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jamesforestwest

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jamesforestwest··on Gemini 4 Carbon
Google's interfase just awful, I don't even want to try testing the new model
jamesforestwest··on A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna
Great film, Brazil is beautiful
jamesforestwest··on Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?
I think this is the best method for solving such problems
jamesforestwest··on Beyond Tetris: The other games of Alexey Pajitnov [video]
Still, the concept behind Tetris itself is good, so I wouldn’t call it a fluke
jamesforestwest··on PalmOS Lemmings
I can't help but agree with you
jamesforestwest··on Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?
Anything by Arnold Lobel, but especially Frog and Toad
jamesforestwest··on Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
I have to agree, and it's sad
jamesforestwest··on GLM-Legal
Still, school isn't quite the same as learning skills through work experience, is it?
jamesforestwest··on DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc.
It is gratifying to see honesty regarding the use of AI.I can't test it just yet, but it would be interesting
jamesforestwest··on The logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley
I agree. Sports betting and a founder’s decision to invest in an unproven market are both technically about probabilities, but the former is a form of entertainment with a likely negative expected value, whereas the latter is a business endeavor with a positive expected value where someone influence the outcome.
jamesforestwest··on Incentives in Academic Research
Hasn't it always been that way? But it is sad, admittedly.
jamesforestwest··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
And yet, the scale of the tragedy being blown out of proportion online regarding the high water and energy consumption of data centers seems somewhat exaggerated to me. But, of course, it would be better to build them in places where there are no issues with clean water.
jamesforestwest··on Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
It's so annoying, actually. I’d rather not switch to a newer car because of it.
jamesforestwest··on Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance
How do you define the model buckets, and what happens when a session genuinely needs a model that isn't in the bucket the HMM picked?
jamesforestwest··on Dear Software Makers
I’m not particularly biased against technology, but even to me, this sounds very dubious
jamesforestwest··on Management is forcing us to use AI
It’s sad, but there’s no getting around it. Besides, I don’t think using AI in itself makes you less intelligent.
jamesforestwest··on 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones
That's a much less romantic explanation than the skull cult stuff
jamesforestwest··on Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents
I have mixed feelings about my teenage years. I wouldn't want to go back, but I can't say that adult life has turned out to be much better, or that I don't miss that time
jamesforestwest··on Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?
I’ve run into this problem too, and it’s not entirely clear to me why it happens. It seems pointless for operators to intentionally degrade connection quality, yet I don’t have a logical explanation for it either.
jamesforestwest··on Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)
I don't know, it really depends on the person. Writing things out by hand doesn't help me, and I don't see any difference at all between handwriting and typing
jamesforestwest··on MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco
Great shots. You can tell those three hours by the tracks paid off. I especially liked No. 1 from 1912 and Dinky from 1896.
jamesforestwest··on How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
Threadripper is underrated for IO-heavy boxes. I made the same mistake with RAM prices, though; should have maxed it out when it was cheap
jamesforestwest··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Twitter/X?
Bluesky is almost like Twitter, many people also use Mastodon and RSS. I also heard about threads, but I don’t like it, I can’t recommend it.
jamesforestwest··on OpenJev
Typical Hacker News: instead of analyzing the technical side of OpenJev, half the thread is arguing about "vibecoding" and design...
jamesforestwest··on RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
You're using open-source Apple code (Darwin) and aiming for Cocoa API compatibility. How are you handling the legal side? Apple's APIs and frameworks are proprietary. Are you reimplementing them from scratch, or using something like GNUstep?
jamesforestwest··on I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
What an interesting and fun project. Now I want something similar too.
jamesforestwest··on OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor
The caption editing workflow has been a pain point for years. I'm surprised they didn't fix it in a major release.
jamesforestwest··on GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
Interesting model. It's nice to see open-weight models catching up with the top proprietary ones. The coding benchmark results are pretty impressive. Overall, it's great to see progress moving forward. Curious to see how it performs in real-world usage.
jamesforestwest··on Htmx 4.0
Cool to see htmx alive and evolving. This update was long overdue. The change to attribute inheritance seems a bit debatable to me but maybe it'll actually make the code easier to understand
jamesforestwest··on My Friend Aaron
What a great story. You have a very pleasant, flowing style. I didn't even notice it until I reached the end, it really captivated me
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