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Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. --AW

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@Noahpinion You've never met a lesbian and her wife?

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@MattBruenig @TheStalwart As long as tokens aren't free and instant, there will still be a strong enough incentive to write that little bit of code. You still notice those things while doing agentic development.

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@Hallvox @kejca It sounds like you're content to do a lot of labor, and yes that's your right. I also like some labor, but I want to *choose* my labor. I dump time/energy into a wildlife garden; I want to spend my time on that, not on traveling to do the shopping I do on Amazon.

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@Hallvox @kejca I think it's a mistake to call these things "convenience." My laundry machine is "convenient" and it saves my family a dozen hours of labor per week. I prefer to say these things "increase our standard of living," because that's what they do.

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@AndyMasley What a goofy idea. My car is described in detail in its owner's manual, and yet my car exists. They're right about one thing though: The owner's manual is not a car.

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The galaxy should be at least littered with probes. If it is, the corollary to this filter is "probes are very hard to find."

[Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪 @DerekPederson3]

Science fiction nerds are gonna hate me for saying this but the Great Filter is that interstellar travel is probably more or less impossible and there is no reason to come up with any other explanation for that.

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@Noahpinion This phenomenon will be stronger at companies with built-out products like Uber and Meta, where there really isn't a need to introduce a lot of features. Tokens are highly valuable for the thousands of other companies who've been starving for engineering resources.

[milo 𖣂 @yawncsb]

getting off of twitter and interacting with real people really makes you realize people on here are INSANE like i promise any normal person does not gaf

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@Noahpinion I've been hoping you'd get interested in this topic, because NIMBYs bludgeon people with environmental damage caused by new housing developments. YIMBYism needs the native plant movement because you can get development AND ecology in the same spaces, if you plant right.

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@Noahpinion They destroy the food web. Insects have specific plants they can eat (the ones they evolved alongside), and most bird species and many mammals depend on insect protein. Deer can't even eat invasive shrubs. It's near-total ecological destruction, everywhere they invade.

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@Noahpinion @stoneagenathan It destroys the food web. Insects have specific plants they can eat (the ones they evolved alongside), and most bird species and many mammals depend on insect protein. Deer can't even eat invasive shrubs. It's near-total ecological destruction, everywhere they invade.

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@burkeholland This started to happen to me too. Now I just make a point to consciously decide to think through things. Thinking is now optional, and that means you have to opt to do it. Once you make the choice, hey, the thinking comes back.

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@DKThomp So, perhaps not a bubble.

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@DeeJzNuts @Noahpinion The problem with asserting "it's the water" is that actually examining the situation tells you that the water use is paltry when compared to other large-scale uses of it. So factually, water is not a problem, but people try hard to make it a problem anyway. Why?

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@codingbryant @Noahpinion I don't know about Utah, but in Arizona, they continue to spend enormous amounts of water on farming in the desert. Does Utah have anything like that going on? Because when you compare data centers to that it's like ... oh, water's not the issue.

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@MetroGlobeInc @akarnokd @Noahpinion Even with several paragraphs of context? Nothing of value will come out of a response?

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@akarnokd @Noahpinion Sometimes they complain that the advice is generic, but mostly they complain that it's not going to work for them because of some reason they've invented, like "I'm too ugly." They then show a picture of themselves, a completely normal dude.

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@akarnokd @Noahpinion I have never in years of incel culture being all over self-help forums seen people laugh at someone asking for help. Far more likely is they get a heap of advice and then start arguing with people trying to help to justify their victimhood.

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@NateSilver538 A better way to say this: He is doing the software engineering while the model writes the code. This is modern software development, not vibe coding.