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xboxnolifes··on Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos
Maybe. Might just be an unfortunate coincidence that claude loves to put a pulsating circle on every website it makes.
xboxnolifes··on Jensen Huang scandal sparks divorce speculation
Strategies don't stop being effective just because they were first employed many years ago.
xboxnolifes··on Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
I thought that because I used to hit limits and now I do not.
xboxnolifes··on I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists
Peoples' 401k will go down, but its not like they were relying on their 401k day to day (unless you retired right when LLMs got huge, i guess?). They won't directly feel it.
xboxnolifes··on Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
I honestly thought usage was going up. Now, I dont use LLMs nearly as much as a lot of people here, but I used to hit my limit very easily, and now I haven't hit it in wmquite some time.
xboxnolifes··on I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists
In 2007, It was regular people who lost their homes and their leveraged investment properties. Regular people are not leveraged into AI startups today. If the AI bubble pops, regular feel people will feel the direct financial consequences significantly less than the '07 housing crisis.
xboxnolifes··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
All of this makes sense assuming you aren't married. An affair is still an affair. If it was just about finding the perfect partner, he should have gotten a divorce first.
xboxnolifes··on Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap
I dont remember if it was make with OSM or something else, but there was a subway planning game posted here some time back.
xboxnolifes··on Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap
I dont see how its any worse than any other war video game.
xboxnolifes··on Democrats launching congressional investigations into SpaceXAI, META and Apple
> Tax them. Reduce money in politics. Investigate them if they did something wrong.

This is controlling them.

xboxnolifes··on Search for everyone
Kagi was $10 before the AI stuff. So the answer is probably $10.
xboxnolifes··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
> It is within your power as a job applicant to ask the salary range in the first phone call.

Sure, but the first phone call happens after you have already spent potentially hours putting together a tailored resume, cover letter, and 3 creative writing prompts about how you resolved a conflict with a coworker.

xboxnolifes··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
They are very plausible though. There are so many fake job interview scams right now thats its insane. I've personally come across multiple that ive noticed, who knows if there are any that I didnt.

A very recent one wanted me to download an executable which was to "stop me from cheating with AI", which was clearly fake. I've had plenty of interviews where I was expected to clone, fix, and run a repo, which as far as I can tell, all were from legitimate companies. An illegitimate company could easy do the same process with malware.

xboxnolifes··on Just a little AI resistance, as a treat
Yes. The canned responses, for the most part, were not pretending to be human. They were obviously templates or wholesale copy pastes.

I am far less annoyed by AI responses where I am told up front they are AI.

xboxnolifes··on Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It
I modify my biological drive chemically every time I wake up and drink my daily coffee. Seems fine and we've been doing that for a long time now.

People also do it with smoking, and the only reason that is bad is because of the cancer, not the drive changes.

xboxnolifes··on Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
Well, all of the big jumps of technology that revolve around communication at least. While im sure some pedant could find an nth degree link, I dont think the cotton gin or steam engine led to increased spam in any direct way.
xboxnolifes··on In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real
I find it very easy to find people who support systems marketed as empowering police to better catch criminals.
xboxnolifes··on NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket
> The way I look at it, let's say 20% of users are addicts and who will jump through any hoop they need to in order to gamble. Very difficult to help this group. Banning won't stop them from betting.

I think this position is fundamentally incorrect. Banning gambling reduces the volume of money in gambling, making it hard to make big bets. You will never stop all gambling, but you can reduce how many people ruin their life with it.

xboxnolifes··on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
The first amendment protects you from (mostly only direct) government retaliation on your speech. It does not define what is and isn't censorship. It doesn't even protect you from the government circumventing it by having most communications go through private avenues and then strong-arming those private entities to regulate speech. And it certainly doesn't protect you from private censorship from massive corporate entities that seemingly want to have a corporate autocracy.
xboxnolifes··on Washing machines took decades to catch on
It says they didn't save time, not that they didn't save effort.
xboxnolifes··on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
The difference between censorship and moderation is the ability to realistically opt-out. Your friends might get mad at your for saying something, but you can choose your friends. Your community might not allow certain speech, but you generally get to choose the communities you are a part of. When the avenues where 99% of all communication go through "moderate" speech a certain way, that starts being censorship.

The difference is somewhat part who is doing the moderating, but it is far more important the ability to opt-out without significant negative impact.

xboxnolifes··on Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics
At an individual level, the forward process is only done 3 times and you can reverse it in batches as slow as you wish. And after the first time you have to do it, all of the friction is gone, since you've already setup your exchange method.
xboxnolifes··on Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California's Proposed Wealth Tax
No law is going to prevent billionaires overnight. At the stage we're in, any political change needs to aim for decades in the future.
xboxnolifes··on We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970
I'm not sure how one can be cognizant of world events and think we've put religion behind us.
xboxnolifes··on Reforming English Spelling
I've never heard anyone ever pronounce it that way.
xboxnolifes··on OpenAI CLI
If you've never touched a SaaS/IaaS cli tool, yes, thats what they are.
xboxnolifes··on No more icons in every menu by default
Apple isn't a person. It doesn't need to memorize. Its a Apple failing because no process caught it, and because anything coming out of Apple that is bad is a failing by Apple.
xboxnolifes··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
What objective things can you mention about the WASM sandbox besides saying "it works"? People prefer seeing good benchmarks.
xboxnolifes··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
Faster than ever is likely part of the problem. When everyone can go faster and faster, competition becomes fierce and what was once a thought provoking puzzle to solve becomes an exhausting, never ending LLM gogogo. Down time? Spin up 5 more LLMs and write some more prompts to prototype a new UI or something.
xboxnolifes··on The Future of CSS
flexible divs side by side is trivial with both flexbox and grids. Far, far, far easier than prior to flexbox.
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