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k33n

798 karma · joined March 24, 2010

Just a guy who has been around the block and back in tech.

- 2x acquisitions - Amateur anthropologist

https://cannonball.dev/

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k33n··on Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions
They all worked for me in iOS safari..
k33n··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
If you want to have the peanut gallery conversation, then you’re more than welcome to have it. It’s just not interesting. Leverage is all that matters here.
k33n··on Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
The people moderating this website are deranged, sadly
k33n··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
I’m just glad that’s never going to happen tbh.
k33n··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
> What are we waiting for.

Responsible governance around something like when and how to retaliate (if at all) against tariffs comes down to one of the most fundamental forces of economics and trade: real leverage. Whether or not the US should exercise its leverage to attain outsized and favorable terms on the economic stage is the peanut gallery conversation that happens on social media. The two worlds couldn't be farther apart. What will actually happen in the end is just a math equation that has never changed and will never change.

k33n··on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
I believe that is the rational default assumption, yes. Presumably there is some known list of books that they purchased and ran through these scanning machines. If there are true literary treasures that are genuinely hard to get access to on that list, then I would join the ideological crusade against.
k33n··on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
Why would that be a reasonable assumption? This is so blown out of proportion. The imagery invoked by the narrative is one of huge corporations destroying the final copies of literary treasures. That's just not happening.
k33n··on New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The person you’re replying to did, when he pointed out that a communist regime wasted a ton of water.
k33n··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
The word “victim” is honestly pretty funny in this context. Nothing really happened to anyone.
k33n··on Ultrasound imaging of the brain
Many months to a year for an MRI? Wow, in the USA, we can get MRI's the same day or at worst case, week. It's been that way for a decade or more.
k33n··on Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking
pgdown works for me (firefox on linux)

arrow keys also seem to work fine but you have to click-to-focus first.

k33n··on Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
This is quite useful at-a-glance
k33n··on You already have a Git server
Radicle doesn’t get enough credit. They’ve created a really excellent take on modern distributed git.
k33n··on Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX
Wow, this is really, really great. Congratulations on an excellent offering and piece of tech!
k33n··on Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”
Probably why it’s flagged.
k33n··on Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County
Kindest? As in, it’s somehow unkind to just assume he sees the world differently than you do?

Really strange.

k33n··on BBEdit 16
I think maybe he meant chords.
k33n··on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
It’s not a religious argument.

It’s a subjective experience argument. As a conscious person, if someone tells me they don’t believe in consciousness, then I’m inclined to believe they have a reason for saying that. They must not be experiencing consciousness the same way I am.

Interestingly, a non-trivial number of people have no internal monologue (https://www.iflscience.com/people-with-no-internal-monologue...). It would be reasonable to assume the experiential side of consciousness is on a spectrum, with extreme edge cases on both ends. It’s not unreasonable to assume that some people are barely experiencing it, and some not at all. It would certainly explain to me (someone who experiences it quite intensely) why some would claim it doesn’t exist. Because for them, it might not.

k33n··on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
It’s possible that you’re not conscious. So your subjective view may be correct for you. To those who are conscious, this argument doesn’t really matter, and the proof is simply in the pudding.
k33n··on Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
Dude, you’re positively seething at someone you don’t know, seemingly convinced that your wild haymakers have any chance of landing.

Check yourself in somewhere or go for a walk. You’re deeply unwell.

k33n··on Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
It is true. I’m not sure what more I can tell you. Good luck.
k33n··on Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
No one ever claimed any of that until he ran for President. And you fell for it.
k33n··on LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
Oh wow, I’ve never heard that one before. I had no idea!
k33n··on LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
Maybe I’ll set up shop in the EU one day :)

Will you welcome me with open arms as long as I warn my users that my app uses cookies?

k33n··on LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
Why would I move to London?
k33n··on LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
It would have to be, if they were to try and take this argument further. But ultimately the question of who the data is concerning/belongs to is more complex than the article lets on because there are two users involved in the scenario that generated the data.
k33n··on LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
I’m an incredibly bold guy. And I would personally just stop operating in the EU if it was between that and being accountable to their bureaucrats.
k33n··on LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
> Oh I LOVE this, we can't have enough of these privacy-focused non-profits making tech companies' lives difficult.

Literally the comment I replied to.

k33n··on LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
It’s a little more complicated than that, because ultimately I control whether you see that I viewed your profile or not, even if you’re a Premium member. If I don’t want other users to see that I viewed their profile, then I don’t get to see who viewed my profile. It’s a setting.
k33n··on Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
None of those words carry any weight, sorry. That whole line of attack is just not credible. It’s comical that anyone could possibly think it would be effective in 2026.
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