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New comment by ainiriand in "Richard Scolyer Has Died"

ainiriand — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:25:26 +0000

Sorry to hear that :( In my case I only lost hearing from one side due to nerve damage, it also impacted balance in those early years but interestingly enough that improved a lot just by using the other inner ear.

New comment by ainiriand in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"

ainiriand — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:38:53 +0000

This search: https://uruky.com/search?il=en&it=system&q=php+array+search Produced the same results for the first 2 items, only that one is separated with dash '-' and the other with underscore '_' in the result slug. Perhaps that can be normalized.

New comment by ainiriand in "Richard Scolyer Has Died"

ainiriand — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:21:19 +0000

As a brain tumor survivor I count each day as a blessing. I was diagnosed at 14 and your chances are slightly better as a kid. Even then it came back at 16 again but now I do not even do checks anymore and I am 44 now.

People like Dr. Scoyler or my own doctor are always in my heart, we owe them so much.

New comment by ainiriand in "The desperation of NYTimes"

ainiriand — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:58:48 +0000

That is correct, and it his also correct that most of the spam we receive comes from outside the EU.

New comment by ainiriand in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"

ainiriand — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:00:49 +0000

It is a bit hard to evaluate the potential when you need to top up and do a captcha just for evaluation purposes. The barrier of entry is quite high.

New comment by ainiriand in "It is an amazing time for programmers"

ainiriand — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:01:09 +0000

When I started working in software I took a job in a city different than mine, so I had to go there to live alone, and the job was by myself in a room with no windows. Most lonely 2 years of my life.

New comment by ainiriand in "macOS needs its grid back"

ainiriand — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:50:35 +0000

I was a linux user for some time in my youth, then corporate appeared and with that the locked windows Thinkpads, the MacOS's and such. I am finally back in Linux at home and I find it so amazing, and all my video games work too!

New comment by ainiriand in "Proton Meet"

ainiriand — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:44:47 +0000

One can only dream!

New comment by ainiriand in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

ainiriand — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:42:16 +0000

In my humble opinion, the parent of my comment seems to paint a picture that is quite drastic. I see why many people would have Chrome installed and I do not think something like that should be impose on to anyone.

New comment by ainiriand in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

ainiriand — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:40:02 +0000

Here in Spain you see a lot of BYD, considerable amount for Europe. But when I was in Uruguay that was a shock, almost all cabs, all electric cars, and some buses are BYD.

New comment by ainiriand in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

ainiriand — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:48:10 +0000

Sometimes I marvel at how nice it would be to have such a narrow view of the world and other's perspectives and contexts. Life would be so much easier!

New comment by ainiriand in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

ainiriand — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:26:00 +0000

The only viable future-proof solution to this hellscape is what you mention, local models and/or corporate models for work.

New comment by ainiriand in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"

ainiriand — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:09:14 +0000

Damn! That is so dystopic to me. The future of businesses determined by the will of some customer support interpretations of bogus rules. Ain't that a bit black mirroresque?

New comment by ainiriand in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

ainiriand — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:39:03 +0000

Open to whom? AFAIK some nationalities can cross freely.

New comment by ainiriand in "You are not your job"

ainiriand — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:23:05 +0000

Since the beginning of human history, people have always defined themselves by what they contribute to the group; a hunter, a farmer, a king... Today is no different. We may not be our job, but that is how others see us at first. They are not trying to get to know you; they just want to know where you fit, so they know how to deal with you. Only later, if things get personal, might they become interested in you as a person.

New comment by ainiriand in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

ainiriand — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:59:51 +0000

Work is not good per-se.

New comment by ainiriand in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

ainiriand — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:47:28 +0000

Thanks for your input. The way I saw this and how it looks Knuth interpreted it is that there were some reasoning steps taken by Claude independently. Some internal decisions in the model that made it try different things, finally succeeding.

New comment by ainiriand in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

ainiriand — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:34:21 +0000

Are not LLMs supposed to just find the most probable word that follows next like many people here have touted? How this can be explained under that pretense? Is this way of problem solving 'thinking'?

New comment by ainiriand in "C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime"

ainiriand — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:12:01 +0000

Crowdstrike level shot in the foot.

New comment by ainiriand in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

ainiriand — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:10:56 +0000

I am ready to ban AI LLMs. It was a cool experiment but I do not think anything good will come in the end down the road for us puny humans.