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New comment by bad_haircut72 in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

bad_haircut72 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:07:10 +0000

They're not saying dont do it, just that its not really a total solution

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

bad_haircut72 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:01:20 +0000

I thi k the 70s was when they saw "oh hey this is gonna be bad" and now we're there.

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

bad_haircut72 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:08:56 +0000

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

bad_haircut72 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:28:50 +0000

Kids who are good at sport excel at it all throughout school years, then once they hit college age the smaller ones dont make it further in American football any more - but they still spent their childhood playing it. In e.g. Uraguay its probably opposite, the naturally heavy guys cant compete at top level soccer (Im guessing) and fall out of professional sports

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

bad_haircut72 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:24:34 +0000

you succumb to the fallacy that because the compiler let it through, the code wont have any error - the erlang mentality says that the compiler/CPU/everything has errors, how do you handle errors in the general sense

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

bad_haircut72 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:19:55 +0000

Im not Jose so I bow to his wisdom but imho thinking about Elixir in types means you arent treating is like a lisp any more, which imho undermines how great Elixir is

in the agent of agents this will probably give us a big boost though so thankyou Elixir team

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

bad_haircut72 — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:54:18 +0000

do you have kids?

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "AI scans 400k Reddit posts and finds hidden Ozempic side effects"

bad_haircut72 — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:44:58 +0000

Postgrad: "Hey claude, scan reddit for side effects of Ozempic that arent officially documented"

Supervisor: Hey was any of this hallucinated?

Postgrad: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas""

bad_haircut72 — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:11:36 +0000

if they asked their latest and greatest model "how do we solve climate change?" and it answered "humanity should deprioritise growth for 2-3 generations to transition to renewables, and AI development should be paused until then" they literally wouldnt listen anyway - so its all bunch of BS

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "Magnifica Humanitas"

bad_haircut72 — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:57:52 +0000

Capitalism is clearning having a moment atm but as far as I know nothing about capitalism demands permanent growth. Capitalism is about private ownership of the means of production (and a complicated system of laws that allow ownership of abstract concepts, like futures contracts). Its the people who always want more - usually the ones who already have the most, and this has been the case since the first kings.

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

bad_haircut72 — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:45:09 +0000

They are concerned with their first objective which is consolidate power. Running an "effective state" is not their goal at this point in time. Infact it helps them as thingn get worse, because every bad thing that happens they spin into being their oppositions fault, which helps with objective no 1

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

bad_haircut72 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:46:14 +0000

Yeah they probably just typed in "Hey Claude, figure out a way to get our inference spend under control - no mistakes!" and shipped it

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

bad_haircut72 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:51:02 +0000

You must have worked for Yelp

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

bad_haircut72 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:44:22 +0000

Think how cheap its gonna be when everyone abandons the cloud providers and they start selling the 50B of hardware they over-invested in

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

bad_haircut72 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:33:07 +0000

Theres a business there for sure - does a business you hate use AI in any customer facing way? make them burn tokens. I would 100% do this to StubHub after they screwed me over. If anyone from StubHub sees this, one day you will regret your "hang up on people with complaints" policy. People dont forget when they've been screwed by a corporation. Anthropic, this happened to me 12+ months ago and StubHub is still on my shit list, you're making enemies for life with all your current BS

My StubHub story: bought $500 tickets and accidentally bought ones in the dsabled seating section. Called 2 minutes after purchase when I realized - their response "you can relist them on the site". Who else was going to buy them?? Nobody did. Any normal human business would let you correct a basic human mistake like this, not even 10 mins after purchase, but not stubhub. They could have upsold me and I probably would have left happy! At least I could have attended. Cost me $500 but cost them a lifetime of emnity

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

bad_haircut72 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:42:34 +0000

Waiting 60s every time I send a msg really kills the ux of claude

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind"

bad_haircut72 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:32:49 +0000

The only biological feature that makes women "better" at handling screaming kids is the inability to do anything about when frustrated men choose to deflect and defer reaponsibility to the helpless women if the tribe, because they are stronger & not physically burdened by child-carrying, usually with violence or threat of violence - for generations in a row, until we all sub-consciously accepted it as a truth.

Like the experiment where the monkeys wouldnt eat bananas for generations after the electric shocker attached to them was removed - they had internalised the idea that bananas gave shocks, we have also internalised these untrue ideas.

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "ChatGPT for Excel"

bad_haircut72 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:08:41 +0000

Because it was drag and drop interface. This existed for HTML but because web pages got too complicated, so did the WYSIWYGs. By just being a program to show slides, the editing experience was manageable for anyone. But if you can hust type what you want to happen into claude, editng experience doesnt matter as much/at all

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "How can I keep from singing?"

bad_haircut72 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:05:19 +0000

Its a spectrum. Mozart was a prodigy at 6. Most people are average, and almost everyone who is good practiced for years, but the people who are really good no doubt had some natural gift.

New comment by bad_haircut72 in "Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable"

bad_haircut72 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:55:49 +0000

Normalize "vibe-plumbing"