"

rebuilder — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:26:32 +0000

If you play at a casino, you’re statistically guarantee to lose money, edge cases not withstanding. Do you see casinos closing down because people stop playing?

New comment by rebuilder in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

rebuilder — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:41:38 +0000

It’s hardly a free option, by your numbers it’d be a 20-30% discount.

New comment by rebuilder in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

rebuilder — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:03:34 +0000

That's because the things we built on weren't slop

New comment by rebuilder in "The profitable startup"

rebuilder — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:07:30 +0000

Small business?

New comment by rebuilder in "Leading artists reveal the fabricators they entrust with their creations"

rebuilder — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:30:05 +0000

I don’t know that I agree that it’s only now become acceptable. Successful artists have long employed others to aid in their work - see e.g. Leonardo and his studio assistants who helped paint probably large parts of some of the paintings attributed to him.

New comment by rebuilder in "Leading artists reveal the fabricators they entrust with their creations"

rebuilder — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:23:37 +0000

Would it be more legitimate if the artists didn’t employ anyone else in the process?

New comment by rebuilder in "Kevo app shutdown"

rebuilder — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:42:13 +0000

As someone living in a country where Abloy locks are used everywhere, I’m interested to hear what’s wrong with them

New comment by rebuilder in "Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes"

rebuilder — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:11:38 +0000

It was Latin...

New comment by rebuilder in "Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger"

rebuilder — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:25:41 +0000

This is very nice, not just for finger/mouse painting! I tried it on my Cintiq and it was actually a lot better for me than brush stabilization usually is - I think the logic is the same as seen in e.g. Krita, but the visualization of the cursor and where the paint will appear is very helpful. Usually painting software doesn't have such an indicator of where the actual stroke will be placed and when it will move.

New comment by rebuilder in "Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes"

rebuilder — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:14:44 +0000

I once held my breath for 5 minutes when I was 14, sitting in class. I suppose it’s possible I was accidentally breathing through my nose a little as I wasn’t underwater.

New comment by rebuilder in "The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation"

rebuilder — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:31:05 +0000

It seems hard to believe it was not intentional!

New comment by rebuilder in "Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean"

rebuilder — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:35:20 +0000

That would be a compelling argument if procreation was somehow primarily driven by a need for people.

As it is, we already have quite a lot of people and they’re not going anywhere, however many terawatt-hours we pump into AI.

New comment by rebuilder in "Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traffic for some publishers"

rebuilder — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:45:58 +0000

The ”not perfect” part really kind of ruins it for me. I can’t trust the LLM search’s answers and have to go find the source anyway, so what’s the point?

I’m seeing people in chats post stuff like “hey I didn’t know this word also means this!” when it really doesn’t, and invariably they have just asked an LLM and believed it.

New comment by rebuilder in "The Joys of Discovering the Roman Underground"

rebuilder — Sat, 17 May 2025 08:11:00 +0000

The Roman destruction of Carthage seems like a pretty clear genocide.

New comment by rebuilder in "Bond rout starting to sound market alarm bells"

rebuilder — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:25:23 +0000

The US can always pay their dollar-denominated debt by printing more dollars. It wouldn’t be a case of being unable but of being unwilling to pay.

New comment by rebuilder in "How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta"

rebuilder — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:05:04 +0000

What about recommended posts, do you still get all that junk in your feed?

New comment by rebuilder in "On David Lynch's Revenge of the Jedi (2018)"

rebuilder — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:29:25 +0000

Why not make something new instead? Why is the impulse to use AI to generate more of the same old stuff we’ve already seen, just with a different look?

New comment by rebuilder in "Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Baltic Sea 'Sabotage'"

rebuilder — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:03:51 +0000

The statements from the Finnish law enforcement agencies are basically that there is no evidence that the cables were intentionally cut. Then there’s reports citing “sources” in agencies that the incidents are thought to be accidental.

Basically, I’m not sure the reporting is properly distinguishing between “no evidence of wrongdoing” and “it was an accident”. It wouldn’t be surprising that it would be very difficult to find evidence that an anchor was intentionally dragged across a cable vs. accidentally.

New comment by rebuilder in "Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s"

rebuilder — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:29:38 +0000

Isn’t this kind of like saying the solution to robocalls is not having a phone?