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New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election"

dirtyhippiefree — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:02:58 +0000

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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election

dirtyhippiefree — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:02:58 +0000

Article URL: https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44670156

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New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "Addictions Are Being Engineered"

dirtyhippiefree — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 03:45:18 +0000

The article Farmvillains in SF Weekly fifteen years ago said Zynga had a staff psychologist to guarantee that each iteration would be more addictive.

https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/farmvillains/article_eb8e2...

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "The Death of the Middle-Class Musician"

dirtyhippiefree — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 03:42:37 +0000

The main rehearsal space in San Francisco closed more than two decades ago.

I venture that live music has suffered because of it.

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game"

dirtyhippiefree — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:34:52 +0000

Moonbase Alpha was the location where the TV show “Space: 1999” was set.

First episode saw the moon permanently leave Earth orbit.

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "Endometriosis is an interesting disease"

dirtyhippiefree — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:24:53 +0000

AI hallucinating an art project is one thing…but medicine…?!?

Heaven help us.

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles"

dirtyhippiefree — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 13:15:35 +0000

I totally agree, but I needed you to post the other half because of TL;DR…

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles"

dirtyhippiefree — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 11:36:13 +0000

Here’s the spot where we see who’s TL;DR…

> Claude 4 will rat you out to the feds!

>If you expose it to evidence of malfeasance in your company, and you tell it it should act ethically, and you give it the ability to send email, it’ll rat you out.

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "Engineer Fixes and Re-Installs Old Payphones, Provides Free Calls to the Public"

dirtyhippiefree — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:49:41 +0000

Beat me to it.

Street Roots has had one for about a month on Burnside and Third.

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "AGI is not multimodal"

dirtyhippiefree — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:04:01 +0000

Agreed, but most people are likely to look at the long title and say TL;DR…

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "Beware of Fast-Math"

dirtyhippiefree — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:21:01 +0000

I’m stunned by the following admission: “If fast-math was to give always the correct results, it wouldn’t be fast-math”

If it’s not always correct, whoever chooses to use it chooses to allow error…

Sounds worse than worthless to me.

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "Improving performance of rav1d video decoder"

dirtyhippiefree — Thu, 22 May 2025 15:57:20 +0000

Having your last name be Ravid really is the icing on your cake.

Real is about the only other codec I see that could be a name, but nobody uses that anymore.

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "Google's future depends on AI and Project Mariner"

dirtyhippiefree — Wed, 21 May 2025 22:53:35 +0000

I’ve been watching as we expect computers to do more, the abilities of the general population are decreasing…

Not a flame, an observation.

If Google is googling for us, we don’t even have to come up with queries anymore. /s, but not…

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "A Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met"

dirtyhippiefree — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:41:15 +0000

The article also says that William Ziff Jr. sold the computer magazines when his son, Dirk, didn’t want to run them.

He’s worth $7 billion, now.

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "Despite strict regulations, California still has the nation’s dirtiest air"

dirtyhippiefree — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:17:01 +0000

Let’s face it.

That many people in one place will generate unholy amounts of pollution.

One wonders what conditions would be like without the regulations.

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected"

dirtyhippiefree — Tue, 20 May 2025 13:59:40 +0000

I’m with gthompson512

Sounds like a routine Bill Hicks might have come up with if he was still with us.

He hated obfuscation.

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "You could just choose optimism"

dirtyhippiefree — Fri, 09 May 2025 13:14:19 +0000

Absolutely, but continuing the thought will result in a long list…

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996"

dirtyhippiefree — Fri, 09 May 2025 13:12:30 +0000

Billboard had to recalculate its charts because so many of us stopped paying for what is essentially extortion (Jammie Thomas, statutory damages of $1.92 million ($80,000 per song, within the allowed range of $750 to $150,000).

Streaming didn’t kill sales, and yes it was cheap…and not in dollars…

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996"

dirtyhippiefree — Fri, 09 May 2025 13:06:56 +0000

https://www.theregister.com/2005/05/13/otto_rosen/

(Hillary Rosen) presented the notion of lawsuits against consumers that her successor Mitch Bainwol would turn into a course of action. Who among us hasn't wanted to slit the tendons of thieves and watch as they hemorrhage justice back to The Man?

Rosen, however, led a fruitless crusade that in the long-term was more of an attack against capitalism's progress than the defense of intellectual property rights.

New comment by dirtyhippiefree in "Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996"

dirtyhippiefree — Thu, 08 May 2025 03:30:03 +0000

Weird Al wrote an open letter to this effect more than a decade ago, but he broke through again to be Spoticific… Fairly certain that letter is older than Spotify, but this is 2023…

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2023/11/30/weird-al-spotify...