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New comment by dleink in "The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority"

dleink — Wed, 14 May 2025 02:13:44 +0000

You hit on something there, I could type faster than my 2400 baud connection but barring a bad connection those connections were pretty reliable.

New comment by dleink in "The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)"

dleink — Sat, 10 May 2025 20:36:28 +0000

> in a sense we all are, and just don’t realize it yet.

one of the luckiest breaks you can catch in life is to live through something that forces you to realize this.

New comment by dleink in "fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'"

dleink — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:56:56 +0000

nah, eff all that. Roll back the snapshot.

New comment by dleink in "'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised"

dleink — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:23:54 +0000

If anyone needs a test case, I consider myself a reasonably intelligent human who is absolutely too stupid to use modern technology and would be glad to proclaim that to a court. (executive function, working memory issues. latency is a killer for me.)

New comment by dleink in "Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making"

dleink — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:16:24 +0000

Baseball lent itself to advanced analytics even before player tracking became a thing, since the sport consists of a series of discrete one-on-one matchups with limited possible outcomes.

New comment by dleink in "Perplexity Deep Research"

dleink — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:59:32 +0000

I'd love to read something on how Perplexity+R1 integrates sources into the reasoning part.

New comment by dleink in "The Anthropic Economic Index"

dleink — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:21:00 +0000

If you were on the early internet talking to someone about music or woodworking or whatever, you could reasonably assume they were a tech person because it was not simple to get online. It took a minute for it to spread.

New comment by dleink in "Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance"

dleink — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:11:03 +0000

Google is a special case because they specifically removed the "Don't Be Evil" clause, therefore, I can only assume they are in fact fundamentally "evil"

New comment by dleink in "Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More Than Last Year"

dleink — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:34:54 +0000

Disinclined, but I would like to publicly thank my parents for a CD Budget that was far too high for a teenager. I was probably averaging 1-3 CDs/month in the 90s, that's a ton of money!

New comment by dleink in "Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More Than Last Year"

dleink — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:31:35 +0000

We're talking about a likely inconsequential amount of money for a thing that might be of high importance to a member of the household. What are you talking about?

New comment by dleink in "String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'"

dleink — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 04:59:07 +0000

Unfortunately, whatever ideal you hold of conservative doesn't exist. Trumpism is conservatism's current expression in America and Trump is its thought leader. If conservatives were ok tying their cart to a populist demagogue, then they're going to have to go along for the authoritarian ride.

New comment by dleink in "Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online"

dleink — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 03:09:01 +0000

stay safe, much love.

New comment by dleink in "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling"

dleink — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 20:28:50 +0000

I'm not sure we can use such definitive language about the definitions of new words.

New comment by dleink in "Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow"

dleink — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:27:10 +0000

Not sure what it proves to say, "People who own expensive homes have high incomes". higher prices filter out potential buyers with lower incomes.

New comment by dleink in "Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools"

dleink — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:33:56 +0000

UK Trident missiles are leased from the US. Also, Much of the technology in the UK program is from the US, and the french tech was developed independently.

New comment by dleink in "The Origins of Wokeness"

dleink — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:41:48 +0000

No, but see, it's called the _Democratic_ People's Republic of Korea. It's right there in the name.

New comment by dleink in "Fidget"

dleink — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:55:26 +0000

Happy! You work in a field where you can both make your own tools and use tools others have created. Maybe you can steal some of his ideas and use them, or use his stuff and contribute to the project. either way, rad.

New comment by dleink in "Fidget"

dleink — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:49:21 +0000

I've been yearning for updated winamp/eggdrop style music visualizations... this is very far outside my domain knowledge but feels like it could be used somehow..

New comment by dleink in "NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker"

dleink — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:32:09 +0000

One of the gaps is accessibility, rideshares are useful for people who have trouble getting around.

New comment by dleink in "My Favorite Book on AI"

dleink — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:50:32 +0000

I would have done worse, but I am a bad businessman. Being good at business doesn't also make you a revolutionary thinker in technology, let alone the broader themes that are discussed here.

I would be interested in hearing his thoughts on philanthropy and how he's working to convince other billionaires to follow his lead.