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New comment by tsunagatta in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

tsunagatta — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:05:30 +0000

I've never thought it was a reference to that at all, I thought it was a reference to a I-have-no-mouth-but-I-must-scream-scenario.

New comment by tsunagatta in "No Terms. No Conditions"

tsunagatta — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:50:52 +0000

Ah, now that you mention it, the part at the bottom makes it pretty obvious too:

>Last updated: never

>No further pages. No hidden clauses.

Exactly the sort of cutesy language the LLMs use when they're trying to agree with you. "You got it! Here's a page with simple, easy to understand terms and conditions. No further pages. No hidden clauses. Nothing hidden behind another link."

New comment by tsunagatta in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

tsunagatta — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:48:45 +0000

That is fun, but it doesn’t mean that the model finds it easier or will actually work better that way, that just means that in its training data many people said something like “honestly I find it easiest to just write the svg code directly” in response to similar questions

New comment by tsunagatta in "Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes""

tsunagatta — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:52:02 +0000

Bro literally everyone I know has watched at least the Great Pumpkin and Charlie Brown Christmas. People my age regularly make memes based on the football gag. It’s a cultural icon.

As a general rule actually, I’d say that Gen Z is more likely than may be expected to know about culture from before our time - the internet, after all, is a back catalogue of the best hits of humanity. That’s why spotify thinks we all have a listening age of 70.

New comment by tsunagatta in "Why IRC is better than Real Life (2000)"

tsunagatta — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:34:59 +0000

Isn’t this the opposite of the other one?

New comment by tsunagatta in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

tsunagatta — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:34:36 +0000

The F-35 was in development hell for a while for sure, but it’s far from a failure. See the recent deals where it’s been used as a political bargaining chip; it still ended up being a very desirable and capable platform from my understanding.

New comment by tsunagatta in "How do the pros get someone to leave a cult?"

tsunagatta — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:59:21 +0000

> . . . mutilate children for example. I'm not aware of any MAGA supporters with this level of brain-washing.

Really? I’m sure a large portion of the MAGA base supports circumcision.

New comment by tsunagatta in "Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)"

tsunagatta — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:21:41 +0000

From my understanding, they have different purposes. VPNs aren’t really about safety or anonymity, Tor is the way to go for those. VPNs are for if you don’t want your ISP specifically to see your traffic for some reason, or if you want your traffic to appear like it’s coming from a different geographical location with minimal latency hit.

Edit: I should say, VPNs as a technology have far more applications than this, e.g. for accessing a secure intranet, but these are just the reasons you’d theoretically want to use a VPN service like Nord/Mullvad/etc.

New comment by tsunagatta in "Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)"

tsunagatta — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:22:42 +0000

Honest question: what’s the alternative to inner-platform-effecting if you still want a system that’s highly user-customizable at runtime?

New comment by tsunagatta in "In Defense of C++"

tsunagatta — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:10:45 +0000

> You can write simple and readable code in C++ if you want to. You can also write complex and unreadable code in C++ if you want to. It’s all about personal or team preference.

Problem is, if you’re using C++ for anything serious, like the aforementioned game development, you will almost certainly have to use the existing libraries; so you’re forced to match whatever coding style they chose to use for their codebase. And in the case of Unreal, the advice “stick to the STL” also has to be thrown out since Unreal doesn’t use the STL at all. If you could use vanilla, by-the-books C++ all the time, it’d be fine, but I feel like that’s quite rare in practice.

New comment by tsunagatta in "Escaping the Internet"

tsunagatta — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:19:43 +0000

The author is referencing a very tired strawman stereotype usually used when attacking liberals / “SJWs.”

New comment by tsunagatta in "The End of Handwriting"

tsunagatta — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:48:57 +0000

Look into Noodler’s Bernake Black ink, it dries very very quickly and I’ve used it as a lefty for years with no problems.

New comment by tsunagatta in "NASA faces brain drain as thousands exit under voluntary resignation scheme"

tsunagatta — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:20:46 +0000

I think they’re referencing Operation Paperclip: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

New comment by tsunagatta in "US AI Action Plan"

tsunagatta — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:21:58 +0000

I do not see the connection, those are not arms of the U.S. government.

New comment by tsunagatta in "AI 2027"

tsunagatta — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 05:00:44 +0000

If we’re lucky.

New comment by tsunagatta in "Bill Gates: AI will replace doctors/teachers – humans unneeded for most things"

tsunagatta — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 02:55:26 +0000

> “It’s very profound and even a little bit scary — because it’s happening very quickly, and there is no upper bound,” Gates told Brooks.

The “there is no upper bound” in this assertion seems to be bearing a lot of weight. It’s probably a mistake to believe that the upper bound is where we are currently, I admit, but it also feels equally scummy to hear another Shovel-merchant announcing that they have struck a vein of infinite gold and it’s only a matter of time before everyone’s digging. The rhetoric used here, where this bold claim is just thrown in as if it’s already universally acknowledged, particularly rubs me the wrong way.

New comment by tsunagatta in "We're Waiting for the End of the Sentence"

tsunagatta — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:49:00 +0000

I’ll preface that I’m absolutely not an expert in Japanese, but in my amateur understanding I think the same sort of thing you showed is possible, at least in casual speech. I hear this sort of construction quite often: “着てみたい、あのスーツ。” or roughly “I want to try it on, that suit,” reversing the verb/object order from normal.

New comment by tsunagatta in "EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History"

tsunagatta — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 01:57:53 +0000

Fox News has an article on this (if that’s the one you mean): https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-woke-green-agenda-ch...

New comment by tsunagatta in "Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates"

tsunagatta — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:07:47 +0000

The incoming government in America loves the idea of tariffs; why not frame it as part of a trade war in a theoretical government set on ending climate change? Place heavy tariffs on any goods that do not have the same cleanup obligations.

New comment by tsunagatta in "Singles Want to Find Love in Real Life Again, If Only They Could Remember How"

tsunagatta — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:00:17 +0000

I spend a lot of time thinking about this question, i.e. “where and how do you meet people IRL,” and it’s equal parts interesting and deeply maddening to me that nobody I can find seems to have an actual good answer to it. Even the featured article, while it does acknowledge the issue and the common somewhat-answers to it you’ll often see repeated like the pickleball thing, it doesn’t have a clear conclusion as to what is to be done. ‘Get out there,’ of course, and be personable and willing to strike up conversations with people when the time seems right, but that really only makes it so that you’re able to take advantage of the chance encounters when they happen to come your way. Necessary, but not sufficient.

I just find it strange that there can be an apparent need in such a vital part of human existence and yet nobody has figured out what to actually do.