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by jawilson2 5d ago
Why isn't this an apples-oranges comparison? Good regulation: right to repair, manufacturers must supply manuals. Bad regulation: JD bribed senators to write regulations that make it insurmountably difficult for new players to enter. C
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by jawilson2 6d ago
Every day there is another story about the harmful effects of AI on literally everything, including mental health, IP theft, the climate, etc. "Think of the children" is and always has been a weak excuse.
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by jawilson2 7d ago
Sound is a wave that travels through some medium, which also cannot be faster than light. You can't have FTL information transfer.
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by jawilson2 8d ago
Yes, you're correct, billionaires should not exist, and we should keep raising taxes until that is true. The "real" max wealth number is probably a bit lower, but 10 digits of wealth is a good starting point.
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by jawilson2 8d ago
My Garmin Venu 4 has 10+ days.
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by jawilson2 8d ago
Can we please let humans write SOMETHING? There are AI-isms everywhere, which he even admits. This reads like a Claude code comment; there is a ton of fluff, almost no content. What was the "decision?" There are several entire par
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by jawilson2 8d ago
The failure is that the task was "can I take a picture of a printed calendar with Claude and have events added to my shared family calendar" and it is apparently not possible. The parsed file was fine, and maybe would have needed
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by jawilson2 8d ago
Yes, I know all of this. I have a Mac, and a PC, and an Arch Linux desktop, and an iPhone. None of the solutions are "easy." The task was "take a picture of a printed calendar with my phone and get it in my Apple Calendar (wi
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by jawilson2 8d ago
Take a picture of my son's printed basketball calendar and add it to my shared iCloud family calendar. Apple/Siri couldn't do it, Claude couldn't do it. Things STILL can't talk to each other, seemingly intentionally
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by jawilson2 9d ago
> do people really think OpenAI is snooping at people specifically yes. Rules and laws are for the poor.
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by jawilson2 9d ago
I want this data to be treated like HIPAA data. Any company that collects personal data must have a compliance officer, and any breaches should lead to people going to jail. If you collect personal data, you are personally responsible for i
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by jawilson2 9d ago
> The surface area of stuff that an OS has to do today is absolutely massive Why though? The OS should be the layer between hardware and applications/the user. Provide a GUI SDK+toolkit and a firewall. The OS should be responsible f
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by jawilson2 9d ago
2 of my kids play a total of 3 games: Fortnite, Rocket League, and Madden NFL. We're locked in for a while.
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by jawilson2 13d ago
For sure. My youngest, who was 13 years old over the summer so a bit older, went on a few 25+mile bike rides on a nearby bike trail. He was gone for several hours, we just made sure he had plenty of water, sunscreen, and a reasonably full p
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by jawilson2 13d ago
This was published in Nature, I'm pretty sure the reviewers understand and account for that. HN and reasonably educated people always think this is some huge gotcha, second only to "CORRELATION != CAUSATION!!!!"
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by jawilson2 14d ago
1. That link is blocked on my office network, so not sure how to respond. 2. I have enough attention thieves in my life to have to "work" to determine if I should read it.
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by jawilson2 14d ago
> HN never contextualizes obits This is my biggest gripe with HN. You'll see a headline like "Norville Grub has died" and you look him up and he wrote a Unix timestamp parser in the 80's or something. This is pretty m
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by jawilson2 20d ago
You also have to remember that he probably also pocketed a massive bribe. Follow the grift.
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by jawilson2 22d ago
TBF, there are probably 100s of Dolly covers being done nightly. I just played Do I Ever Cross Your Mind a few nights ago with my bar band.
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by jawilson2 22d ago
You're missing the important part: doing all of this WITH A ONE YEAR OLD CRAWLING AROUND AT HOME. You can get things done, it is just an order of magnitude longer that it would take without kid(s).
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by jawilson2 28d ago
This is definitely a thing. I thought I was just getting old, but I am almost incapable of writing a word without mistyping now. It always registers neighboring letters.
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by jawilson2 29d ago
Intermittent fasting and calorie reduction are the only known way to EXTEND lifespan and wellness. 10 years of low carb + fasting is the single most important health decision I have ever made.
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by jawilson2 1mo ago
I stopped for me last week.
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by jawilson2 1mo ago
Very nice! I had to turn of the auto-rotate to get it to respond well to dragging. I'm sure extrapolating to future movement was difficult, but starting today, and seeing the Baja peninsula rocket north through Alaska unphased was kind
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by jawilson2 2mo ago
> €500 in furniture I feel like this is 3/4 of a coffee table?
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by jawilson2 2mo ago
None of those are "door knob, door knob, door knob!"
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by jawilson2 2mo ago
'Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers' - https://theintercept.com/2026/07/20/google-maps-reviews-ice-... Yes, I have de-googled to the extent possible. I haven't used it for sea
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by jawilson2 2mo ago
I think he's saying that if one company panics or fails, all of the other AI companies will quickly pull out, and it will be a race to not be holding the hot potato at the end when the bubble bursts. Lots of analogies there! This is wh
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by jawilson2 2mo ago
> Personal tutoring for standardized tests has diminishing returns compared to just grinding... Eh, not so sure. My son got a 32 on the ACT the first time he took it, and after 4 months of private tutoring got a 35, with 36 on math. Coul
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by jawilson2 2mo ago
This is going to screw me hard. I didn't make a meaningful income (>$95K) until I was 35, 10 years ago; I got a PhD, did a 4 year postdoc, and was an assistant non-tenure-track professor for 3 years. My monthly student loan payments

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