Hacker News: barfingclouds

New comment by barfingclouds in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

barfingclouds — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:13:10 +0000

I’m no tech expert like a lot of people here, but I find Gemini 3.0 insanely good for my regular daily questions. Hoping this one is great too. I’m kind of at the point where many answers are essentially perfect and I don’t know if I need much more

New comment by barfingclouds in "Gemini 2.5 Flash"

barfingclouds — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:46:51 +0000

I just need the Gemini app to allow push to talk :( Otherwise it’s not usable for me in the way I want it to be

New comment by barfingclouds in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

barfingclouds — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 03:08:51 +0000

The left has been authoritarian. Rewind the clock to 2018, and speak your mind freely on a college campus and at some point you’ll say something that makes you lose your job. That’s one of many examples of the left being actually authoritarian.

I’m not saying two wrongs make a right and I’m not justifying the current administration. But if we look to how we got here, that’s a lot of why, if not mostly why.

New comment by barfingclouds in "Claude can now search the web"

barfingclouds — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:40:53 +0000

Yeah I have to manually hold it down every time I talk. I have a lot of pauses and simply would not be able to interface with that without that option. It’s why I essentially can’t use Gemini voice mode

New comment by barfingclouds in "GPT-4.5"

barfingclouds — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:07:53 +0000

There’s a grok app for iPhone that’s basically the same as ChatGPT/deepseek/mistral/gemini/claude

New comment by barfingclouds in "California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots"

barfingclouds — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 04:12:43 +0000

Yes please

New comment by barfingclouds in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

barfingclouds — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:17:28 +0000

Yeah it’s about that algorithms could radicalize the population or turn them against each other

New comment by barfingclouds in "More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market"

barfingclouds — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 03:44:29 +0000

Yep this is the craziest part. The answer has been known for a long time. S&P500. Literally that simple

New comment by barfingclouds in "FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices"

barfingclouds — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:36:45 +0000

Nice I might do this method too

New comment by barfingclouds in "Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history"

barfingclouds — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 10:31:00 +0000

So that’s it for Magnus Carlson’s perfect streak?

New comment by barfingclouds in "Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment"

barfingclouds — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 20:00:32 +0000

As someone who lived in LA, the air quality is usually moderate or above, like all the time. I consider that not good

New comment by barfingclouds in "California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones"

barfingclouds — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:54:13 +0000

I’m from Oregon suburbs right by Intel’s largest campus. I went to all public schools and I was really fortunate that for the most part I was able to intellectually explore and take advanced classes. I took full courseloads in high school instead of having empty periods like most of my peers. I entered college as a a junior credit wise. What I read about California often horrifies me

New comment by barfingclouds in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

barfingclouds — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:03:25 +0000

Well competitors are going to have to use SpaceX rockets to get their satellites up. So no matter what SpaceX is winning

New comment by barfingclouds in "Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT"

barfingclouds — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:43:19 +0000

Very much this

New comment by barfingclouds in "Maybe Bluesky has "won""

barfingclouds — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 02:36:23 +0000

I have bluesky and mastodon accounts and I’m always surprised at how people extreme people call them. I have them just as my music/photography accounts. So the people I add are doing the same stuff. My feed is just as extreme as Flickr aka zero extremeness. Just pictures of bridges and music and normal thoughts.

New comment by barfingclouds in "ChatGPT Search"

barfingclouds — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:56:12 +0000

Perplexity has already been doing this for a long time and it’s pretty excellent. I use it daily

New comment by barfingclouds in "New Mac Mini with M4"

barfingclouds — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:06:16 +0000

I bought a portable AC battery for my Mac mini for $65. Hard agree though that it would be a lot cooler if the conversion was in the cable so I could just do dc in.

The thing is, M chips run so efficiently that even with the power loss from conversion, it’s still pulling less power than a lot of PCs.

But yeah it running on a sleek dc battery would be a lot cooler

New comment by barfingclouds in "New Mac Mini with M4"

barfingclouds — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:01:46 +0000

If I’m someone who does not super high intensity photo and video work, is a usb 3.2 gen 2 aka ~1 GB/s speeds fine in a hard drive?

New comment by barfingclouds in "New Mac Mini with M4"

barfingclouds — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:57:31 +0000

I got the Mac mini m1 as my first Apple computer recently (used). It’s really cool. It never heats up ever

New comment by barfingclouds in "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris"

barfingclouds — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 21:54:19 +0000

Weird, because in Trump’s last presidency he was pretty anti Jeff Bezos. But I guess however they feel about each other, the assumed business tax benefits of a trump presidency make him want trump