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New comment by asteroidburger in "JetBrains Thinkrail"

asteroidburger — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:28:15 +0000

Why does AI-generated imply "not bothered" to you? If I take all of my design docs/specs, all of the existing repo, and I tell an agent that I'd like to make a readme that contains things X, Y, and Z, what's the problem?

Rejecting slop doesn't imply rejecting all AI-generated text wholesale.

New comment by asteroidburger in "British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled"

asteroidburger — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:59:34 +0000

The whole "recording glasses" thing puts a damper on that.

New comment by asteroidburger in "British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled"

asteroidburger — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:57:38 +0000

It's much more obvious that someone is holding up their phone to record than someone wearing glasses containing an inconspicuous camera and recording LED that may have been tampered with.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?"

asteroidburger — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:40:51 +0000

I'm now printing my 3rd or 4th totally Claude-generated 3d printed custom project enclosure. Opus 5.5 is quite good - it's been generating CadQuery scripts and exporting them as STL for me, along with image previews and so on.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Apple HomeView"

asteroidburger — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:36:00 +0000

My phone is gross; I don't want it on the kitchen counter or to touch it when I'm cooking.

It'll be much easier to clean the Homeview's big screen vs trying to clean all of the nooks and crannies on a phone (+case).

New comment by asteroidburger in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

asteroidburger — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:19:00 +0000

Shopify seems to be helping paper over that. I've recently gotten into a hobby of 3d printer modifications (prints are great, but I also seem to like modifying and repairing just as much), and I've been broadening my online shopping horizons as a result. Quite a few "standalone" stores online are linked into Shopify.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp"

asteroidburger — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:24:47 +0000

Businesses should be using WhatsApp business accounts. They cost money per message sent and don’t support groups, but it’s the officially sanctioned way to do it.

New comment by asteroidburger in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

asteroidburger — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:31:38 +0000

It's a time sharing agreement, just like old-school mainframes and such. You're not getting a full machine to yourself, but a few cycles at a time.

New comment by asteroidburger in "FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued"

asteroidburger — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:02:40 +0000

Yeah, I just run bare Debian myself. It's really not hard to setup LVM and Samba. And all of the major frontier models are well-versed in those things, so I used their help to get all of the various bits setup to make access from MacOS fast.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets"

asteroidburger — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:53:12 +0000

Oh I totally love sampling all the new-to-me snacks. And they make great gifts for back home too. (Just mind what your country does and does not allow across its borders.)

New comment by asteroidburger in "Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny"

asteroidburger — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:49:38 +0000

Does Axon offer the same sort of national, single-database that Flock does?

I'm far more inclined to trust my local department to manage their own database vs. a single database that everyone contributes to and reads from.

New comment by asteroidburger in "In South Korea, some savour last season of legal dog meat"

asteroidburger — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:15:59 +0000

Yes; I've genuinely lost track of how many countries I've been to - and I'm not referring to layovers. It is possible for one to forget about the cultural nuances of a country literally on the other side of the planet, though. Apologies for not appealing to your own specific experiences. And if that's your takeaway, you're missing the point entirely.

New comment by asteroidburger in "In South Korea, some savour last season of legal dog meat"

asteroidburger — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:16:01 +0000

> Other than in terms of human opinion

That's the point though. We don't eat horse either in many areas, for the same reason. Ever heard the phrase, "cattle, not pets" when referring to managing systems? As humans, we tend to form bonds with specific individual dogs, cats, horses, etc. But cattle, not really. That's not to say the animal doesn't have the ability, but they don't easily fit into our lifestyle. (I can let a dog loose in my house while I go to work - a cow, not so much.)

New comment by asteroidburger in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

asteroidburger — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:02:40 +0000

No, we need to transfer a lot of power instead. So those with 800v cars need to be mindful to visit certain charger stations/types over other ones in order to get a fast charge, vs relying on the car to boost it from an older station.

New comment by asteroidburger in "A handful of cities have replaced Flock with Axon"

asteroidburger — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:41:04 +0000

It’s not a technical limitation. Nobody sees the need to build it that way though.

New comment by asteroidburger in "LG ThinQ Terms of Use"

asteroidburger — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:08:21 +0000

I concur about the picture quality of their OLEDs - it's incredible. But I can't say anything about their interface or software - I've not seen them for probably a year+ at this point. The Apple TV remote turns it off/on, and adjusts the volume. The LG has not been provided internet access.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro"

asteroidburger — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:54:57 +0000

Have you tried /usr/bin/say ? Might already have something sufficient for you - there’s quite a few voices there.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Africans Are Turning to Starlink"

asteroidburger — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:14:34 +0000

Is anyone actually running new telecom copper these days? I’d be surprised if so.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

asteroidburger — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:15:21 +0000

Looking forward to reading about it in The Lancet or another respected medical publication.

New comment by asteroidburger in "10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module"

asteroidburger — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:00:48 +0000

If the cabling was installed before the drywall, good chance it's stapled.