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New comment by dham in "Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving"

dham — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:59:21 +0000

Here we go again. Autopilot != FSD. Autopilot is not "autonomous" driving. It's lane keep with adaptive cruise control. The same system that Honda, Toyota, etc have. Yes the naming is wrong, the marketing is bad, but I don't see it as much worse as Toyota safety sense. If you use it to be "safe" you're going swerve off the highway into a ditch. I used super cruise from GM in my friends suv. As soon as lane markers go away on a bridge, I almost hit the railing.

I'll get downvoted but just giving you the facts. I'm glad the Autopilot name has been retired. Such a bad name, but maybe a good name because autopilot in planes can't see and avoid obstacles either.

New comment by dham in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

dham — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:02:25 +0000

I had bleeding, light red, most likely from hemorrhoids (it was), but had a few other factors that the doctor took it seriously. The insurance didn't cover much as far as I know (or any?). Owed like $1800.

New comment by dham in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

dham — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:00:09 +0000

Yea good point. My doctor said he would see a non sedated like once every 2 weeks or so. Would be better to go to one that does it more frequently.

New comment by dham in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

dham — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:59:41 +0000

haha, didn't catch that

New comment by dham in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

dham — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:21:02 +0000

Yea most of the time it was discomfort but the turns were pretty high up there in pain. But that was only 3 times.

New comment by dham in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

dham — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:16:34 +0000

North Carolina. And I wasn't actually aware that some doctors wouldn't do until after I had it done (reading about it online). I just called before my appointment to say I didn't need sedation. They said ok and wrote it down. They weren't really pushy during the appointment other than asking me why I didn't want sedation.

I thought it was going to be awkward but wasn't at all. We just chatted. It was him and an assistant. I was able to watch the TV of my colon while he was doing it.

New comment by dham in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

dham — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:05:13 +0000

They need to lower the screening to 40. I just had mine at 40, turned out fine luckily. Did it without sedation which my doctor said was rare in US, but common outside of US. I found surprising, wasn't that big of a deal. Pain was probably at a 7/10 during the turns (like 3 times) but ok the rest of the time. A little uncomfortable. Some new sensations, some familiar (feeling like you are crapping your pants).

I walked in and walked out no issue and went on about my day. Prep was fine but would be hard if I didn't work at home.

New comment by dham in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

dham — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:30:54 +0000

Oh sorry: *text predictor that feeds text back into text predictor

New comment by dham in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

dham — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:34:56 +0000

Ok that's different then. LLM, by definition, can't be AGI. But AGI can be AGI with another technology.

New comment by dham in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

dham — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:02:25 +0000

AGI? My guy, it's a text predictor slot machine. Very useful tool but will never be AGI.

New comment by dham in "The End of the Office"

dham — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:35:59 +0000

Because people think it's "intelligent" because it's manipulating words and you get people like Andrew Yang and Elon Musk getting one-shotted by it.

Yes, it can solve a lot of things, but an LLM isn't going to put everyone out of work, the thing after the LLM will.

New comment by dham in "The End of the Office"

dham — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:22:00 +0000

At worst, this would only be temporary. Yes, it will cause hardship, but once it trickles down to regular companies, that an LLM is a word predictor, workers will be back. Seems Andrew Yang has never used an LLM to the lengths we do as software developers.

The thing we have to worry about is what's after the LLM.

New comment by dham in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

dham — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:10:47 +0000

Yes, but it's much worse than that because it makes multiple workspaces essentially unusable. Try them on Windows or any Linux desktop. When a window is also an application it makes handling them much more seemless. Not to mention the animation on Macos (slide or fade) takes multiple seconds, then when it completes it takes 500ms to actually focus. That's if it actually focuses to the right window when switching, which is currently a bug. Been there for years.

New comment by dham in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

dham — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:38:43 +0000

Mac has always had horrible window management. Made worse because applications and windows are a separate concept. Used to seem clever but in the world of multiple workspaces it's a terrible decision. Now it's even worse trying to manage multiple llms and projects.

New comment by dham in "FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot"

dham — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:38:31 +0000

It's not temporary though. The Covid vaccine push has caused an entire generation to now doubt simple life-saving vaccines. They erased a century of goodwill.

New comment by dham in "FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot"

dham — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:00:01 +0000

To be fair, a lot of doctors were sounding the alarm in 2021 that forcing the Covid shot was going to cause blow back. They said word for word, that we might see the rise of measles and other similar diseases. It's actually very well documented on zdoggmd youtube channel (podcast) during this time. But there were tons of doctors saying the same thing.

New comment by dham in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

dham — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:52:38 +0000

Then why is the site slower than it was in 2012 on a 2009 Macbook?

New comment by dham in "We mourn our craft"

dham — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:08:40 +0000

It's not so much the writing of the code (which I did like), it's the aesthetic of the code. It's solving a problem with the right code and the right amount of code (for now). That's still the case, even with AI writing most of the code. You have to steer it constantly because it has very bad instincts, because most people in the profession aren't good at it, so it has bad training data. Mainly because the "learn to code" movement and people getting into this profession just for the money and not the love. Those people are probably screwed.

New comment by dham in "We mourn our craft"

dham — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:05:40 +0000

My car has driven me back and forth with no issues for 6 months now. But yes it's been a long time coming.

New comment by dham in "We mourn our craft"

dham — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:00:41 +0000

What infrastructure has gone through the last 15 years would like a word.

Half the people I work with can't do imperative jQuery interfaces. So what I guess. I can't code assembly.