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BigTTYGothGF··on A curmudgeon tries a language server
That's just a rant trying to disguise itself as objective.
BigTTYGothGF··on Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good?
> best selling

The question was about "good" tho.

BigTTYGothGF··on GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?
> I think we need to have a little more sympathy for GitHub

We certainly do not.

BigTTYGothGF··on Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Wiki cites https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2026/04/08/864876... which reads: "loss of the warehouse could impact 3% of sales [for Kimberley-Clark] in the West Coast region", which seems like a long way away from what's being discussed.

Also even though the fire was in Ontario CA, it was Ontario California not Ontario Canada.

BigTTYGothGF··on Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018)
> those ships would require enormous chemical batteries

In many cases they can't be all that far from land, could one set up a way to run wires?

I also wonder about the possibility for some kind of permanent installation in select places, where small amounts of sediment are continually removed (as opposed to large amounts of sediment occasionally removed). Being permanent means you can hook it up to the grid.

BigTTYGothGF··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
You're vastly over-estimating the difficulty of making a web page and even more vastly under-estimating the difficulty of LLMs.
BigTTYGothGF··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
> Are Canada also against lgbt people, abortion and other common human rights?

Some of them are, some of them aren't.

BigTTYGothGF··on I Dream of Quieter Computing
I had multiple mediocre-to-crappy CRTs in the 90s and 00s and was glad to move away from them. I think the last one I owned was even one of the fabled trinitrons, and it was acceptable.
BigTTYGothGF··on The case against a C alternative (2022)
So was fortran, but nobody ever says that kind of stuff about it.
BigTTYGothGF··on Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree
I haven't heard anything about this, could you drop a couple references?
BigTTYGothGF··on The case against a C alternative (2022)
> C has a high level assembly language at its roots

People who say this know neither C nor assembly.

BigTTYGothGF··on I should have loved biology (2020)
> humanities professor in women's studies

Better a thousand women's studies departments than one business school.

BigTTYGothGF··on Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos
The reason we got testy about selling out in the 80s and 90s was because so many people were doing it.
BigTTYGothGF··on Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos
MCA wouldn't have dropped that line about not selling his songs for no tv ads if it wasn't something lots of his colleagues were doing. (And Mike D wouldn't have rhymed "commercial" with "commercial" for the same reason)
BigTTYGothGF··on Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos
I think plenty of bands back in the day would have done the same if someone paid them.
BigTTYGothGF··on Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma
> I was upset to enter a medical era where bureaucrats were forcing medical decisions on me

We've been in that era your whole life.

BigTTYGothGF··on Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
Military tech often flows to cops.
BigTTYGothGF··on Norway should buy OpenAI
Are you operating on a purely keyword-based level?
BigTTYGothGF··on Norway Should Buy OpenAI
Going by the author's other articles, if it's a bit it's a long one.
BigTTYGothGF··on Norway should buy OpenAI
Talk about perverse incentives.
BigTTYGothGF··on California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year
Sounds like the problem is HD/Lowes driving all other alternatives out of business.
BigTTYGothGF··on Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment
> It should never be illegal, to give fools the opportunity to be parted with their money.

"Legalize Ponzi schemes and three-card Monte" is certainly an opinion.

BigTTYGothGF··on The oldest bar in every state
> Even economists

What do you mean "even"?

BigTTYGothGF··on Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA
> I've been lobbying the HOA members to support installing a prominent camera there to dissuade thieves.

Do you actually get thieves or have you worked yourself up over nothing?

BigTTYGothGF··on Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
We've made a couple advances in food production, storage, and distribution in the decades since Hammurabi last walked the earth.
BigTTYGothGF··on Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane
> open peer review like in the old days it's hard

I'm not sure the old days ever had that.

BigTTYGothGF··on A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”
So is Ireland.
BigTTYGothGF··on Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
> I have inherited furniture that must be around a 100 years old now and a lot that is over 50 years old and doing fine.

The rest of the furniture didn't last long enough to be inherited.

BigTTYGothGF··on Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
> Nationalize Adele

I'm old and out of touch, my brain confused Adele with Alizée and thought that was a little aggressive for a foreign policy.

BigTTYGothGF··on NP-Overrated
> You took away the wrong thing

I'm more willing to believe they were taught the wrong thing.

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