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DauntingPear7

93 karma · joined June 6, 2025

Soon to be graduate with a degree in Computer Sciences.

PL enthusiast and FP enjoyer

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DauntingPear7··on In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5%
The current admin sure does seem to push for it
DauntingPear7··on How OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine
Crazy how some people want an entirely sterile internet
DauntingPear7··on Training a Human Takes 20 Years of Food
I was the guy in the room with a calculator, and that’s why the boss made me a top financier or something like that
DauntingPear7··on Electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil more than electric cars
This is unbelievably real
DauntingPear7··on $30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents
There was an article that interviewed a film prof at my current uni and he said that students nowadays can’t understand or answer very simple questions about the plot of a film, despite being film majors
DauntingPear7··on Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust
Look into rust iterators and their associated functions for rust specific implementation. Additionally look into functional programming à la lambda calculus and Haskell for the extreme end of this type of programming if you’d like to learn more about it
DauntingPear7··on Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An open-source deep dive
Reads like AI
DauntingPear7··on In Search of a Discord Replacement
Looks neat
DauntingPear7··on How I use Obsidian (2023)
This guy is the CEO of obsidian so I would trust him imo
DauntingPear7··on I Love Board Games: A Personal Obsession Explained by Psychology
As a college student without too much spending money, what’re some board games I should check out? I have wingspan, catan, and azul and wanna expand my collection with other must have games
DauntingPear7··on New repository settings for configuring pull request access
Seems long overdue
DauntingPear7··on Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
Someone will have to know how to steer the LLM to fix/update/maintain the bespoke software they decided to use, so still a large cost there
DauntingPear7··on Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)
It’s because social media is no longer primarily about being social
DauntingPear7··on $300B Evaporated. The SaaS -Pocalypse Has Begun
Reads like AI
DauntingPear7··on Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation
Forcing people to take and buy and own and maintain a car since hundreds of billions have been spent on that mode of transit, but near zero (in comparison) on any other seems like bad form imo
DauntingPear7··on Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation
But then you get into a world where people can’t cross the street (moreso than what’s already available). I recall seeing a video on YouTube that explores your suggestion to its inevitable conclusion. Additionally, this could exacerbate suburban sprawl
DauntingPear7··on Best of Moltbook
You do too. What makes you think the models are intelligent? Are you seriously that dense? Do you think your phones keyboard autocomplete is intelligent because it can improve by adapting to new words?
DauntingPear7··on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
Yeah some people pop a melatonin every night before bed
DauntingPear7··on Show HN: FaceTime-style calls with an AI Companion (Live2D and long-term memory)
Yeah the “rocks are alive and conscious” crowd are certainly something
DauntingPear7··on Infinite pancakes, anyone?
Yeah us US folk love our dessert for breakfast
DauntingPear7··on Why there's no European Google? And why it is a good thing
The unregulated monopoly that is google has really served us well too. Instead of non-government-approved thoughts we get SEO slop, sponsored links, AI overviews, mass data collection, listicles, and unhelpful search results. Seems like both extremes aren’t good right? Maybe don’t be disingenuous?
DauntingPear7··on Microsoft 365 Outage
From what I’ve seen - that’s been their goal this whole time ;)
DauntingPear7··on House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate
This, from what I can recall seeing about average car trip distance, is actually correct.

(Excluding you rural people, but depending on your city could be true if people had smaller lots and denser less car centric business areas, or more businesses in general)

DauntingPear7··on House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate
There is definitely something to be said about bike theft. People see cars as a private space with serious social repercussions for violating. Bikes on the other hand are treated like normal belongings. This may have something to do with car-centric bike hatred and possibly the reflexive/reactionary tendency to completely dismiss the utility of bikes for transit. We have laws dedicated to the theft of cars, largely due to the fact the theft removes people’s mode of transport. Why not have the same for theft of other modes of transportation?

Additionally, I personally would have less issue with people driving due to a lack of physical fitness if they didn’t tend to 1. Drive recklessly and fast (35 on a 25 is not okay) and 2. Drive tank-like SUVs and Trucks

DauntingPear7··on House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate
By “plenty of bike infrastructure” do you mean gutter lanes for bikes or proper, separated, useful and safe bike infrastructure?
DauntingPear7··on Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Wth are your usage limits? Are they increased? I’ll hit a usage limit in about 2-3 hours of using sonnet 4.5, and opus is a weekly limit.
DauntingPear7··on The housing market isn't for single people
It’s $1.75/load where I live now. Small washers and dryers
DauntingPear7··on AI coding assistants are getting worse?
As a CS student who kinda knows how to build things. I do in fact get a speedup when querying AI or letting AI do some coding for me. However, I have a poor understanding of the system it builds, and it does a quite frankly terrible job with project architecture. I use Claude sonnet 4.5 with Claude code, and I can get things implemented rather quickly while using it, but if anything goes wrong I just don’t have that great of an idea where anything is, what code is in charge of what, etc. I can also deeply feel the brainrot of using AI. I get lazy and I can feel myself getting worse at solving what should be easy problems. My mental image of the problem to solve gets fuzzy and I don’t train that muscle like I would if I didn’t use AI to help me solve it.
DauntingPear7··on Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
Yes, from what I have seen
DauntingPear7··on During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
I mean I regularly read the news and I didn’t know CNN has a lite version
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