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dubcanada··on Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
How is this any different then

https://blooio.com/ https://www.sendblue.com/ https://www.lindy.ai/ etc?

I will say I am the exact opposite of your market, I want absolutely nothing like this. In fact I'd prefer iMessage to allow ZERO programmatic interfacing.

dubcanada··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
Well to be honest, none of these are likely bugs. HERMES.md maybe... but everything else is likely them testing waters.
dubcanada··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
If only opencode wasn't super buggy, it is really bad at just not returning responses, wasting tokens, duplicating responses, lagging, etc. It is nowhere near claude code levels, not even close. Even codex which is also not near claude is much better then opencode.
dubcanada··on GPT-5.5
grok is 17%? And that's the lowest, most models are like 80%+?

While hallucination is probably closer to 100% depending on the question. This benchmark makes no sense.

dubcanada··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
Outlook has never been a requirement for work, you can very easily use any email client or outlook.com web app. Outlook is arguably the easiest to replace.

Excel is the only thing holding Office 365 together.

Word, Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint are all very easy to replace

dubcanada··on France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins
What is a power user in this context? Someone deeply familiar with Windows and has tons of Windows related setup/applications?

That doesn't sound like a government worker... They rely on Microsoft Office, but the actual operating system could be anything. The only non-portable application is video games really. While LibreOffice may not have complete excel functionality, the vast majority of functionality can be replicated in web apps/libreoffice. And frankly most of this work can be migrated to AI.

You can even skin Linux to look exactly like Windows if you want, or use Mint or something. But really all people need is to be able to open up Chrome and Excel.

dubcanada··on Arm AGI CPU
A human can think logically with reason, not to say they are smart or smarter. But LLMs cannot. You can convince a LLM anything is correct and it will believe you. You can't convince a human anything is correct.

I can't argue that LLMs do not know an absolute insane amount of information about everything. But you can't just say LLMs are smarter then most humans. We've already decided that smartness is not about how much data you know, but thinking about that data with logical reasoning. Including the fact it may or may not be true.

I can run a LLM through absolutely incorrect data, and tell it that data is 100% true. Then ask it questions about that data and get those incorrect results as answers. That's not easy to do with humans.

dubcanada··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
Sadly that is not really true in Canada. Most companies in Canada only really work with a small group of close provinces.

BC/Alberta

Sackatchewan/Manitoba

Ontario/Quebec

Quebec/New Brunswick

Nova Scotia/PEI/NFLD/New Brunswick

etc

The big companies have offices in each, but they'll usually break them down even further into eastern, central, western regions. And they'll largely never talk to eachother.

dubcanada··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
About 90% of BC is nothing but wildlife and trees. You can't really compare it to Germany in any capacity, it doesn't work. Canada has land with literally 0 people on it bigger then the entirely of Germany. The vastness of Canada cannot be understated. Canada is almost 10mil km2, Germany is 350k km2.

Germany population is about 2x that of Canada.

dubcanada··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
As a Chinese living in China, you must know the layout of the city does provide logical sense. I've only been once, and I buy stuff from factories fairly often. When I went there I basically went to a mall district where all the furniture was sold, then I went to the tile district to review tiles, I went to several other "districts" that where nothing but that single item.

I went to the window factory, which was directly beside more window factories, and directly beside that was the place that extruded aluminum for use. The aluminum they used was produced a up the road in what they called the metal district.

You are even saying that "industrial clusters in China" so there is clearly some amount of planning involved. There is obviously benefits to having all of the aluminum factories beside a aluminum producer, and having the shipping/packaging warehouses by the docks, etc.

There is some amount of government work at play here, either on a small scale or a larger scale to provide a reason for places to all setup.

I've also seen things that just are not possible in North America. Asked for samples of aluminum extrusions and had the die made and extrusion done in a day. Locally it would take months before a sample is at my door.

I've sent designs for quotes and get quotes in hours, half the time factory in NA doesn't even reply. And even when it does it's more of a "go away" then anything else.

I've seen live video of robotic factories building entire cabinets for housing.

There is some amount of rose coloured glasses in this thread. But we cannot deny that China wants business and can get stuff done fast and efficiently. That cannot be said for modern day factories in US or Canada. The work ethic and desire for business are just completely different.

dubcanada··on I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978
You'd have better luck mailing a letter, but to be honest the kind of "sending a letter and getting a reply from the CEO or some sort of higher up" is long gone unfortunately. There is a few exceptions, but all of them are for very old private companies. You will never get a reply from Pepsi as a kid with a new flavour idea. Or Disney about a new ride for that matter.
dubcanada··on xAI joins SpaceX
Salt water absolutely murders things, combined with constant movement almost anything will be torn apart in very little time. It's an extremely harsh environment compared to space, which is not anything. If you can get past the solar extremes without earths shield, it's almost perfect for computers. A vacuum, energy source available 24/7 at unlimited capacity, no dust, etc.
dubcanada··on Wind Chime Length Calculator (2022)
Times inches by 25.4 for mm, there is 25.4mm in every inch.
dubcanada··on BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal
You cannot deny that Tesla has not been selling as well as other EV manufacturers. You also cannot deny that Tesla has took a heavy beating internationally.

Tesla valuation is not baked in anything, it's entirely hype about potential, and has absolutely nothing to do with automation, robotics, AI, energy. It is largely betting that Elon Musk will do well, not that Tesla will do well. It might as well just be called EM.

dubcanada··on Please just try HTMX
> If your solution is actually good, it will get adopted eventually...

This has never been more incorrect. The entire world of software is people using garbage solutions because the CTO is convinced Oracle/Microsoft/what ever new random software is the best thing since sliced bread. In no fashion has the best software solution ever been a factor.

dubcanada··on Please just try HTMX
Just to be completely clear... you do not need React just so you can turn JSON into HTML. HTMX can 100% can do that.

You're argument is fine assuming you wish to become another react frontend in a sea of react frontends.

But the documentation example is a terrible argument, the benefit of HTMX is it is easy to understand what is actually happening. There is no magic, you don't need to dive through millions of lines of code to figure out what this is doing like react. It's very basic javascript. Just read the library, frankly you don't even need any documentation. Just take 15 mins and read the entire library.

dubcanada··on We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months
There is a big difference between back testing scalping and back testing buy 100 NVIDA at $103 and sell at $110.
dubcanada··on Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix
I don't particularly disagree with you, but do you have evidence that modern movies are calibrated and written to allow for someone to sit on their phones the entire time and understand?

Largely seems like some movies are written to be mass consumed and some are not. No different then a movie from the 90s. Our attention span is decreasing a lot obviously, but it's never been that long.

dubcanada··on Preliminary report into Air India crash released
No neither black box stores video. One stores audio on flash memory and the other stores flight details, sensors etc.

I don’t think video is a bad idea. I assume there is a reason why it wasn’t done. Data wise black boxes actually store very little data (maybe a 100mbs), I don’t know if that is due to how old they are, or the requirements of withstanding extremes.

dubcanada··on US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
Care to expand beyond a meaningless statement? What has your experience been?
dubcanada··on Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
That's rather naive, considering China has a international police unit, that is stationed in several countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_servic...
dubcanada··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
Jobs has been gone for almost 15 years. From what I know Ive had nothing to do with anything but design aesthetic.

I am not sure either of these people have anything to do with ads on Apple Wallet. Or even Apple Wallet…

dubcanada··on Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
Adblocking is not rocket science, you block the DNS of the ads. Some also use JS to mess or remove ads.

All of this is easily detected, can I ping X, can I see DOM Y, etc.

dubcanada··on The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
Tell that to everyone on the planet who uses dB
dubcanada··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
Good code design requires good input. And frankly humans suck at coding, so it will never get good input.

You can’t just train a model on the 1000 github repos that are very well coded.

Smart people or not, LLM require input. Or it’s garbage in garbage out.

dubcanada··on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
1800 ish devs from the last figure I could find. 700 ish on Firefox.

Now there is no way 700 people actually work on Firefox code. Throw in team leads, QA, dev tools, UI, specialized developers like WebRTC and that number makes a little more sense. But still seems inflated.

Most of Mozilla is already remote.

I mean Mozilla and Firefox should survive. But I do imagine we’ll lose Thunderbird and anything not Firefox related. And dev will drop heavily. CEO salary of almost 7 million will need to go as well.

It may be good for Mozilla to return to a streamlined company. Rather then a bloated one as it is now.

dubcanada··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
Are there not similar videos of Tesla, or other electric cars doing the exact same thing?
dubcanada··on World's largest wildlife crossing reaches critical milestone. Now what?
Is this a troll comment I don’t understand?

Do you see coyotes running around hunting children often?

dubcanada··on New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden
People need to learn to actually read articles before writing comments. As the other commenter posted it’s literally answered in the first paragraph.
dubcanada··on Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests
The question was not about if being manipulative socially later in life is not a benefit. Of course it is a benefit.

But you get graded based on your ability to read, write, do math, memorize data points. Not on your ability to lie to your teacher in a believable manner.

You may excel later in life, but it's not like you can enter Yale because you can manipulate people.

You also need a certain level of other intelligence to properly manipulate people, or at least a certain level of self narcissism.

I mean you kind of proved my point, perhaps we should be teaching/discussing social skills.

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