Hacker News: bobim

New comment by bobim in "πFS"

bobim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:23:18 +0000

This is disturbing to realize that pi then contains all the past and future knowledge, including when I'll pass away.

New comment by bobim in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack"

bobim — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:58:35 +0000

If you've been 20 years in and built the infrastructure you might disagree with new management and have a very clear view on the harm new policies are making. Professionals might be the ones that have skin in the game.

New comment by bobim in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack"

bobim — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:53:56 +0000

As an individual contributor I sell my time, not my soul.

New comment by bobim in "Astronauts on ISS told to shelter as repairs under way to fix air leaks"

bobim — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:02:52 +0000

I didn't realize Buran flew, and flew autonomously. Impressive for the times.

New comment by bobim in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

bobim — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:56:55 +0000

Are there already skills around modelling, simulation and post-processing? Any pointers?

New comment by bobim in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

bobim — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:10:17 +0000

This is also of interest!

New comment by bobim in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

bobim — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:00:46 +0000

Could you share some of your hardware details for Qwen 3.6? And are you using the dense or MoE variant?

New comment by bobim in "DOS Zone"

bobim — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:23:05 +0000

My opinion is that work should be compensated fairly, that's all. I was just highlighting that copyright is a strange exception, the patent system is more fair even if not perfect. 25 years to make money on an idea seems good enough to me.

New comment by bobim in "DOS Zone"

bobim — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:14:32 +0000

True, but in defense of the author site and from a personal perspective, the copyright laws are very skewed and allow for being paid for life for a craft that has been made once. Even heirs benefit from it for life. Isn't that wildly unfair for all the other jobs where you are paid for your work once for all? And irrespectively from the fact that what you designed has been produced by the million and still running...

New comment by bobim in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

bobim — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:42:08 +0000

Ah yes, that explains it all! I'm still learning how to unlearn.

New comment by bobim in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

bobim — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:55:43 +0000

I have rage-quit apple for a C2 and the muscle memory still kicks in after months. The ergonomy of Sailfish is sometimes bizarre, the little top left dot for navigation for example. Still it does everything I need, just with a very bad camera. Let's hope the 2026 will fix that.

New comment by bobim in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

bobim — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:03:03 +0000

It's cheap because we are offsetting the cost if its ultimate pollution onto future generations. We do this for everything else, and nuclear is our best chance for a liveable planet - if we don't want to make the slightest effort to give up on our comfort. But we have the belief that humanity will be able to manage nuclear waste for the next 100k years while we don't know how the pyramids were built... and it was only 3k years ago.

New comment by bobim in "When your digital life vanishes"

bobim — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:34:58 +0000

Sailfish has a native Nextcloud integration, photos land on your home server without any user action. On iOS it requires opening the app from time to time.

New comment by bobim in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

bobim — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:43:06 +0000

A court could rule the seizing of a flat I rent to pay up my debts? I'm not getting how this could be legal.

New comment by bobim in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

bobim — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:49:29 +0000

Maybe GM is still the legal owner since they were all leased, so that would be a possible sad outcome.

New comment by bobim in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

bobim — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:55:45 +0000

Well, in the end user agreement there are usually clauses that forbids it. It's tolerated in some geographies for interoperability, research and infosec, but you agreed on ToS already.

New comment by bobim in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

bobim — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:52:41 +0000

Won't they sue for the reverse engineering?

New comment by bobim in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

bobim — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:32:36 +0000

Then make it an universal income, because deep down everyone is an artist waiting to be revealed.

New comment by bobim in "The Tulip Creative Computer"

bobim — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:59:05 +0000

Why not passing it on to some friends?

New comment by bobim in "Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors"

bobim — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:51:15 +0000

Probably not as lungs are behind the rib cage and filled with air, making two sources of spurious reflections that could be dangerous with high intensity ultrasounds.