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New comment by Rocka24 in "I want to live like Costco people"

Rocka24 — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:11:16 +0000

Costco culture is the haze of infinite feeds, sequels, casinos with no right turns, the feeling that there is no new art, and the death of the novel.

Stay repeat indulge enjoy

New comment by Rocka24 in "xAI joins SpaceX"

Rocka24 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:05:40 +0000

hmmmm

Against Foundry and Power Automate (low code vs. high code)

Rocka24 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:39:25 +0000

Article URL: https://rochan.bearblog.dev/low-code-vs-high-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45417849

Points: 4

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New comment by Rocka24 in "Pollution Map"

Rocka24 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 06:26:45 +0000

Map to visualize pollution and trash worldwide - interesting to see how environmental agencies + policy groups could use this.

Pollution Map

Rocka24 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 06:26:45 +0000

Article URL: https://trash.elytrarobotics.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340442

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

I'm from the Bay

Rocka24 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 06:03:23 +0000

Article URL: https://rochan.bearblog.dev/im-from-the-bay/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42608112

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Rocka24 in "OpenAI's Response to Anthropic's Computer Use"

Rocka24 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:54:42 +0000

Non human identity management will definitely be a huge issue in the future...excited to see how players in the field will tackle this. E.g. Entro/Okta

OpenAI's Response to Anthropic's Computer Use

Rocka24 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:52:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2520878/open-ai-nears-launch-of-new-ai-that-can-solve-everyday-tasks.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42149199

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Rocka24 in "We're experimenting with advertising"

Rocka24 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:46:07 +0000

They have to do something especially with the deployment of ChatGPT search.

New comment by Rocka24 in "Observations on Mental Education – Michael Faraday (Volume 2) [pdf]"

Rocka24 — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 19:44:12 +0000

"Claiming, then, the use of the ordinary faculties of the mind in ordinary things, let me next endeavour to point out what appears to me to be a great deficiency in the exercise of the mental powers in every direction; three words will express this great want, deficiency of judgment. I do not wish to make any startling assertion, but I know that in physical matters multitudes are ready to draw conclusions who have little or no power of judgment in the cases; that the same is true of other departments of knowledge; and that, generally, mankind is willing to leave the faculties which relate to judgment almost entirely uneducated, and their decisions at the mercy of ignorance, prepossessions, the passions, or even accident." - Faraday lecture

Observations on Mental Education – Michael Faraday (Volume 2) [pdf]

Rocka24 — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 19:42:24 +0000

Article URL: https://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/1854_Faraday_Lectures_A4128.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41759667

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Rocka24 in "AI is an impediment to learning web development"

Rocka24 — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 19:10:14 +0000

Well the issue isn't about acquiring the knowledge in general. I think so far in my learning journey I've come to realize that "practical learning" is much better than learning in the hopes that something will be useful. For instance, almost everyone in the American education system at some point was forced to memorize that one mol of gas occupies 22.4 L at STP but almost noone will ever use that knowledge again.

Going through the actual real world issues of web development with an LLM on the side that you can query for any issue is infinitely more valuable than taking a course in web development imo because you actually learn how to DO the things, instead of getting a toolbox which half of the items you don't use ever and a quarter of which you have no idea how to functionally use. I strongly support learning by doing and I also think that the education system should be changed in support of that idea.

New comment by Rocka24 in "AI is an impediment to learning web development"

Rocka24 — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 18:53:33 +0000

We are now in a world where the common layman can get their hands on a GPT (a GPT that is predicted to be equivalent to a pHD in intelligence soon), instead of the person scrolling hugging face and churning out their custom built models.

I think in the future it'll be pretty interesting to see how this changes regular blue collar or secretarial work. Will the next future of startups be just fresh grads looking for B2B ideas that eliminate the common person?

New comment by Rocka24 in "AI is an impediment to learning web development"

Rocka24 — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 18:45:56 +0000

I strongly disagree, I was able to learn so much about web development by using AI, it streamlines the entire knowledge gathering and dissemination process. By asking for general overviews then poking into the specifics of why things work the way they do, its possible to get an extremely functional and practical knowledge of almost any application of programming. For the driven and ambitious hacker, LLMs are practically invaluable when it comes to self learning. I think you have a case where you're simply dealing with the classic self-inflicting malady of laziness.

New comment by Rocka24 in "Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer"

Rocka24 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 19:07:11 +0000

What would be the use case of this? I have a remarkable 2 and there's the official Read on Remarkable extension that automatically sends a pdf of the page you're on or the book or whatever to your Remarkable. I'm not sure if it works on Remarkable 1 but there isn't any documentation on it being unsupported.

extension link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/Read%20on%20reMarka...

New comment by Rocka24 in "Don't squander public trust on bullshit"

Rocka24 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 18:52:32 +0000

I wonder if folks get amber alerts if they only use satellite based connectivity. I'm willing to be that Apple will have it automatically enabled in iOS 18.

New comment by Rocka24 in "New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data"

Rocka24 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 18:47:49 +0000

The difference that I'm seeing personally and the initial appeal was that he was more open about the science and the results of it. If you go through the site you can see pretty good documentation about different supplements and what their intended purpose was. However, I do think some of the luster of the open-source model he had kind of disappeared when he started selling products which is a double edged sword in the sense that it does somewhat certify the quality of the product but also chips at his ethos.

New comment by Rocka24 in "Don't squander public trust on bullshit"

Rocka24 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 02:37:57 +0000

I wonder if they could send the messages to certain counties that are actually relevant to the "breaking" news. Geography based sorting of phone numbers to what I assume must be addresses could be a security issue though so not entirely sure. A better solution could be alert settings that would alert for violent crimes/amber alerts/natural disasters(which should never have the option to be disabled) and maybe a downtime period during the night similar to do not disturb mode on iOS devices that only have exceptions for natural disasters. A system that robust would need integration with individual phone manufacturers like airplane mode which has proven to be efficient.

New comment by Rocka24 in "New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data"

Rocka24 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:57:29 +0000

Absolutely incredible.

I've seen a number of byproducts of the "Blue Zone trend" namely in youtube videos and dinner party conversations from so called health experts. The creator of Blue Zones (Dan Buettner) does seem to profit off of this as well, one quick look at the website shows a Blue Zone cooking course sale and other marketing schemes that could trap the unwary. https://www.bluezones.com/about/history/

I'm not questioning whether or not the intent was malicious but he does stand to gain quite a lot. Happy to see this being exposed. In a semi related sense I highly recommend checking out Bryan Johnson's (founder of Braintree Venmo) Blueprint protocol, I've been following his work for a number of years now and it is scientifically backed although the for profit arm of his initiative just reared its (ugly?) head recently with him selling supplements and dietary goods that are vetted by his agency.

https://protocol.bryanjohnson.com/

New comment by Rocka24 in "Manuscripts reveal the details of everyday life on the Silk Road"

Rocka24 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:08:19 +0000

I assumed that the Sogdian script iself was the cheeky part. I imagine if they had just lost a war to the Khotanese it would've been quite the inside joke of the time.