Hacker News: blablablerg

New comment by blablablerg in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

blablablerg — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:16:23 +0000

Ah yes, a reply in true hacker fashion, if people only were that binary. Just don't use, then addiction wouldn't be a thing! Problem solved. We can see it all around, the now 55 years war on drugs has been a great success!

I'm not sure if you ever had to deal with someone addicted close to you, but it is heartbreaking. They are already ashamed of themselves and suffer. The last thing you want to do is take away their dignity, because that shuts them out and puts the path to recovery even further. They are still humans you know, just with a problem. They need help, not a trashing. That they are already doing to themselves.

New comment by blablablerg in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

blablablerg — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:50:29 +0000

Yes.

New comment by blablablerg in "Prepare for That Stupid World"

blablablerg — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:58:19 +0000

> Automated snack vending machine is a solved problem since nearly a century.

Yes, but as stated by the Anthropic guy, a LLM/AI running a business is not. Or would you just let it run wild in the real world?

And I agree that there is a PR angle here, for Anthropic could have tested it in a more isolated environment, but it is a unique experiment with current advancements in technology, so why wouldn't that be newsworthy? I found it insightful, fun and goofy. I think it is great journalism, because too often journalism is serious, sad and depressing.

> None of the world class journalists seemed to care. They are probably too badly paid for that.

The journalists were clearly taking the piss.They concluded experiment was a disaster. How negative does the author want them to be about a silly experiment?

This was just a little bit of fun and I quite enjoyed the video. The author is missing the point.

New comment by blablablerg in "Game design is simple"

blablablerg — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:37:32 +0000

It is an interesting article but I find the slides inserted without much context to be confusing.. or is that part of the game?

New comment by blablablerg in "Always Invite Anna"

blablablerg — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:14:57 +0000

I'll go against the grain here. If I invite someone a couple of times, and constantly get declined no way I'll invite that person anymore, because I make an effort to invite you. Declining (repeatedly) makes me feel like an ass for inviting you. And I want friends that respond, not friends that reject me. Wanting to be invited just to decline sounds.. egotistical to me. A relationship is a two way street, and being that shy is a you problem.

To even be more cynical, maybe Alexei wanted something more from Anna? Because I certainly haven't seen people invite someone to repeatedly get declined.

New comment by blablablerg in "GPT-5"

blablablerg — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:58:12 +0000

For fun, I asked it how much better it is than GPT-4. It started a rap battle against itself :P

https://chatgpt.com/share/6895d5da-8884-8003-bf9d-1e191b11d3...

New comment by blablablerg in "Always On, Always Connected, Always Searching, Always Distracted"

blablablerg — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:19:41 +0000

Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals. -- Baudrillard

New comment by blablablerg in "Use AI code tools as collaborators, not crutches"

blablablerg — Fri, 30 May 2025 20:31:47 +0000

Nice vibe writing.

New comment by blablablerg in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

blablablerg — Mon, 26 May 2025 08:04:09 +0000

Who claimed that?

New comment by blablablerg in "Dijkstra on Ada"

blablablerg — Thu, 22 May 2025 07:01:57 +0000

And you don't think he would adjust like Linus for example?

New comment by blablablerg in "Human"

blablablerg — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:27:02 +0000

Instead of an anthropocentric vision, you present here a "compucentric" vision, reminiscent of the works of Douglas Hofstadter, where the universe renders code, awareness reprograms, and everything is a recursive pattern. (This is Hacker News after all.)

The final authority in this story is then the universal computer (for lack of an operator or programmer of the computer) which executes this recursive function, creating these evolving forms of awareness and such.

The anthropocentric vision, in that we are the source of or own reality, is then for me instead much more believable, since the "compucentric" vision is after all thought up by a human without any evidence pointing toward the existence of such an universal computer.

New comment by blablablerg in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

blablablerg — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:57:54 +0000

Only a small percentage of people are willing to pay for internet services. It is psychology and competition between the sites who offer services for free vs requiring payment. Paying for a service is a barrier to entry, while getting it for free and selling your data instead is not perceived as such. That is why all the big sites never would've taken off if they had paywalls.

New comment by blablablerg in "Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster"

blablablerg — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:34:12 +0000

It is, because you are wasting time reinventing the wheel. Also if something is already well researched, you might miss intricacies, traps, optimizations etc. previous researchers have stumbled upon.

New comment by blablablerg in "What about K?"

blablablerg — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:05:08 +0000

"K is a general-purpose programming language that excels as a tool for data wrangling, analytics and transformation."

How does it compare to R/tidyverse?

New comment by blablablerg in "Are rotary mixers better?"

blablablerg — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:10:11 +0000

You can't do (or it is much more involved) to do cuts with rotary knobs. So they serve only the DJ who does slow mixes, while with faders you can do both.

New comment by blablablerg in "Fairness and kindness are not weaknesses"

blablablerg — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 21:23:30 +0000

(Too much) empathy can definitely be a weakness. It is situational however, in a safe and peaceful environment it is beneficial and helpful, in less fortunate environments it can make you a target.

New comment by blablablerg in "Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS"

blablablerg — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:53:39 +0000

Not all, kernel level anticheat with the big multiplayer games is a problem these days (areweanticheatyet.com), but other than that, most titles work.

New comment by blablablerg in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

blablablerg — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:30:12 +0000

It is a very big difference to publicly blame your now ex-CEO for basically lying ("not consistently candid") versus just a polite parting message based on personal differences or whatever. To attribute direct blame to Sam like this, something severe must have happened. You only do it like this to your ex-CEO when you are very pissed.

New comment by blablablerg in "LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter"

blablablerg — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 04:44:16 +0000

Brorbror.. your brother's brother?

New comment by blablablerg in "Xfce Wayland Development Roadmap"

blablablerg — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:15:58 +0000

Not so sure that VR will take off that much, or that soon. The Apple Vision Pro is still pretty heavy, working for hours with that thing, well I hope you have strong neck muscles.