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New comment by adaml_623 in "Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago"

adaml_623 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:41:33 +0000

The population in general is larger which is why depopulation of towns is interesting

New comment by adaml_623 in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

adaml_623 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:02:15 +0000

Childhood's End by Clarke is quite high on my list of grim endings for the human race

New comment by adaml_623 in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

adaml_623 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:23:45 +0000

I know what you mean. You'd think nationalists would want to put the citizens of their country first but nope they can all go and get cancer from coal power plants.

New comment by adaml_623 in "EU now fears US interference in European elections"

adaml_623 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:03:57 +0000

This is such a lazy comment. How is the EU changing? How is it changing to be closer to which part of South America? South America is changing so do you mean how it was or are they converging? The EU has expanded in the last 40 years but I don't imagine that's what you mean.

What do you mean?

New comment by adaml_623 in "JetZero"

adaml_623 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:02:17 +0000

I love looking out plane windows at night. Distant lightning storms, cities, fishing boats, highways, country borders lit up and stretching as far as you can see.

New comment by adaml_623 in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

adaml_623 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:07:12 +0000

Wow that's crazy that they built an apartment building where it would shadow all that stained glass.

I bet there's a story there.

New comment by adaml_623 in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

adaml_623 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:30:02 +0000

I think you've got good points. With respect to #3 I think there's a general problem with concentration of capital and general "hoarding".

One example. Berkshire Hathaway has $400 billion dollars in the bank that they can't invest because they need high returns. So the capital is locked up. (The banks who hold the funds are restricted in what they can invest in).

Multiply this by loads of other companies. Add in funds stashed in tax havens. And just plain individual savings of people terrified about being poor in their old age.

My point is that the rich problem is not restricted to tech. Although it is quite visible

New comment by adaml_623 in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

adaml_623 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:21:37 +0000

Because they are selfish and would prefer to make millions selling to big companies who want to pay less for labour.

New comment by adaml_623 in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

adaml_623 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:06:24 +0000

They have Coder PTSD or CPTSD.... Is that a better acronym???

Sorry just teasing.

New comment by adaml_623 in "Designing a backyard deck for my house"

adaml_623 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:07:27 +0000

I'm surprised that an inspector was required at all much less for multiple visits.

I might be totally wrong but I think I'm the UK you'd be allowed to just build a deck. Unless it was high enough to overlook your neighbours.

New comment by adaml_623 in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

adaml_623 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:31:25 +0000

Tell us about this good leader concept and why you think it's outdated? Is it just uncommon?

And why can't you believe someone's statement about themselves? How is it different to saying they're a good runner?

New comment by adaml_623 in "Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins"

adaml_623 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:46:22 +0000

I think it's immoral and unkind to report on a medical trial and not be clear that it was in mice rather than humans.

New comment by adaml_623 in "Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations"

adaml_623 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:57:51 +0000

It's good when it becomes clear that a tool is dangerous in a certain way. Like it's good when people show you through their behavior that they can't be trusted

Always use a sawstop if you have a circular saw and never trust an llm with any problem where ethics or trust is relevant.

New comment by adaml_623 in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

adaml_623 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:25:17 +0000

Trivia question. When did NASA last launch a rocket not built by a commercial entity

New comment by adaml_623 in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

adaml_623 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:57:24 +0000

Cardboard's out. No cardboard derivatives.

Paper?

No Paper. No string. No sellotape.

New comment by adaml_623 in "They’re made out of weights"

adaml_623 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:56:14 +0000

You and previous comment seem to agree that trial and error/shared experience can determine if consciousness has emerged. And this might/will be challenging.

Previous comment used the word "anticipate" and I think they mean that we won't know in advance before we run the trial and error process.

When they say "deep trouble" I assume they mean because creating a non-friendly conscious AI might pose an existential risk for humanity.

However there is also the ethical issue of creating a consciousness and then destroying/murdering it.

New comment by adaml_623 in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

adaml_623 — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:18:09 +0000

I'm afraid you appear to be contradicting yourself by saying internship in one comment and stating that companies don't bother with onboarding employees with no knowledge in a previous comment.

New comment by adaml_623 in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

adaml_623 — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:05:09 +0000

I'd love to know the causation for that correlation

New comment by adaml_623 in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

adaml_623 — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:38:11 +0000

Logged in to tell you that you are not using the standard definition for ptsd. Your opinions will be easier for people to understand if they aren't confused.

New comment by adaml_623 in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

adaml_623 — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:41:42 +0000

"It is the sort of idea I would be very proud to come up with after a week or two of pondering, and it took ChatGPT less than an hour"

This comment about time is very interesting to me. I know it's "just" doing mathematical proofs but the possibilities of speeding up planning, proposals and decision making in the physical world should excite people.