Hacker News: causality0

New comment by causality0 in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

causality0 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:23:17 +0000

I've always had the exact opposite problem. If I read or use my phone I'm fine. If I try to look around while the car is in motion I get more and more nauseated until after about 40 minutes I can barely walk when we finally stop.

New comment by causality0 in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

causality0 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:09:16 +0000

One of the most user-hostile companies on earth. My John Deere lawnmower came with a fuel gauge that runs off a CR2032 that's embedded in epoxy. The battery runs out of charge in about six months and the gauge stops working. If you saw the gauge open and replace the battery it doesn't start working again. If you disconnect the gauge the lawnmower won't start. Replacement gauges are $60.

New comment by causality0 in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

causality0 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:10:16 +0000

Yes, but you'd need raytracing to accurately replicate the lighting in real time.

New comment by causality0 in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

causality0 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:14:44 +0000

Ever since raytracing graphics cards came out I've wondered why no game studio has ever tried to recreate the look and feel of Toy Story. There's something about the combination of detailed lighting, high-poly models, but low-eyes textures and primitive animations that really appeals to me.

New comment by causality0 in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

causality0 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:47:03 +0000

It made me very sad when he stopped regularly writing those.

New comment by causality0 in "Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)"

causality0 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:06:18 +0000

Used to love? What changed? PIA hasn't always had the best performance but they are on the list of VPNs who were subpoenaed and had no data to give the court.

New comment by causality0 in "Designing NotebookLM"

causality0 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:13:26 +0000

I really wish NotebookLM would hurry up and open a payment tier where they don't harvest your data. We'd love to deploy it across our org but control of sensitive information is a requirement.

New comment by causality0 in "Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation"

causality0 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:54:01 +0000

I stopped using Dropbox when they started limiting free accounts to three devices and I suddenly got a lot of confused and irritated messages from all the people I'd evangelized into using Dropbox.

New comment by causality0 in "The Storm Hits the Art Market"

causality0 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 02:05:47 +0000

There are people who think the art world isn't 10% fools and 90% money laundering?

New comment by causality0 in "Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25"

causality0 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 03:05:19 +0000

Did anybody not see this coming the day Google fucked over all their Revolv customers in order to force them to buy into the Nest ecosystem?

New comment by causality0 in "Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility"

causality0 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:12:26 +0000

I don't think it's a coincidence that both Switch 1 and Switch 2's usb-c compliance is a shambling wreck. It's pretty clear to me it's a good way to sow doubt and disability in the industry of third-party docks while maintaining perfect plausible deniability.

New comment by causality0 in "Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs"

causality0 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:41:28 +0000

An adult contracts with the ISP. The ISP provides unfiltered internet access to the adult. It is the adult who then chooses to provide access to adult, social, or otherwise-restricted websites to children. I don't see how this isn't obvious to any court.

New comment by causality0 in "Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux"

causality0 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 21:43:07 +0000

I always get like three weeks into using Linux and then find out some obscure functionality is missing in a super annoying way. "Oh sorry, you can't use that model of touchscreen and a Bluetooth mouse at the same time"

New comment by causality0 in "From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]"

causality0 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:22:41 +0000

I've definitely seen some unexpected behavior from gpt5. For example, it will tell me my query is banned and then give me a full answer anyway.

New comment by causality0 in "The contrarian physics podcast subculture"

causality0 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 01:51:33 +0000

I stopped being willing to consume any of her content after she made that video about "Academia is terrible and everyone I worked with were poopyheads and that's why I have to make these videos even though I hate it and all my viewers are stupid losers".

New comment by causality0 in ""Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit"

causality0 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:22:41 +0000

From logical standpoint it seems pretty obvious that the person providing children access to porn is their parents when they give them an unfiltered internet connection, not the porn websites. God forbid we actually require parents to, you know, parent.

New comment by causality0 in "GPT-5"

causality0 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:48:31 +0000

Mental-modeling is one of the huge gaps in AI performance right now in my opinion. I could describe in detail a very strange object or situation to a human being with a pen and paper and then ask them questions about it and expect answers that meet all my described constraints. AI just isn't good for that yet.

New comment by causality0 in "ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop"

causality0 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:26:24 +0000

I can't believe there's more of a market for this thing than there is for laptops with actual mouse buttons below the touchpad.

New comment by causality0 in "Sign in with Google in Chrome"

causality0 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:38:19 +0000

"Sign in with Google" has become the new un-blockable popup for me. I fucking hate it.

New comment by causality0 in "Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8"

causality0 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:08:16 +0000

My S24 Ultra is unlocked and rooted and I use DeX every day.