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vulcan01

1,394 karma · joined January 7, 2020

if you want to chat, my signal username is vulcan.01.

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vulcan01··on Tabletop Whale is an original science illustration blog
second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
vulcan01··on Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
It's almost a meta-slippery-slope fallacy, in that the specific slope is not specified; only the existence of the slope and its slipperiness is asserted.
vulcan01··on Why were Victorian elites so effective?
This is repeatedly used in Yes, Minister to demonstrate the large class gap between Sir Humphrey (and Bernard) and Jim Hacker.
vulcan01··on America.gov
The cost of litigation is what matters.
vulcan01··on Does Georgism work? Five years later
Parent is not claiming that protesters generally gain support for their own cause. Parent claims that protests shift the Overton Window such that more reasonable stances can fall within and gain support.
vulcan01··on English: A vs. An
Words are often pronounced differently in English depending on whether they are being used in a noun or verb context.

e.g. attribute, increase, conduct

vulcan01··on Distributed Systems Classics (2017)
His thesis is only slightly longer than typical PhD theses, I think.
vulcan01··on Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster
Kumail Nanjiani learning what Automattic is: https://youtu.be/5Y64UeNeiOM?t=74
vulcan01··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
Note the wording on dollar bills:

> This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.

See also USC §5103:

> United States coins and currency [...] are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.

Thus a private person is only obligated to accept cash as repayment for a debt, not for purchases.

vulcan01··on AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
Counterpoint: cars. It takes sustained effort to prevent civilization from being modified to accommodate new technology, e.g. Stop Kindermoord.
vulcan01··on LinkedIn CringeBot 3000
The LinkedIn Lunatics subreddit is highly relevant: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
vulcan01··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
This poem is in the short story.
vulcan01··on How to Write an Email
> And I would ensure that Y was a poor solution.

How do you ensure people don't think you're not good at your job, if you continually propose poor solutions? Since you're emailing other teams here, they probably(?) don't get to work with you day-to-day to realize you're doing this on purpose.

Also, what's the point of Y being a poor solution? Even if the other team isn't very responsive, can't you always propose your

> best attempt at solving it

such that even if they don't respond, you can implement a decent solution?

vulcan01··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
I think it's just to hype Anthropic. Check it out, we have products so dangerous the government banned them, we must be so advanced. (Their competitors cannot make such a claim.)
vulcan01··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
wrt. the end of the story, it will be interesting to see if people start noticing their Dunning-Kruger bias as a result of LLMs.

Specifically: LLMs make it really easy to misunderestimate the complexity of fields other than your own. (You can see this with a lot of vibecoded projects, for example – once they hit the wall of complexity, they stall out or start finding ugly patches for fundamental design issues, etc.)

I don't think this sort of cultural change will happen short-term, though.

vulcan01··on World Capitals Voronoi
Huh, Canada seems roughly intact (except for BC).
vulcan01··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
your parent:

> the code in question had already been reviewed by human counsel

vulcan01··on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
This is an ARM device, so presumably compatibility with third-party software.
vulcan01··on Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
Might be interesting to try emailing dang to see if they keep track of this.
vulcan01··on Euro-Office: General availability set for June 9
Last comment in that issue links to https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-an...
vulcan01··on C array types are weird
This talk – "Programming without pointers" – by Andrew Kelley may be interesting to you.

https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/05c72e39-c07e-41bc-ac40-85e83...

vulcan01··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
First transaction would be outside the channel. e.g., scalper may require high-value Venmo or Zelle transaction, then enter buyer ID / name on ticket website at listed limit.
vulcan01··on Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
You are falling victim to frequency bias. Popular books are popular – and especially before mass printing technologies, really popular. A lot of people may have tried to write books doesn't mean they're writing books good enough to dedicate an actual person's time towards copying them down.

Also, Juvenal was a poet. He most likely knew other poets, or aspiring poets, or at least people who liked writing. Your average, generally functionally illiterate, individual at the time is not trying their hand at writing books.

vulcan01··on GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
Intended usage is to use Edge Copilot to search the page for you.
vulcan01··on Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website
Since LLMs are trained on "random people online", why are they not of equal rank?
vulcan01··on ArXiv declares independence from Cornell
By your criterion, Google, Apple, and Amazon are terrible names as well.
vulcan01··on Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI
This is not what Liquid Glass actually looks like on first-party macOS applications. This needs way more blur and opacity to match even the control center widgets.
vulcan01··on MacBook Neo
I think parent means reflective. In the videos it looks like just a slightly different color. On the other MacBooks it is polished metal.
vulcan01··on Monosketch
Is there any way to make images accessible other than the alt tag? I'm sure SVGs are more machine-readable, but how would that help vision-impaired folks?
vulcan01··on Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
Libraries get rid of books in poor condition and loan books to other libraries, and patrons regularly fail to return books.
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