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  2. Comment on Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (September 2026) in ~health.mental

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    I'm currently unemployed, although I haven't been seriously looking for a job. I was fired due to performance issues related to my mental health. When I was working, I would sometimes suddenly...

    I'm currently unemployed, although I haven't been seriously looking for a job. I was fired due to performance issues related to my mental health. When I was working, I would sometimes suddenly stop and think about how nonsensical everything was. The planet is dying, and yet nobody seems to care.

    I tried to tell myself that I only had to do it for long enough to enjoy some things before everything starts to got serious. I couldn't do that. With the disaster in Nepal, it feels like we're already there and things are only going to get worse from now on. And here I am, trying to find a job that pay the bills, something that I know will only contribute to the state of the world, while pretending that the planet isn't dying. I hate it. I wish I could do something, but I feel like even finding a job that makes a difference is unrealistic for me.

    11 votes

  3. Comment on Operation Bluebird launches Twitter.now in ~tech

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    There are a couple more things that I see a lot but people rarely mention: Put a meta label before a heading Numbering cards as if they were a part of numbered list, and start them with a leading...

    There are a couple more things that I see a lot but people rarely mention:

    1. Put a meta label before a heading

    The context

    The Poetic Title

    1. Numbering cards as if they were a part of numbered list, and start them with a leading 0 (01).
    9 votes

  4. Comment on Artists built a site to escape AI. Scrapers are coming for it anyway. in ~tech

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    I don't think they ever intended to make a platform that was impossible to scrape. But their anti-AI stance has made them a target for people who see it as a challenge, putting pressure on their...

    I don't think they ever intended to make a platform that was impossible to scrape. But their anti-AI stance has made them a target for people who see it as a challenge, putting pressure on their infrastructure.

    26 votes

  5. Comment on Artists built a site to escape AI. Scrapers are coming for it anyway. in ~tech

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    Your comment suggests that it’s somehow a moral failing for Jingna Zhang to ask for money to support Cara. First of all, she was included in the 30 Under 30 because of her photography. And second,...

    Your comment suggests that it’s somehow a moral failing for Jingna Zhang to ask for money to support Cara. First of all, she was included in the 30 Under 30 because of her photography. And second, Cara has been community-funded from the beginning, so it’s not out of the ordinary for them to ask for financial support, specially now that they’re being consistently targeted.

    10 votes

  9. Comment on Another week on Linux in ~tech

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    This is not really a reply to your comment, but whenever Linux comes up in a conversation, there’s always a comment like this, and I wonder what the hell people are trying to do with it that they...

    This is not really a reply to your comment, but whenever Linux comes up in a conversation, there’s always a comment like this, and I wonder what the hell people are trying to do with it that they need to tinker with it so much.

    For me, Linux is the most hassle-free OS there is. I haven’t tinkered with it in six years because for me, it just works. I also use macOS, and one of the things I dislike about it is that there’s always more friction when setting up a development environment compared to Linux. I also worry more when upgrading macOS than Linux because I seem to always encounter some problem midway through the upgrade.

    I see it as people getting used to the idiosyncrasies of each OS to the point where they stop seeing the problems. They learn where the problems are, accept them as unchangeable facts, and eventually get used to them. Maybe I’ve just learned to accept Linux’s shortcomings, while I haven’t accepted macOS’s because it’s a paid product.

    22 votes

  12. Comment on Why normal people aren’t using AI agents in ~tech

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    I had a good chuckle reading these because they are adding more things to manage to your life, not less.

    I had a good chuckle reading these because they are adding more things to manage to your life, not less.

    18 votes

  13. Comment on The real energy use of agentic AI in ~tech

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    An individual using chatbots has a pretty negligible impact, with one prompt only amounting to roughly 1/150,000th of an average American’s daily emissions. Those numbers are basically right. They are also increasingly divorced from how AI is actually being used today.

    The fastest-growing way that software engineers and scientists actually use AI is not typing questions into a chat box. Rather, we use AI agents through tools like Claude Code and Codex that plan, write code, run it, read the results, and iterate on their own.

    My best estimate is that [my Claude Code use over 8 weeks] used around 170 kWh of data center electricity (with an uncertainty range of roughly 70 to 330 kWh across methods and assumptions).

    8 votes

  15. Comment on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours: Developer unintentionally copies an open-source app using Claude Code in ~tech

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    I’m sure someone will mention this eventually. The original app also kind of reads like it was vibe-coded with Claude Code.

    I’m sure someone will mention this eventually. The original app also kind of reads like it was vibe-coded with Claude Code.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on What JavaScript framework should I use? in ~comp

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    Mithril is a very close to metal, but still powerful framework. It's so close to metal that the only things you need to write an application is the bundle and regular JS. Or you could use JSX with...

    Mithril is a very close to metal, but still powerful framework. It's so close to metal that the only things you need to write an application is the bundle and regular JS. Or you could use JSX with the help of Webpack.

    I like to use it for small projects . IMO it only a more robust router that can handle nested components.

    However, your third point suggest you really don't want something like this.

    Edit: The way to get the best practices suggestions is with a linter like ESLint, but that involves messing more with the tooling.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on The first website was launched thirty-five years ago in ~tech

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    From Wikipedia

    From Wikipedia

    CERN, a research center in Switzerland, created the first website. The Web was publicly announced with a post to the Usenet newsgroup alt.hypertext on August 6, 1991. There is a snapshot of the site from November 1992 at The World Wide Web project.

    11 votes