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New comment by drivebyhooting in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

drivebyhooting — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:11:51 +0000

I could and did live frugally before I had kids.

How can one continue living in a small apartment with lead and asbestos hazards is beyond me.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "The Secret Garden of Rock-Paper-Scissors"

drivebyhooting — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:08:59 +0000

I wonder how OP calculated the Nash equilibrium for each of those game variants.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "The Permanent Upper Crow"

drivebyhooting — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:59:28 +0000

The items he listed are far more expensive and recurring the car and electronic purchases.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

drivebyhooting — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:10:07 +0000

Is 5% risk free even available to the little guys?

No.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

drivebyhooting — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:01:52 +0000

5% richest includes hand to mouth workers earning $100k.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

drivebyhooting — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:08:09 +0000

The world is my oyster.

Meanwhile there are layoffs everywhere, childcare costs keep rising, products shrinkflate.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

drivebyhooting — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:28:06 +0000

Why can’t US auto makers automate like China did?

New comment by drivebyhooting in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

drivebyhooting — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:19:08 +0000

I can guarantee you GM is not training any of their own models.

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

drivebyhooting — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:25:18 +0000

I’ve noticed that ChatGPT is noticeably dumber in languages other than English. It even will confidently repeat common but wrong superstitions from the target language as if they were fact.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "People Hate AI Art"

drivebyhooting — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:35:28 +0000

Gemini one shotted it.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies"

drivebyhooting — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:58:55 +0000

What about, if any sociopathic, super genius is ever born and raised to his full ability, everyone dies? It’s not like AI is the only serious threat humanity has faced.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

drivebyhooting — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:33:10 +0000

My iPhone is less than 1 year old and I have to charge it every day.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

drivebyhooting — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:29:22 +0000

The cars are programmed to intentionally, violate the rules. That’s the only way to drive effectively. Just two examples: gap finding and turning left on a busy intersection.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

drivebyhooting — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:34:43 +0000

I’m interested in learning more about your theory that these models can be trained more cheaply. Is anyone doing it from scratch, rather than adversarial distillation?

New comment by drivebyhooting in "SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway"

drivebyhooting — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:21:44 +0000

Several times the speed of sound? That is meaningless when there is no media for the sound waves. I think a better unit might be furlongs per fortnight.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

drivebyhooting — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:10:30 +0000

Didn’t Anthropic vibe code all of those integrations? If AI coding is as useful and successful as it is touted, then those integration should be no moat at all.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

drivebyhooting — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:30:08 +0000

New comment by drivebyhooting in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

drivebyhooting — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:02:34 +0000

But when will RF engineering pay 500k (common mid level SWE)?

New comment by drivebyhooting in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

drivebyhooting — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:03:06 +0000

Imagine vibe coding your core consumer application and associated backend…

Oh wait, I don’t have to imagine. That’s what Anthropic does. A nice preview for what is in store for those who chose to turn off their brains and turn on their AI agents.

New comment by drivebyhooting in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

drivebyhooting — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:16:10 +0000

I wish WhatsApp would get nationalized. I absolutely hate having to use it.