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snitty··on AI is ruining haunted houses
>or just a remix of things previously created

This is a major complaint people have had with the TV and movie industry for most of the last two decades.

snitty··on CorridorKey 2.0
On the first image the arrows toggle between green screen and rotoscoped. On the second set of images, the arrows toggle between the images.
snitty··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
This is an example of why I'm a little stumped about why people are excited about Jev-style decision models. For any application at scale it'd be way more accurate to have a dedicated classifier using the right architecture (neural net, bayesian, etc.) LLMs drive the cost of making those models down to near zero.

Just use the LLM to make a thing that's actually good at what you need it to do.

snitty··on Tesla Roadster
>And the flying configuration will not be street-legal.

It may not be US legal anyway. The FAA will almost certainly have something to say about something that can go up in the air and propel itself.

snitty··on Tesla Roadster
Both trims have only cold gas thrusters. The differences are whether they're just for forward acceleration or also stabilization (4 in the back, or 4 in the back, 4 down, and one on each side). The "Rocket" trim also only has one seat.

Neither has combustion rockets.

snitty··on GLM-Legal
>I guess those guys mostly make their money by putting up billboards and farming out referrals?

I don't know why the manner in which someone studied law would have any impact on how or what they practice now. Most of the law and skill learned is by actually practicing, not what you learn in law school. Law school is about how to think like a lawyer, not how to practice law.

Pretty much any even mid-sized legal market is going to have really well-respected attorneys who graduated from some fancy top 5 law school, and some really well-respected attorneys who graduated from a local law school where they took night classes.

snitty··on GLM-Legal
It’s people who graduated law school. First year was brutal. Second and third were a breeze and kind of boring.

The first year is really teaching you the lingo and how to think like a lawyer. After that it’s almost entirely electives and rarely requires hard work (Fed Courts being the exception).

snitty··on Choreographic Programming in Rust
> not everything is written with being posted on news.ycombinator.com in mind.

The creator of this posted it here, though. So maybe if someone is posting something here we can ask that they include sufficient context for the intended readers to understand it.

snitty··on Choreographic Programming in Rust
Yes, but what does any of this mean?
snitty··on Choreographic Programming in Rust
Pangram rates it (up to "This README is arranged by responsibility:") as 100% AI generated. I'm struggling to disagree.
snitty··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
Yeah. I'd love a decent plug-in EREV in the US. The 2027 Rogue appears to NOT have a plug-in option at the moment.

I can't fathom buying an EV and still only getting 40 MPG and needing to buy gas. Ninety percent of my trips are < 40 miles round trip and could be handled by a modest 15kWh battery. For that last ten percent, I'd happily use some gas to not have to worry about charging on the route.

Mazda had (has?) some cool EREVs using rotary engines as the power plant. Though sadly without plans to bring them to the US.

snitty··on Working on Economics with Fable 5
What were the text, your prompt, and model?
snitty··on Flux Releases Adafruit from CFAA Claims
Adafruit filed what's called a declaratory judgment action against Flux (Defy Gravity).

Adafruit was asking the judge to say that they didn't violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when they were researching an article and accessed some confidential documents that were inadvertently exposed.

Adafruit also asked for a judgement that they didn't defame Flux.

Flux responded on August 31, in which they signed a binding release saying they'd never file CFAA claims against Adafruit for the activities described in the complaint.

Flux then asked the court to dismiss the second part where Adafruit sought a judgment that they did not defame Flux. The basis is that the court no longer has jurisdiction over the federal claim, so it should go to state court.

Flux doesn't really address that the parties are from different states, and thus the court may still be diversity jurisdiction through which the court can maintain jurisdiction over the case.

snitty··on LLM Judges Verify Presence, Not Absence: Omission Blindness in AI Clinical Notes
Max from Pangram has done a bunch of interviews recently. I'd give them a listen; he might change your mind.
snitty··on LLM Judges Verify Presence, Not Absence: Omission Blindness in AI Clinical Notes
I understand the answer to the question I'm about to ask, but how does any human read that abstract and not think, "This is entirely too many colons."

EDIT: And Pangram agrees that the abstract is 100% AI generated.

snitty··on Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
I keep on hearing people be excited about PHP. Having first attempted to use PHP in early 00s, I simply cannot bring myself to attempt it again. I once had to rewrite large chunks of a site because it simply couldn't deal with the fact that a string had an apostrophe in it.
snitty··on Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
Python is three scripting languages in a trench-coat.
snitty··on Discovery Loop
Yeah. ML is all well and good, but how are they going to do the science their machines design? Atoms cost money.
snitty··on Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
A single function button should not behave differently based on where on the button you click it.

EDIT: It's also WILDLY inconsistent. Click and drag on a button and the shape doesn't change. Click and drag on an on/off and the deformation follows the mouse. Merely click an on/off and the deformation does not follow the the little circle thingy, or bear any relation to the action of the button.

Some of the things are inoffensive, spinner dots, progress bars, accordion menus. But basically anything that deforms on click related to where you click are nonsense.

EDIT 2: The buttons in the demo area apparently do have distortion that follows the mouse, but on the left side they don't? For me this is just a lot of bafflingly inconsistent gloss that makes me wonder what's going on or why one thing behaves differently than others, and what that means for actual functionality. Rather than just interacting with the UI.

snitty··on Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
I've been using this knot for a decade or so, and my shoes have come untied twice. Both times I stepped on a loose end and pulled it open. It's incredible
snitty··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
>55.5B

Is this offer on a timer?

snitty··on Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
How is the demonym not Clojuristas?
snitty··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
Apple also has an entire international retail arm.
snitty··on Michael Rabin has died
May his memory be a blessing.
snitty··on Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon
Rad Hardened parts are "Commercial off the Shelf" parts. VORAGO, TI, and others provide rad hardened parts via vendors like Mouser and Digikey. They're just much more expensive.
snitty··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
A "runway incursion" is a very broad term that includes everything from this accident to a single engine Cessna moving past the hold short line prematurely at a quiet airport.

FAA defines it as "Any occurrence at an aerodrome involving the incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle or person on the protected area of a surface designated for the landing and take off of aircraft." [0]

Many runway incursions run no risk of any accident, but are still flagged as issues, investigated, and punished if appropriate.

[0] https://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/resources/runway_...

snitty··on $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor
This is shockingly similar to microbial motility mechanisms. Like random walk plus chemotaxis.
snitty··on Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last
https://xkcd.com/1053/
snitty··on Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last
In this case aromatic means a ring of atoms where there is electron sharing among all the members of the ring.

They're called aromatic rings because before they understood the structure, they grouped them by their behavior, and the aromatics contain a lot of volatile organics like benzene, toluene, phenol, which have strong odors.

snitty··on Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last
>Move over cyclopentadiene anion—there’s a new five-membered aromatic ring in town, and this one is made of silicon.

CHEM-Es are build a little different from the rest of us.

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