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New comment by a2dam in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

a2dam — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:35:20 +0000

You should be less upset over semantics that everyone else has usefully settled on. LLMs understand things fine.

New comment by a2dam in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

a2dam — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:01:13 +0000

This isn't really a good way to judge things. In the future, the fondest memories someone else has about technology will be about the present. The past is not better, you're just nostalgic for it.

New comment by a2dam in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

a2dam — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:10:21 +0000

And the easiest way to do this is to lift restrictions on being able to build housing near workplaces (i.e. anywhere housing might reasonably and gainfully be built). Most traffic is caused by building restrictions.

New comment by a2dam in "Steam Machine launches today"

a2dam — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:33:19 +0000

"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially..."

"No wireless? Less space than a Nomad? Lame"

New comment by a2dam in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

a2dam — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:14:42 +0000

That's not the point at all and I think you know that.

New comment by a2dam in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

a2dam — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:59:32 +0000

> that doesn't mean we should develop a pill that makes everyone a great soccer player with no skill development or effort required

What are you talking about? We should absolutely do this. We should extend this to as many domains of human achievement as possible. By this logic, computers shouldn't have existed because it devalued the skill that scribes and accountants developed before word processors and spreadsheets. Blender itself is a tool that made 3D accessible to thousands of people who previously had to pay for expensive licenses, training, and SGI workstations. Literally the whole point of technology is to make more things possible for people unable to do it naturally or without great effort.

New comment by a2dam in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

a2dam — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:30:28 +0000

I'd argue that "the reality people feel" isn't a good aspect of any metric other than one that measure sentiment itself.

New comment by a2dam in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

a2dam — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:13:55 +0000

I do nearly this exact thing with these shoeboxes, so you can pull them out from the front and have enough collapsed in storage to always have more on hand: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08T6TC4FW

New comment by a2dam in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

a2dam — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:42:22 +0000

This can also be fixed by increasing supply. People buy housing as an investment because they expect it to increase in value. The best way to counteract that is to build and continue building so that doesn't happen.

New comment by a2dam in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

a2dam — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:39:53 +0000

I have one of these for this exact purpose and it's amazing, really underrated. Makes me want a bigger one for sure, though.

New comment by a2dam in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

a2dam — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:12:10 +0000

The Inkplate10 is an excellent, much lower cost way to get into this

New comment by a2dam in "I overengineered a spinning top [video]"

a2dam — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:10:08 +0000

This rules

New comment by a2dam in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

a2dam — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:51:29 +0000

The snow falling in front of the text here really drives the point home

New comment by a2dam in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

a2dam — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:49:50 +0000

Hard to justify snow falling in front of the text on a blog post about how a redesign isn’t helpful design.

New comment by a2dam in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

a2dam — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:58:42 +0000

That's the case currently! What I said is why those laws and judges don't ban advertising!

New comment by a2dam in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

a2dam — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:57:58 +0000

Certainly you can see the difference between that and advertising.

New comment by a2dam in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

a2dam — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:56:55 +0000

I didn't say that all speech is ads, I said that ads are speech.

New comment by a2dam in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

a2dam — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:22:52 +0000

Ads are speech. Replace all mention of "ads" in your post with "speech I don't like" and see how it reads.

New comment by a2dam in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

a2dam — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:55:21 +0000

I've been talking about making a site like this for years! It is easily the number two criteria I have when looking for hotels after location.

New comment by a2dam in "Eleven Labs Debuts "Iconic Marketplace" Feat Michael Caine, Judy Garland, Others"

a2dam — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:23:42 +0000

An enormous bummer of a fact is that Majel Barrett, who was the voice of the computer on Star Trek (along with a number of other roles), did phonetic voice recordings specifically to reproduce her voice, yet nobody has used those recordings to do so. I'd love to see her on this list.