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CEO of Searchlight Development - itsdrewmiller basically everywhere
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itsdrewmiller··on Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
@dang any way to fix the clickbait headline here?
itsdrewmiller··on Statement from Jerome Powell
Matt Gaetz didn't get the AG spot - there was at one point some kind of a line.
itsdrewmiller··on Is beef tallow making a comeback?
Why would confidently assert this? They are very different and useful for different purposes. Do you cook at all?
itsdrewmiller··on Pentagon moves to punish Democratic senator over 'seditious video'
The fact that it was a social media post is not an interesting part of the story - he could have just as easily said the same thing on TV to the same result. They aren't trying to censor social media as a result.
itsdrewmiller··on OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history
Who is “they”? I believe open AI would share averages for that reason but not that media would choose to cover it that way.
itsdrewmiller··on Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure
Those are available in America too
itsdrewmiller··on USPS announces changes to the postmark date system
Seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. If you dump your ballot at the last possible minute in a box, your vote might not count. That was a risk before and maybe a slightly bigger risk now. So don’t do that. If you’re not sure, go vote in person.
itsdrewmiller··on USPS announces changes to the postmark date system
What lawsuits? It means that more ballots will not be accepted, but if anything it should (very slightly) strengthen the case for people who claim they voted on time but were postmarked inaccurately.
itsdrewmiller··on Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?
Yeah - I don’t see any option to configure it from the mobile app (Bambu Handy). ChatGPT confirms too.
itsdrewmiller··on Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?
Bambu printers have this ability - works amazingly well.
itsdrewmiller··on ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?'
If true there would be no one term presidents
itsdrewmiller··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
He apologized for the part he had in enabling AI (which he describes as minor) but not that he spent a good portion of his life profiting from the same datacenters he is decrying now.
itsdrewmiller··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
No one is saying he can’t have an opinion, just that there isn’t much value in it given he made a bunch of money from essentially the same thing. If he made a reasoned argument or even expressed that he now realizes the error of his own ways those would be worth engaging with.
itsdrewmiller··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
This thread is basically an appeal to authority fallacy so attacking the authority is fair game.
itsdrewmiller··on State regulators vote to keep utility profits high angering customers across CA
Where do people pay 3-6 cents for electricity in the US?
itsdrewmiller··on Deplatforming Backfired
Perhaps hacker news isn't the right place for that discussion.
itsdrewmiller··on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games
Doesn’t seem like they surveyed whether use of AI would actually affect purchasing or playing decisions. I think your implication is correct that it mostly won’t.
itsdrewmiller··on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games
This is a survey of gamers that shows the overwhelming majority claim to hate it. Do you think they are only sampling that minority?
itsdrewmiller··on The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems
Should outlets like the NYT be reporting uncritically on pseudoscience? As long as they are I think this kind of work is extremely valuable.
itsdrewmiller··on Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
Is that the point? The illegal collusion was with walmart to keep their prices artificially low compared to everyone else. They weren't colluding with coke to raise all soda prices.
itsdrewmiller··on Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
The medical school accounts for half of all staff but less than 10% of the students - your Munich numbers don't seem to include the affiliated hospital.
itsdrewmiller··on McDonald's removes AI-generated ad after backlash
Haha yes, we are to believe they made an AI ad with the message “Fuck Christmas” and they are totally shocked by the backlash.
itsdrewmiller··on 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness
I think Brood War is the true apex - more than two races with significant differences and aggressive balancing. Warcraft II was what I LAN played the most so it has a special place in my heart though.
itsdrewmiller··on Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)
It looks like in practice the most generous of these programs are not accessible to most working poor, so the charts here are more theoretical than practical. It also doesn't address income tax-free earnings (traditional 401k and IRA) - it seems like those generally don't count against your eligibility for programs and could shelter ~25k or more for the self-employed. Not that I imagine most people actually near poverty are maxing out their retirement accounts, even if it theoretically costs them nothing or even gains them value.
itsdrewmiller··on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
It’s not regulatory capture unless the regulatory body itself is controlled by shady grocers. This is just garden variety insufficient regulation. Although if they inspected every day it would probably still be profitable for the state.
itsdrewmiller··on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
Every store has some stuff that is overpriced compared to peers and some stuff that is underpriced. Dollar stores make their money more on drastic understaffing (leading to the issue in the article) and national scale than they do on being a consistently worse value. They have the cheapest freeze dried strawberries by weight you can get anywhere other than making them yourself.
itsdrewmiller··on Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
I get a little paintbrush and paint the leaves of each dandelion with round-up - that ends up killing them but largely leaving other plants alone.
itsdrewmiller··on Garry Tan says MCP "barely works" today
Is your execute bash command tool open source? It sounds like it solves two of my biggest frustrations with Claude code (especially with work trees).
itsdrewmiller··on The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into
The article itself seems quite reasonable - why do you say the author isn’t interested in logic?
itsdrewmiller··on The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy
Neither Nvidia nor Tesla were top 7 by valuation in 2019 though - this seems like it heavily relies on cherry picking the most successful stocks over the past 6 years and comparing them against everything else.
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