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chipsrafferty··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
There are multiple reasons why statutes of limitations exist, one of them being that the further away in time, the harder it is to prove evidence. Witnesses may have died, or their memory may be more faulty.
chipsrafferty··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
Which one is more bad?

Trump bombing hundreds of people or someone throwing a bomb at Trump because he keeps bombing hundreds of people?

chipsrafferty··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
And it's versus 150 innocent people vs. a few very guilty people.
chipsrafferty··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
Yeah it doesn't seem hard to rewrite the commit history
chipsrafferty··on Nowhere is safe
Russia attacked Ukraine. What's your point?
chipsrafferty··on Nowhere is safe
How about not attacking countries and then you don't have to worry about them attacking you?
chipsrafferty··on Why Isn't Everything Different Yet? (AI, where are you?)
A lot of words to not say much of anything to defend the actual point - what can AI actually do that we couldn't do before? Is it just that we can make new tech startups faster? Is that a good thing?
chipsrafferty··on OpenAI's new $100 tier targets developers hitting Codex limits
You could try writing the code yourself
chipsrafferty··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
> Well, you might want to throw that entire repository away and restore it from a backup before the offending commit because it's so difficult to fix and guarantee that it's not hiding in there somewhere and while also not breaking something else.

I'm not a git expert but I cant image that's true

chipsrafferty··on Helium Is Hard to Replace
Yes the US is more bad, agreed
chipsrafferty··on We mourn our craft
Because then you can save the time you have to spend working on it yourself.
chipsrafferty··on We mourn our craft
the smartest minds in the world
chipsrafferty··on We mourn our craft
Not everything can be abstracted away, jesus
chipsrafferty··on We mourn our craft
This is a nice fantasy. In practice, maintaining tools that help you scaffold common code patterns take more time to create and maintain than it does to copy, paste, and edit.

Turns out LLMs are REALLY good at "make me this thing that is 90% the same as another thing I've built / you've seen before, but with this 10% being different"

Also, by your own metrics, laziness is a virtue, and copying, pasting, and editing is much easier and lazier than maintaining boilerplate tools. So it's not even following your 3 commandments.

chipsrafferty··on End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git
Yet you use CSS on your own website?
chipsrafferty··on End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git
Not enough people opt out of using js for it to matter to anyone. If a page doesn't work because you have js disabled, get over it
chipsrafferty··on Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
HN mods removed US News of a government killing its own people in Minnesota. The only difference is the quantity. You're being hypocritical.
chipsrafferty··on Model Market Fit
No AI models in 2026 even "understand the whole codebase" lol what is the author even talking about
chipsrafferty··on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit
Like what? Alcohol isn't flammable unless it's over 63%, and you aren't allowed to bring duty free alcohol on the plane.
chipsrafferty··on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit
But also you can fill up a water bottle after security. Wouldn't it be fairly easy to make a pen or similar innocuous item out of sodium, and drop it in a bottle of water to make an explosion?

My point is that security can never be strict enough to catch someone who's truly motivated and funded, without making it impossible to admit people at a reasonable pace, and the current rules don't really help with that except for cutting down on the riff raff terrorists. But maybe those are more common than a trained professional with high tech weapons, I don't know.

chipsrafferty··on When employees feel slighted, they work less
Have there been any studies about the lack of raises and productivity? Because the way I see it, if you hired me 3 years ago at X per hour, and I haven't gotten any raises, then because of inflation, I should work 5% or so less hard every year.
chipsrafferty··on Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning
Unless it has computer!
chipsrafferty··on Google Antigravity
So what?
chipsrafferty··on Google Antigravity
Honestly they don't even need to say so. The image literally looks like a vs code screenshot.
chipsrafferty··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
We don't need it, but we might need it to maintain our quality of life now.
chipsrafferty··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
Nightclubs are still too dark. Streets are too bright.
chipsrafferty··on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
No it was to learn the biggest bully tricks to become the best bully
chipsrafferty··on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
Do you really think you're the only person who's heard of that "technique"?

When someone uses my name in conversation, it makes me think less of them, because it's so unnatural and clearly they might be doing it to manipulate me.

Names are dumb - we are people, not labels

chipsrafferty··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
The statement, more refined, would clarify, "publicly traded companies".
chipsrafferty··on Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon
It's not actually that tricky - because obtaining Monero anonymously is also tricky, the only way to do so is to put on a pair of rubber gloves, and anonymously send cash from a mailbox that can't be traced to your identity. The other side of that transaction is the party interested in converting to cash. Because there's so much demand on both ends, there are many reputable vendors with a long and trusted history of those transactions.
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