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lunarboy commented on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah   nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/david927
nailer · 2 days ago
I think the right are jumping on this because they keep being shot.
lunarboy · 2 days ago
By other right white males btw
lunarboy commented on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah   nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/david927
lunarboy · 3 days ago
You're really trying to convince me people care about kids but we've been having school shooting for 30 years? And that the length or frequency of events makes them okay, or not worth mentioning? So 30 years of more frequent assassinations should be make similar types of events okay? To use "you're probably one of those" and "argue in good faith" in the same comment is pretty wild work.
lunarboy commented on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah   nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/david927
pxc · 3 days ago
There was a school shooting on the same day as Kirk's death: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/students-wounded-shooti...

If he were still alive, he would be writing and speaking about how such violence is unfortunate but ultimately acceptable— even necessary— to "preserve our freedoms", brushing it aside to be forgotten. He of course did so many times in life, notably in 2023 when he was quoted doing so in the media:

https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-...

Kirk's death has already overshadowed the news of that school shooting, which will indeed be forgotten by most long before we stop talking about him.

One final victory for Charlie Kirk, I guess.

lunarboy · 3 days ago
Exactly. Sure call this whataboutism, but someone a kid losing a father is tragic, yet kids themselves getting shot are now regular desensitized events we just say "thoughts and prayers" and move on? Give me a break. Kirk wasn't even an elected official, yet I've never seen 2k+ comments nor posts about other shootings on HN. Kirk died doing what he loved, defending what he loved, so I love that for him.
lunarboy commented on Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts   cnbc.com/2025/09/02/googl... · Posted by u/colesantiago
bogwog · 12 days ago
What do you define as "flourished"? Chrome won in part because it was better than Internet Explorer, but ironically, the internet was better back when IE had majority market share.

Today, 99% of internet traffic goes to a handful of sites/apps, and the vast majority of the ad revenue on the internet goes to a handful ad companies. The internet is a SEO spam shit hole crafted in service of Google's easily gamed ranking algorithms, and designed with the sole purpose of serving ads.

Google effectively owns the internet, and this ruling is a green light for them to take even more. I wouldn't be surprised if they stop releasing Chrome sources and fully ban ad blockers now. The court already ruled that the government can't touch them, even when they've been found to have broken the law.

lunarboy · 12 days ago
Internet was better via what metric? Your rose tinted nostalgia bar? And what's stopping anyone from making a better non-gameable search index that's driven by purely charitable intentions?
lunarboy commented on Code Is Debt   tornikeo.com/code-is-debt... · Posted by u/tornikeo
lunarboy · 14 days ago
Of course, the one and only perfect repo: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
lunarboy commented on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness   yro.slashdot.org/comments... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
_mu · a month ago
> He didn’t have ego though.

False. Steve Jobs had a massive ego and was by no means a saint. He got a girl pregnant and tried to skirt the responsibility. That's not someone with no ego.

Steve Jobs was also a genius and his bullying pushed a lot of people to excellence.

Someone can be both a genius on the one hand and a total shithead on the other. That's called being human. <3

lunarboy · a month ago
I met Jobs as a high schooler at Westfield Valley Fair with a "Programming in Objective-C for iPhone" book in hand during like the iPhone 3G era, and he refused to sign the book lol
lunarboy commented on The United States withdraws from UNESCO   state.gov/releases/office... · Posted by u/layer8
lunarboy · 2 months ago
Another buzz bone to distract from Epstein?
lunarboy commented on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf   cognition.ai/blog/windsur... · Posted by u/alazsengul
akavi · 2 months ago
Is this purely the rump company left over from the Google pseudo-acquistion? Or does this mean that deal fell through?

Does this represent confirmation that there was no pro-rata compensation to common share holders in the Google deal?

I just have so many questions.

lunarboy · 2 months ago
Windsurf founding team is already at Google
lunarboy commented on The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history   semafor.com/article/07/03... · Posted by u/harambae
spwa4 · 2 months ago
It's 6500 billion dollars, generally referred to as "trillions".

A vote for Trump, as it turns out, was a vote to increase US national debt by double what anyone increased it by before (which was also Trump, so anyone saying they "didn't see this coming" ...)

lunarboy · 2 months ago
GOP being the "fiscally responsible" party is the best generational propaganda it's honestly impressive
lunarboy commented on GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom   techinasia.com/news/githu... · Posted by u/andrewstetsenko
lunarboy · 3 months ago
It was only 2 years ago we were still taking about GPTs making up completely nonsense, and now hallucinations are almost gone from the discussions. I assume it will get even better, but I also think there is an inherent plateau. Just like how machines solved mass manufacturing work, but we still have factory workers and overseers. Also, "manually" hand crafted pieces like fashion and watches continue to be the most expensive luxury goods. So I don't believe good design architects and consulting will ever be fully replaced.

u/lunarboy

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