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New comment by dumbmrblah in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

dumbmrblah — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:29:17 +0000

I really love the pedantry, thanks for the laugh

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

dumbmrblah — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:42:58 +0000

So to play devil's advocate... were you taking your eyes off the road for too long?

There are many many poor drivers and many many distracted drivers out there. I'm not accusing you of one, but maybe a little bit of self-introspection may be necessary.

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k"

dumbmrblah — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:53:02 +0000

A wise man once told me that most relationships can survive two affairs or one house remodel.

New comment by dumbmrblah in "European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status"

dumbmrblah — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:21:59 +0000

Really should be the turnover amount for operations originating from the EU, not worldwide.

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Midjourney Medical"

dumbmrblah — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:56:32 +0000

Who reads these scans and who assume liabilities for missed reads?

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

dumbmrblah — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:21:30 +0000

Disabled in the sense they get more time to take tests.

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory"

dumbmrblah — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:03:38 +0000

I have Hermes and set it up so that it works on a self-hosted Matrix instance. It was pretty simple to set up after some back and forth with a more powerful model. It's primarily how I interact with Hermes. I don't really use a command line on my computer with it.

Just open up a Matrix Element chat window and go at it. I've been replacing more and more apps on my phone with this setup, and it's pretty streamlined. It's nice knowing that everything is local. The Matrix server is local, the local AI inference is local, etc.

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

dumbmrblah — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:10:16 +0000

So their hands are clean, but they’re outsourcing the dirty work.

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

dumbmrblah — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:10:46 +0000

But he avoids SpaceX and Tesla, which I think is probably the driving factor in not using QQQ. Maybe he values that more than $500

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Objective metrics that change the most as we age"

dumbmrblah — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:06:37 +0000

If your PCP checks a CBC and a CMP, all of these metrics are there (which virtually 99% of PCP’s do yearly). Lipid panels are regularly checked, A1c is checked periodically if you have a diabetes risk, usually every 1 to 3 years based off USPSTF guidelines.

The only thing that is not regularly checked is a vitamin D level.

So unless you go to some quack MD who orders nothing (which is usually the exact opposite of what quack MDs do) you’re wrong.

Source: I’m a MD

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'"

dumbmrblah — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:48:38 +0000

What does UK and Switzerland have that even remotely compares to what China has in terms of AI?

New comment by dumbmrblah in "The AI operator: Biggest role in Silicon Valley"

dumbmrblah — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:01:44 +0000

FYI: LinkedIn blog slop post

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

dumbmrblah — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:46:02 +0000

So no insight and just going off blogposts and YouTube huh. Pot kettle calling each other black etc.

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

dumbmrblah — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:23:10 +0000

That is a petty big assumption (aka bullshit) unless you have direct insight the inner workings of the big US labs. Just because it isn’t published doesn’t mean that innovation is not happening.

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months"

dumbmrblah — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:14:41 +0000

I have a similar set up. I communicate/chat with the Hermes agent via Matrix chat client.

So rather than having to go to a bunch of different websites or apps to get things done, I've linked them all to Hermes (via skills) and chat with the Hermes agent on my phone.

I want a movie? I just say download XYZ. Shows up in Plex 5 min later.

I want to research something with multiple different perspectives? Rather than going to OpenWebUI and using that, I just asked a Hermes agent to examine an issue from multiple different viewpoints and get back to me with a conclusion.

New comment by dumbmrblah in "A practical guide for setting up Zettelkasten method in Obsidian"

dumbmrblah — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:27:12 +0000

Yep. I agree. This and other systems like it are for people who obsess over planning on doing work rather than actually doing any.

New comment by dumbmrblah in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

dumbmrblah — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:30:29 +0000

Lol my wife is in better shape now after kids than when she was pregnant, and she was in amazing shape before.

For some people having kids crystallizes the importance of health, etc.

New comment by dumbmrblah in "How AI skills are quietly automating my workday"

dumbmrblah — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:08:19 +0000

Yep, I wish there was something to filter these glorified advertisements out

New comment by dumbmrblah in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

dumbmrblah — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:27:16 +0000

I agree with you in part, but I think the market is going to shift so that you won’t so many need “mega projects”. More and more, projects will be small and bespoke, built around what the team needs or answering a single question rather than forcing teams to work around an established, dominant solution.

New comment by dumbmrblah in "Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI""

dumbmrblah — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:39:47 +0000

But before I needed to be a programmer or have a team of data analysts analyze the data for me, now I can just process that data on my own and gather my own insights. That was my aha moment.