yes, the distraction is real. How many times i was busy with my day job on some task when for some reason i had to wait for something (coworker reply, build to complete, approval to be granted) and automatically opened HN on in a new tab... 10 minutes of blackout and i'm on some random wikipedia page for no obvious reason related to my day job task... And i'm 40+ year old adult. Im scared to think what this level of distraction means for undeveloped brain.

irony is too week a word for for this situation...

yeah..

Well this brings back initiative to stop throwing RAM at the problem and start optimising the code. Would like to see what smart people can do when there are money saved from buying more RAM.

For some uses right now, this makes sense, but it has to be at scale. If you're working on something that will ship in two years and is used by end users, it might not be worth the effort since production will catch up.

> it might not be worth the effort since production will catch up.

Sounds unlikely.

Unless RAM use would impact financial metrics, it would be hard to justify the work on memory footprint if customer doesn’t complain a lot.

no no, please we don't want to get back to dragging files to your project to make them work.

And manual FTP uploads, while we're at it.

You don’t need to. Llm will do it for you and include the security bug

long term in a sense of centuries? i think they can afford this.

yes, but win ratio is adjusted to that.

Right, so why advertise gambling or any other of them?

Food addiction kills too. Shall we stop advertising food?

> Food addiction kills too. Shall we stop advertising food?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5y2vzlyldo

> 4 January 2026: Junk food adverts are banned on television and online starting on Monday as part of a drive to tackle childhood obesity.

It seems that the factual answer is "yes", in certain conditions of the most addictive food and most susceptible audience.

Why should we advertise something that you have to go consume? Do you need advertising to tell you about bread, vegetables, meat?

> Do you need advertising to tell you about bread, vegetables, meat?

Looking around at the world, yes?

Less-heathy takeaway chains do advertise constantly, and concepts like the food pyramid are there to literally "tell you about bread, vegetables, meat" as an advertisement for a better alternative.

People aren't born knowing this - if they don't learn it from parents, they will either learn it from someone else, or not know it and have a poor diet out of ignorance.

this is basically saying "you cant do anything unless i allow you to (and i might for a price)" in contrast to when government should just say "these are the things that you cant do, anything else is ok".

this is basically saying "you cant do anything unless i allow you to (and i might for a price)" in contrast to when government should just say "these are the things that you cant do, anything else is ok".

i think grid can be a surface of the unit sphere