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DougN7··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Why is there no cooling necessary?
DougN7··on Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market
I think so too. But because of code quality issues and LLMs not handling the hard edge cases my guess is most of those startups will be unable to scale in any way. Will be interesting to watch.
DougN7··on Canada Announces Divorce from America
MAGA - Make America Grovel to Asia (coming in a few years). Trump is the single best thing that ever happened to China.
DougN7··on A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)
That was an excellent rabbit hole to go down while eating lunch :)
DougN7··on [dead]
I wouldn’t call this next-gen SQLite. How can it be when the “QL” of SQLite is “Query Language” and this doesn’t have one? This is an object serialization library.
DougN7··on Show HN: Comet MCP – Give Claude Code a browser that can click
I didn’t realize AI could interact with browsers like this already (guess I’m naive). Isn’t this setting up for the scenario where the AI is duped into logging into your bank account and transferring your money away? Not sure I have enough trust to allow an AI to touch a browser.
DougN7··on enclose.horse
Wow, that’s a lot more challenging than it looks. I agree with another commenter that the 3d blocks look confusing - they appear to cover two spaces.
DougN7··on Lessons from 14 years at Google
I was going to skip the article until I read your comment, and wow! You’re totally right - my hard won understanding is there, including things I sort of knew but couldn’t put into words before. Going to share this with my adult kids.
DougN7··on Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM
Thanks for the tip - I’ll take a look
DougN7··on Comparing benefits of every-third-day vs. daily low-dose aspirin therapy (2001)
After a heart procedure my doctor told me to take the 81mg daily for the rest of my life. It’s been about 20 years now, with no side effects that I know of.
DougN7··on Comparing benefits of every-third-day vs. daily low-dose aspirin therapy (2001)
It’s supposed to help reduce clotting, and thus help a bit to prevent a heart attack, at least that’s what I understood from my heart doctor. Generally you’d take the 81mg “baby aspirins” for this, not a full adult dose.
DougN7··on A confession from a mainstream food delivery app engineer
Why was this downvoted? Seems like the best approach if you have to use the apps a lot?
DougN7··on Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM
I resemble that comment!

But seriously, it does really bug me on principle that DropBox should use over half a GB simply because it uses Chromium, even when nothing is visible.

DougN7··on The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains
This can happen sooner than you think too. I asked for what I thought was a simple feature and the AI wrote and rewrote a number of times trying to get it right, and eventually (not making this up) it told me the file was corrupt and could I please restore it from backup. This happened within about 20-30 minutes of asking for the change.
DougN7··on The battle to stop clever people betting
It has been hijacked, but this is nothing new. Also, it’s been hijacked from within - look at all the photos of ministers praying for/with Trump. There is a lot of rot within Christianity - obviously not everyone, but a lot. Matt 7:21-23 was given for a reason.
DougN7··on Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
What does this means for context: “Git repository name and branch” Does this mean it detects if something is running from within a git repository folder? Couldn’t find the code that checked this.
DougN7··on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
I’m beginning to doubt very much that will happen. AI/LLMs are already based on 99% of all accessible text in the world (I made that stat up, but I think I’m not far off). Where will the additional intelligence come from that SalesForce needs for the long tail, the nuance, and the tough cases? AI is good at what it’s already good at - I predict we won’t see another order of magnitude improvement with all the current approaches.
DougN7··on We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
If the reaction is actually knee jerk/automatic before the upper brain(?)/concious tolerant/empathetic side can take control, is someone a jerk for having that primal response first. I consider myself very tolerant and empathetic and I do my damndest to be that way, but my wife says sometimes it’s not the first thing that shows. I’m trying as hard as I know how. Should I be condemned?
DougN7··on Show HN: Fucking Websites
I have the same reaction.
DougN7··on Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
I thought of pi-hole but I’m not sure it is dead simple. I’m thinking a box that your incoming internet connections connects to and an outgoing connection to your wifi router.

The market probably isn’t big enough yet, but I’ll bet it grows. I mean _Texas_ is bringing it up!

DougN7··on Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
It seems like there is a big business opportunity for someone to create a box you attach to your network to filter outgoing info, and incoming ads. Too much work for a tiny team to research what everything is talking to, and MITM your devices and watch DNS queries, etc, but if there was something dead simple to block a Samsung fridge from getting to its ad server, I have to think it would sell.
DougN7··on Coursera to combine with Udemy
Considering hallucinations, that seems risky. How do you double check what you were taught?
DougN7··on MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies
Wish that guy had … well, never mind. Better not to say it.
DougN7··on YesNotice
And how exactly does it call any arbitrary API or know which site to curl for any arbitrary question a user might ask? Your answer doesn’t contemplate the how this actually works.
DougN7··on Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership
I wish your solution was still out there. I’m still running an ancient OSQA site with no way to migrate to anything else.
DougN7··on Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening
So with 10X the employees using it and double the current companies (so nearly 100%) will it finally the investment? I’m guessing not.
DougN7··on [dead]
If I sell the property but keep the digital twin, then what?
DougN7··on China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium
Seems like a wise thing to do too.
DougN7··on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
This is really cool and kind of what I'm looking for since trusting my account details to some app gives me heartburn. I downloaded the source and built it, but still have heartburn after seeing it download 700+ crates/packages. Who knows what is in all of that?!?
DougN7··on The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful
I misread your comment as being about Vulture Capital. I think I like that :)
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