Hacker News: Super_Jambo

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Structured Procrastination (1995)"

Super_Jambo — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:34:04 +0000

What on earth makes you think you could know what's going on in someone else's brain with such confidence.

Wild.

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine"

Super_Jambo — Tue, 27 May 2025 06:50:39 +0000

Once you're an adult some of the best lessons come from having bad teachers.

New comment by Super_Jambo in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

Super_Jambo — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:55:59 +0000

For the same reason weights and measures legislation is of course impossible.

This is why every time you go to the shops you have to carry your own standard weights and balance scale! The idea that society could regulate the weight and volume of every product in every shop is simply preposterous!

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs"

Super_Jambo — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 08:02:24 +0000

I think what's most worrying here is Trump & co publicly exerting influence over these huge companies.

So the concentration of economic power has made the number of oligarchs he needs to capture quite manageable.

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Bird-inspired drone uses legs to walk and jump into the air"

Super_Jambo — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 09:01:15 +0000

More likely that sensible mainstream journalists will laugh at people under Govt surveillance because they sound like the reddit conspiracy nuts from their youth...

New comment by Super_Jambo in "How to lose a fortune with one bad click"

Super_Jambo — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:00:03 +0000

I think the point they are making is that google will let the fraudsters pay to place higher than the warnings because it's profitable to do so.

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Amazon Nova"

Super_Jambo — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:35:49 +0000

No embedding endpoints?

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis"

Super_Jambo — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 08:54:49 +0000

Seems like a rather large moral hazard if we don't?

At some point the courts should be able to say "ok fine you were the directors responsible for the company you're going to prison n years, sorry."

Bet we'd see a lot more documentation suddenly appear.

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media"

Super_Jambo — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:22:50 +0000

I'm having a crack at making feeds that filter by topic and location using LLM. The current test feed is here: https://bsky.app/profile/super-james.bsky.social/feed/uk-pol...

But I'm in the middle of a big re-work so it'll get a lot better when I finish that.

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Show HN: A text-only blog engine using Cloudflare workers and KV store"

Super_Jambo — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:29:31 +0000

I have been very impressed with what you can build on it.

I built this little service to add UK specific political location data to Action Network CRM. 300 lines for the actual service!

code here: https://github.com/jms301/ANUpdaterUK/blob/main/src/index.js

Sure it's only taking a webhook, reading an API, looking up a db entry and then updating via API.

But just knowing it's running on someone else's infra and there's so little code to validate is very comforting.

Prior to this I had a version running on a VPS and yeah I can do it. But you end up with a LOT of code / config to run the web server, the queue, the database... And any of that could be introducing bugs and security problems.

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Show HN: A text-only blog engine using Cloudflare workers and KV store"

Super_Jambo — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 22:44:41 +0000

I assume the intention is you store actual data in R2 objects and just hold references to them in D1.

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Show HN: A text-only blog engine using Cloudflare workers and KV store"

Super_Jambo — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 19:58:06 +0000

I'd have thought the SQLite database (D1) would be a more obvious fit for a blog?

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Show HN: Wall-mounted diffusion mirror that turns reflections into paintings"

Super_Jambo — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:44:12 +0000

This is why the greatest art is only made by people who grow the plants to create their own paint from scratch...

New comment by Super_Jambo in "World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating"

Super_Jambo — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:49:16 +0000

I think the assumption is more that someone who's offended that the Guardian didn't explain a mainstay British playground game to their readers...

Is probably from the USA.

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Quote Origin: I had exactly four seconds and Google had told me it wasn’t enough"

Super_Jambo — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:01:01 +0000

Consider Phlebas?

New comment by Super_Jambo in "The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here?"

Super_Jambo — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:56:13 +0000

Capitalists abhor the market. But they captured the political class and well here we are.

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Examples of Great URL Design (2023)"

Super_Jambo — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:32:12 +0000

We had:

https://stopthetories.vote/for/greens

https://stopthetories.vote/for/labour

https://stopthetories.vote/for/libdems

https://stopthetories.vote/for/heart

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Anna's Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction"

Super_Jambo — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 22:51:27 +0000

Pay them from general taxation to dig holes and fill them in again with spoons?

If you can only succeed because you're government is holding back others at the barrel of a gun do you really deserve to?

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Jump Seating United Pilot Causes Drama at Southwest"

Super_Jambo — Sat, 11 May 2024 07:41:52 +0000

Look into Bletchley park & the cracking of Enigma...

New comment by Super_Jambo in "Climate Change Speeds Up as Major Indicators Blow Off the Charts, WMO Warns"

Super_Jambo — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 07:53:54 +0000

As I understand it (and I would like to know if this is wrong). Carbon dioxide emissions take 5-10 years for their heating impact to work through into warming.

So even if we could get to net zero today we'd still be in for 5-10 years of worsening impacts.

And we're not even talking about getting to net zero today. Even in the UK where we've exported and reduced emissions a long way net zero by 2035 is seen as a wildly optimistic scenario.

So it seems to me inevitable that we're going to need to do geoengineering. We mustn't let this delay emission reduction but I think at this point we should get to where we're going asap so we can research it properly.