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New comment by davidmurdoch in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

davidmurdoch — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:02:04 +0000

Yes. And if you can get it to 102F your body will produce heat shock proteins. Which are good for a whole bunch of reasons, but also can be very bad if you have any tumors, as it makes damaged cells more resistant to apoptosis.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

davidmurdoch — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:46:24 +0000

You would need to use use_dynamic_url: true in the manifest to create a unique one.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

davidmurdoch — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:40:54 +0000

It's a joke because Jira is so horrible

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

davidmurdoch — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:06:32 +0000

Still better than jira.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours"

davidmurdoch — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:47:43 +0000

You don't know what plausible means.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours"

davidmurdoch — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:29:22 +0000

> Witnesses and an education ministry official said that the school was located on a compound that was a base for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps until about 15 years ago.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-school-strike-us-mil...

In this case it seems plausible that the military would have an outdated database, and that an LLM would have "known" it wasn't a base anymore, assuming the LLM was trained on documents/maps with this up to date information.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

davidmurdoch — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:57:43 +0000

Incorrect and not even close.

Greenfield is easy because nothing matters yet.

No legacy data. No backwards compatibility. No users depending on uptime. If the architecture is wrong you just rewrite it, rename a few services, and move on.

Maintaining and expanding a real system means every change has consequences. You’re migrating live data, preserving behavior people rely on, and evolving the architecture while the plane is already in the air.

0→1 lets you be bold because you can break things. 1→10M is harder because you can’t.

(I'm just kidding, your dismissal just needed a dismissal to make things balanced again)

New comment by davidmurdoch in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

davidmurdoch — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:46:25 +0000

Why do you think that? I'm looking at getting one.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

davidmurdoch — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:45:51 +0000

I have a hard time believing ANYONE thinks this is a selling point. Literally anyone, including marketing and execs at Microsoft. I think they have just sunk too much money in it to quit, so they keep doubling down.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]"

davidmurdoch — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:39:45 +0000

Watch the video

New comment by davidmurdoch in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

davidmurdoch — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:55:20 +0000

Perhaps. Though Windows has been the majority share even when stack overflow was at it's peak, and before.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

davidmurdoch — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:54:04 +0000

Source?

New comment by davidmurdoch in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

davidmurdoch — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:31:21 +0000

Who is "us" in this case? Majority of devs that took the stack overflow survey use Windows:

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology/#1-computer-...

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%"

davidmurdoch — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:39:50 +0000

From what LDL-C or AboB level to what?

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%"

davidmurdoch — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:36:00 +0000

Oatmeal is extra special because of it has high amounts of beta glucan, a soluble fiber.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "We Will Not Be Divided"

davidmurdoch — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:50:40 +0000

What is this supposed to do? OpenAI is already cozied up and in bed with Dept of War, they're already busy making lots of little surveillance babies.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

davidmurdoch — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:20:23 +0000

Every country is going to arm themselves with AI.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

davidmurdoch — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:02:14 +0000

> Both of these bodies are currently controlled by Trump's party

Is it not the other way around? The party controls Trump?

New comment by davidmurdoch in "Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas"

davidmurdoch — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:25:25 +0000

I bought breadboard.ai like 11ish years ago and ended up giving up on in the venture (AI voice assistant hardware built into a house via standard US 120V outlets and light switches, basically Jarvis). Anyway, the logo is begging to be a lowercase b, like this:

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But the dots are small rectangles, like on a breadboard.

New comment by davidmurdoch in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

davidmurdoch — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:45:57 +0000

If only humans scaled like that