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New comment by undeveloper in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

undeveloper — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:38:09 +0000

I'm still unsure why programming jobs haven't mostly been outsourced to India. Sure the contractors suck but people at IBM, India tend to write decent code for IBM, US.

New comment by undeveloper in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

undeveloper — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:32:26 +0000

in a post gun warfare world where the state has weapons far exceeding what is legal or really possible for a organized militia to hold this is a pipe dream. muskets used to be state of the art.

New comment by undeveloper in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

undeveloper — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:04:41 +0000

didn't MIT, like most other schools change this only in wake of COVID? A pandemic resulting in a significant amount of your potential applicants from applying is pretty good reason.

New comment by undeveloper in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

undeveloper — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:00:01 +0000

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New comment by undeveloper in "Omarchy Is Not A Distro"

undeveloper — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:04:54 +0000

ubuntu has its own packages from Debian and a different release cycle

New comment by undeveloper in "Omarchy Is Not A Distro"

undeveloper — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:01:17 +0000

it's upsetting as money goes to a dotfile config rather than the underlying projects. arch linux is a phenomenal project

New comment by undeveloper in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

undeveloper — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:31:30 +0000

to vote you have to be a citizen i think you've forgotten

New comment by undeveloper in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

undeveloper — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:47:33 +0000

vaultwarden (self hosted)

New comment by undeveloper in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

undeveloper — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:06:57 +0000

democratic socialist isn't inherently interchangeable with social democracy. the DSA defines democratic socialism as explicitly at odds with capitalism, and aims to achieve socialism by going through and past social democracy (where european social democracy is plenty capitalist). Mamdani himself has actively disavowed capitalism.

> Capitalism is a system designed by the owning class to exploit the rest of us for their own profit. We must replace it with democratic socialism, a system where ordinary people have a real voice in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and society.

> We believe there are many avenues that feed into the democratic road to socialism. Our vision pushes further than historic social democracy and leaves behind authoritarian visions of socialism in the dustbin of history.

> [...] We want to win “radical” reforms like single-payer Medicare for All, defunding the police/refunding communities, the Green New Deal, and more as a transition to a freer, more just life.

1: https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/what-is-democratic-socialism...

New comment by undeveloper in "AI is a technology not a product"

undeveloper — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:19:46 +0000

can you not just do this with most local models nowadays? the qwen series is quite capable

New comment by undeveloper in "AI is a technology not a product"

undeveloper — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:17:39 +0000

do computers harbor evil? the thing AI runs on? the thing that has kind of facilitated all the bad things you mentioned with normal boring algorithms?

does electricity harbor evil?

New comment by undeveloper in "[dead]"

undeveloper — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:37:09 +0000

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New comment by undeveloper in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

undeveloper — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:47:49 +0000

if you think consumers will pay more for the vague notion of privacy i have beachfront property in kansas to sell you. most normies either don't care ("I have nothing to hide ... do you?") or gave up already ("china / the government / big tech / all of the above already have all my data, why would I care if it's a bit more? what are they even going to do with it?" (sometimes, even "i like having relavent ads!")).

at my most pessimistic i can see a world where consumers pay MORE for attestation to continue to opt-in to society, or perhaps a ai-bot-free digital world.

New comment by undeveloper in "Do you want the US to "win" AI?"

undeveloper — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:26:58 +0000

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2024/11/03/high-...

New comment by undeveloper in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

undeveloper — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:48:27 +0000

I'm not sure why you think a portion of the general voting base is "rent seeking", but it's the opinion of one without empathy. pick a better one that's at least not simultaneously stupid.

Anyhow ...

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2024/10/28/ameri...

> If Trump wins and Elon has influence, I do think there is a path to fix America longer term. While the general Trump/Elon vibes are good, I do have concerns about Trump’s fiscal record and protectionist tendencies. [...]

> Of course if Kamala wins, I think I’ll be staying in Asia. Managed decline with a side of resentment and looting oligarchs isn’t for me.

(he would get a hong kong citizenship anyhow)

New comment by undeveloper in "The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat Before Dinner"

undeveloper — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:07:07 +0000

https://www.pangram.com/history/964171e9-7cc9-45c9-9da0-f6b0...

New comment by undeveloper in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

undeveloper — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:02:54 +0000

entirely AI generated

https://www.pangram.com/history/964171e9-7cc9-45c9-9da0-f6b0...

New comment by undeveloper in "Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)"

undeveloper — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:37:48 +0000

the "political adversaries" (let's not be coy, you mean conservatives) who "don't trust 'the science'" are less equipped to evaluate said "the science" than the scient_ists_ they don't trust. usually said people were one bad day away from rambling about global jewry and such. due to whatever social illnesses or sociopolitical causes, we've normalized this position, and now measles is back from the dead. but let's pretend that climate change isn't real and the earth's flat and vaccines give you autism, because universities too woke or whatever the fuck

(it's very funny to pretend tech is still, or really much ever was, one big libfest. it's funnier to say this here of all places)

New comment by undeveloper in "Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes"

undeveloper — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:57:14 +0000

they have, v8 is a pretty fast engine and an engineering marvel. bun is faster at cost of having worse jit and less correctness

New comment by undeveloper in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

undeveloper — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:06:19 +0000

there are many "immortal" strains of cells that are mass produced and sold to labs, most notably "HeLa" cells. in this case in particular, "iPSCs" cells are used, sourcing skin cells or blood cells (with informed consent of the patient), and using those differentiated (or "specialized") cells to create pluripotent (or "less specialized") cells that can then be transformed into neurons