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drstewart··on Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS
They have a reason. It's difficult to support while maintaining the security standards they want.

What should be illegal is wanting to make every niche pet peeve of yours illegal

drstewart··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
If the volume of work goes up, its cost goes down. Supply and demand.

Unless you think you should pay more now for more content that can be delivered to you via AI generation?

drstewart··on Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)
And yet the tube has poor service a lot. 2 minutes is required but it very, very often isn't met, leading to wild overcrowding on platforms.

"But it's old!"

Okay - that's why it's unreliable, not an excuse for it.

drstewart··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/435/
drstewart··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
You can't just randomly exclude entire sectors of an economy.
drstewart··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
What is your definition of depression, exactly?

Besides "sounds cool with shock value online"

drstewart··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Disagree. The only part an AI can't do is the people aligning and box drawing. The implementation part is trivial. That's who will get replaced.
drstewart··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
>This many layoffs is likely far beyond "checked out" employees.

25% offers != 25% layoffs

drstewart··on France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms
The far left: overthrow society and smash our entire economic model and murder every rich person

The far right: maybe prioritize citizens over others first

Completely the same opinion, both equally extremist!

Be gone, bot

drstewart··on France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms
Wait till you read some of the far left or right newspapers and leaflets in France. Why aren't those being banned?
drstewart··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
As opposed to a senile Brazilian felon?
drstewart··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Is this because of your mistaken belief that the Chinese Communist party doesn't filter and censor the Internet for their subjects?
drstewart··on How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money
>The tell here

Is this AI written? It has "this is the smoking gun" vibes, just rewritten.

drstewart··on Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month
I don't get why people say Oppenheimer was a talented scientist when I don't want nuclear weapons to exist
drstewart··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
Exactly, the EU only deals with ethical countries that support Ukraine

ahahahah

drstewart··on It's still ok to enjoy programming
>How can two different developers say those very different things about the same product?

Well the Dunning-Kruger effect could certainly explain the cohort that thinks they're skills are amazing and unbeatable.

drstewart··on France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
Source they were selling this fridge data in real-time? Can you post a link where I can buy it?

What customer data is this even giving me? How do I get someone's personal information based on the temperature of the drinks fridge in Store #138 in Nantes?

drstewart··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
"I hate burgers covered in shit, I'd rather eat pizza"

"That pizza is covered in shit too, so do you actually hate shit?"

"Who said anything about shit!!1!"

drstewart··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Is this the same Europe that's cutting work visas, tightening restrictions, and increasing naturalization requirements across the board?

What's really interesting to see is your blindness to that self destruction.

drstewart··on “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
Taking a statement to its limits is useful for that reason. This is why it's so common to do in physics & math, in fact!

If your mental model breaks at the limits, it maybe means there's some truth in what you say, but there's a nuance that's clearly missing.

And that's the case here: nobody argues when automation comes for many types of other tasks, so why is mathematics special? Or even art? We should either find that line or accept that maybe they aren't as special as we assumed.

drstewart··on “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
Hence the funding was never for "advancing the understanding", but the problems themselves.
drstewart··on “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
This. Farming used to be such a rich and meaningful job where you connected with the earth, until machinery came along and ruined it.

I loathe what's happened with agscience, all farms should be plowed by hand with donkeys and plows.

drstewart··on “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
>They somehow invented a way of solving an open problem without advancing the field.

And nothing stops mathematicians from solving it in a way that does advance the field. Claude's existence doesn't change that.

drstewart··on Mistral Large 4
China has been owning and controlling key companies in its industry for going on 6 decades.
drstewart··on Mistral Large 4
What makes you think the rest of the world trusts Europe more than the Chinese?
drstewart··on Mistral Large 4
>Up until recently the Chinese government wasn't even that invested in these companies

>Last time I checked, it was ourselves (USA) waging economic warefare on 2/3rds of the world.

Up until recently the USA Wasn't waging economic "warefare" on 2/3rds of the world

drstewart··on Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?
Agent Babysitter
drstewart··on America.gov
If you want naming exceptionalism, here's where you should be looking: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/24/france-says-eu...
drstewart··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
The rest of the world should maybe try take care of its own problems first, starting with the active wars in Europe.

Too bad all's they can do is sit back and condemn things, by your own admission.

drstewart··on America.gov
Because it isn't america.geography, it's america.gov, and everyone who isn't playing dumb knows exactly what government that refers to.

Not to mention the only context you ever hear people using America to refer to both South and North American continents is people complaining that it should be only used in this way.

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