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New comment by diddid in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

diddid — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:09:09 +0000

I doubt you are the average consumer though. Now days I think the biggest average consumer use case is streaming and game downloading, with game downloading being the biggest “I want it now!” impulse. But do you need 1gb service to download that call of duty game every year? I even think most people could get by with 50mb/s and not even know as long as the latency keeps up. If it’s fast enough to stream Bluey the masses are content.

New comment by diddid in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

diddid — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:55:34 +0000

I think the end game is convenience. Nobody really needs anything more than 200mb/s. If the average person can have their entire family stream their favorite Netflix show at the same time then that’s good enough. “Now lil Jimmy can watch it in the minivan too!”

New comment by diddid in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

diddid — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:39:52 +0000

This has been true for as long as war has been a thing. The Army logistics won’t break, it’ll adapt, because that’s what war machines do. What’s good today isn’t good tomorrow. It’s a nice piece but nothing Sun Tzu or a good game of hearts of iron couldn’t teach you.

New comment by diddid in "Walt Disney Company is the most successful at monetizing human nostalgia [audio]"

diddid — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:15:03 +0000

I feel like this used to be more true, and is getting less true each year. With covid they really did a lot of negative things related to the parks. They cancelled a lot of things ( magical express, free magic bands for resort guests, etc) raised prices and overall began to focus on “shareholder value” over guest experiences. They also really messed up the Star Wars IP and seemed like anything for a quick buck, and became unable to make original stories. In 30 years they should revisit this and they will probably find they took a nose dive. The people who made the nostalgia are long gone, and the new guard is slowly burning it all away.

New comment by diddid in "Running local models is good now"

diddid — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:43:20 +0000

With the 5090 you need to buy the rest of the computer though, and the Dgx spark will run 1/4th as slow but use 1/5th the electricity. And the spark would be able to run things the 5090 just couldn’t, like the Qwen3.5 122b. Which is all just to say that for llm workflows there is no easy answer. And if you media generation it gets even more complicated.

New comment by diddid in "India's surprise baby bust"

diddid — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:11:59 +0000

I’m always a bit confused by this, don’t we want this? If the end goal is to have ai and robots do it all, and there are no jobs left, what would children provide if they aren’t down payments on a future work force? Only people that wanted children would have children as all the old childless people would be taken care of by the states robots. I mean not exactly like that but something like that. Ai isn’t taken anyone’s job is there is nobody there to take it from. Or is that line of think too… something.

New comment by diddid in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

diddid — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:32:40 +0000

This is the only one I can tell that easily works with local modals through hermes or pi.

New comment by diddid in "Googlebook"

diddid — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:42:08 +0000

I wish google would just go away. The thought of another product with googles tentacles in it makes me nauseous.

New comment by diddid in "OLED, Not for Me"

diddid — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 04:39:30 +0000

The gaming community has known this forever, it’s a personal preference for how much it bothers someone.

But fret not, they announced at CES there will be OLED with vertical pixel arrangements really soon.

New comment by diddid in "Eat Real Food"

diddid — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:28:13 +0000

Don’t drink water, if you drink too much, it’ll kill you!

New comment by diddid in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

diddid — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:58:35 +0000

I agree, if they had a framework it would have been trivial to swap to a new keyboard.

Also I get annoyed where they say they don’t like it but don’t yet have an alternative.

New comment by diddid in "The Graffiti Question"

diddid — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:43:42 +0000

My thoughts exactly. It’s all fun and games until they tag something you own.

New comment by diddid in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

diddid — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:39:17 +0000

Interesting contrast to all this tech is that my wife liked the Rivian, but when I told her they won’t do car play that interest went to 0. Can CarPlay not play nice with these things or do they want to keep all the tech dollars to themselves?

New comment by diddid in "AI should only run as fast as we can catch up"

diddid — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:28:00 +0000

AI can really only be as good as the data it’s trained on. It’s good at images because it’s trained on billions of them. Lines of code, probably 100s of millions, but as you combine those codes into concepts, split by language, framework, formatting etc all you loose the numbers game. It can’t tell you how to make a good enterprise app because almost nobody knows how to make a good enterprise app, just ask Oracle… ba-da-bum!

New comment by diddid in "Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward"

diddid — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:15:48 +0000

Trying to read all these threads and perspectives is truly exhausting but I lean more on the Rebble side. The idea that someone steps away for 10 years and then expects to take the work of others to use them and throw them away is tech toxicity 101.

I had owned two of the original pebbles, but I honestly think this looks bad on everyone and will gladly ignore every future article on either of these two groups.

New comment by diddid in "iPhone Pocket"

diddid — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:56:44 +0000

I had to check the calendar to see if it was April 1. If Apple can sell a sock to put your iPhone in for 150 bucks… I wish I had the skills for that.

New comment by diddid in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to Playstation 5 on December 8th"

diddid — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:26:23 +0000

That’s silly, they will make a ps6, they’ve made billions with a healthy profit margin.

New comment by diddid in "US Intel"

diddid — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:54:16 +0000

You can’t in good faith say the root article was an “article about chip making” unless you didn’t read the article. I will only agree my tone was off but it was very much on topic and anyone who actually read the article would realize it’s political. I’ve learned often what HN is going for, which is often shallow group think, and I agree HN is better when it posts articles that are “about chip making” but this wasn’t one of them. The silver lining is at least we can still comment on this without the “system” making a “decision” that just ends the discussion immediately.

New comment by diddid in "iPhone Air"

diddid — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:37:56 +0000

iPhones last killer feature was usbc. These are all good and appreciated upgrades for someone with no phone, but my wallet is happy none of it is really that interesting and enough to warrant an upgrade. Right now I don’t know what they could do to get me to want to. Folding? Even more zoom? Even more battery? Return of the headphone jack???? I won’t lie, a headphone jack might…

New comment by diddid in "AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86"

diddid — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:42:45 +0000

I mean the M1 is nice but pretending that it can do in 110w what the 3090 does with 320w is Apple marketing nonsense. Like if your use case is playing games like cp2077, the 3090 will do 100fps in ultra ray tracing and an M4 Max will only do 30fps. Not to mention it’s trivial to undervolt nvidia cards and get 100% performance at 80% power. So 1/3 the power for 1/3 the performance? How is that smoking anything?