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It must feel great to feel so vastly superior...

But everyone being crass and stupid was not even the question. The question was: how many more battles are going to be lost on that hill?

Well, I'm glad I've asked because I very much enjoyed reading your answer.

I had a different experience of vegetarians though. In my mind, based on my experience, a vegetarian is someone who, when you invite in your place, or when joining a coliving or a mere picnic (was not thinking of a restaurant, that's another matter), will insist that he can't touch any food with meat, or any food cooked in a pot that had just also been used to cook meat, really like it was a taboo rather than a practical decision about a very earthly thing, and not willing to give any more explanation than "it would be offensive". To me the proselytism is even more important than the choice not to buy meat (which is itself more important than the choice not to eat meat).

It seems that you are of a different blend and that I might have over-estimated the number of vegetarians-by-religion; maybe many are just tired of explaining indeed.

  > all the extraterrestrial AI swarms

Does not sound particularly safe to be deported to a correction facility.

How do you prove a system is chaotic in sociology? Without such a proof, isn't it natural to try to explain in retrospect even the systems you failed to predict?

I would be fully onboard with you if the tools to generate all the code anyone need would not be proprietary and would run on a personal computer anyone could buy.

  >  I made the change consciously for ethical and moral reasons with no interest in "setting myself apart" or "feeling better for not 'being like those others'" by this decision

So, when I hear you saying that you are motivated by pure moral reasons, but not stating those reasons, I can't help but think "this guy is lying to himself", sorry.

Listen, I consider myself some kind of vegetarian: I feel shame for how we humans treat other animals in the food industry, I don't want to take part in it; therefore, I rarely buy meat (I rarely buy anything, actually). But when I go someplace and I'm not the cook, it won't even cross my mind to ask for "a vegetarian alternative"; I eat what is there because it doesn't matter. During the meal I might engage a discussion about how badly we treat animals and we could avoid participating. Not eating or cooking meat is not the point at all, not buying it is the point.

I have met a lot of vegetarians who just "can't eat meat", won't tell why, require a specific meal be prepared for them, exactly like some religious people won't eat pork or wtv, without ever explaining why not. Because they don't want to do proselytism or because they don't want to sound stupid? I'm sure which alternative you will choose for yourself, but I'm not convinced.

Still working on https://cloudywithachanceoflatency.net/ (and looking for beta testers actually, especially if you are interrested in trying the MCP server for your SRE agents). Also working on my very own MCP proxy, since working on the previous project gave me a few ideas; will hopefully be able to give more details in a month or so.

He made an account to add an offensive comment that would make many infuriated HNers engage with, thus improving the rank for the article?

  > it’s just not a terribly statically verifiable language

I didn't read this that way at all. Society != country of origin. The US, like any country, is composed of many different cultures and more or less independent societies, some being high-trust/valuing more cooperation and some low-trust, valuing more competition.

This isn't something you can screen for in a classic job interview

Why not? Sounds not that hard. I actually believe this is something that would make a candidate looks good in an interview for many large corporations.

If you are in an environment where deploying a new configuration file is easier than adding data in a pre-existing database, you are in a bad place already.

the biggest blocker on moving to a new programming language, is the cost of re-writing everything

In 2026, not sure if it was satire. Do some people truly believe that all their software stack has to be single tech, from device drivers to end user apps? Does that extend to remotely accessed services?

So many messages about child safety in the press and even here... Who cares about chat control when they already have mind control.

At the end of the day, regimes do not depend on legitimacy but on force.

Explain again why a cli can't access a remote service ?

The only difference that is not superficial is the token count. Everything else : format, doc, auth, discoverability, ... can be made the same (the cli could be an mcp client, and the mcp server could implement a local shell, after all)

And you believe the State of Spain decided to blacklist Palentir for these reasons ? Because that was the original question of the person you are replying to.

Understood your situation, but personnaly I'm not watching so much professional content on YT; actually, I'm not watching YT as much as I used to when the service was young and unprofessional.

What I want from such a platform is authenticity... and curation.

Irony is not bad faith.

Recommending this independent journalist's article that pays attention to other colorful characters in this story:

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/450-years-in-prison-for-sa...

Who do you want to abuse your private data then? Some administration closer to home?

It's well overdue to take seriously and put all our efforts behind the many (various but little known) local-first initiatives.

See for instance: https://elfaconsortium.eu/ It's a race against time.

How much RAM would a nickel buy me?

Because we have also increased the spending in "un-education" (entertainment, social media, college sport...) ?

What's your own theory ?

Isn't he famous for getting caught?

Except that most of the time a workload is made memory-hungry by terrible technical decisions ("self-describing" text data encodings come to mind).

I wish they were. Displaying an error message to the user, asking to try again later, is way too cheap in my opinion.

Please do not see any malice in this naive question, but why is that an obsolete model? Back in the days I had very different displays that I could use to display various windows of a flight simulator (some dedicated to some instruments, the big one for the front view, for instance) and it was quite nice. It sounds like that would not be easy to replicate with a single shared frame buffer, but maybe I'm wrong (I've been using nothing but a small laptop screen for decades)

Exploit paths in unloaded modules, I guess.

Two full time projects at the same time:

1. Helping to make ActivityPods apps working on top of https://nextgraph.org/ (instead of SOLID).

2. https://cloudywithachanceoflatency.net, network monitoring done right (according to me), for humans and AI SREs (still WIP but quite fun already).

And when I get a chance, accepting some small paying contracts to pay bills. Weird times.