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New comment by bogdanstanciu in "Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters"

bogdanstanciu — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:23:43 +0000

I was at a Hilton recently and ordered room service - tortilla soup. When it came up, there was no spoon, so I called the front desk. Of course it was an AI, so I said “I just ordered a soup and got no spoon. Can you send me a spoon?”

It goes “got it - we’ll send a spoon up”.

It seems absurdly simple but was pretty impressed at a real implementation of AI that just worked (in what I’d consider an edge case).

New comment by bogdanstanciu in "Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning"

bogdanstanciu — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 02:54:42 +0000

Stress!

Good luck and congrats on launch.

New comment by bogdanstanciu in "How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]"

bogdanstanciu — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 21:25:00 +0000

Always felt AvE stayed the same person he always, the same kind of commentary he always made. Low gov man with low gov sentiments.

New comment by bogdanstanciu in "LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool"

bogdanstanciu — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:52:36 +0000

I wonder how this works if someone in a GDPR country got slurped up somehow. Could they demand the entire LLM be deleted?

Northwestel is being sold by Bell to new Indigenous owned consortium for $1B

bogdanstanciu — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 18:17:43 +0000

Article URL: https://cabinradio.ca/187521/news/economy/infrastructure/telecoms/indigenous-businesses-plan-to-take-ownership-of-northwestel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899377

Points: 2

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New comment by bogdanstanciu in "Kia recalls over 427K Telluride SUVs because they might roll away while parked"

bogdanstanciu — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 20:24:35 +0000

I would buy a Kia or Hyundai because I get the same level of reliability as an American car, but with more creature comforts and at a lower price point.

New comment by bogdanstanciu in "Toronto man uses AirTags to track stolen SUV to Dubai [video]"

bogdanstanciu — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:46:41 +0000

I mostly disagree that it's on the Feds to recover stolen property.

If the Canadian Pacific police is contacted, told "Canadian Pacific has my stolen car, these are the case numbers with 2 different police services, and here is the exact container the car is in", I don't see how the right response is do nothing.

New comment by bogdanstanciu in "Toronto man uses AirTags to track stolen SUV to Dubai [video]"

bogdanstanciu — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:26:57 +0000

The video puts only slight pressure on Canadian Pacific, and major pressure on the federal government...

But if Canadian Pacific was told they have stolen property & continued to ship it - why are they not held responsible? And if exact storage container was spotted, why didn't the railway police try harder to trace the shipper?

New comment by bogdanstanciu in "Intel Xeon Max 9480 Deep-Dive 64GB HBM2e Onboard Like a GPU or AI Accelerator"

bogdanstanciu — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:42:09 +0000

Torque wrenches let you set a max torque and will spin freely+ no longer tighten after they reach it

New comment by bogdanstanciu in "'Atomic Energy' Book Signed by Einstein, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Enola Gay Crew"

bogdanstanciu — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:07:30 +0000

I didn't think above was shade, but I'm only Canadian :(

New comment by bogdanstanciu in "I moved from the US to Sweden after struggling with burnout"

bogdanstanciu — Wed, 31 May 2023 18:21:08 +0000

There's also not that firm belief that cold and dark is bad. You go out on your skidoo, you go cross country skiing, etc etc, and then you return to your cozy home. or go to a sauna.

You drink your fish elixir. You try to prioritize time around the little sunlight there is. Brutal winters are not quite as brutal when you just call em "winter".

Plus dry colds tend to not feel as cold. Ottawa at -10 feels worse than Yellowknife at -25 (imo).

New comment by bogdanstanciu in "I think faster than light travel is possible [video]"

bogdanstanciu — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 16:33:10 +0000

probably mix up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter

New comment by bogdanstanciu in "A plea for culinary modernism (2001) [pdf]"

bogdanstanciu — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:37:51 +0000

Probably a very large difference between a sesame seed, and sesame seed oil that's been extracted (which I believe involves a chemical process)

New comment by bogdanstanciu in "Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech"

bogdanstanciu — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:53:20 +0000

I think these assistants just need to give the user a way to edit interpretations.

A 'debug' area that lets you ask a command, see what was interpreted - and immediately edit or click "that's not what I wanted". But not an afterthought and not a cumbersome process like setting up an automation that is triggered by specific commands.

Imagine telling your voice assistant "You're wrong, as usual" and instead of it giving you the boiler plate "I'm sorry ", it actually offered a way to improve itself.