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New comment by dotfrag in "Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking"

dotfrag — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:27:14 +0000

I came here just to say I hate sites like Wired. Seriously... if you're going to post an article, don't make people pay someone to read it. It's just stupid...

New comment by dotfrag in "Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast"

dotfrag — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:25:16 +0000

Sounds like an interesting idea and I think there are things like this being done but, couldn't we accomplish the same thing on a smaller scale without all the destruction? What about fusion welding once we get that more locked in? I know it's still a WIP but if we're getting to "millions of degrees", it could speed up the process if we're able to localize the fusion. Also, what about cold fusion? The problem on any of these is the cost -- it may be quicker/better but if the cost is way too high, it's not worth it. Maybe in the future it'll be cheaper/easier.

New comment by dotfrag in "What happens if you put work into the second dimension?"

dotfrag — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:22:14 +0000

It's basically already been said but, this seems absurd. I'm not quite sure what TRUE benefit you'd get from this but it seems more frustrating than it's worth. I can't figure out a reason to do this unless I'm just in the mood to piss myself off.

New comment by dotfrag in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

dotfrag — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:20:13 +0000

May as well just get an old school Nokia and skip the smartphone technology all together. Get yourself a nice flip phone and go back to the early 2000's. If you need to do something online, just bring your laptop with you - some are so small that they're easy to carry around in a backpack or side bag.

New comment by dotfrag in "Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model"

dotfrag — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:09:24 +0000

How long do you think it'll take before they make a JWST LEGO set?

New comment by dotfrag in "200 Milliseconds"

dotfrag — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:08:15 +0000

With the speed of modern internet connections, I'd honestly think something were wrong if it took a couple of seconds. I'd expect almost instantaneous results. What amazes me every time is the amount of things happening in that short amount of time though. The amount of endpoints/channels the signal has to go through to go from "I want to buy this" to "You bought it!".

New comment by dotfrag in "I Helped Run Lululemon. Companies Need to Stop Kidding Themselves About A.I"

dotfrag — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:01:04 +0000

Nope, not just you - I couldn't either but I only tried for a few minutes. I really hate the NYT and it's dumb paywalls. I saw the paywall and closed it immediately until I saw your comment and tried a few sites I know about and none could pull it up.

New comment by dotfrag in "I asked Claude Opus to recreate The Matrix opening scene in Lego"

dotfrag — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:59:02 +0000

What a crazy idea, I love it. The things AI can do always amaze me. What's better is that it built it all in JS files and was able to display the entire thing like a movie. A bit jittery in some spots but that could just be my internet connection. I may have to download the source and run it on my own machine to see if it's any smoother. Either way, nice job.

New comment by dotfrag in "AI squad to analyze your iOS app before Apple"

dotfrag — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:03:20 +0000

This is a really interesting idea. How much response have you gotten? Where are you listing the new site to get visitors? Overall, it sounds like a great idea if it truly works as mentioned. I'm sure plenty of people create apps and then they get rejected and, because of the lack-luster information from Apple, have no idea what exactly is wrong OR how to fix what they did wrong. Sounds like your site does just that, right?

New comment by dotfrag in "Viola – A Calmer Web Browser"

dotfrag — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:58:33 +0000

Looked it over, as well as Charlie but having a hard time realizing the benefit of using this over Chrome or Edge. It makes me think of Opera which promised to be a lightweight browser that ended up turning into a resource-heavy browser. I'll have to play around with it and see if it does better than Edge or Chrome but so far it seems similar to them.

New comment by dotfrag in "Apple fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?"

dotfrag — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:42:02 +0000

This is par for the course with a lot of Apple features, it either falls short or comes out late. How many times have they promised some feature or function only to delay it over and over. They talked about incorporating AI for so long yet now people are just downloading Claude or ChatGPT apps to their phone and using that instead. The bonus of having an upgraded Siri is the local context but you can already do a lot of that with Gemini if you use Google. I haven't tested the beta build because I just don't trust it but it sounds like they're well on their way to implementing what they said we would get a while ago. We'll see I guess...

New comment by dotfrag in "Show HN: Peek-CLI: Let your front end agent see the browser"

dotfrag — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:38:25 +0000

Aside from the fact that an agent can use this, how is this better than Claude for Chrome? With all the capabilities that Claude in Chrome has, it almost seems better to just have an agent come up with a prompt you can send CiC -- quickly send the prompt, get feedback and send it back to the agent. I know, it defeats the purpose of AI but seems like a bit of extra setup and I'm not finding a ton of value in it.

New comment by dotfrag in "Amazon's debt doubled to $129B in 6 months"

dotfrag — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:36:45 +0000

So if the AI bubble pops like many predict it will, what's going to happen to these datacenters? Are they going to turn into huge abandoned buildings? I'm not saying the AI bubble is real and would pop like the dot com bubbles or the housing bubble but it seems like we're headed towards something similar. Just seems like these companies are expanding at a really fast rate and something has to give at some point. I mean, companies are considering setting up data-center's in space -- this may be a better idea in some respects but really leads to a lot of extra "junk" in space.

New comment by dotfrag in "Kansas home wound up with 600M IP addresses and a world of trouble (2016)"

dotfrag — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:33:33 +0000

Holy cow, what a crazy story. Imagine being a small family, barely using the internet and not even knowing how to buy or assign IP addresses and suddenly you're in the middle of what sounds like a real-life horror story. Someone needs to make a movie about this :O