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New comment by dr_dshiv in "New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater"

dr_dshiv — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:50:48 +0000

Imagining the giant solar lily pads that can create enormous hydrogen platforms in the sky.

New comment by dr_dshiv in "AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs"

dr_dshiv — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:45:58 +0000

It’s a way to suck all the money out of the room in the name of nationalism — and it’s all over Europe. Only idea everyone has had.

New comment by dr_dshiv in "LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models"

dr_dshiv — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:11:25 +0000

I teach students to use their own imagination like generative AI. Prompting works. They just need a bit of practice.

New comment by dr_dshiv in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

dr_dshiv — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:58:52 +0000

These days, website or service “usability” means that Claude code can do it for you.

New comment by dr_dshiv in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

dr_dshiv — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:23:14 +0000

Is that… what?? Is this technical innuendo?

New comment by dr_dshiv in "Century-bandwidth antenna reinvented,patented after 18 yrs with decade bandwidth (2006)"

dr_dshiv — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:07:41 +0000

Hope someone will explain this

New comment by dr_dshiv in "European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp"

dr_dshiv — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:06:52 +0000

European civil servants are also usually banned from using AI — perhaps with the exception of Microsoft copilot. They live in a bubble where they just don’t know. This goes for most academics as well.

New comment by dr_dshiv in "The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments"

dr_dshiv — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:16:53 +0000

I love em dashes. They are so much less pretentious than colons or semicolons — and they help with flow of speech. I learned that key command a couple years ago and it made me feel so smart. I’ve had my comeuppance but I’m not stopping — just a better way to write

New comment by dr_dshiv in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

dr_dshiv — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:44:16 +0000

Ethanol is food— you also don't need carbs, but they do keep you alive. More importantly, it fairly central to cultural vitality. Not essential but it plays a highly functional role. Maybe could be replaced by religion or other drugs, but short of that, the world is less vibrant without it.

New comment by dr_dshiv in "Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)"

dr_dshiv — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:30:30 +0000

Sunlight is a carcinogen

New comment by dr_dshiv in "European AI. A playbook to own it"

dr_dshiv — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:26:23 +0000

“European AI tax to pay creatives”

Love that idea.

New comment by dr_dshiv in "Pro Max 5x Quota Exhausted in 1.5 Hours Despite Moderate Usage"

dr_dshiv — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:24:30 +0000

I've only had to do a major token optimization once. It reduced my memory, claude.md, mcps, etc... that's usually the big issue. but of course it gets dumber without the context of the tools but smarter with the cleaner window. so you have to find your balance.

But like most challenges with claude, if you can just express them clearly, there are usually ways of optimizing further

New comment by dr_dshiv in "Pro Max 5x Quota Exhausted in 1.5 Hours Despite Moderate Usage"

dr_dshiv — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:32:26 +0000

"Hey Claude, can you help me create a strategy to optimize my token use so I don't run into limits so often?" --> worked for me! I had two $200 plans before and now I am cool despite all day use

New comment by dr_dshiv in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

dr_dshiv — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:04:23 +0000

I've been wanting to start an alchemical spirits company in Amsterdam. Does anyone have experience in this space?

New comment by dr_dshiv in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

dr_dshiv — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:03:27 +0000

you are saving lives, friend.

New comment by dr_dshiv in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

dr_dshiv — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:02:03 +0000

On the other hand, "magical new systems that provide almost unlimited capacity for intelligent work" is probably a more functional mental model. Genie can give you 1000 wishes till you reach your session limit.

New comment by dr_dshiv in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

dr_dshiv — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:49:13 +0000

Doesn’t it all look like child’s play though?

New comment by dr_dshiv in "Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis"

dr_dshiv — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:31:00 +0000

yeah where did that come from? It's like attributing the cartesian coordinate plane to Descartes -- when actually it was a textbook author who came up with the modern one...

New comment by dr_dshiv in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

dr_dshiv — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:01:35 +0000

I’m literally wearing that tshirt right now…

New comment by dr_dshiv in "Shall I implement it? No"

dr_dshiv — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:04:08 +0000

“Don’t code yet” is a longstanding part of the rapport