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KevinMS··on AI is making me dumb
Since I've never touched AI except for google search results I feel like I'm in a sci-fi show like Pluribus
KevinMS··on The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
Sometimes they'd screw up their message and call me "patient", and once even called me "file".
KevinMS··on People Hate AI Art
Its not that I'm against AI as a tool for artists, but there's this cousin of uncanny valley where art looks like waaaay too much effort went into it for what is needed. I find that off putting, but not because of some moral sentiment like unemployed artists, but because it just looks gaudy, out of place, or just inappropriate. Its like the modern version of the filigree. Looks like we might need a new word for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filigree

KevinMS··on The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number
I can understand the motivation. I've had the same number since the 90's and never once got a spam call until I was in the hospital last year and since then I've been getting 2-3 a day every day. They've probably left at least a thousand voice mails for a great loan opportunity, all from different numbers and different loan amounts.
KevinMS··on Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
I got rid of half of my VSCode extensions a couple days ago, its too risky.
KevinMS··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
> is because of dirty & old oxidised varnish

And the pigments fade. And even worse, they fade at various rates and some are almost completely gone.

KevinMS··on Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?
Is it cheap though? Do we actually know how much it costs? Isn't it possible that TODO app you vibe coded in 15 minutes actually costs investors $50k?
KevinMS··on Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs
I'm glad I'm not the only one, this was giving me big problems, with Firefox on my mac

I'd click on a youtube video, nothing would happen, and I'd tab over to my CPU monitor (which I kept running for just this purpose.) and I'd see the load up around 230%. I'd have to kill the process and usually give up on the video. It would only happen to some videos, but consistently the same ones. And I'd definitely see a problem with the buttons below the video - seemed like when the tab locked up sometimes the far right button would be rendered beneath the column on the right, like the reflow failed.

I haven't seen it happen again in the last few days.

KevinMS··on Uncle Bob: It's Over
Shouldn't we first find out how much it actually costs before we reach these conclusions?
KevinMS··on "People who don't use AI will be left behind"
I'll jump into AI when I'm convinced it has a sustainable business model.
KevinMS··on Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known
They consider these bases expendable and nonessential, maybe even just political gestures.
KevinMS··on Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight
They were the best way to pirate software from work, like Photoshop and illustrator.

I also learned a 90's bubble investment tip on TV that if you went to the companies office and night and all the lights were on they were cooking and worth investing in. And the TV investor said he visited Iomega and they were cooking.

KevinMS··on There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
I can't wait to be one of the last thinking humans.
KevinMS··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
what about back buttons reloading the page so to have any continuity you have to open everything in a separate tab? youtube for example
KevinMS··on Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)
Isn't that the list of high energy prices and blackouts?
KevinMS··on EFF is leaving X
I follow lots of accounts that have low views, thanks for considering me not worth a simple cut and paste once in a while.
KevinMS··on Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
I'm a heavy YT user and I don't have a problem either. I'm not sure what everybody is complaining about. Maybe its because I don't search on super specific things because I'm just looking for a larger topic, and I'm not sure if its actually returning all the best results because I don't know what it has to give me.

All this tool does is use YT search but makes it easier to include existing search switches to get more specific. (which I had forgotten about and I'm grateful the tool reminded me of them.

Really, if there's a problem, its not the search itself but how it prioritizes the search without the switches.

KevinMS··on Tor Alva: The Tallest 3D-Printed Building in the World
What I'm seeing is the organic design that 3d printing offers and the scaling strength of whatever material they have to use makes one ugly structure. If they could have made it finely detailed and "lacey" like small 3d models can achieve it would have looked really cool.
KevinMS··on Solar is winning the energy race
almost nobody seems to get this. even if you replace conventional generators with solar, you still have to keep them around (and pay to keep them there) for when the sun is not shining, since there's currently no way to buffer the solar power.
KevinMS··on The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)
dont forget three mile island accident happened 12 days after this film was released. The combo really created a panic and a lot more activism, nevermind the movie was about bad safety standards at nuclear power plants and three mile island's safety standards contained the problem as expected.
KevinMS··on God, I hate .env files
I never figured out why they are dot files. Why are we hiding important information from somebody using a shell?
KevinMS··on LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash
Clickbait detected:

> Nasa reports show repeated warnings of close calls before crash...

So was there an increase in repeated warnings before crash, or was there just the normal amount of warnings over a long period of time? If you go to that database they are referencing (using that web1.0 interface), there are a lot of reports, even ones marked 'critical'.

KevinMS··on Goodbye to Sora
Its looking like Michael Jackson stealing KFC will be the peak of AI
KevinMS··on MacBook Neo
> But we all know M1 Air will lose updates in a couple of years maybe because Apple doesn't want us to keep using old hardware even if it's similar to new hardware.

I'm not sure if that will happen in just a couple of years because brand new M1A were being sold just a few weeks ago at places like walmart.

KevinMS··on Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs
considering there are so many of them I think you are right.
KevinMS··on Stephen Colbert going down swinging
So you see general entertainment TV shows as the same as literally conservative radio? If a conservative radio show gave equal time to Jasmine Crockett who would even listen? If Hannity gave equal time to Joe Biden, probably hours of equal time, who would even want that? Or take it seriously? That's like a Mosque giving equal time to a Rabbi. That's not the spirit of the rule. Late night entertainment shows were getting around the rule by claiming they were news shows that are exempt.
KevinMS··on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
> In the normal trajectory of a life in science, Morgan would be planning to set up his own laboratory conducting groundbreaking research designed to win the war on superbugs. But with an ongoing hiring freeze at NIH, his options are limited.

That seems a bit too optimistic to be a valid argument.

KevinMS··on Stephen Colbert going down swinging
Weird how you are against giving another democrat equal time.
KevinMS··on 99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds
Didn't they find something similar for herniated disc a while back? Meaning they were treating people for herniated discs with back pain and then eventually figured out that lots of people with no pain also had herniated discs?
KevinMS··on US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted'
hold up. 40 million dollars over 5 years for an open source VPN?
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