[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think we already lost the plot when we started relying on a centralized entity (Google) to "index the world's information and make it useful". Ad-tech already fucked up all of the incentives, making recipe sites fill their pages with bullshit in hopes of wiping my eyeballs with messages from third parties hungry for attention. I fucking hate this world.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago

First comment: "the world is bottlenecked by people who just don't get the simple and obvious fact that we should sort everyone by IQ and decide their future with it"

No, the world is bottlenecked by idiots who treat everything as an optimization problem.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Asahi Lina posts about not feeling safe anymore. Orange site immediately kills discussion around post.

For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

I can't share any more information at this time, so please don't ask for more details. Thank you.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

holy fuck

Interesting study, but I am skeptical that this result applies to the general population (without the "convicted" qualifier).

If non-whites are more violently criminal than whites, then we can expect them to be imprisoned earlier in life for any violent crime, of which pedophilia will be a small subset.

So we have more convicted white paedos because ....... the coloreds do more crimes??! what in the actual fuck did I just read?

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

ah good point. He reads "mature and excellent at communication" as a self-description. After that, there's absolutely no way he can resist writing himself into both characters.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago

someone pointed out that (paraphrasing) "yeah, you and I are never gonna care for autoplag output but kids are gonna grow up on it and expect it for everything" and that makes me want to do bad things.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago

what a limp comment you have made. The post contains a treasure trove of insider information and specifics that paint a picture that is dire even to a jaded tech worker.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago

You contributed to a miasma of chaos around the state violating my parental rights to confiscate my children's reproductive capacity.

Depending on how you parse this sentence, the author could be asserting a parental right to confiscate their children's reproductive capacity which is unbelievably unintentionally poetic.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago

so we're calling "not doing pointless unnecessary work" premature optimization now? cool cool

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago

This is how The Sequences teaches you to think. Construct a thought experiment and use your feelings about how things "should" work to come to a conclusion.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 14 points 2 years ago

holy fuck man i really wish I hadn't clicked on that hn thread.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago

The amount of tone-policing in the comments is sickening though.

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