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New comment by didntknowyou in "A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion"

didntknowyou — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:02:24 +0000

yea have seen many books just recycled because of lack of space. scanning would at least preserve them before their ultimate fate

New comment by didntknowyou in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

didntknowyou — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:58:18 +0000

it was locked down harder than the rest of the country, yes it’s a fact. he wasn’t looking for sympathy idk why you needed to overreact over and invalidate his personal experience

New comment by didntknowyou in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

didntknowyou — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:55:04 +0000

it’s cool but really no need to put someone down for trying things. also welly is not the sole place for gigs.

New comment by didntknowyou in "LLMs reward expertise"

didntknowyou — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:30:29 +0000

same thing as people just entering a question prompt and copying and pasting the response as gospel. e.g. politicians using it to write speeches, or lawyers for testimonials.

the output is programmed to look correct so unless you have some sort of background you won't actually know what errors to look for.

New comment by didntknowyou in "Situational Awareness and the Impending Stock Market Volatility"

didntknowyou — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:13:09 +0000

cathy’s ARK was also a hot genius moment in a bull market, now it’s another average option

New comment by didntknowyou in "Situational Awareness and the Impending Stock Market Volatility"

didntknowyou — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:11:43 +0000

hindsight is easy. imagine apple and amazon stock holders thinking the same and selling when stock went up 100% after ipo

New comment by didntknowyou in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

didntknowyou — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:30:15 +0000

nothing wrong, but did we really need ticket prices to go from 100 to 1000 if they weren't struggling financially?

New comment by didntknowyou in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

didntknowyou — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:28:30 +0000

and part of the proposal is to get Fifa to borrow and take on debt lol it's peak capitalism

New comment by didntknowyou in "Iran Has Figured Out How to Overwhelm U.S. Air Defenses"

didntknowyou — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:54:09 +0000

it's kinda hillarious how peace deals are now just temporary measures just to allow usa to reload their arsenals

New comment by didntknowyou in "Why haven't organoids solved all of drug discovery?"

didntknowyou — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:48:12 +0000

prob because biology cannot simply be refactored down into parts like code, and their sum is greater than it's parts.

New comment by didntknowyou in "LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders"

didntknowyou — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:29:35 +0000

well the point is value is not being created. the stock market is at an ATH, by all metrics productibity has increased, but ask anyone on the ground- the mood is not as optimisitic as the financial instruments say

New comment by didntknowyou in "LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders"

didntknowyou — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:27:04 +0000

i thought it was a prank website but then realise this was real

New comment by didntknowyou in "Who manages the agents?"

didntknowyou — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:20:12 +0000

i think the doomsday scenario is more likely from someone giving AI access to crucial systems and it accidentally making critical mistakes, rather than it outsmarting the system

New comment by didntknowyou in "Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom"

didntknowyou — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:02:42 +0000

anyone can isolate one number to fit their bias. if you look at the wider financing in the industry and the context of multiple AI deals in the billions without any cold hard cash flow or reasoning it kinda makes sense

New comment by didntknowyou in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

didntknowyou — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:39:28 +0000

are people really balking at paying 50k on 1 million of sales? that is a problem i would like to have.

steam did provide the basic dev/hosting/sale/marketing platform.

New comment by didntknowyou in "Silent speech with ultrasound"

didntknowyou — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:29:13 +0000

there is a perception that ultrasound is not as dangerous as xrays (radiation etc). As we find more use-cases for it we need to be aware that the damage caused by blasting organs with energy waves is not negligible.

New comment by didntknowyou in "Small Penis Rule"

didntknowyou — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:34:04 +0000

idk if that would work in real life. there are cases where one sibling gets less than another and judges still rule things have to be split equitably and children should be provided for.

New comment by didntknowyou in "The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?"

didntknowyou — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:27:49 +0000

blogging was like a diary, mostly authentic with people just primarily focused on sharing. some with banner ads on the site to get pocket change.

then with substack, social media monetisation, etc everything became income focus. writers got taken over by influencers and content became focused on grabbing attention. didn' take long for readers to leave after that.

New comment by didntknowyou in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

didntknowyou — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:16:35 +0000

costco buyers typically buy in bulk and fill a pantry in one go. i doubt one truck can fill 100 pantry. maybe a few products each

New comment by didntknowyou in "One million passports leaked online"

didntknowyou — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:56:15 +0000

that shoebox would prob be thrown or burnt at some point tho, rather than being accessed by savvy hackers from across the globe.