SketchySeaBeast

7 ms·

91.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
Commensurate to the actual cost?
92.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
Duplicate story. Previous discussion here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735545 Edit: Nevermind.
93.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
I could have sworn "move fast and break things" existed before AI.
94.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
It really feels like a you problem if you're banning someone for writing prompts like my Aunt Gladys writes texts.
95.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
Not like this. Not so bald-faced, never so unabashed.
96.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
I think you're missing the actual problem. It's not great that idiots now have the power to photoshop images, the real problem is that those idiots who would do that have been given the power to run the country.
97.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
Yeah, this reads as the oligarchy further consolidating power.
98.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
Nah, the differences that can make for a dynamic friendship can be the ones that prevent cohabitation. If you're friends you don't have to care that they like to play loud music at 2 am, but you do when you live together. I have&
99.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
Can we un-confound those factors? Advertising sells us cheap plane trips, and it looks like leisure is reason for the majority of flights.
100.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
I guess I'm not aware of what industry I continue to work in.
101.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
Just like any weight loss and gain, this is the sort of things that happens over years. You lose the weight, then five years later realize your weight has started creeping back up. Once you're heavy the battle never really ends.
102.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
Andy Serkis has versions of The Hobbit , The Lord of the Rings , and The Silmarillion all on Audible.
103.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
If I go for a 10k, I burn ~1100 calories (I'm a big dude). I can eat that deficit no problem, hell, I was able to maintain my weight during my marathon training last summer. It's always a balance, there's always nuance, and
104.
by SketchySeaBeast 9mo ago
I don't think "addictive" is the right term, but we have an evolutionary imperative towards eating to excess when there is food in excess, which wasn't maladaptive until recently.
105.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
This would kind of be the same as us (I'm Canadian too) registering with the NDP so we can vote for the next leader. But the level of lying on display here is just insane.
106.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
I don't know if the fact that it fully slipped into the absurd or the fact that it probably still worked on people is sadder. I do love the idea of voter registration oscillating back and fourth at 20 minutes intervals forever. Would
107.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
Philosophically fun, sure, but the article also points out that another vector was "Your language settings have been changed to Spanish", so I don't know if it's as profound as you're making it out to be. Anything
108.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
That sounds like a Silicon Valley bit.
109.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
Don't like that. I'm of the "if you're going to do something important, do it on your PC" generation. I do not want a future where I lose my phone and I can no longer access my bank.
110.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
> s/foo/bar/ is search & replace foo with bar. Ah, thank you.
111.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
The rate of being killed is pretty damn high in your circle? What is s/killed? Or is it just a harassment issue? If it's so high, why keep doing it? I'm struggling to understand the risk/reward, and what the risk actu
112.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
I wonder what the rate of "getting killed by some rando along the way" actually is. Sure, lots of anecdotes, and I don't really know how you'd measure it, but I'm curious how it plays out by the real numbers.
113.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
I get it, it's an irrational desire, but with the timespans we're talking the evolutionary distance is greater than that between us and whatever fuzzy things was scurrying under the feet of the T-Rex.
114.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
If we're thinking that far out we might as well all just lay down and wait for rain because there's no avoiding the heat death of the universe. Treating the sun dying out like it's a real concern that we need to address in t
115.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
But the effects aren't just financial, look in an ER. People who for one reason or another haven't been able to take care of themselves in the emergency room for things that aren't an emergency, and it means your standard of
116.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
The mental model of subscriptions and financing are totally different. If I'm paying a subscription I might cancel next month, and that's a sort of freedom. If I'm financing a piece of hardware I don't want to stop pay
117.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
I've been using Claude sonnet 4.5 lately and I've noticed a tendency for it to create tests that prove themselves. Rather than calling the function we're hoping to test, it re-implements the code in the test and then tests i
118.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
I'd hope people are. It's painfully obvious this entire AI push is rent-seeking half hidden by big tech money. At some point the free money is going to go away, but the rent for every service will remain.
119.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
It removes a layer of abstraction from capital to production. With AI the only question is if the compute is available to purchase, once it is, you can produce with it. Of course, the question then is who is consuming the production, but
120.
by SketchySeaBeast 10mo ago
I can agree with that - honestly a constant focus on DRY seems overly zealous to me. I only start DRYing if I see a need.

More ›