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pseudosavant··on Tesla Roadster
They first started taking deposits on the Roadster 9 years ago in 2017 with a 2020 production date. It’ll be shocking if they ever sell this car they showed today. If they do, it’ll be many years late, not fly, and cost twice what they are saying. Just like the CyberTruck.
pseudosavant··on What I self-host
Shameless plug for my web video player that is especially designed for self-hosting situations. Drop a single html file in your web server folder with your videos and you get thumbnails, library, search, subtitle support, etc.

No required third-party dependencies (just the optional Google Drive and OneDrive features). Highly customizable (colors, site logo, default features) with a JSON file the player can produce. Responsively scales for any web browser: laptop, mobile, smart TVs, game consoles, even built-in in-car tablet browsers.

https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html/

pseudosavant··on Tiny Little Office
That gap surprised me too. But I couldn't find any way to open a saved document. I think it is just based on the URL.
pseudosavant··on Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
For context, the first Grace Hopper Celebration was 1994, and had been held for the last 20 consecutive years. Long before DEI.

But when the powers that be are intent to kill off "DEI", and their definition includes anything related to women, this is what happens. Too many business cowards don't want to have problems with their merger, acquisition, IPO, FCC license, etc for supporting celebrating a great American like this, just because she was a woman.

pseudosavant··on Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
Very well done. Looks and sounds great.

A couple of UX thoughts I had while using it:

1. Since the chords are all within a specific key, have you considered using the numbers 1 through 7 to play the respective chords? That way playing a 1-4-5 or a 2-5-1 would be very intuitive?

2. Have you considered using modifier keys (shift, ctrl, alt) to control whether a chord is strummed down versus up (e.g. pressing A would be down, but Shift+A would be up) or major/minor (A would be major, Alt+A would be minor)? I guess Ctrl could be a 7th chord modifier too.

Just some thoughts. Great tool!

pseudosavant··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
It was successful for the Node community, but not for Deno the runtime or business. Deno launched with many features Node didn't have, but that it has now adopted: ES Modules, fetch(), .ts file support, web streams, web crypto, a built-in test runner, file watching, etc. Node's APIs didn't even use Promises/async/await, they were all callback-based.

Ultimately, it was easier for the Node ecosystem to adopt those changes into Node than it was to migrate to a different JS runtime like Deno. Bun would likely not exist without Deno too.

pseudosavant··on Web Search API
Your citation undermines your point: "U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a compilation work such as a database must contain a minimum level of creativity in order to be protectable under the Copyright Act." https://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html#Feist

A full copy of the indexable web isn't a creative work at all. It isn't a collection that has been curated, it is just the whole thing.

pseudosavant··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
I'm sorry, but this is Anthropic being the volunteer thought police right? This woman is being charged with a felony for expressing a thought to Claude. Not because she tried to plan an attack with it.

It is like Anthropic wants Claud to be the pious antithesis of Grok. Although their ideals are far apart, the end result is they'll both violate your privacy if its suits their worldview.

pseudosavant··on Web Search API
Except web page content isn’t facts.

It is just like if someone scoured the internet for images and sold them in a book as a collection. They couldn’t do that without rights to those images.

Now imagine that the book “author” says you can’t copy the images from the book because they claim to own those images, without any copyright of any kind.

That is what they are trying to do. But with a different kind of copyrighted work.

pseudosavant··on Web Search API
Yes, it is like they think they get copyright/IP over someone else's content that they had no part in producing, just syndicating without any license. Irks me every time Dario at Anthropic calls for regulation to prevent distillation.
pseudosavant··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
That has not been my experience. I was born and raised in it and come from generations of Mormons going back to the 1800s.

Every family member I know of that is still Mormon only votes MAGA. Same for 90% of the Mormons I know in my area.

They expressly want a world/govt where their kids are never exposed to people with different views or lifestyles (e.g. LGBTQA people).

None of this should be surprising for the only church to ever operate a theocracy in the US, and also the last major Christian sect to officially stop being racist (in 1978). It is in the cultural DNA.

pseudosavant··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
No stranger to expecting to apply their morality to all people, even those who have a very different set of beliefs. Just a niche brand of christian nationalism seeking to subjugate everyone to their ways.
pseudosavant··on Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy
Excellent tool! In a past life I spent a lot of time in the dental world doing technology integrations, and had a lot of in-laws in the dental field. This definitely helped me understand my mouth even better. The UX is really good. I could see a dentist using this to explain something to a patient.

I get how most of this could be coded with an agent, but I'm curious how you created or acquired the 3D assets for the skull, bones, teeth, gums, etc?

pseudosavant··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
It adds at least an hour to a long trip already. Plus, it isn't guaranteed that the stops will be in optimal locations for the route, so it could likely be 3 stops.

The biggest issue with fast charging on trips that I've encountered is actually getting to the chargers only to find all of them in use and a queue of cars already waiting to charge. So that 30 minute charge turns into 30-60 minutes of waiting for a 30 minute charge.

Fast charging for a trip is still not anywhere as easy as finding a gas station. Stopping for 30-90 minutes every 3 hours of driving make those long trips feel maddeningly longer.

pseudosavant··on Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman
This is one of my favorite things I've ever stumbled across on HN
pseudosavant··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
Same here. I'm on my 2nd EV, and will be getting my 3rd soon. Driving an ICE car would feel like using an old flip phone instead of a smartphone.

But for my daughter, she will be off to college soon. You can't guarantee apartments will have chargers. And the school she'll mostly likely go to is close enough to drive to/from, but far enough that it would need at least 2, maybe 3, recharges for an EV. It just isn't practical.

An EV isn't right for every scenario, even if for many it is.

pseudosavant··on Plan mode is dead
This is the process I generally use too. Small plans you can just ask for, and big plans you work through building a plan.md file before you build it.
pseudosavant··on Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot
Does anyone even want to try this? I'm a Windows user, M365 subscriber, VS Code user (when I'm not in Codex), had a Github Copilot subscription, etc... and a heavy AI user. Basically, the prime target for Microsoft AI. And every attempt Microsoft has made to put AI into a product has been unusable garbage, using the same models I find productive in other tools.

So many AI doubters I know hate using AI tools because their employer only gives them the Microsoft offerings. Which is a totally understandable reaction to those tools.

pseudosavant··on Activision is taking over Halo as part of a Xbox shake-up
Looks like Halo Studios / 343 is basically gone, and they are starting over on any Halo game development under Activision.

That definitely means there won't be a "Halo 7" for quite a few years. Unless it is some low-quality Halo game that rehashes Call of Duty tech.

pseudosavant··on Everybody's Lost Their Minds
Totally agree. It is more of a rant than reasoning. Anyone who claims to know how this will end (good or bad) is extrapolating beyond their own knowledge and is vastly oversimplifying what is likely to be one of the most transformative technologies of the last 100 years.

In the last 50 years, only the creation of the Internet compares. Like with the Internet, nuclear, television, etc. it will probably be a mix of good and bad.

pseudosavant··on Performance Improvements in .NET 11
Very thorough write up. Clearly a lot of performance improvements across their stack. As if it wasn't detailed/long enough already, I would have loved to see some application-level benchmarks that gave a hint of the cumulative performance gains we should expect.
pseudosavant··on NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami
Could a company that won't let delivery drivers stop to pee possibly be pushing their pilots that hard? Yes. Yes, they could.
pseudosavant··on AI Has a Discovery Problem
I was trying to teach a co-worker some agentic stuff today, and this is totally true. Especially if they are using gimpy tools like Github Copilot.

The harness matters. None of my super-powered CLI + skills stuff worked like how it does in a more powerful harness like Codex or Claude Code.

Try telling someone to imagine it could do something amazing, if they switch to a completely different tool.

pseudosavant··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Who should we believe? People who say AI scaling makes it a more dangerous threat than thousands of nuclear warheads? Or the ones who, whenever a new model comes out say "AI has already peaked. Not any better than Opus 4"?

Both parties are convinced that their take is so blatantly obvious as to not require justification. It feels like the only thing these kinds of takes justify is the point-of-view that nobody knows how this is going to play out.

pseudosavant··on AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
AGI doesn't mean it'll be top 5% in everything. Half of people are below average intelligence. Most people couldn't profitably run a business. We could get to AGI and still have something that is as dumb as the average person on many things.
pseudosavant··on If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one
That seems like even more downside risk, expenses, and maintenance that don't generate any revenue for you the vehicle owner.
pseudosavant··on If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one
One problem in your analogy, for McDonalds, the franchisee is the one who actually operates the business.

For the Cybercab, Tesla is the one operating it via "Full Self Driving", their app, and the Tesla rideshare network. As the owner, the only thing you do is own it, insure it, have a place to park it, and take on the risk of what happens if the vehicle registered to you is in an accident. Clearly, a pretty one-sided assignment of risk.

pseudosavant··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Looking at their charts, Democrats and Independents clearly think corruption is up a lot since 2024. But Republicans think corruption is down from 2024. The polarization of the electorate in the U.S. is pretty incredible.
pseudosavant··on Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
I wasn't disagreeing. I even upvoted your comment. I was just clarifying which kinds of free I was intending. Your previous comment said that PDN is not "the other type of free" without defining or clarifying what kind of free "the other type" is.
pseudosavant··on OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra
Select orgs first, as in today. They said it will roll out to all of the paying consumers and businesses over the next few days.
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