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by buu700 5mo ago
For the T-shirt I used both Grok and Gemini Deep Research. I basically just told them I was looking for an alternative to the Asket Lightweight T-Shirt that was more in line with its 2022 pricing of $50 (already on the high end of what I wa
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by buu700 5mo ago
I recently used AI to shop for clothes. A T-shirt I liked and wanted more of had doubled in price due to tariffs, while some shorts that needed replacement had been discontinued. AI helped identify alternatives with comparable fit and fabri
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by buu700 5mo ago
It's a matter of resources, not corporate status per se. For better or for worse, the current status quo largely democratizes content promotion. You and I can post these two comments here and put our ideas and names in front of a bunch
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by buu700 5mo ago
+1 for US Mobile. Verizon was also good, but a few months ago my cofounder and I discovered we were absurdly overpaying for our decade-old small business plan and found that US Mobile offered a better end product for a fraction of the price
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by buu700 6mo ago
Well that's also true, but "really nice features" still means the opposite of "terrible anti-features". All else being equal, I don't not want those things. The more important part is first-class Linux support.
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by buu700 6mo ago
I'm not sure I understand your pitch. Most of those are features, not bugs. Why would I give up all of that plus first-class Linux support just to save checks notes 0.35mm in thickness?
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by buu700 6mo ago
It's not just a valid comparison; for some of us, it's the only comparison that matters. Upgradability and repairability are really nice features, but the machine still needs to otherwise be an upgrade over the one it's repla
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by buu700 6mo ago
I've always liked Postel's law as a general philosophy toward life. But yeah, it's definitely become a little dated in the software world, if it was ever a good idea at all.
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by buu700 6mo ago
Manhattan is one thing, but I would never let my kids go to the 70s unsupervised.
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by buu700 6mo ago
I don't know about jujutsu, but I've actually found that Nix removes a lot of complexity. It's essentially just npm for tooling. Managing a flake.nix can be a bit more complex than a package.json in practice, due to the flexi
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by buu700 6mo ago
I don't personally believe LLMs are sentient, but I've always enjoyed this thought experiment: https://xkcd.com/505 . I have a signed copy framed on my wall.
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by buu700 6mo ago
reddit in 2026 is the ghost of pandemic-era humanity.
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by buu700 7mo ago
I wouldn't say consciousness is necessary or sufficient for AGI. If anything, that seems like quite an undesirable property to me. Wikipedia also makes a distinction between the two things: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by buu700 7mo ago
Agreed, it clearly isn't a matter of left vs right. It's about liberal vs illiberal values. Unfortunately for all of us, liberty is falling out of favor.
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by buu700 7mo ago
You may be an exception, but most businesses and many individuals pay for a laundry list of commercial software products. If you count non-monetary forms of payment (i.e. data and/or attention to ads), that expands to virtually everyon
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by buu700 7mo ago
I can see where this idea is coming from, but I don't agree with the conclusion at all. As someone who loves solving puzzles and learning new things, AI has been a godsend. I also very much like creating things, but even more than th
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by buu700 7mo ago
Confirmed: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/midnightbsd-responds-to-calif...
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by buu700 7mo ago
Year after year, we continue to prove Cory Doctorow right: https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-...
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by buu700 8mo ago
GDP is a classic example of Goodhart's law.
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by buu700 8mo ago
Same energy: https://youtu.be/8ERyTfm1Dxw
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by buu700 8mo ago
Time, effort, and skill being equal, I would suggest that AI access generally improves the quality of any given output. The issue is that AI use is only externally identifiable when at least one of those inputs is low, which makes it easy t
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by buu700 8mo ago
This reminds me of the time I printed a poster with a blown up version of some image for a high school history project. A classmate asked how I did it, so I started going on about how I used software to vectorize the image. Turned out he di
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by buu700 8mo ago
It's high-interest to me because open models are the ultimate backstop. If the SOTA hosted models all suddenly blow up or ban me, open models mitigate the consequence from "catastrophe" to "no more than six to nine month
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by buu700 8mo ago
YMMV, but I've found that I actually do way more of that type of "thinking hard" thanks to LLMs. With the menial parts largely off my plate, my attention has been freed up to focus on a higher density of hard problems, which
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by buu700 8mo ago
The way I summed it up to a friend recently is that Gemini 3 is smarter but Grok 4 works harder. Very loose approximation, but roughly maps to my experience. Both are extremely useful (as is GPT-5.2), but I use them on different tasks and s
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by buu700 8mo ago
After a certain point, someone else's insistence on self-harm ceases to be a good excuse to infringe on my freedom. We don't ban hammers because some people accidentally damage their property/body, and it's a lot easier
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by buu700 8mo ago
I'd also add that I just don't like the idea in principle that I should have to trust the agent not to act maliciously. If an agent can run rm -rf / in an extreme edge case, theoretically it could also execute a container esc
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by buu700 8mo ago
I called this outcome the second I saw the title of the post the other day. Granted, I have some experience in that area, as someone who once upon a time had the brilliant idea to launch a product on HN called "Napster.fm".
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by buu700 9mo ago
lol, well I'd appreciate the heads up even if it were meant to be aggressive, but thanks. Should be good now; the issue was most likely a CSS animation causing your browser tab to crash, so now it'll just turn off the animation wh
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by buu700 9mo ago
Good to know, thanks! I can't reproduce that on Android (and it's especially weird since the site has almost no JS), but I'll investigate and try to figure it out.

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