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New comment by eeixlk in "When the cheap one is the cool one"

eeixlk — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:17:06 +0000

As someone who keeps apple laptops for 7 or so years but also has encountered numerous macbook pro meltdowns both applecare covered and not, 10+ is a crazy number and you'll probably need to provide some proof for that to be reasonable.

New comment by eeixlk in "Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?"

eeixlk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:13:10 +0000

Trump attempted to significantly decrease NASAs budgets and cancel missions so this is happening despite him, and I cant feel joy for this when we are putting people in cages, manipulating stock markets, entering pointless wars, and raising prices of everything while Billionares massively increase their wealth through technically-legal manipulations of the system. This feels like a sad memory of what used to be more than anything else.

New comment by eeixlk in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

eeixlk — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:14:25 +0000

Obviously apple would prefer this. It would boost demand for more powerful and expensive devices, and align with their privacy marketing. But they have massively fumbled with siri for a long time and then missed huge deadlines with ai promises. Despite having billions, they have shown no competency in delivering services or accurately marketing what to expect from ai features.

New comment by eeixlk in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

eeixlk — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:17:40 +0000

Curious about some examples of this. Consumer windows computers have historically had a lot more preinstalled garbage software. Do you mean app store restrictions or something else?

New comment by eeixlk in "AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion"

eeixlk — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:00:49 +0000

Mental illness is fairly common, and you probably know someone it is affecting, even if they haven't told you yet. AI can disrupt and will destroy lives, just like gambling or alcohol or facebook but we dont know to what level yet. It is giving you generated text, that sometimes is factual information. If you anthropomorphize it, maybe don't. It's also not your boyfriend/girlfriend. But if you want to date a history textbook, i'm kinda ok with that because at least it's not trendy.

New comment by eeixlk in "Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk"

eeixlk — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:51:45 +0000

So the US federal government will combat romance scams by violating random citizens privacy when it cant stop the president from conducting stock market manipulation scams on twitter? Institutional trust needs to be earned and maintained.

New comment by eeixlk in "25 Years of Eggs"

eeixlk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:07:37 +0000

Apart from the comical cost of extracting this data from paper receipts, is it more likely that stores will publish their product costs over time so trends can be observed or be more like gas stations where no prices are listed. I have no idea why a box of Cheerios costs $7 for processed oats but i see millions of reasons to obscure that data.

New comment by eeixlk in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

eeixlk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:44:56 +0000

Like all burgers this is a high protein, low fiber food option. It probably has more in common with your protein shake, being high in pea and other proteins but also has a high amount of sodium. This is a splurge food like any burger is. If you are looking for fiber, vegetables have them. Also impossible burgers taste better as they smell like coconuts instead of peas when they are cooked.

New comment by eeixlk in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

eeixlk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:21:59 +0000

Huh.

New comment by eeixlk in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

eeixlk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:47:11 +0000

Huh.

New comment by eeixlk in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

eeixlk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:45:19 +0000

Pea protein, avocado oil, brown rice protein and red lentil protein is poison now?

New comment by eeixlk in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

eeixlk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:38:44 +0000

soy?

New comment by eeixlk in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

eeixlk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:33:47 +0000

You are comparing a prepared product to a raw ingredient. Raw beef is pretty boring which is why every single restaurant add some combination of salt, pepper, mayo, ketchup, mustard, oil, butter, gochujang, etc to make it into food. If you want to convince the world to eat unseasoned beef and onion burgers be my guest but you have a tougher hill to climb than the vegetarians. Eat what makes you happy, but maybe acknowledge it's not actual cooking.

New comment by eeixlk in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

eeixlk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:39:42 +0000

To drive your car, to build your software, to run the government. But not to change the oil in your car. Ya ok.

New comment by eeixlk in "How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier"

eeixlk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:10:37 +0000

Nothing against Underwood or Siracha in general, so buy what you want but $12 dollars per bottle is crazy, unless this is your favorite thing ever. So many other flavors to discover, and they wont be warehoused for months.

New comment by eeixlk in "10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)"

eeixlk — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:41:25 +0000

There are no correct answers, you just have to predict what one could be while micro-dosing.

New comment by eeixlk in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

eeixlk — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:42:51 +0000

Tech workers were pretty anti union for a long time, because we were all so excellent we were irreplaceable. I wonder if that will change.

New comment by eeixlk in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

eeixlk — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:26:39 +0000

Satire i hope

New comment by eeixlk in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

eeixlk — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:33:42 +0000

If you dont call it AI and see it as a natural language search engine result merger it's a bit easier to understand. Like a search engine, it's clunky so you have to know how to use it to get any useful results. Sometimes it appears magical or clever but it's just analyzing billions of text patterns. You can use this search merger to generate text in various forms quickly, and request new generated text. But it doesn't have taste, comprehension, problem solving, vision, or wisdom. However it can steal your data and your work and include it in it's search engine.

New comment by eeixlk in "10 Years of Let's Encrypt"

eeixlk — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:47:15 +0000

Literally just got bit by this. I added a wildcard domain to a cert servicing multiple sites. Apparently the verification process for wildcards is more onerous and even when you have it working it wont renew in the same way as a normal cert. It requires specific workarounds based on your dns provider. Appreciative that we moved away from paid certs that required manual work to renew every year but this feels like a mismanaged backslide.