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New comment by adammarples in "The AirPods Effect"

adammarples — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:58:17 +0000

No, riding for a long time without ear protection will damage your ears. Ear plugs at least are recommended. I am not hearing anything over the wind and engine noise anyway.

New comment by adammarples in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

adammarples — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:30:18 +0000

Sending me your AI compressed ramblings = straight in the bin

New comment by adammarples in "Iroh 1.0"

adammarples — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:27:12 +0000

Maybe. It's offering "Customized hosting and monitoring for Iroh apps".

New comment by adammarples in "The Difference Between Rest and Idleness"

adammarples — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:11:09 +0000

One idea repeated 100 times

New comment by adammarples in "Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)"

adammarples — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:10:54 +0000

Quite in this context means very

New comment by adammarples in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

adammarples — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:59:06 +0000

Proactive is a word literally describing actions, not emotions.

New comment by adammarples in "I Think Rutger Bregman and the School for Moral Ambition Are Full of Shit"

adammarples — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:55:17 +0000

The centre for effective altruism puts most of its efforts into mitigating the risks of super intelligent AI doesn't it?

New comment by adammarples in "The Countdown to a Major Oil Price Surge Has Begun"

adammarples — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:30:34 +0000

It is almost entirely explained by China cutting imports significantly. They are running down their inventory waiting for prices to drop again. Consumption was previously constrainted in much of Asia, for example 4 day work weeks etc. The US has also lowered their strategic petroleum reserve to new lows.

New comment by adammarples in "Claude Fable 5"

adammarples — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:19:12 +0000

My dear friend, please start with the online safety act, and continue with the recent developments regarding age verification and/or device scanning on all operating systems to check for nudity. No, nobody is talking about it here, but we should be.

New comment by adammarples in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

adammarples — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:32:51 +0000

You haven't built a data center for half a billion mate, you've just launched rockets. You still have to build the data centre! Only not from bricks, it's going to be complex modular units made of radiators and solar panels and you have to buy the gpus too, and the whole thing will be bombarded with cosmic background radiation but you can't replace or repair any part of it.

New comment by adammarples in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

adammarples — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:04:50 +0000

Did you see the news from Belfast today?

New comment by adammarples in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

adammarples — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:21:49 +0000

It's right in the article, there were 40bn of disclosed costs. It's still a good return, it pays for itself in 18 months, but if you build and rent data centres, then that's your business, and you're not likely to 100x in 3 years, which is the wild projection behind their valuation.

New comment by adammarples in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

adammarples — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:44:57 +0000

Saves you a click maybe, at least it's easy to always know what ticket you're working on right in the terminal

New comment by adammarples in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

adammarples — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:45:37 +0000

This chips will still be able to process tokens in a few years and you'll still be buying them

New comment by adammarples in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

adammarples — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:27:12 +0000

Yes it did, you don't need to worry about whether the sql execution engine is spark, or snowflake, or sqlite or what, you just reason about the top level logic

New comment by adammarples in "How LLMs work"

adammarples — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:19:24 +0000

Apparently even single-celled protozoa can show learned trial and error behaviour.

New comment by adammarples in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

adammarples — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:35:00 +0000

Struggling to do named entity recognition, with lots of tagging by hand, and then seeing BERT just being able to straight up answer questions about a document. Had to sit down after that because it was past anything I could even understand.

New comment by adammarples in "The British university is dying, and it seems that almost nobody cares"

adammarples — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:12:20 +0000

It's because they depend on foreign students for their income because they are limited on how much they can charge domestic students. Recent anti immigration sentiment has caused a massive fall in foreign student numbers.

New comment by adammarples in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

adammarples — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:08:19 +0000

I could easily tell apart all of my friends from the neck down, do you find that? Apart from height, size, gender, there's style, hair length and tons of things that make it quite possible.

New comment by adammarples in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

adammarples — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:46:15 +0000

Pretty much everywhere I've worked recently enforces some kind of jira ticket number in the PR title