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spiderice··on America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it
You're trying to put rational on irrational emotions. The reason people are so anti datacenter is because their favorite news site / social media told them to be anti datacenter. You're giving way too much credit to sheep's ability to think.
spiderice··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
It's not. At all.

If someone likes digging tunnels by hand, that's a hobby.

If someone is mad that tunneling companies make it hard for them to find "hand tunneling work", that's not a hobby. That's someone thinking their work is owed attention.

Go find a hobby that you like doing for yourself. Why do you think so many engineers turn to woodworking? It isn't because they think they're going to compete with Ikea.

spiderice··on Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font
This is brought up in every single thread about fonts that have code ligatures. So no, of course it isn't just you.
spiderice··on Muse Wonder
Meta isn't trying to overthrow the government in Brazil. Anyone who says otherwise is being hyperbolic, as I said before.

The fact that you just reply "Brazil." as if that Meta is trying to overthrow the Brazilian government shows a lack of critical thinking.

spiderice··on Muse Wonder
> seems like the most "moral" AI company on the surface

Not to me at all. Exactly the opposite. Anthropic seems like the big-bad-evil company in every fictional universe. You're right that they're so unsettling.

Obviously nobody really loves Meta, but I'd far rather Meta "win" at this point than Anthropic.

spiderice··on NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
Canva now owns Affinity. So regardless of the answer to that question, more options are nice. I have 0 faith that Canva will be good stewards of Affinitys original mission, despite making all of the Affinity products free (for now)
spiderice··on Passkeys are a trap
Can someone more familiar explain the end goal?

Would a website want you to have to use Apple Passwords to guarantee that the account you're creating is connected to an Apple account, and thus making it more likely that you're a real, non-anonymous human?

edit: Why not just require "Sign in with Apple/Google" if that's the goal?

spiderice··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
I'm confused.. are you suggesting that Claude Code / Codex don't work? Because if you're still saying that in October 2026, it's a you problem. You're doing something wrong.
spiderice··on Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects
"it's not good for you to practice verbal abuse against inanimate objects as if they were humans" and "corporations should not use their power to determine what is worthy of compute" are not incompatible beliefs either.

And the implications of the latter are orders of magnitudes more concerning than weirdos calling a computer names.

spiderice··on Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects
If they can detect the so-called "cruelty", then they can easily exclude it from training
spiderice··on Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects
I love how people are spouting this argument suddenly in their attempt to justify Anthropic here. It definitely couldn't be that Anthropic is full of a bunch of people who think they're making God.

edit: Loving the downvotes. Also wanted to add how easy it was for Anthropic to get people on HN to support them being the arbiters of what is worthy of compute.

spiderice··on Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT
So.. really fucking relevant, then?
spiderice··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Seriously. GP is accidentally highlighting the issue.
spiderice··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
People really need to stop parroting this "across state lines" thing.
spiderice··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
You are literally completely flipping reality. Codex was, in fact, 20x. It was Claude that was not 20x until they got caught.
spiderice··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
> According to the company, existing subscribers will keep their current limits for a time, and will later receive a one-time credit to help them make the most of their new reduced allowances

Might want to hold off on canceling and continue to bleed them dry until the nerf hits

spiderice··on OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
Gotta find the right hostels
spiderice··on OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
You mean what they said about GPT-2?
spiderice··on Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
> true doomsday AGI

I'm not an AI decelerationist. But not being able to stop that worst case scenario isn't an argument against something that can stop the medium case scenario.

spiderice··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
> using a law that only applies to adversaries of the USA

Everyone keeps parroting this despite it not being true. And you're missing the point. The DoD specifically doesn't want it in their supply chain at all because it's an intelligent system that will work against the DoDs goals, by design, in certain scenarios.

Your argument boils down to, "The DoD isn't allowed to not want Claude in their supply chain", which is crazy.

spiderice··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
> explicitly crafted to protect against foreign adversaries

Explicitly?

Wow, explicitly means it is directly defined in the statue. Which it isn't.

Did you mean implicitly and accidentally say the exact opposite?

spiderice··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
If the DoD doesn't want Anthropic anywhere in their supply chain, because Anthropic said they won't supply the services the DoD needs.. why can't the DoD bar them from being in their supply chain?

Seems very straight forward.

spiderice··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
The difference would be the DoW needing a a Tehran pizza delivery service, and thus saying "None of our pizza delivery services can use Dominos because they refuse to do the work we need".
spiderice··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
It doesn't seem like you understand what a supply chain risk designation is for.

It's to ensure that companies that the DoW relies on don't build on top of a product that isn't fit for DoW work.

You seem to be agreeing with this designation in a way. The DoW essentially said "Pen company won't let us use their pens as neutron-flux regulator rods, so anyone building power plants for us isn't allowed to use these pens as neutron-flux regulator rods".

What is the problem you have with that?

spiderice··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
That's too bad. I wonder why I was able to get it after days of not being able to. They must've just temporarily enabled it again. Probably worth checking a few times a day to see if it reappears.

Though with the price of GPT-6 Luna, the temptation to switch to pay-per-token grows.

spiderice··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
That is an old tweet. They since reenabled it. I know because I was on the $200/month plan and couldn't resub once it expired. However, a couple days ago it finally let me resub again.

Now, if they disabled it yet again, that's another story. But that tweet is not evidence of that.

spiderice··on Claude Opus 5.5
You didn't have the patience to scroll down, so you decided to come post about it here and waste all of our time?
spiderice··on Grok 4.7
Not sure. I've never seen Grok-generated child pornography. I take it you're intimately familiar?
spiderice··on Grok 4.7
117 million people per month. Anything else I can google for you?
spiderice··on Astra for Law
Reread my comment if you think I was talking about robots doing plumbing
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