<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: electrondood</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=electrondood</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:07:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=electrondood" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great write up... curious about the RCA. Thanks!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:21:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721814</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hardly a party trick. My car handles 97% of my driving and it's on old hardware. Have you actually tried HW4? It's definitely on par with Waymo.<p>Also, I guarantee you FSD would recognize a mattress as an obstruction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:24:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449663</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449663</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Advocacy of force or criminal activity does not receive First Amendment protections if (1) the advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action, and (2) is likely to incite or produce such action.<p>You'd need to say something which directs others to violate the law or commit acts of violence, at a specific time ("imminent"), and your statement must be likely to be effective at causing them to do so.<p>Protesting, encouraging others to protest, expressing your political beliefs, organizing a protest, etc. are not incitement to violence. Nor is "doxxing" (filming, identifying) a public employee. None of these activities satisfy those criteria.<p>Remember the "Twitter files" nonsense? I recall they were upset at the government influencing the expression of political views on social media. Not hearing much backlash about this from the same people, because this is what they were claiming, but 100x worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:19:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016895</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's an alias that only applies to Federal employees.<p>The Congressionally-legislated actual name of the department is still Department of Defense.</p>
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<p>Exactly. "Department of War" is guidance that applies only to Federal employees, and the Department of Defense was named through Congressional legislation. That is still the department's name, whatever Trump decrees.</p>
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<p>Fun fact: The Department of Defense was named through legislation.<p>Trump's EO that "renames" it only applies to Federal employees as guidance. No one else needs to call it that, and it's still legally the Department of Defense.</p>
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<p>It was well-litigated by the Trump administration, and none of their frivolous claims held up. They lost ~60 of their 63 court cases, and the 3 they won were technicalities.<p>2020 was a free and fair election.</p>
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<p>Oh sure... I'll just give you my idea to make Uber but for dogs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:29:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44882981</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44882981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44882981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "AI is propping up the US economy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For context though, consumer spending has contracted significantly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:50:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44804089</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44804089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44804089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Eleven Music"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had the same sentiment, but also recall what generated human hands looked like a year ago vs. now.<p>The solo was pretty funny though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:44:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44804014</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44804014</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44804014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Futurehome smart hub owners must pay new $117 subscription or lose access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seriously. Who is going to buy another Futurehome product knowing that they feel entitled to extort their customers, whose only alternative is to remove the devices integrated into their home?</p>
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<p>Morality and religion are entirely independent dimensions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 03:31:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44666595</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44666595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44666595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Elon Musk's Grok praises Hitler, shares antisemitic tropes in new posts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's completely false. You run evals.<p>edit: you're <i>supposed</i> to run evals.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:13:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511791</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Waymo has been "scaling" down the Peninsula from SF for about 18 months now, and it's still not generally available.<p>Tesla can scale by simply adding vehicles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:49:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44302478</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44302478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44302478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I disagree. Most rideshares happen in urban areas, where people are liberal. Liberals hate Musk. If you have the choice to take MAGAtaxi or a Waymo, as a liberal that's an obvious choice.</p>
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<p>Check the source. Elektrek cranks out anti-Tesla articles. Hardly fair and objective.</p>
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<p>I periodically receive OTPs I didn't request, because malicious actors are trying password stuffing with really old credentials of mine from data breaches. It's relatively frequent.</p>
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<p>While men claiming to be ICE get to wear plainclothes and gaiters/face masks as they snatch people off the street without presenting identification or a warrant.</p>
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<p>> doing the basic job of knowledge workers<p>If you extrapolate and generalize further... what is at risk is any task that involves taking information input (text, audio, images, video, etc.), and applying it to create some information output or perform some action which is useful.<p>That's basically the definition of work. It's not just knowledge work, it's literally any work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 19:58:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44009257</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44009257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44009257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses to the same meals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GLUT-4 activation in the muscles primes them to take up glucose and other nutrients. So air squats or going for a walk before/after a meal can significantly blunt the insulin response, because there's less glucose in your blood stream, because more of it has been ported into muscles.</p>
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