insane_dreamer

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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
the main job of a tech CEO these days is to 1) raise money, 2) keep the board happy. I don't see either of those being able to be done by an AI agent.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> The cards have no battery and aren’t self-powered in any way. Instead, the reader on the gate emits an electromagnetic field that powers the card just long enough to complete the transaction. Brillant!
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
Citizens United is possibly the worst SCOTUS decision ever, on par with Dred Scott and Plessy v Fergeson. Abomination.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
sure, but no one's forced to have FB, IG or Twitter accounts. I don't, my kids don't. If you do, that's on you. if you think "USA has the same control over information flow", you either don't know much abo
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
The direction the US is going under Trump is absolutely reprehensible. But we're talking about _internet freedom_ here, and China has none of it. Just because Trump is an *hole doesn't mean we should embrace China's view of &
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
You're right. thanks. I was typing too fast and hit send too quick. I should use AI to write my HN comments and avoid typos :p
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
Maybe this will help people switch over from TP to bamboo. Not perfect but much more sustainable than cutting trees. We switched years ago. Edit: I mixed up my words originally -- switch _from_ wood-based TP to bamboo is what I meant
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I wouldn't cite China as the example. If they had their way, every country would have its own firewall just like them, giving them significant control over information flow to their citizens. It works very well. That's why they ha
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I almost bought one for my kids back then and now seriously regret that I didn't. My son is using my old ~2011 Mac mini with Linux Mint on it. Slow but works.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I'm advising my kids not to major in CS.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
similar problem happened to my brother last month when flying out from the US to the UK: the app and website had a bug that was truncating the first letter of his middle name and so it wouldn't match the name on his ID and refused to i
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I had the first iPod, and later the first Zune. The Zune had a beautiful UI, but by then Apple came out with the iPod Nano 2nd gen and that took the cake.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
they're not charging for the content -- they're charging for the extra bandwidth if you want faster access
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
foreign policy has always been a mess, and the US has always been a bully but in terms of the deficit, the difference between Trump and other admins (Bush aside) is stark: just take a look at the table in one of the other comments (which I
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
Trump will go down in history as causing the most damage to the US, economically, politically, in terms of foreign standing, and possibly even militarily, of any president. Nixon is starting to look like a saint.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
The Xia and Shang dynasties are necessary to exist in order to maintain the story of "5000 years of Chinese history" that is ingrained into Chinese students and repeated to anyone who will listen
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> "Participants thought it was like having a personal tutor. From the data in our study ... we observed that they did not, in fact, use GenAI tools like a personal tutor. In fact, it was quite the opposite." And this is because
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
From AZ's perspective that's someone else's problem (i.e., governments step in with UBI or whatever)
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I've been a Linux user for ~25 years and this is the first I've heard of Omarchy. Who's the target user/audience?
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> I think we're working very hard to build a world where there's no real reason for education. I don't know who you mean by "we", certainly not "me". But yes, the MegaCorps are indeed working hard on th
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
in practice you're right, but it's hard to see how that squares with the 4A. an officer can't stop me on the street and demand to see the contents of my phone -- unless they can show "probable cause" that I was abou
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
where's that in the Constitution?
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
We could also drop school altogether and just make sure every kid has an LLM-connected device that's voice driven. They wouldn't even need to learn to read and write -- that's old school. update: this would make universal edu
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
> This is where the macOS engine earns its complexity. Hi, Claude.
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
careful, the Alpha Centaurians might be on HN ...
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
evaluating/reviewing your LLM's output/code/reasoning is an exam unless you're just blindly passing it on for someone else to deal with
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
so how _do_ you show mastery of a topic?
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
right, there's a contradiction here: - if you're deemed to be on US soil, constitutional protections (4A) apply; can't be destroying "evidence" unless you're accused of a crime or found to have committed a crim
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
Reminds me of a recent article I read about an actor (whose name I don't remember) who had a decent career (but not very famous) quitting as he said that the job has basically become self-promotion via social media instead of practicin
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by insane_dreamer 2mo ago
I agree with the intent (and I am also exhausted), but not sure Huzzah is needed. you can already do this using any language or no language. I can write some quick python pseudocode that demonstrates what I want but probably is broken, and

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