Hacker News: annoyingnoob

New comment by annoyingnoob in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

annoyingnoob — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:08:52 +0000

Try an F150 Lightning with the Extended Battery

New comment by annoyingnoob in "We won't "just hang out""

annoyingnoob — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:00:57 +0000

You would be dependent on some entity running the hardware and then your instance on that hardware. What if they just shut you off? What happens to senses and emotions?

The Singularity has some holes that I'm not comfortable with.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name"

annoyingnoob — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:10:56 +0000

Yes. My brother is a retired Public Defender. There are crazier stories.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude"

annoyingnoob — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:54:28 +0000

Ok, sure, why doesn't sand feel pain?

New comment by annoyingnoob in "Theranos.world"

annoyingnoob — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:24:41 +0000

There is no way to run for the door.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude"

annoyingnoob — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:33:37 +0000

If the sidewalk said "Ouch!" when you walked on it, what would you do? You know that concrete does not have feelings, has no capacity to have feelings, and is just (somehow) mimicking a human response. You know you can walk on the sidewalk without hurting the sidewalk. What would you do if the sidewalk complained? Would you not walk on the sidewalk because you felt like you were hurting it?

I would walk on the sidewalk and report the complaints as bugs. You can't torture sand, in the sidewalk or in a processor.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "Can you solve the three cloaks enigma?"

annoyingnoob — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:58:00 +0000

Does not explain what it is before requiring a working email address. I suppose it ends in "Thanks for the contact that I'm now selling!"

New comment by annoyingnoob in "Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market"

annoyingnoob — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:56:08 +0000

Same for small business or any small buyer.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline"

annoyingnoob — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:00:38 +0000

Hey just like my car, when it is in public you can't expect privacy. The cameras cam track us in public but we can't track the cameras in public? Sorry if you take away my privacy then I'll take away yours too. Everything tracked, logged, and cataloged.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "Factorio that you can touch"

annoyingnoob — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:34:51 +0000

I imagine it takes a football field and a small building full of pieces. Sounds like fun!

New comment by annoyingnoob in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

annoyingnoob — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:23:18 +0000

> it would just not be worth it

That is my entire point. Even with many smaller pipes it has not been worth it. A big trench is just more affordable and covering it is probably a better option than replacing it.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

annoyingnoob — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:04:19 +0000

https://wonderfulengineering.com/world-record-underwater-shi...

New comment by annoyingnoob in "Comma's hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes"

annoyingnoob — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:59:16 +0000

According to the article: Comma.ai’s own website states that the “performance” of openpilot Adaptive Cruise Control can be affected by “vehicles in the same lane that are not moving.”

Seems the AI view of the road is kind of like the game Cruis'n where the road just moves forward and you can hit things in the road and keep going. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cruis%27n

To be honest though, I have a Ford with soke form of Blue Cruise. On the highway in certain areas it can pretty much drive itself. It is terrible in traffic, cant see more than one car ahead and slams on the brakes to stop - it freaks me out, I don't drive like that. Systems like these and seemingly Comma's do not appear to have enough information to know what to do in certain situations, it is why the Ford system is limited to certain situations (and even Ford has issues as in this article).

Maybe I'm old, I haven't been super impressed with these self-driving systems and much prefer to be in control myself.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "No Sloptober"

annoyingnoob — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:23:41 +0000

Use AI ??= Slop

New comment by annoyingnoob in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

annoyingnoob — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:42:45 +0000

According to AI, that pipe would only need to be 43 Feet in diameter, only 43 feet wide. Pretty sure they have that at Home Depot.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB"

annoyingnoob — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:23:31 +0000

Feels like the "ini files" era. I suspect at some point some kind of database is coming for these settings.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business"

annoyingnoob — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:59:11 +0000

I purchased a Taig earlier this year. It is for small stuff and/or softer materials.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue"

annoyingnoob — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:38:19 +0000

I think I have PTSD after that.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "I haven't lost a customer service fight in seven months"

annoyingnoob — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:59:52 +0000

If you leave off the IRS one, I run into little issues all the time. I tend to take the time to fill out the form on principal.

I recently switched car insurance carriers. My old carrier required a phone call to my agent, which I made, but then they never stopped billing me. It took more phone calls to sort it out, I was right in the end. I ended up with a check rather than a bill.

Maybe I'm old and jaded, no corporation is going to take advantage of me without a fight.

New comment by annoyingnoob in "'Old Person Smell'"

annoyingnoob — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:44:38 +0000

So I've noticed this in the past also, stinky sweat especially if I've had any beer. I've also had gout a couple of times and now it seems that the two are related. There are various "tart cherry" supplements available that reduce urea pretty quickly, at least for me.