Deestan
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- Comment on How long would it take for a ball rolling across the room to bounce off the wall and get back to you - but the room has a time traveling portal halfway through? 2 days ago:
Assuming it comes back through the portal, and it took 4 seconds with no portal.
Your stopwatch will measure 4 seconds when the portal is there.
A stopwatch in the ball will measure 4 seconds when the portal is there.
If you want to take stepwise measurements based on your clock, the ball will be at time 1 sec before going through the portal, time negative 1,767,225,598 when it hits the wall, 3 sec after it exits the portal second time, 4 sec when it reaches you.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 1 week ago:
That is important. Pointing out sane alternatives helps make it clear this isn’t an acceptable solution.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 1 week ago:
The goal is to introduce general surveillance and censorship mechanisms.
Porn age stuff is just a convenient entry point.
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 1 week ago:
oh no who would have thought it would come to this
- Comment on Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with? 1 week ago:
Stay off redpill forums or pickup influencers. They will put ideas in your head that isolate you and make you unlikeable and lonely, and vulnerable to macho grifts.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 1 week ago:
Nethack
Tetris
OpenTTD
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- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 2 weeks ago:
These comparisons assume equal capability, which I find troubling.
Like, a person who doesn’t understand singing nor are able to learn it can not perform adequately in a musical. It doesn’t matter if they are cheaper.
- Comment on Why Every University Needs a Robust Library Software 2 weeks ago:
What are you hoping to accomplish by pasting AI generated word soup here?
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 2 weeks ago:
Or 4. none of this is up to any of those people it is not their job or within their right.
- Comment on Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun 2 weeks ago:
If you first hack off the fun, then sure. Buying the fun back in tiny pieces is technically adding fun?
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 2 weeks ago:
I dont agree with the argument that chat gpt should “push back”.
Me neither, but if they are being presented as “artificial people to chat with” they must.
I’d rather LLMs stay tools, not pretend people.
Are we expecting the llm to act like a psychologist, evaluating if the users state of mind is healthy before answering questions?
Some of the LLMs referred to are advertised as AI psychological help, so they must either act like psychologists (which they can’t) or stop being allowed as digital therapists.
- Comment on Is it sexist to say "I've never worn a wet dress before" 2 weeks ago:
Not obviously, but it sounds like she is making a connection you don’t know what is.
You should ask her to explain what she means, so you’ll either understand that oh it was sexist didn’t think about it like that, or disagree on some knowable point.
- Comment on OpenAI launches personal assistant capable of controlling files and web browsers 2 weeks ago:
Looking forwards to all the blog posts from tech bros losing data, money, or getting hacked from this. They will be surprised that it could happen that bad, and they will feel shitty and upset.
And I will struggle to find sympathy through all my schadenfreude and piles of told-you-so-a-million-times.
- Comment on Microsoft saved $500 million using AI — after slashing over 15,000 jobs in 2025 2 weeks ago:
Don’t say “impressive productivity gains” when they are doing less and worse.
- Comment on Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it got bought up by Microsoft and Meta at the same time. They are using it to lay off people.
- Comment on Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics 2 weeks ago:
“Be gentle,” I whispered to the rock and let it go. It fell down and bruised my pinky toe. Very ungently.
Should we worry about this behavior of rock? I should write an article.
- Comment on Ross Scott Gets A Second Chance For His ‘Stop Killing Games’ Crusade 2 weeks ago:
Never have I felt so annoyed that my country isn’t part of EU. Wish I could give a vote.
- Comment on How do I deal with a very negative inner voice/second conscience that's constantly loud? It's like I have two different people in my head but they're both me, telling me opposite things endlessly. 2 weeks ago:
While that answer is correct, “professional help” isn’t a thing most people can just pick up from the grocery store, so to speak.
Knowing what type of help to ask for, getting affirmation that they need help at all, how to describe the problem, whether it has any other known names, etc are very valuable resources that people can only really get from asking friends or online forums.
I need to go through my GP to get “professional help”, and the waiting list for non-urgent appointments are 1-2 months. I would for sure be stuck for months or years in “stressed or burnt out maybe rest some” if I tried to bring up that my inner voice is mean to me.
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 2 weeks ago:
“We are gonna use MechaHitler for good we promise”
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t think we actually disagree much here. :)
I think my angle is just slightly different? I see that ease of access (eg cloud) make it possible for a lot more uncurious and clock-out people to enter the field and pass as competent. To be honest, even the modest introduction of auto-formatting editors are easy to see as good and useful, but I also feel that they allowed shoddy work to look passable at first glance. AI will make this a lot worse.
But as for the actual people who have it in them to be competent, people that were always there and still are, cloud is not going to make them worse.
- Comment on Canadian creator Peter Liepa - The story of how Boulder Dash was created 3 weeks ago:
Sorry if I missed it, but did he have any thoughts on the 40th anniversary edition?
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 3 weeks ago:
I understand.
Obviously, “knowing which cloud services to enable” is a lesser skill than knowing how those services work. That is not a parallel or equal skill in any way.
But do you assume people are just going drrrrr brain off when they don’t learn that one skillset you are accustomed to spotting?
- Comment on this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided? 3 weeks ago:
You are making strong assumptions on her motivations, and then judging those motivations as stupid. Her sins are in your imagination only.
Alternative reading: A cool lady who does what makes her happy and give zero fucks if she confuses people.
Or alternatively: A lady and I do not need to have opinions on her, really.
- Comment on this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided? 3 weeks ago:
Good. Creep pics of strangers is fucking disgusting.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I can see that.
However, you are now arguing a different point than I am getting from your original post. Maybe my fault in interpretation ofc, but the main difference is:
You say “incompetent” and “less skilled” as general statements on senior engineers. Those statements are false.
You also say “missing the skills you are looking for” which is obviously true.
And the implication that before cloud, people developed these skills more naturally - because they had to. This makes sense and I believe it.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 3 weeks ago:
That being said, I am genuinely frustrated by how little people know or care about the plumbing these days. :D
I am so fucking tired of seeing someone spin up 3 cloud databases for what could be a 40k in-memory hashtable.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 3 weeks ago:
That is technically correct in a way, but I’ll argue very wrong in a meaningful way.
Cloud services are meant to let you focus less on the plumbing, so naturally many skills in that will not be developed, and skills adjacent to it will be less developed.
Buttttt you must assume effort remains constant!
So you get to focus more on other things now. E.g. functional programming, product thinking, rapid prototyping, API stuff, breadth of languages, etc. I bet the seniors you are missing X and Y in have bigger Zs and also some Qs that you may not be used to consider, or have the experience to spot and evaluate.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 3 weeks ago:
Someone made a modified version of Quake back in the day, that rendered to stereoscopic 3D in a white noise pattern.
It was such a mindfuck to play!
You get 3D depth but no colors or shades or contrast. It’s just shapes moving. So doors that were flush with the wall were impossible to see, but enemies in dark rooms were fully visible because there is no light or dark.
I like to imagine I got to experience what a bat sees with echolocation.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. I can change my vision’s focal point and focus distance at will, so it’s usually easy even though my eyesight is getting fucky with age.