Hacker News: appletrotter

New comment by appletrotter in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

appletrotter — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:13:14 +0000

> Being pedantically correct would ruin the intended rhetorical point of reversing the standard phrase, though

Maybe it's a sign

New comment by appletrotter in "Bird brains (2023)"

appletrotter — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:38:56 +0000

> That all being said, every animal has it's own personality. So it's best to match them with an environment that fits their personal needs.

New comment by appletrotter in "A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging"

appletrotter — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:34:25 +0000

That's a lot of words to explain a simple concept

New comment by appletrotter in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

appletrotter — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:00:45 +0000

Very astute observation. Might I even add, as humans we never know when our last day could be. So I find it silly to gamble, since I could easily die in a car accident on my way to pick up my winnings.

New comment by appletrotter in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

appletrotter — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:53:01 +0000

> You have to stuck with an OS that sucks, while in the PC market you have plenty of OS choices, Windows, a million of Linux distributions

Windows is 10x more enshittified than OSX

> An Apple machine is basically throw away: no component inside can be upgraded, you need more RAM? Throw it away and buy a new one.

Tell that to all the people rocking 5-10 year old macbook that still run great

New comment by appletrotter in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

appletrotter — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:21:42 +0000

Germany?

New comment by appletrotter in "So where are all the AI apps?"

appletrotter — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:58:56 +0000

"Everything that can be invented has been invented"

Ah my favorite, entirely made up quote.

Apocraphyly attributed to the U.S. Patent Office Commissioner in 1899.

New comment by appletrotter in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

appletrotter — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:25:43 +0000

This is apocraphyl :(

New comment by appletrotter in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

appletrotter — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:09:13 +0000

Undefeated when they break into your home

New comment by appletrotter in "WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system"

appletrotter — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:15:52 +0000

Insufficient granularity of data

New comment by appletrotter in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

appletrotter — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:02:12 +0000

Probably a bit, at least some execs might want to have some cool shit on their resumes

New comment by appletrotter in "A new AI winter is coming?"

appletrotter — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:56:42 +0000

Your response is crazy to me. Humans are known to be remarkably inconsistent in behavior. Please read ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ or at least go back your HS psych 101 notes.

> Humans have the meta-cognitive abilities to understand when their abilities are insufficient or when they need to reinforce their own understanding

Two word reply: dunning kruger

New comment by appletrotter in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

appletrotter — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:24:18 +0000

I feel like this rhetorical question of yours was reductive enough to constitute B&W thinking

> So your argument is that Bell Labs should have never happened? It was a bad thing for humanity?

A person can appreciate the contributions of Bell Labs while still agreeing with the decision to ultimately have broken up the company.

New comment by appletrotter in "Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles"

appletrotter — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:17:51 +0000

I’m betting on waymo because they use lidar

New comment by appletrotter in "Post World War II Food"

appletrotter — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:16:01 +0000

Because processed foods are associated with many health complications.

Sources to back your theorem on the cause of obesity?

New comment by appletrotter in "Post World War II Food"

appletrotter — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:13:46 +0000

What? What would make you think that dehydrating a food would make it go bad quicker?

New comment by appletrotter in "ChatGPT's Name Bias and Apple's Findings on AI's Lack of Reasoning"

appletrotter — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 16:13:03 +0000

I believe that they can already solve novel problems. I can’t find a link but I’ve seen something where ai-skeptical researchers were surprised by chatgpt’s ability to solve certain problems that absolutely wouldn’t be in its dataset.

But of course LLMs can’t handle basic math

New comment by appletrotter in "ReMarkable Paper Pro"

appletrotter — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 22:33:51 +0000

Many of those projects are defunct, remarkable hacking is truly in a dark ace.

New comment by appletrotter in "ReMarkable Paper Pro"

appletrotter — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 22:30:13 +0000

The Google drive integration is completely different to the connect one.

It’s not automatic, it’s manual.

It works essentially in the same way that the ‘send to email’ feature works. Which means if you make a change to a file, you have to delete the file on gdrive and reupload it.

New comment by appletrotter in "Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business"

appletrotter — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:20:27 +0000

Not uncommon