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New comment by whoamii in "I give to charity – but never to people on the street. Is that wrong?"

whoamii — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:10:06 +0000

Or maybe it means they prefer possibly competent people over clearly not so competent people

New comment by whoamii in "Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes"

whoamii — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:58:37 +0000

The ROI is shit

New comment by whoamii in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

whoamii — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:06:09 +0000

Might want to change that to “spent 15 years there, ~15 years ago” :)

New comment by whoamii in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

whoamii — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:11:53 +0000

Excluded: marketing, commercial business, security, quantum

New comment by whoamii in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

whoamii — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:17:43 +0000

Company sends you offer first

New comment by whoamii in "Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe"

whoamii — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:33:49 +0000

They don’t do periodic BCDR testing?!

New comment by whoamii in "Credit where credit is due"

whoamii — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:11:19 +0000

But people are tools, usually

New comment by whoamii in "Tesla Roadster"

whoamii — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:05:48 +0000

Does anyone have more info on the cupholders? I need to know it won’t spill my coffee.

New comment by whoamii in "Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter"

whoamii — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:04:24 +0000

Here’s one simple test: have AI “decompile” an existing codebase into a prompt, and then have it “compile” the prompt back into code. Is the app identical?

New comment by whoamii in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

whoamii — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:20:10 +0000

The solution: open play pickleball

New comment by whoamii in "Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany"

whoamii — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:03:06 +0000

You need an agent to give you the xcancel version of the link, duh

New comment by whoamii in "Gemini 4 Argon"

whoamii — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:39:12 +0000

Simon’s headstone is going to have a pelican on a bicycle, isn’t it

New comment by whoamii in "'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey"

whoamii — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:18:02 +0000

Something something tolerances

New comment by whoamii in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

whoamii — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:46:24 +0000

“51st state”

New comment by whoamii in "The value of not getting to the point (2015)"

whoamii — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:01:35 +0000

What makes you believe they don’t own the second-level TLD here?

New comment by whoamii in "Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU"

whoamii — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:54:54 +0000

“but we still need an ambiguity-free way to tell the AIs building the world around us what we want done”

Do we? I would argue one of the main reasons AI can be so productive is because it makes assumptions where it finds ambiguity, and we reduce the number of things we need to specify.

New comment by whoamii in "Don't Just Say Hello"

whoamii — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:59:50 +0000

Good advice. Anyway, hello everyone.

New comment by whoamii in "Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening"

whoamii — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:03:23 +0000

If the Walkman is recording all the time, then of course they would be a party.

New comment by whoamii in "Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening"

whoamii — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:49:13 +0000

Yes, let’s do something illegal to force a discussion. A discussion that already happened when writing the law…

New comment by whoamii in "Wendell Berry has died"

whoamii — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:41:21 +0000

As per One Hundred Years of Solitude: progress tends to destroy as much as it creates.