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M. Y. Zuo

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MichaelZuo··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
The more interesting question is why would so many thousands of people in a big firm seemingly be fine with frustrating customers and giving the appearance of a gaggle of clowns?

Standard psychology says they should be highly sensitive to status loss, but it almost seems the opposite.

MichaelZuo··on Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses
Yeah it would be more surprising if they didn’t have a mandatory expensive program considering how much more complex it is than normal roofing stuff.
MichaelZuo··on Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
From what I heard, the shakedown of the Swiss government over the F35 contract couldn’t have happened without the active support of many actors in the beltway.

So it seems sensible for them to doubt the intentions of many hundreds of decision makers, not just a single person.

MichaelZuo··on Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)
I think the steel tube example already shows that such a “game” would already be unplayable for even the 99.9th percentile HN reader.

For example, it would likely take dozens to hundreds of hours of study focused on steel tubes alone due to the very high dimensionality of real world things. And assuming a minimal forgetting rate of 1 fact for every 1000 facts after every 100 hours awake, they would pretty much be stuck forever on just the relatively simple goods.

Maybe a game with hundreds of times fewer dimensions then the real world, but then it might as well be pure fantasy anyways.

MichaelZuo··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
Did you log onto the wrong account?

Your posting from a rando pseudonym account on HN, as far as I can tell. It’s not even possible for passing readers (including me) to determine who is actually behind it…

So who would I be “flaming”?

Plus given the nonsensical claim, it wouldn’t even make sense for me to do anything other than point that out.

MichaelZuo··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
Yes indirectly… it doesnt directly determine whether you literally see things phasing through walls or not?

Did you not read the article?

MichaelZuo··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
Judging based on where nations put their diplomatic money, pretty much every major nation in the world (except maybe Japan) has a negative outlook for the USA.

Even the UK is spending a lot to upgrade their embassy in Beijing.

MichaelZuo··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
DNA operates on a much lower level than large scale macro behavior such as 3cm to 30cm tall beings visually phasing through walls, or not… unless you think DNA does somehow directly affect it?
MichaelZuo··on ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux
Yeah idk what OpenAI was thinking. Just going off their own claims… OpenAI must be filled with bozos to not be able to utilize their own supposed product capabilities…
MichaelZuo··on Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT
Most are paying less than a fifth of the cost for a PC nowadays, inflation adjusted, compared to 1981.

Those paying equivalent prices or higher for a mid spec computer do get much higher quality documentation, such as high end Toughbooks.

MichaelZuo··on Antiqua–Fraktur dispute
Considering how much more expensive woodcutting and printing were in the early 1500s… couldn’t he have just built an actual tirumphal arch (albeit simplified) with that money?
MichaelZuo··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
Deutche Bank I imagine is doing this because a significant fraction of their customers literally want to park their money in yuan?

If it was some rounding error they wouldn’t have bothered spending money to set it up and get all the clearances.

MichaelZuo··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
Yeah if it’s literally 90%+ people report the same thing… that seems impossible to explain even with a novel psychoactive substance…

How can chemical compounds contain an entire script of what the little people can and cannot do?

MichaelZuo··on The tragedy of the commons, AI edition
Representing anyone in a court room by definition carries liability risks, because the judge can punish the lawyer unilaterally, but not the AI.
MichaelZuo··on Noctua finds more than half of PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances
If errors of over half a typical screwhole width are so common, why has it never been noticed before and reported on?

That seems literally impossible to not notice for years on end.

Noctua doesnt seem like they would put up fake data either… so does that imply the rest of the industry and supply chain are full of fakers?

MichaelZuo··on The tragedy of the commons, AI edition
I don’t see how that helps?

A lawyer isn’t going to sign on to take liability risk unless they spend quite a lot of time analyzing the AI’s outputs for possible blunders?

So it structurally can’t cost significantly less.

MichaelZuo··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
Spec committees arent rigid automatons, they can clearly decide on say USB Type C-123 for practical implementation if they chose to.
MichaelZuo··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
Obviously there is some latent risk in choosing a career anywhere, that the demand disappears. There can’t literally be zero risk of structural demand changes.
MichaelZuo··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
So? Is there a hard limit on just one “Type” in the formal name?
MichaelZuo··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
Why not just USB-C Type 123?

That allows for 999 possible permutations of usb-c cables.

MichaelZuo··on Taste Is All That's Left
This seems to be circular.

Wouldn’t anyone need some reading “taste” in the first place to decide to read more.

And if they already have it, why would they need to read it?

If it’s all relative there can be no globally valid, or fixed, reference points by definition.

MichaelZuo··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
Then why tack on some gibberish? Just for the heck of it?

Frankly, I simply don’t believe in your genuineness enough to care about satisfying any requests.

MichaelZuo··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
Edit: Nevermmind, not going to waste time on this.
MichaelZuo··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
? You’re not even replying to the relevant comment.
MichaelZuo··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
I’m not trying to prove anything…?

I just don’t care that much either way about what others think if it’s adversarial, even if thousands of HN users come to this comment chain to opine about this or that macbook model.

If you mean my claim that some team in Apple already knows about it, there’s literally no way to prove that to passing readers.

MichaelZuo··on Web Security is Too Hard
Why would Cloudflare want to lose credibility and reputation though? Doesnt seem to make sense.
MichaelZuo··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
Uh are you confused?

I’m not the one claiming they refuse to test it, they are the ones who said so.

MichaelZuo··on Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
How did that compare to the big firms? HPE, Dell, and so on.
MichaelZuo··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
If you dont ever intend to do any testing… then why would anyone care about what you believe or not?

Why post random noise opining?

MichaelZuo··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
If you dont believe me… nobody is stopping you from testing various things on the same model?

And if you dont have it already… then what could I possibly say that would motivate you to buy a used one to do the testing to confirm?

Edit: And even on my ipad pro m2 doing literally nothing other than swiping to the app library often causes a visible stutter and lag for hundreds of miliseconds… so if you really think it’s flat out impossible to find consistently slower things on the much more complex macos… idk what to say.

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