JKCalhoun

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by JKCalhoun 5d ago
"Life isn't black and white with "good/bad"." Really? You can't think of an act in history that society might agree was evil? And I'm not sure why everything has to have a "measure". Someone
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by JKCalhoun 5d ago
I don't know. I just read it now—my thought was that it was an interesting idea (thankfully now overly long). "“Seriously? You’re asking me for the meaning of life? Isn’t that a little stereotypical?”" I think the word he was
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by JKCalhoun 5d ago
I quit ChatGPT maybe 9 months ago. Through with that.
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by JKCalhoun 6d ago
I try to keep an open mind to both sides of the issue, but I confess that I, personally, am finding AI liberating for both software development (and my electronics hobby). Regarding software, I am clearly in the camp of developers for whom
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by JKCalhoun 6d ago
"…90% of the people at any given time are standing around." Someone needs to write "Road Crew Simulator"—a game where you get to boss workers around and keep them busy rolling out asphalt, stacking traffic cones, etc. I
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by JKCalhoun 6d ago
I saw a print ad for a brand new Toyota Corolla back in 1974—something like $2500 or so. Running the inflation numbers: where are the $17K cars today? Why is the average US new car $50K now. To be sure, I know there are a lot more regulat
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by JKCalhoun 6d ago
I've seen it and a few others on recent road trips. Additionally, Colorado (and other states) are putting these "animal escape ramps" along the sides of highways. From what I can gather, a fence runs along the freeway on both
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by JKCalhoun 6d ago
"…it had women in authority roles, but also in sexy outfits…" Oh, (Nick Drake's sister) Gabrielle Drake, my heart…
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by JKCalhoun 7d ago
That would (of course) be praising with faint damnation . (Or is it praising with generous damnation?)
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by JKCalhoun 7d ago
Huff flux (like we all do), duh.
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by JKCalhoun 8d ago
Love to see some numbers on what starting up a self-storage runs.
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by JKCalhoun 10d ago
And yet I see you are being downvoted. The message being sent is perhaps, "No, it's the dad's fault, not YouTube's." It's strange to me how much allowance we provide corporations and their schemes to make money
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by JKCalhoun 10d ago
Asked what Internet 2 might look like here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49710648
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by JKCalhoun 11d ago
Well, President Kennedy kind of spelled out the finish line. Although, to be specific, he did not say it was a race , but rather something the U.S. should strive for—even specifying a deadline.
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by JKCalhoun 11d ago
I suspect Apple and Google can pivot pretty quickly if someone (OpenAI? Ive's company?) comes up with something clever. But if the LLM isn't local, I'm not buying.
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by JKCalhoun 11d ago
Agree. As the meme/old-ad goes, "Running it on my own machine? Priceless!" Some of us get a weird thrill that we can actually do this. Mind-boggling time we live in.
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If bots take the "internet down", alternatives?
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by JKCalhoun 12d ago
"A camel is a horse designed by a committee"
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by JKCalhoun 14d ago
At least something of a twisted, artistic irony will have come out of 2026. (Put it on a t-shirt.)
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by JKCalhoun 14d ago
We're in interesting times . Trust in AI CEOs, just as an example, is likely about zero and so, unsurprisingly, people are increasingly skeptical of anything they say, question their motives, the timing of their announcements… Huge am
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by JKCalhoun 14d ago
"Now some people in our industry are telling us that programming is obsolete…" What Do You Care What Other People Think? —Feynman
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by JKCalhoun 15d ago
(30 seconds, I believe.)
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by JKCalhoun 16d ago
You could do a lot worse than starting with Popular Electronics . Unless you have a lot of antiquated components on hand, probably a good idea to work in reverse, chronologically.
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by JKCalhoun 16d ago
I'm with you. But Reddit has become so increasingly shit that it's easy to shove off from now. (You should try to do it too.)
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by JKCalhoun 16d ago
Sure. But it didn't used to be as pervasive or hateful.
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by JKCalhoun 16d ago
And I'm glad to have been gifted the privilege of having grown up before the internet (well, define growing up ). It's perhaps why I loathe it so much. For a decade now I have been scraping what I think I'll miss when eith
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by JKCalhoun 16d ago
I thought it was understood that Apple gives hardware 5 years. If the watch still works with the current OS on it, what's the issue?
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by JKCalhoun 16d ago
On some of my devices, I have stopped updating the OS.
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by JKCalhoun 17d ago
I think you nailed it. Before LLMs showed up on the scene, we had already broken society. (Thanks, Internet!)
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by JKCalhoun 17d ago
I'm old enough to remember when "vital infrastructure systems" were not on the internet.

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