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New comment by chasd00 in "The AirPods Effect"

chasd00 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:08:40 +0000

I think ears adapt to silence the way eyes adapt to darkness. When camping on some land I have is SE Oklahoma it’s so quiet I eventually begin to hear the conversations of our neighbors on their porch maybe a 1/2 mile away.

New comment by chasd00 in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

chasd00 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:31:38 +0000

I’m definitely pro coyote but they’ve been known to snatch a leashed small dog while on a walk in Texas exurbs.

New comment by chasd00 in "Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost"

chasd00 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:09:31 +0000

They are not transforming the drug just the form. For example, elderly patients may have a hard time swallowing pills, for some medicines (not all) a compounding pharmacy can turn the pill into a lollipop. They can also turn things into like a cream or lotion.

/use to write code for a small independent pharmacy that had a couple compounding labs

New comment by chasd00 in "The AirPods Effect"

chasd00 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:11:22 +0000

The only interaction you’re missing in ops post is politely asking them to turn it down and being told very aggressively to “shut the fuck up!”.

New comment by chasd00 in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

chasd00 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:17:44 +0000

When oil hits even $145/bbl come back here and say “I told you so”. Until then I firmly believe oil will never get to anywhere close to $160/bbl.

New comment by chasd00 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

chasd00 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:52:47 +0000

It’s not real money, there’s no check being written for that amount and then deposited into someone’s bank account.

New comment by chasd00 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

chasd00 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:50:43 +0000

> I can open my website in the Cursor in-app browser and just click and reference stuff.

I’ve never used cursor and have only seen it in a couple work lunch and learn demos. I’ve never seen that feature. I have a lot of use cases where I’m asking cc to move a widget down a little bit or make a data table full width etc. Being able to reference the actual UI would be useful.

New comment by chasd00 in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

chasd00 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:01:22 +0000

I got an old hp elitedesk off of eBay, I don’t remember the cpu but it has 8 gig of ram and an ssd. Ubuntu+dokku and it runs all my self hosted stuff.

New comment by chasd00 in "How to earn a billion dollars"

chasd00 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:45:56 +0000

Isn’t Oprah Winfrey the left’s beloved billionaire and the one who actually “earned it”? I wonder if AOC would say Oprah is unethical and immoral.

Edit: I’d like AOC to publicly say Taylor Swift is unethical and immoral too. Heh the swifties would have her head over that.

New comment by chasd00 in "How to earn a billion dollars"

chasd00 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:42:53 +0000

Funny that it use to be the millionaires everyone hated. I guess there are too many millionaires these days and vilifying them means turning yourself or someone you know into the villain. That’s probably a little too uncomfortable.

New comment by chasd00 in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

chasd00 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:17:00 +0000

This is a truth that many are having a hard time accepting. Getting shoved into the light so fast is blinding.

New comment by chasd00 in "AI coding at home without going broke"

chasd00 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:56:57 +0000

Man I’m using the $20/month sub and it works just fine for me. Granted, I have a family and house and lots of obligations so by the time I hit the limits some other task is due before I can return to coding. If I hit the limits before I have something else to do then I just code by hand or review what has been generated until I can use the agent again. Reviewing agent code is a good way to learn too, agents have shown me different approaches than what I would have done and they’re definitely worth thinking about. Also, fixing their mistakes has helped me write better prompting although being a team lead for half a decade has taught me how to specify what I want very clearly and cc gets it right most of the time haha

About interruptions, one thing AI assisted coding really helps with is coding with constant interruption. I can leave CC for half an hour and return then tell it I had to step away, catch me up, and proceed. This works well for me.

New comment by chasd00 in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

chasd00 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:50:50 +0000

You need a fission bomb to ignite a fusion bomb btw.

New comment by chasd00 in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

chasd00 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:40:21 +0000

From what I’ve read this is just export restrictions. Anthropic is cutting off access to all users for the PR.

New comment by chasd00 in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

chasd00 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:12:25 +0000

Some people are very susceptible to bullying even if they’re in the position of power.

New comment by chasd00 in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

chasd00 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:59:29 +0000

Once as a kid I was at my cousin’s ranch outside of Waxahachie Texas. I was sitting on the steps to his house eating a sandwich when a crow landed about 10 feet away and hopped right up to me. I gave it some of my sandwich and it just flew off. It was very strange, it didn’t seem to fear me at all and just wanted a bite. I told my aunt and she was shocked and not aware of any tame crows at all.

New comment by chasd00 in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

chasd00 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:23:06 +0000

sorry, i only watched a subset of the presentation

New comment by chasd00 in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

chasd00 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:11:53 +0000

i think what op meant is they're instantly out of date. You're not going to be able replace every GPU in your datacenter on every new release from Nvidia and customers are going to go to whoever has the highest performing gear.

New comment by chasd00 in "Apple WWDC 2026"

chasd00 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:57:32 +0000

> they totally sleepwalked through LLM revolution

I don't think so, i don't think they want to be in the LLM laboratory business. They just want to leverage the technology to make money not invent it. Hence the reason why they made a deal with Google to license Gemini, let OpenAI and Anthropic fight it out while Apple just keeps making sales. I think they're betting that in the long run LLMs become a commodity more or less and the major labs go bankrupt/get acquired by their heavy duty investors. I feel like Athropic will goto Amazon (AWS) and OpenAI may end up property of Microsoft. Google will remain Google of course so they're not going anywhere which is probaly why they won the deal with Apple.

I'm pretty confident it's Gemini behind the curtain for Siri.

New comment by chasd00 in "Apple WWDC 2026"

chasd00 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:52:52 +0000

I wonder if visual intelligence can be used to produced code like claudcode can. like highlight a UI component on an app you like and say "implement this for me". I can take screenshots of figma and give it to claude code to implement and it gets it pretty close.