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dubcanada··on Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from
Is it up to Perplexity to determine what is AI blog spam & what is correct. Versus what exists online?
dubcanada··on Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027
Russia reverted to stay on PST, permanent standard time aka winter timezone. Which is what most people recommend for northern places. Southern places you'd probably want the reverse of that.
dubcanada··on Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027
Mornings are still dark doesn't really matter
dubcanada··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Your logic is incorrect, you are thinking that a "international" folk buying a TV is what they mean. But that's not correct. Paying income taxes, paying tax on cars, paying tax on gas, paying rent, these matter a lot more to the government then you buying an iphone from the apple store in the mall versus one in "international country".
dubcanada··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Wine in North America is largely a gate kept rich person thing. It is usually not mass production wine, but what little amount of grapes grow go into weird wine makes that they then mark up as if it is nectar from god.

But that said, there is dirt cheap California wine brands, like barefoot.

dubcanada··on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
It is not as self thinking, you need to be more detailed and accurate with the prompts.
dubcanada··on ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room
Where does it say that is guaranteed? Nobody can guarantee that.
dubcanada··on I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture
I think it's just we don't have a way to say/write these numbers. So you make up a way to write them (-1 and 1) and continue.

The numbers don't matter and you could replace -1 and 1 with anything. It's just easier to begin your new fake number at - 1 and 1. Because position does matter.

dubcanada··on Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
It does look like the general consensus is agent orange is not a chemical weapon, or at least was not used as one.
dubcanada··on Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
2 - is a little pedantic, they used agent orange to kill foliage to kill people...

They didn't gas people with chlorine or mustard, but they mass destroyed crops and foliage, to kill people.

And "affected US troops as much as Vietnamese" is just completely incorrect, US covered a nation in herbicide, went home, got cancer. Is completely different then having your soil destroyed for decades.

dubcanada··on Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers
Then convert from HTML to markdown before you convert to tokens? It's not rocket science, if markdown is "better" stripping all possible HTML tags and leaving just text, images also works. That is more then likely what any automated "serve markdown on the fly" would end up doing.
dubcanada··on Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
42C and 100% would be a humidex of 81~ that would be every animal at that location instantly dying.
dubcanada··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
Let's be real here, Apple does not have to compete with AI for fab capacity, they can outbid anyone if they want. They have more money and longer contracts then anyone else. Apple customers will just end up paying for said DRAM price inflation.

The ones who will actually suffer is Apple 2.0 (presumably a different competing company), start ups, research, companies that are not worth trillions.

dubcanada··on Precursor
I get flagged way more often on Starlink then I did on my local ISP fiber.
dubcanada··on Precursor
Acting like a human is something scapers already do. Using residential proxies, using latest Chrome user agents, not moving/typing as fast, etc. This is just 1 more layer, moving mouse naturally.
dubcanada··on Precursor
There is nothing stopping a bot from moving their cursor like a human. This is basically just putting up a door with zero walls and telling people to stay out of your house.

All of these things are completely abusable/bypass-able and just annoying for actual humans who trigger flags.

dubcanada··on DeepSeek Introduces Vision
Google Chrome tells me it's like 14 different things. How is that any different then DeepSeek saying it is Claude?
dubcanada··on 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
Because nothing bad happened to you, therefore nothing bad happens?
dubcanada··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
Don't know why people keep parroting this, this is incorrect. Chinese electricity prices are equal or slightly cheaper then most of North America. But significant pockets such as those around the Quebec or other hydro plants are significantly cheaper then Chinese power pricing.

Not only that, China may subsidize AI, but so does the US.

dubcanada··on Roku LT Operating System open source distribution
On hackers news a technology focused platform where custom weird languages thrive. You're complaining about a company who the original developer made their own language.

Isn't this exactly how all of the other languages where created?

dubcanada··on Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%
Industrial Chinese electricity costs is similar to that of Texas, It's 8-9cents a kWh. The only benefit is industrial China decides to put millions of solar panels down, so "peak" sunlight hours can drop electricity costs significantly since their rates are highly dynamic.
dubcanada··on Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%
China has a population of 1.4B, US is 349M. 0-8 Beijing time is their off-peak? How is that funny, that's literally how timezones work?
dubcanada··on Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%
This statement makes no sense, because you literally said the "US is getting bad". We already gave up all of our data, if you wrote something about the CCP you should already expect they know about it.
dubcanada··on Magnifica Humanitas
I frankly disagree, how do you know "will this make humanity better?" until the product is done? AI wasn't what it is today because of a specific companies innovations. It stemmed from decades of research built on top of other research. How did any of those builders know what they were getting into?

Every technology should be done to the fullest potential, how are we ever supposed to explore the stars or cure cancer if everyone is scared of accidentally building Skynet?

dubcanada··on Magnifica Humanitas
AI has nothing to do with technology, the questions are 100% psychological not technological. It's fundamental shifts in deep degrees of how humans have worked for centuries. Most of which the church has been the centre of.
dubcanada··on Magnifica Humanitas
I don't think humans would skim stuff... Frankly I've always used a tool that preskimmed resumes. Even before AI. You can't expect a HR person getting 10k resumes a day to skim everyone or even look at 10% of them. Even 20+ years ago 80% of resumes went right into the trash bin before I even opening it.
dubcanada··on Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
Not sure what bubble you live in, but that is incorrect. Maybe in California it's 80/20. Every single statistic globally is nearly 80/20% for android. There is a few rich markets and they may be 80/20 for Apple, but realistically Android wins every single time, no matter what market you look at.

China/India are like 30-40% of the world, and they are both under 20% usage.

Europe - 60/40% split for android

US/Canada - 40/60% split for iPhone

Even some of the higher countries are only 70/30% for iPhone.

Ignoring that is fine if your target is rich North Americans.

But you are still chopping off X% of customers.

dubcanada··on Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
For iPhone only users, so right off the bat your product is targeting 50% ish of a companies customer base. And the non iMessage people get a worse experience?
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.
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