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deadeye··on American views of higher ed decline, once again
The reality is that college is a business decision. You pay in years of your life and quite possibly loans as large as mortgages, so you better not be another highly educated barista when you're done.
deadeye··on Tesla Roadster
Just go test drive a Tesla. No one can properly explain the driving experience.

You don't have to buy it and it costs you nothing. The sales people aren't sleazy either.

Just try it so you can speak from experience.

deadeye··on I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
>the property tax is a form of wealth tax...

I stopped reading after that. That's when it became obvious the author has valued ideology over understanding.

Property taxes affect renters just as much as home owners...unless you think your rent only goes up because your landloard is greedy.

deadeye··on Ask HN: How is AI destruction of books legal?
Its private property. I don't like it either, but I wouldn't like intrusive laws either.
deadeye··on The U.S. just had its hottest summer on record
Supposedly I live in much above average. But I thought it was below average and nothing seem3d out of the ordinary.
deadeye··on Does herdr worth it? Harnesses like pi ship most of these features
Harnesses are the new Javascript web framework hotness.

Have you noticed there haven't been any new web frameworks in a while?

That's been replaced by harnesses.

deadeye··on A graph that should be front-page news
The mean is created using 29 years of data. Why those particular 29 years? IDK.

But I tend to dismiss findings like this that don't explain why they chose a very specific dates as the baseline.

deadeye··on Anthropic embedded spyware in Claude Code – and attempted to hide it from you
This seems a bit dramatic.
deadeye··on The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars
I don't have much love for this guy. He donated millions to the EFF to the point where CL owned the EFF.

When CL bullied people who lightly scraped their site with CFAA threats, the EFF would not help. Ultimately, they ended up on the wrong side of history.

While Musk has created hundreds of thousands of jobs and God knows how many millionaires, Newmark complains about him while having only created around 50 jobs. 50.

Instead of building something else and employing more people he watches TV and feeds pigeons.

Bravo. He's basically a beatnik who won the lottery.

deadeye··on Midjourney Medical
This is more true than people realize. My wife and I got full body MRI scans.

Both showed "possible" medical issues. My though was "Great, I have a baseline, in two years I'll get another one and compare".

My wife on the other hand got a bit obsessed about her results and had what was probably an unnecessary procedure to biopsy something, which turned out to be benign.

I suppose you could argue that another way...better safe than sorry...but the stress that is caused by known uncertainty vs unknown uncertainty can be too much.

deadeye··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
I don't let the AI make any choices. I have a lot of instructions and sample code for it to follow. It is basically a glorified code generator at that point.
deadeye··on Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
I wonder if that is even possible since the whole point of the motor is an imbalance of magnetic forces.
deadeye··on Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts
From the outer Cape it sounded like a long low rumble. I tought it was the wind making an unusual noise.
deadeye··on AI sticker shock hits corporate America
I don't think compacting often is good for saving money. It generates more output tokens and then the input is no longer from cache, which is priced differently...typically very differently.
deadeye··on .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types
I wish the syntax looked more like typescript. This will confuse my eyes for a while.
deadeye··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
Or is it posible this administration just took a win-win-win position?

1 - US oil and gas companies make money as oil proces rise. The US is the largest producer in the world.

2 - China loses it's major source of oil and gas.

3 - Iran gets neutralized. It may not look like it now, but it will probably end up that way.

deadeye··on SQLite Code of Ethics
It's nice to see some humble people inside the tech space.

Too many of us believe we are gods as we command our machines to do our will. That was me once.

deadeye··on Michael Burry: the market today feels like 'last months of the 1999-2000 bubble'
If the news about his investing over the last several years is true, he's been shorting a bull market for 4 years now. It better go bust or he will.
deadeye··on A Context Editor Is All Codex Needs
Won't this have a negative impact on token cache?
deadeye··on Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
Successful men are not intimidated by successful women, they just don't desire them (for their success)...in general.

The intimidation comes into play when men are put at an income disadvantage. Women also don't find men who make less than them desirable (in general). So it's a double wammy.

A single mutli-millionaire guy is not going to be impressed by a woman who works 50 hrs a week and makes $400k.

He would rather someone available to take care of his needs while he can take care of the financial needs.

This is the opposite of what successful females want.

deadeye··on Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
Counter point...have you seen the rates a females on anti-anxiety / anti-depression medication in our culture?

I'm not a moral relativist, but I'm not sure we've perfected things here either.

deadeye··on Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
I'll play this out...

Every human is equally valuable in the moral sense.

But value is subjective when we are talking about relationships and we can only generalize about this value.

High income women are more valuable to low income men.

High income men already have money. They value other attributes.

And this is the paradox successful women can face. Their success doesn’t attract the mates they desire, quite the opposite. And worse, they were never told that. They were told the opposite.

deadeye··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
I feel like you didn't get the joke at the end.
deadeye··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
Yeah. I've seen this happen with people doing it. It's just bad access management.

And anyone can do it with the wrong access granted at the wrong moment in time...even Sr. Devs.

At least this one won't weight on any person's conscience. The AI just shrugs it off.

deadeye··on Clay PCB Tutorial
Interesting project but I can't tell, is the language used supposed to be satire?
deadeye··on Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock
Yes, I meant to respond to other comments in here directly, but got messed up.

Others had floated the idea of locking by using an alternate finger with touchID, after the fact.

deadeye··on Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock
INAL, but if the authorities had captured your device with touchID enabled and legally ask you to use it to login and you do an action that would disable touchID, then that would be "obstruction".
deadeye··on What do agents like OpenClaw bring to the table?
The major thing I like is being able to use it from telegram. Its a different usage model.

It feels like a co-worker.

deadeye··on I’m joining OpenAI
Openclaw did what no major model producer would do. Release insanly insecure software that can do whatever it wants on your machine.

If openai had done it themselves, immediate backlash.

deadeye··on Good Riddance, 4o
Life reads a lot like satire now.

Loving AI bots. Killing yourself based on what an AI bot says.

Its hard to believe any of this is real or should be.

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