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New comment by Centigonal in "The Amazon tax"

Centigonal — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:25:38 +0000

You pay Amazon $200 and give free product to Vine reviewers in exchange for a seed pool of "unbiased" reviews (see link below). If you're not worried about the risk of getting your seller account canceled, there are also other ways of manufacturing your initial sales and review volume.

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/external...

New comment by Centigonal in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

Centigonal — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:57:22 +0000

Effective Altruism isn't very different from Randian objectivism.

New comment by Centigonal in "Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years"

Centigonal — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:19:57 +0000

Waking hours is both a quantity game and a quality game. I don't remember too much from the parts of my life where I was very sleep deprived

New comment by Centigonal in "The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers"

Centigonal — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:51:07 +0000

We also saw this with YouTube MCNs, early video game publishers, and (of course) record labels. Whenever there is a booming industry of entertainers, it seems like there's a corresponding boom of parasitic "agents" with the same tired playbook.

New comment by Centigonal in "Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone"

Centigonal — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:35:12 +0000

So would it be fair to say this is less about deterministic vs. LLM-driven tools, and more about software published out of New York vs. software published out of Germany?

New comment by Centigonal in "The session you cannot take with you"

Centigonal — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:59:02 +0000

I think a fantastic companion piece to this article is https://gwern.net/complement

New comment by Centigonal in "The AI Aesthetic"

Centigonal — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:39:10 +0000

Another AI-ism is the use of the word "grain" in technical contexts. I'm confident the OP is human-written, but everything in my AI-supported codebase is about grains, seams, tracer bullets, and load-bearing components now.

I'd barely heard some of these words before, and now they're everywhere. It's like everyone suddenly has a friend who speaks in the same idiosyncratic way, and we're all picking up their vocal stims.

New comment by Centigonal in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

Centigonal — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:00:07 +0000

Important question: how many engineers does it take to teach a robot how to screw in a light bulb?

New comment by Centigonal in "Granola for Apple Watch"

Centigonal — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:13:59 +0000

It's free for a limited number of notes. I guess you could copypaste the note summaries out to Obsidian or something, but at that point you're better off using MacParakeet, OpenWhispr, etc.

https://www.granola.ai/pricing

New comment by Centigonal in "Vehicle Motion Cues"

Centigonal — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:17:13 +0000

I just found out this capability is also available on Macbooks!

This would have saved me a lot of grief during a recent road trip through some mountains.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-motion-setti...

New comment by Centigonal in "West Virginia paid digital nomads to move there during Covid. Many are staying"

Centigonal — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:55:12 +0000

places like Charles Town, Martinsburg, and Cumberland MD are really wonderful, beautiful, but economically depressed communities. It's not quite Boise or Austin, but towns like this would be really attractive to a certain group of remote workers (esp. those with homesteading or kayaking/fishing/hiking aspirations) if they only knew about them.

New comment by Centigonal in "Claude Cookbook"

Centigonal — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:58:07 +0000

I will often do "speak a long rambling set of ideas and ask the LLM to summarize it into a prompt or spec -> manually refine -> drop refined prompt into fresh conversation"

New comment by Centigonal in "Claude Cookbook"

Centigonal — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:56:26 +0000

Is Superpowers any good? My coworkers who've used it seem to think that its main purpose is to consume a lot of tokens.

New comment by Centigonal in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

Centigonal — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:18:58 +0000

wow, they really are exhausting every avenue to raise as much money as possible.

New comment by Centigonal in "What happened to TheNumbers.com"

Centigonal — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:59:42 +0000

Our internet ecosystem is becoming more and more hostile to open information commons. I like open information commons -- what do we do about this?

New comment by Centigonal in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

Centigonal — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:47:15 +0000

I'm referring to the equity offering that started in June and has a second component that starts in 2026Q3. Most of this raise came from the sale of Class A and Class C stock. A fraction came from the sale of convertible stock. To my knowledge, none of this raise came from the sale of bonds.

Also, looks like I got it wrong and they've only raised $45B to date. The rest will come as part of the ATM offering program that begins in Q3.

more details here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000119312526...

New comment by Centigonal in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

Centigonal — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:58:01 +0000

They just raised $85 billion and they're sitting on a mountain of cash - if their spending didn't increase in this context, it'd be bad management. The real story here is that they have decided to spend that mountain of cash on AI CapEx.

New comment by Centigonal in "John C. Dvorak has died"

Centigonal — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:42:47 +0000

That tiny 1"x1.5" thumbnail[1] of John C. Dvorak in PC Magazine was the essence of Gravitas for me as a kid.

[1]https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1999-12-14/page/88/mode/2...

New comment by Centigonal in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

Centigonal — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:23:40 +0000

Moreover, OpenAI already doesn't have the best reputation for maintaining ideals over doing the convenient and profitable thing

New comment by Centigonal in "That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing"

Centigonal — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:54:05 +0000

I had the same experience trying to see the 4th of July fireworks in an unfamiliar city. It doesn't help that there was very little information online about which roads were closed.