graybeardhacker

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by graybeardhacker 5mo ago
I have a friend who handles dispositions of equipment for a very large government contractor. You'd probably be very surprised to see some of what goes through his warehouse. He got rid of two kid's go-karts last year. Governme
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by graybeardhacker 5mo ago
Looks like you got the Hacker News hug of death. "Oops Something went wrong The server is under heavy load. Please try again in a moment. "
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by graybeardhacker 5mo ago
Everything is irrelevant until it isn't. Then it isn't until it is. If we all do our part, X will become irrelevant.
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by graybeardhacker 5mo ago
Came here to say exactly this. Every interaction becomes a lie. I can bullshit with the best of them but doing it every day is not a path to satisfaction for me personally. Trying to do a side hustle at the same time only makes it worse.
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by graybeardhacker 5mo ago
I use Claude Code every day and have for as long as it has been available. I use git add -p to ensure I'm only adding what is needed. I review all code changes and make sure I understand every change. I prompt Claude to never change
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by graybeardhacker 5mo ago
Can people read that? I want to do a study to see the cognitive difference between people who can read that and those who can't. I can't at all.
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by graybeardhacker 5mo ago
A stopped clock is right twice a day; a broken one can be wrong forever. Just saying.
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by graybeardhacker 5mo ago
AI chooses nuclear war 95% of the time. https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/world-leader-...
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by graybeardhacker 5mo ago
If you unplug a life support system and a person dies did you kill a person or just disable their critical infrastructure?
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by graybeardhacker 5mo ago
In Maine there is a lack of public defenders and now must release those who are unable to get a trial in a reasonable time: https://observer-me.com/2025/03/12/news/maine-must-release-p...
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by graybeardhacker 6mo ago
I felt the same. But I think the reason is similar to how your fuel economy is absolutely destroyed by sitting still. When you average in a speed of zero the calculation goes haywire. People in the US are so close to financial disaster th
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by graybeardhacker 6mo ago
alias bones='scotty doctor'
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by graybeardhacker 6mo ago
I think this form of delusional psychosis brought on by AI is a more rapid version of the delusions formed in many of the echo chambers of the internet. It's basically a positive feedback loop created by, in this case and AI, but in o
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by graybeardhacker 6mo ago
As long as the cost of an accident is lower than the cost of fixing the system this will continue to happen. This is one of many examples of why capitalism needs to be kept in check with democratic government oversight. Sometimes the finan
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by graybeardhacker 6mo ago
Yet another example of this administration taking the side of companies over constituents. Now that the Consumer Protection Bureau has been dismantled, we can only expect more rulings like this.
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by graybeardhacker 7mo ago
One could pretty easily argue that free coffee, tea, energy drinks and energy bar snacks are all productivity driven perks.
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by graybeardhacker 7mo ago
Deploying nukes and "carefully" are opposite ends of the spectrum.
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by graybeardhacker 7mo ago
You just tripled my productivity!
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by graybeardhacker 7mo ago
I pay for the Ground News app. It's an aggregator that (somehow) gets me all the articles on a topic, shows me how factual each source is and which way they lean politically. It summarizes the articles so I can ignore the click-bate
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by graybeardhacker 7mo ago
The mixed use of commas and decimal points in those stock charts is warping my brain.
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by graybeardhacker 7mo ago
They want to make sure the "Freedom" consumed only contains the right kind of freedom. It'll be the the best freedom, the greatest freedom, everyone says so. There will never have been freedom like this in the history of fre
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by graybeardhacker 7mo ago
Because: 1. One person companies are better at giving the wealth to the worker. 2. With thousands of companies the products can be more targeted and each product can serve fewer people and still be profitable Then companies won't need
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by graybeardhacker 7mo ago
History shows that mass internment and populous movements against a segment of society never end well for the governments that push these tactics. Unfortunately, the damage to the society is often deep and far reaching before the regimes f
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by graybeardhacker 7mo ago
I see a lot of people saying "We never lose power, what are you talking about?" I've lived in several places in New England, some more rural than others. Some places you lose power often, other you don't. Even within t
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by graybeardhacker 7mo ago
Two major factors I see a impediment to this: 1. Most management doesn't understand it and therefore won't champion it. 2. Those few that do understand it will resist it because it reduces the need for management and process. This
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by graybeardhacker 7mo ago
"As someone who generally stays out of politics, I didn’t know much about the incoming administration’s stance towards tariffs, though I don’t think anyone could have predicted such drastic hikes." Except those with ears and/
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by graybeardhacker 9mo ago
I find it VERY likely they had a junk policy. This is one of the most important things the ACA did, it defined what could be considered health insurance. Before the ACA, a company could sell you a policy that essentially covered nothing.
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by graybeardhacker 9mo ago
Once a virologist always a virologist I always say.
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by graybeardhacker 10mo ago
If I understand the graph correctly, it looks like there's maybe a three percentage point increase. But given there is a 1 percentage point delta in the pre-ban data, that would seem to indicate there is at least a 1 point variation
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by graybeardhacker 10mo ago
I agree with you. In the industry today I feel there there are software engineers and there are programmers. The engineers design, architect, and invent. The programmers do the rote work. Of course it's not black and white, but tha

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