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New comment by checkyoursudo in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

checkyoursudo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:05:07 +0000

This seems ripe for a joke akin to "how was the food?" "bad, but at least the portions were big!"

Like, "how was the medical advice" "worse than a doc's, but at least it was cheaper!"

New comment by checkyoursudo in "Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geothermal power plant, in Utah"

checkyoursudo — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 23:32:21 +0000

One statue of liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World, Liberty Island, NYC) is approximately 4 times the size of one statue of liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World replica, Île aux Cygnes, Paris).

Easy peasy.

New comment by checkyoursudo in "An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia"

checkyoursudo — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:03:57 +0000

I am sympathetic to your analogy. I think it works well enough.

But it falls a bit short in that encyclopedias, lossy or not, shouldn't affirmatively contain false information. The way I would picture a lossy encyclopedia is that it can misdirect by omission, but it would not change A to ¬A.

Maybe a truthy-roulette enclyclopedia?

New comment by checkyoursudo in "Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial"

checkyoursudo — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:20:51 +0000

I am not sure I would rely on observations of gyms and beaches for whether people are healthier for fear of selection bias. Going to the beach and seeing mostly fit bathers is like going to the hospital and seeing mostly sick people and thinking that can be generalized to society.

Why would you ask old people if young people are healthier than they were? Surely, Spain compiles medical statistics.

Anyway, Spain appears to have the same weight issues as everywhere else:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9105543/

New comment by checkyoursudo in "Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules"

checkyoursudo — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 22:21:56 +0000

I send texts via voice command/dictation all the time. How would this be distinguished?

New comment by checkyoursudo in "AI Horseless Carriages"

checkyoursudo — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:31:25 +0000

Isn't a solution to assign vicarious liability to whomever approves the use of the decision-making machine?

New comment by checkyoursudo in "Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered"

checkyoursudo — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:06:23 +0000

Humans do like to fuck.

Numbering should start at zero (1982)

checkyoursudo — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:35:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43433599

Points: 107

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New comment by checkyoursudo in "MacBook Air M4"

checkyoursudo — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 09:53:47 +0000

NB: "the only one that does[n't] make my finger pads feel sore is the macbook"

New comment by checkyoursudo in "MacBook Air M4"

checkyoursudo — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:41:08 +0000

This is seriously the thing I like the most about my 2017 and 2023 macbooks. The trackpad feels so good. Every other manufacturer that I have tried, and no it is not all of them but a lot, they all make my fingers feel bad after using them. I don't know if they are rougher or textured somehow? The only one that does make my finger pads feel sore is the macbook.

New comment by checkyoursudo in "Gambling on papal conclaves"

checkyoursudo — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:49:12 +0000

Surely the hopes for Pope Pizzaballa is in part because of his name?

New comment by checkyoursudo in "Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US"

checkyoursudo — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:38:54 +0000

I would pay $500bn to get siri to distinguish between a 13 minute timer and a 30 minute timer.

New comment by checkyoursudo in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"

checkyoursudo — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:34:09 +0000

This is what I do. I cannot call it Twitter anymore because that makes me sad (I miss you Twitter 2008-2016). I cannot call it X because that is dumb. So Xitter it is.

New comment by checkyoursudo in "LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future"

checkyoursudo — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:51:55 +0000

That is an interesting question: do people generally care about the survival of the species?

I am not actually sure I wouldn't take the bet against you there. Given what I perceive about how little people care about wars that they think do not affect them, poverty, hunger, climate change, corruption, sustainability, etc ... I don't know.

I believe 95% of people would say they care about humanity's survival, sure, but the proof would be in action. How many people would actually do something about it? How many people would even merely inconvenience themselves if it meant the survival of someone other than themselves? I am not that confident about how many people that would be.

I do not usually think of myself as a pessimistic or nihilistic person, but this has me wondering even now whether I care about the long-term survival of the species. Like, really long term. Do I care if humans are around 10,000 years from now? 500? That is an interesting question. I will have to think about it.

New comment by checkyoursudo in "Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany"

checkyoursudo — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:06:53 +0000

Why is Musk attacking these things in the EU? Why does he care what we do?

New comment by checkyoursudo in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

checkyoursudo — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:31:31 +0000

That is not at all what that says...

New comment by checkyoursudo in "VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data"

checkyoursudo — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:13:20 +0000

I try, too. It is less and less possible every day.

New comment by checkyoursudo in "VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data"

checkyoursudo — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:12:51 +0000

What are the financial reasons for governments to want mass surveillance? I can understand some other reasons, which I think are illegitimate, but I cannot think of a financial reason.

At any rate, governments are all made of people who are also tracked at all times. Just because some parts of government would like mass surveillance, why would legislators who can do something about it be okay with having their car be constantly monitored by private parties or the police or anyone?

Why would legislators, donors, and lobbyists be okay with their own location data (and in some extreme cases like with Nissan their "sexual behaviors" etc) being sold to data brokers, for example?

New comment by checkyoursudo in "VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data"

checkyoursudo — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 11:55:31 +0000

I have a really hard time understanding why we as a society (or various societies) are okay these kinds of things.

Sure, I understand that there is little I can do about it, but why are powerful people okay with their car company or phone company knowing everything about them?

Are people in California and the EU at least covered by data privacy laws?

New comment by checkyoursudo in "New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm"

checkyoursudo — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:30:13 +0000

I have been meaning to try it. Is it best to get a new phone, or will any old model work fine?