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New comment by bluSCALE4 in "ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study"

bluSCALE4 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:46:07 +0000

Personally, I think the value in ChatGPT in health is not that it's right or wrong but that it encourages you to take an active role in your health and more importantly to try things. I've gone through similar issues with ChatGPT where it's convinced me that if A is true, therefore so must B though that may not be the case.

In the future, I think I'll likely review things with ChatGPT and have an opinion and treat the doctor like a ChatGPT session as well--this is opposed to leading the doctor to what I believe I should be doing. I was dismissive about the doctor's advice because it seemed so obvious but more and more, I feel that most of our issues are caused by habitual, daily mistakes--little things that take hold seasonally or over periods of stress that appear like chronic health issues. At least for me.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

bluSCALE4 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:22:28 +0000

I wasn't aware it does it insidious. I always assumed I miss typed something, not that the phone itself was messing things up.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

bluSCALE4 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:49:46 +0000

Whatever, man, this guy isn't wrong. Look at the example he gave how a camera made it so that anyone could do what only a few could. Novel art is just a candid shot now. It forced art to completely change its values. Much of the same will happen now. The difference is that with the past, we still needed artists to take advantage of them while now, it all can be completely automated. It's disgusting but I'm sure purest thought the same of every innovation.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "The era of jobs is ending"

bluSCALE4 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:45:05 +0000

What food? You mean ultra processed garbage that will kill you?

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"

bluSCALE4 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:38:29 +0000

CSS was a mistake? JavaScript was a mistake, specifically JavaScript frameworks.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"

bluSCALE4 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:58:57 +0000

...the companies will be very pleased.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels"

bluSCALE4 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:09:31 +0000

If eating a "good balanced diet" were easy/normal, we'd have close to zero disease. Supplements are definitely a way to get as close as possible to balance when day to day food intake is chaotic.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels"

bluSCALE4 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:57:02 +0000

I don't agree. As with everything, it requires care. Taking a multivitamin and thinking you're good to go is delusional.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

bluSCALE4 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:55:08 +0000

Use foam, problem solved.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

bluSCALE4 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:11:30 +0000

This is how I feel about some LinkedIn folks that are going all in w/ AI.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals"

bluSCALE4 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:11:11 +0000

Is this the proverbial writing on the wall then?

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "Don't Become a Scientist (1999)"

bluSCALE4 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:52:25 +0000

I disagree. There's a guy that doesn't have much attention that's creating fuel from burning plastic. He got crowdfunded. I also recall finding a website way back when of a dude that explored the old railroad tunnels of downtown Chicago. I would have 100% funded that guy for content.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "Don't Become a Scientist (1999)"

bluSCALE4 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:02:29 +0000

Feels to me a combination of old web with new web tricks is the key. People used to update obscure hobby details but there really was no way to donate. Creators didn't even think to bother to ask. All this democratization talk seems to be the solution.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

bluSCALE4 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:29:32 +0000

This is sort of what I'm afraid of. I reflect on a lot of people I worked with in the past that are a little older than I am now and things were rough. They'd basically try and find side work and make a living off of it but nearly all of them returned to the workforce. Now, jobs are scarce so I'm really thinking that a career change might be in order. With self driving cars posed to take out a chunk of low skilled jobs and with the self imposed AI that will likely cost 25% of IT job shrinkage, the future looks really grim.

Crass's song from the 1981 Systematic Death last verse seems prophetic, "They'd almost paid the mortgage when the system dropped its bomb".

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

bluSCALE4 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:46:49 +0000

You must fight the urge to click on controversial topics. If you mentally subscribe to any fringe idea, the algo immediately feeds you echo chamber / bubble content. It's crazy.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

bluSCALE4 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:44:29 +0000

Yep! I actually mentioned this as well. I did it recently and though I miss some of the recommendations, I can't say I miss them that much.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

bluSCALE4 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:12:02 +0000

Log out and you’ll be even more ashamed.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

bluSCALE4 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:10:50 +0000

Regarding recommendations. I recently disabled history and recommendations and the subscribed tab has everything I’d expect. No more surprises and no more political garbage.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

bluSCALE4 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:34:17 +0000

I'd be interested in knowing if he was multitasking and using a lot of memory. I know wedding photos are usually something you feel rushed to upload so maybe this issue can be made worse depending on system resource availability.

New comment by bluSCALE4 in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

bluSCALE4 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:32:21 +0000

I have Apple Photos but I never thought to use it to automatically import my photos and clean it up. My process is very similar to where you've ended up. Thanks for validating it--I'll never change it.