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New comment by 1980phipsi in "OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

1980phipsi — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:19:08 +0000

How much time do the doctors spend to diagnose versus o1?

New comment by 1980phipsi in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

1980phipsi — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:22:22 +0000

And at the same time the car companies want to move away from Apple CarPlay, which for any of its fault is a substantially better UI than we can expect the legacy carmakers to produce.

New comment by 1980phipsi in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

1980phipsi — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:11:28 +0000

The deterioration in the Windows and Office experience is astounding.

New comment by 1980phipsi in "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus"

1980phipsi — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:14:16 +0000

I took calculus in high school and college, and I don't think any of my instructors explained the intuition as well. So sleep-deprived or not, it's a great one!

New comment by 1980phipsi in "Dip 1053 – A Tale of Tuples"

1980phipsi — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:16:45 +0000

A write-up on the D language blog on the recently accepted DIP that enhances tuple unpacking.

Dip 1053 – A Tale of Tuples

1980phipsi — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:16:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.dlang.org/2026/04/12/dip-1053-a-tale-of-tuples/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808908

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by 1980phipsi in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

1980phipsi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:10:51 +0000

You can deposit checks via the app pretty easily.

New comment by 1980phipsi in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

1980phipsi — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:40:10 +0000

I attach a copy of the file and then provide a network location for where it is located. Makes it easy for people to just open up a simple copy to look at it and they know where to go to access the original.

New comment by 1980phipsi in "I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978"

1980phipsi — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:59:47 +0000

It's packaging an existing product differently than a fully new product. Would still require either new machines or adapting existing machines for it.

New comment by 1980phipsi in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

1980phipsi — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:09:09 +0000

My thinking is that the company creating the game would train the AI in advance (like a generative adversarial network), not that any kind of training would happen on the users' computer. They could periodically send updates or improvements (maybe by having it play in multiplayer or something).

New comment by 1980phipsi in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

1980phipsi — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:24:50 +0000

I would love to see someone use modern machine learning techniques to make a kick ass Civ AI.

New comment by 1980phipsi in "Child prodigies rarely become elite performers"

1980phipsi — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:57:06 +0000

This sounds like Berkson’s paradox.

New comment by 1980phipsi in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

1980phipsi — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:59:25 +0000

The lack of people in them was the thing about going to one that always felt weird to me.

New comment by 1980phipsi in "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"

1980phipsi — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:58:26 +0000

I was able to install the D language compiler DMD by providing a .deb file.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69781bb5-cf90-800c-8549-c845259c33...

New comment by 1980phipsi in "Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager"

1980phipsi — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:52:43 +0000

At the end of the day, the goal is to make a product that people find useful. How that ends up happening is almost completely irrelevant to the people actually using the product.

New comment by 1980phipsi in "To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI"

1980phipsi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:41:07 +0000

How is this for an ordering:

Good human written docs > AI written docs > no docs > bad human written docs

New comment by 1980phipsi in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"

1980phipsi — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:39:54 +0000

Any idea why swapping didn't pan out for Tesla? My understanding is they are doing that in China.

New comment by 1980phipsi in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

1980phipsi — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:53:28 +0000

> Anyone familiar with basic economics is pulling their hair out reading this, because there's one extremely obvious way to lower the price of building new housing: Reducing or eliminating tariffs on construction equipment and materials and ensuring a robust supply of low-cost labor.

And just in general reducing the restrictions on building in places with high rent to income ratios.

New comment by 1980phipsi in "State of the Fin 2026-01-06"

1980phipsi — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:52:37 +0000

Yeah, I don't mind paying for something, but they broke a bunch of stuff last year and it's still not fixed. That's what annoys me about plex.

New comment by 1980phipsi in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

1980phipsi — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:45:31 +0000

> Game publishers have already publicly floated the idea of not selling their games but charging per hour. Imagine how that impact Call of Duty or GTA.

MMORPGs have had monthly subscription fees for a long time.

For a lot of games if they charged by the hour would probably see less revenue...people buy tons of games and then barely ever play them.