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roarkeful··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
How do you do this?
roarkeful··on iPhone Duo
Finding AI-generated images of locations to be an acceptable alternative to a real photo is soulless. Being good at instruments doesn't change that.
roarkeful··on iPhone Duo
What an amazingly soulless way to think
roarkeful··on Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
To be fair, the Japanese factory is probably cuter.
roarkeful··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
I exhaled through my nose when I thought of reversing your upset sexism. Let's start calling cosmetics "gender-affirming" and mock women who use them.
roarkeful··on A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People
Having quit nicotine, I can say that it's simply a matter of wanting to quit. I do love smoking still, and have a pipe or a cigar roughly every two weeks, but my half-a-tin of 12mg nicotine pouches a day habit is gone.

I miss it, and I didn't want to quit, but it was financially a little silly and that much nicotine causes health effects. You can desire to stop something but also not want to. It seems fair to allow both to be true.

roarkeful··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
I would buy 3 at that price, good grief.
roarkeful··on Can rotation solve the Hubble Puzzle?
The universe being a giant toilet in the process of flushing is delightfully Doug Adams inspired.
roarkeful··on Attention K-Mart Shoppers
This just transported me to the past, shopping with my mom... The difference in tone is sharp vs. e.g. modern Wal-mart
roarkeful··on Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy
Thanks, appreciate being called a garbage person. Have you considered having empathy for people with different views than you?
roarkeful··on Online censorship's institutional power
Not a dupe, previous post from the same site here: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38685782), talking about an adjacent topic.