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Hey, I'm Nathan, founder of autotempest.com and searchtempest.com. Feel free to get in touch. Email is my first name at either of those domains.
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tempestn··on Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net
I believe it's also documented that he has an underdeveloped amygdala, so he literally doesn't experience fear in the same way most people do.
tempestn··on Bugs Apple loves
Does the iOS keyboard not let you turn that off?
tempestn··on Bugs Apple loves
Nice thing about Android though is that you have more control to work around this kind of thing if you don't like the default behaviour. I rolled my own night mode with Tasker years ago, before it was built in, and have never looked back.
tempestn··on eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
The instant outbidding is likely automatic due to you not having reached the previous bidder's entered bid.
tempestn··on Postal Arbitrage
As a Canadian, the free printing and mailing of paper checks anywhere in the country is perhaps the wildest US bank feature to me.
tempestn··on Postal Arbitrage
What did you do with all the random stuff?
tempestn··on Postal Arbitrage
However, you could offer a service to existing Amazon prime users to help find these fun, cheap gift items. Maybe generate punny jokes people could include in the notes if they want. Join the Amazon affiliate program and earn a few cents from each...
tempestn··on Postal Arbitrage
I recall using this occasionally in the 90s even. There was also a period where I would regularly "one ring" my parents as code to call me back. IIRC that was because my cell plan had unlimited (or at least more) incoming minutes.
tempestn··on Postal Arbitrage
Haven't done it in a long time, but years ago I had a similar realization that picture frames were cheaper than cards. So you can frame a little note, either with a picture or just suggest they can reuse it if they like. Buying greeting cards always felt like kind of a waste. Lately our kids' schools have been doing a thing each year where the kids do some art and then you can buy cards (and other things) with it, so we've been using those as they're at least a bit personal. Once that's done, maybe I'll give picture frames again (or paperbacks or cans of tomato soup...)
tempestn··on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
Fair enough, my kids are older now, so my memory isn't too fresh. And I despised both of those enough that I didn't get much of a sample size! Man could I not stand Caillou though.
tempestn··on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
Agreed. There's a tier list that probably goes something like Bluey, Daniel Tiger, MLP, Paw Patrol, Pepa Pig,,,, Caillou.
tempestn··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
But the battery only lasts a day or two. The G604 is almost as nice, but battery lasts weeks. But it will likewise need switch replacements before long and is likewise no longer made. None of Logitech's current mice fill the same niche. Why do they discontinue their most popular mice without replacing them? Who can say. I'm pretty confident a direct 700/604 replacement with better switches would sell well.
tempestn··on How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI
I've been using both GPT 5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro a lot. I was very impressed with 3 Pro when it came out, and thought I'd cancel my OAI Plus, but I've since found that for important tasks it's been beneficial to compare the results from both, or even bounce between them. They're different enough that it's like collaborating with a team.
tempestn··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
This framing I'm on board with. The original comment took it too far for me, and even if not intended as defeatist I think could encourage that response. I'm all for people working not only to better their own conditions, but society as a whole.
tempestn··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
Honestly I don't disagree with anything you wrote, I don't think. It is worth remembering that if we were born in someone else's shoes, with their genes and their environment, we would literally be them and would act as they act. In that way, yes, agency is an illusion. Remembering this can help us to have empathy for others, potentially even those with whom we vehemently disagree.

But, as you said, we still all make decisions every day, and those decisions do affect our lives. So by acting as if we have agency, we can still have a positive impact, both on ourselves and others.

tempestn··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
That attitude is the weapon of suppression. Yes, it's true that life isn't fair. But it's also true that people have agency and can make material improvements to their own quality of life through smart decisions and dedication. Of course most of us won't start the next Google, but that doesn't mean dreams and hope are bad in general.
tempestn··on Google broke my heart
That's Kafkaesque. We're not talking about SEO here, just simple proof of identity. If they require something sane like ID, they could simply say so. If they need something insane, or have no process at all for proving identity, then this is no excuse.
tempestn··on I canceled my book deal
Either one works. And that's actually a way to help remember the general rule. If you can rephrase it split up like that (ie. 'set it up'), then that's the multi-word, verb form.

Edit: actually, either way works, except when using with a pronoun. So, you can 'set it up', but you can't 'set up it'.

tempestn··on I canceled my book deal
That I don't know. I don't have an English or linguistics background myself, it's just a common mistake I've noticed.

Ironically though, your reply has another similar one. You read books every day; reading books is an everyday activity for you.

tempestn··on I canceled my book deal
Wouldn't normally nitpick, but just in case it's helpful as an author - compound verbs that end in particles, like "set up", "break down", "log in", "check out", etc., are all two words when used as verbs. They each also have single, compound word versions, but those are the noun forms. So, you set up the page, and now the setup is done.
tempestn··on Your inbox is a bandit problem
Sounds like you've invented your own spin on GTD, while thinking of it as something else. If that works for you, more power to you!
tempestn··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
I don't know, I would have enjoyed a "Floopzy launches with $10B seed round" or something.
tempestn··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
True I suppose, though I also expect we're considerably more than 10 years away from 20 minutes of overall net positive output!
tempestn··on Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio
It was very laggy for me in Firefox on Windows, but played smoothly in Chrome.
tempestn··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
That's what the OP asked for, essentially. They copied today's homepage into the prompt and asked it for a version 10 years in the future.
tempestn··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
Wait, wouldn't sustained net positive energy be huge? (Though I don't think that's actually possible from ITER unless there were some serious upgrades over the next decade!)
tempestn··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
The OP mentioned pasting the current frontpage into the prompt.
tempestn··on The universal weight subspace hypothesis
After reading the title I'm disappointed this isn't some new mind-bending theory about the relativistic nature of the universe.
tempestn··on Bag of words, have mercy on us
I don't think the author's argument is that it won't replace any human labour. Or at least I wouldn't agree with such an argument. But the stronger case is that however much LLMs improve, they won't replace humans in general. In the furtherment of knowledge, because they are fundamentally parroting and synthesizing the already known, vs performing truly novel thought. And in creative fields, because people are fundamentally interested in creations of other people, not of computers.

Neither of these is entirely true in all cases, but they could be expected to remain true in at least some (many) cases, and so the role for humans remains.

tempestn··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
Yeah, it's condescending.
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