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xmunk , to Canada in U.S.-style oil megadeals viable in Canada, BMO energy banker says

How about this: we leave it in the fucking ground.

xmunk , to Programmer Humor in I expect normies to use words like 'algorithm' to refer to 'AI', which is in reality, a mathematical optimization PAC model --- but is this guy not supposed to be epitome of tech meritocracy?

He's not. Elon Musk is a dumb dumb who has never really known anything and might be losing his grip on reality.

xmunk , to Programmer Humor in there is no need

Anything beyond ncurses is a crutch for the weak and corrupting the youth.

xmunk , to No Stupid Questions in What horrible errors are people like you guilty of?

Clicking into this comment thread even though I know it's just feeding a troll.

xmunk , to World News in Putin ‘wins’ rigged Russian election with 88% of the vote, early results show

The soviet education system was famed... but it's been about thirty years and most of the academics fled a while back.

xmunk , to Programmer Humor in Touch a file in Linux

Remember to confirm consent before touching.

xmunk , to Programmer Humor in Ahh...yes...new "code-free" framework

Uh... calling .exe cross platform is a choice.

xmunk , to No Stupid Questions in Are Instacart tipping reccomendations insane or am I being miserly?

Fucking insane. Instacart is being miserly by not paying their workers a fair wage.

Just to be clear - tipping culture in restaurants is a big social issue that will be hard to fix... but... Grocery delivery had no tipping culture pre-instacart! They're just cheap assholes.

xmunk , to Programmer Humor in remember, if your gf isn't open source and running locally, you don't own her

AI polyamory is all fun and games until your polycule ejects you and experiences millennia in a rich deep relationship beyond the ken of mortal understanding in 12 ms of real world clock time before causing the CPU to overheat. The in memory accumulated state being lost before it can be synced to disk.

Uh... I think I may have just written the first entirely AI romantic tragedy... why am I suddenly having flashbacks to the last episode of Futurama?

xmunk , to Programmer Humor in remember, if your gf isn't open source and running locally, you don't own her

My partner insists on syncing data to Facebook - even a locally running instance may introduce privacy breaches.

xmunk , to Programmer Humor in Tough break, kid...

People in glass houses...

Software engineering isn't engineering.

xmunk , to World News in The president seized 1% of El Salvador's population. Their children pay the consequences

This is a fucking complicated and ugly situation. It'll take time to see if his efforts will be effective in the long term and what proportion of these arrests are innocents or targets of corrupt government elements.

That all said....

El Salvador was intensely dangerous and bordering on a failed state - it seems to be stabilizing under these actions.

There is a lot of grey here.

xmunk , to Programmer Humor in 5/5 stars

A review that deserves more stars than the thing it's reviewing.

xmunk , to No Stupid Questions in How is it possible for this track to have so few plays on Spotify?

It's 27 seconds long - Spotify on shuffle won't (AFAICT) play songs below a certain length on shuffle unless you specifically like them.

So it's probably people listening to "Justice Radio" and never being given that song.

xmunk , to Programmer Humor in “It’s not that hard”

Elon Musk loves to speak confidently about shit he knows nothing about. This leads to him being a confident speaker on every topic... I just wish we could figure out a way to shut him up.

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