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New comment by sirsinsalot in "Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase"

sirsinsalot — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:09:48 +0000

Have you considered it isn't?

Save your "you're holding it wrong" if you're not going to suggest how to hold it.

Cult speak escape hatches are intellectually lazy.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels"

sirsinsalot — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:54:29 +0000

Not really. I have the above and my partner has pots/mcas. They're nothing alike.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels"

sirsinsalot — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:39:48 +0000

This is all true. My ADHD is hugely related to and impacted by diet. I also get headaches, brain fog, and all of the above if I eat gluten.

Bodies are fun.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

sirsinsalot — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:49:28 +0000

Yes the whole bootcamp ring was a con job. Shame on them.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services"

sirsinsalot — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:47:47 +0000

Not sure if the "Made in England" Dr Martens are Solovair made but they're the brand you want. Solovair continue to make good boots after DM moved production and whatnot to crap factories and methods.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

sirsinsalot — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:24:15 +0000

Four MONTHS?!

Most of the dolts I interviewed in the UK had a 6 week bootcamp behind them and called themselves "JavaScript Experts". No joke.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2"

sirsinsalot — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:56:53 +0000

I hope Hurd has its day. Maybe in 100 years or something.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

sirsinsalot — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:34:23 +0000

Programming language evolution has always been the pursuit of abstractions that enable expressiveness and simplicity.

Your comment boils down to "I'm smart", which in the end, isn't terribly smart.

Having simplicity and expressiveness as a goal, and a general direction of achieving things through lazy means is at the heart of mathematics and engineering.

Celebrate laziness and a want for simplicity. True simplicity is hard, but worth going after even where it threatens the notion that you're the smartest person in the room.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

sirsinsalot — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:26:12 +0000

I think you're right and it is sad to see. I think had they stuck to their guns, the language might not feel like it has lost the point.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba"

sirsinsalot — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:53:50 +0000

You're being reductive. It isn't just one copy of the book. It is using the book to enable, in some part, value to be generated from it that goes in the pocket of a rent seeker (AI business) and not the author.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "Our position on open-weights models"

sirsinsalot — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:50:45 +0000

Inability. Inability to stay on topic.

You're at least an American. That checks out.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

sirsinsalot — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:49:18 +0000

Way to prove their point.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

sirsinsalot — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:47:35 +0000

Even if true, this kind of response is unhelpful and fosters dismissal of your point. This kind of attitude more broadly paints AI advocates as cultists because they refuse to engage beyond "you're doing it wrong".

How about give pointers on "doing it right?"

New comment by sirsinsalot in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

sirsinsalot — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:54:59 +0000

Right, and...?

Just because many things can do something doesn't negate a discussion about one of the things. Your point (which it barely is one) isn't really interesting or useful.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "Our position on open-weights models"

sirsinsalot — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:52:33 +0000

Turn off Fox news

New comment by sirsinsalot in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

sirsinsalot — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:51:57 +0000

Other than misplaced nihilism what's your point?

New comment by sirsinsalot in "Did they ghost you?"

sirsinsalot — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:43:09 +0000

Recruiters are never your friend. Ever.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

sirsinsalot — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:35:44 +0000

In the UK the government put up ANPR cameras to enforce a clean air zone.

People with electric saws love pulling them down.

They're only as permanent as their protection.

New comment by sirsinsalot in "Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models"

sirsinsalot — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:48:08 +0000

Nobody should be strong armed in to training models whose intention is replacing them.

Technology has become a societal torture device and AI is the largest power grab in history.

How dare humans be able to leverage their reasoning for a wage. To the machines I say!

New comment by sirsinsalot in "Claude Fable 5"

sirsinsalot — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:25:33 +0000

I think intent, rather than target, is implied and important.

You should see the abuse my motorbike gets. Poor thing.