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cluckindan··on I didn't think I could get addicted to weed. I was wrong – and I'm not alone
The majority of people addicted to drugs have neurodevelopmental issues from childhood. A significant part have preexisting mental illness of one sort or another.

You can call it escapism because that would make sense to you if you were doing drugs, but for most addicts, it’s about being able to feel and act normal, like the others.

cluckindan··on I didn't think I could get addicted to weed. I was wrong – and I'm not alone
About a hay bale’s worth a day should do them in!
cluckindan··on I didn't think I could get addicted to weed
Listing the three most addictive, dependency-inducing and mortally dangerous substances used by humans to temporarily achieve a stress-free mental state doesn’t mean cannabis belongs in the same neighborhood.
cluckindan··on The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs
This also conveniently sends it to your search provider, and possibly to the browser vendor for analytics.
cluckindan··on Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
I’m fairly certain they’re referring to POSIX compatibility, not calling a Linux a Unix.
cluckindan··on Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
So a threat actor buys access to a managed kubernetes service, or other linux-based shared hosting platform, and now they have access to the computer.

Hell, GitHub Actions would do.

cluckindan··on Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
Linux is not Unix: it is not derived from AT&T Unix.
cluckindan··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
> can you deterministically test the thing you are asking it to do?

Of course: have it write tests first; and run them to check its work.

Works well for refactoring, but greenfield implementations still rely on a spec that is guaranteed to be incomplete, overcomplete and wrong in many ways.

cluckindan··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
Jira for agents?
cluckindan··on How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability
Has anyone figured out whether this CVE was intentional?
cluckindan··on CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers
>barely no-one is using

Except, you know, many things

cluckindan··on DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
If it turns out the DNSSEC issue was caused by threat actors, this downstream effect could very well have been the reason to do it.
cluckindan··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Hello iOS upgrade.
cluckindan··on Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions
This is close to how things used to be, in the time before server-side includes.
cluckindan··on Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)
And that’s because IQ is a statistical distribution, not an absolute measurement of intelligence.

If everyone suddenly gets twice as smart as before, nobody’s IQ changes.

cluckindan··on Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
They never did catch you riding dirty.
cluckindan··on Ti-84 Evo
How does that help?
cluckindan··on NPM website was down
Waiting for the BitTorrent package manager
cluckindan··on Self-updating screenshots
Read the article you’re linking to, it is not relevant here.
cluckindan··on Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)
But crucially, it has no ethanol.
cluckindan··on Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)
That’s probably because 10% of ingested aspartame breaks down into methanol.

Or, you might just be sensitive to phenylalanine.

cluckindan··on How Much Caffeine in Coffee Cup?
Is coffee just caffeine, or are there more active substances in that cup of coffee? How many more? What effects do they have in humans?
cluckindan··on Human Accelerated Region 1
Let’s observe their reactions to a big slab of obsidian.
cluckindan··on Everything we like is a psyop?
Swans is a good band. Bird fight!
cluckindan··on Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?
Why are you working as the feedback mechanism? Automate it.
cluckindan··on Autonomous Robot Brigade Successfully Retook Russian Positions in Ukraine
This group of ”archive” sites engages in some shady practices, like using visitor browsers to DDoS other sites.
cluckindan··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
Corruption at that level could mean organized crime. Is there a culture of betting through illegal bookies, are they fixing matches, or ¿porque no los dos?
cluckindan··on 447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
Do you think it’s logically sound to marry the ”no true Scotsman” to a strawman argument?

Or, to imply guilt by association by first constructing a false stereotype of research in one field, and then applying it onto an instance of research in another field?

cluckindan··on 447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, as proven by the number of comments treating the paper as an AI slop pipe dream.
cluckindan··on 447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
That works as long as you don’t expect to graduate: in many EU nations, higher education students are required to complete at least 60 ECTS credits per year, or lose their study right / enrollment.
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