Comment Re: doublespeak, we're not stupid sean (Score 1) 84
This.
Comment Prior art (Score 1) 89
Does Caprica count as prior art?
Comment Quirk in the tax code (Score 1) 22
One of many such quirks which are absolutely, definitely not intentional nor contributing to widening the economic class gaps or tax burden shouldered by those with the least.
Comment Re: 'former' (Score 1) 80
I agree with the engagement motivation hypothesis. Including the meta-engagement, like this thread. There's profit to be found in the long tail!
Comment Meta-accommodation (Score 5, Insightful) 98
Our customers are distracting themselves from the distractions they are buying from us.
Idiocracy was prophecy, not fiction.
Comment Will NIMBY save us from Big Tech? (Score 3, Funny) 65
In the next issue of Dystopian Adventure Stories...
Submission + - IOCCC29 has opened. (ioccc.org)
achowe writes: The IOCCC opened the 29th contest earlier this week and will run until 13 March 2026. Once more keen C developers can submit their tiny confusing programs showing off the oddities of C.
This year the Rules & Guidelines have had a major overhaul, the first since the contest opened. They had grown somewhat lengthy, so the Rules have been trimmed and the Guidelines reorganised by Rule number, general material, and FunðYdamentals.
In addition the `mkiocccentry` tool chain has been revised, moving hardcoded rules into a table driven system for easier maintenance. Landon Curt Noll has published videos on Patreon explaining many of these changes.
This year the Rules & Guidelines have had a major overhaul, the first since the contest opened. They had grown somewhat lengthy, so the Rules have been trimmed and the Guidelines reorganised by Rule number, general material, and FunðYdamentals.
In addition the `mkiocccentry` tool chain has been revised, moving hardcoded rules into a table driven system for easier maintenance. Landon Curt Noll has published videos on Patreon explaining many of these changes.
Comment Re:Findand is an educated country (Score 2) 176
I'm antinatalist, but I haven't seen evidence of most educated people being so. I'm curious if there is data to support this claim.
Comment Let's add it to the list of other unbannables. (Score 4, Insightful) 129
Right after Fire, The Wheel, Religion, Art, and Cryptography.
Comment Official Information (Score 1) 105
Aka. "good facts". Too bad "real facts" aren't the alternative of choice for most media/news outlets.
Comment (Hallucinated) Turtles All The Way Down (Score 1) 39
Comment Re:Big Content Problems (Score 1) 68
Kurzgesagt released a much more compelling complaint about AI slop's impacts today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Big Content Problems (Score 1) 68
All I hear from Mr. Beast's complaint is that big content creators fear the democratization of content creation, which means content creation won't be pay-to-win as much any more.
Comment Cory Doctorow appreciation post (Score 3, Interesting) 116
I discovered Doctorow via Slashdot back in early 2002 via this article: https://slashdot.org/story/02/...
Things have changed a lot since then, but not my appreciation for his writing (both fiction and non), for his righteous efforts with civil/digital liberties and activism, and his ability as a writer to convey those and related issues to his audience with impact and style. A true paragon of a human being.
Comment Re: Turing award? They deserve a Darwin award ins (Score 1) 133
Good observation. Absolutist language reminds me of the evidence I've seen of it being linked to depression, and of my own continuing efforts to vigilantly avoid using it.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
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