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New comment by condour75 in "CVE Tracker"

condour75 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:12:44 +0000

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre"

New comment by condour75 in "Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month"

condour75 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:11:15 +0000

It probably got Copenhagen syndrome

New comment by condour75 in "The Haunted Toys R Us"

condour75 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:49:45 +0000

Maybe it was the ghost of Toys R Us Future (venture capital)

New comment by condour75 in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

condour75 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:24:52 +0000

I guess the question is, does the Dunning Krueger effect apply to models? The dumb ones might think they're up to the task.

New comment by condour75 in "Ember-1"

condour75 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:41:29 +0000

Hamlet's soliloquy but it's about the number of b's in strawberry

New comment by condour75 in "Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?"

condour75 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:41:36 +0000

is this why i increase in mass and volume every year?

New comment by condour75 in "The Universe as a Minified Bundle"

condour75 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:59:23 +0000

Some how I knew this was all a big FU.

New comment by condour75 in "AI-Written Code Is Still Your Code. Are You OK with That?"

condour75 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:51:16 +0000

I’ve settled on a practice of having the agent write a lesson plan with quizzes for me, for any PR or feature of sufficient size to warrant it. It works pretty well and forces me into a back and forth with the model where I otherwise might be tempted to let it do whatever it wants.

I published a skill and short article on the technique I settled on: https://condour.github.io/lesson-plan-quiz/

New comment by condour75 in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

condour75 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:15:38 +0000

Are these even meant to be used though? It seems more like performance art.

New comment by condour75 in "Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)"

condour75 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:35:28 +0000

One good timesaver: debug in the easiest environment that you can reproduce the bug in. For instance, if it’s an issue with a website on an iPad, first see if you reproduce in chrome using the responsive tools in web developer. If that doesn’t work, see if it reproduces in desktop safari. Then the iPad simulator, and only then the real hardware. Saves a lot of frustration and time, and each step towards the actual hardware eliminates a whole category of bugs.

New comment by condour75 in "The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise"

condour75 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:37:05 +0000

But it’s based on a misunderstanding. Xenomorph just means “alien”— it wouldn’t make any sense for that to be the term for that specific alien, because their existence isn’t common knowledge.

New comment by condour75 in "Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery"

condour75 — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 18:06:16 +0000

According to a quick googling, this would be enough density for for short range commuter aircraft to become viable.

https://theicct.org/aviation-global-expecting-electric-jul22...

New comment by condour75 in "PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever"

condour75 — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:50:27 +0000

Also, not the point, but plumbing is very lucrative.

New comment by condour75 in "2000-Watt Society"

condour75 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:02:26 +0000

Solar is getting cheaper by the day, batteries are getting cheaper and more efficient by the day, and there's a ton of money pouring into research. Maybe I'm crazy, but I can see a future, maybe a few decades from now, when power is "too cheap to meter" because of renewables.

New comment by condour75 in "Are we going back to the cable days?"

condour75 — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:48:26 +0000

The cable subscription has commercials. The experience of time shifting and fast forwarding through commercials is inferior to streaming.

Also, a cable bundle forces you to pay for Fox News, which is primarily funded by carriage fees. They wouldn’t last long on robot insurance ads.

New comment by condour75 in "When Greenswashing Backfires – Thank You North Face"

condour75 — Wed, 11 May 2022 19:03:53 +0000

Hell, you could look at it as carbon sequestration.

New comment by condour75 in "Phenomenological Introduction to PID Controllers"

condour75 — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:22:40 +0000

In case anyone else needs it, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller

New comment by condour75 in "What will enter the public domain in 2022"

condour75 — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:44:54 +0000

The movie was okay but I never pictured $$ as looking like Chris Pratt

New comment by condour75 in "First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq"

condour75 — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:35:55 +0000

Martinizr

New comment by condour75 in "Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]"

condour75 — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 03:44:57 +0000

Another factor: office space is expensive. In a past job I remember seeing that the cost for our midtown office was 3000 per month per employee. A company might drastically reduce their costs by having an office that only accommodates some fraction of the staff