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New comment by elliotec in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

elliotec — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:38:33 +0000

Again, very rarely. Highly unlikely this particular one does.

New comment by elliotec in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

elliotec — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:55:06 +0000

Renaming a Bluetooth device like a speaker permanently for everyone (as opposed to a nickname you give it in your phone or whatever) is difficult if possible at all and usually requires firmware or hardware changes, unless the option is given by the device or its companion app (which is very rare).

So your assumption seems the most likely. I highly doubt a 16 year old kid is firmware hacking a cheap speaker just to rename it for a "joke"

New comment by elliotec in "The dead economy theory"

elliotec — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:59:19 +0000

Who uses those gas and oil repositories? Who drills it out and refines it? Who invests in it? Who uses this distributed wealth and how?

The point here is that human labor is the economic engine and without it, things like this cease to exist or matter.

New comment by elliotec in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

elliotec — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:14:49 +0000

This is the "whole thing" in a nutshell for me too. It's useful, speeds some things up, but I've been doing this a long time.

The state-of-the-art or medium-term future of the tooling doesn't feel apocalyptic in itself, but the macro forces, implications of scaling, and general reactions to it on all sides are a different story.

New comment by elliotec in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

elliotec — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:43:21 +0000

On average Steven Pinker is at best a fake hyperoptimist-by-aggregate who puts billionaires on pedestals and rewrites history to entrench shitty systems. Sometimes he says smart stuff but he ignores or actively disregards massive problems with a painfully self-serving neutrality.

New comment by elliotec in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

elliotec — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:26:12 +0000

Here's a source from 2019 that says: "By 2023, the number of knowledge workers in the world will increase to 1.14 billion, with more than four-fifths of that growth coming from the emerging world."

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/09-24-201...

New comment by elliotec in "Googlebook"

elliotec — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:13:30 +0000

You can still centrally manage Macs? Look at every tech company.

New comment by elliotec in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

elliotec — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:34:42 +0000

"The government" is the same as those lobbying the government. The people in the government get paid to push it, so they push it, and get paid more when it goes through, by the people who want that PII to analyze.

New comment by elliotec in "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness"

elliotec — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:06:09 +0000

#0 Is what William James described as consciousness not being a separate substance, but a set of relations within experience itself:

> Consciousness connotes a kind of external relation, and does not denote a special stuff or way of being. The peculiarity of our experiences, that they not only are, but are known, which their 'conscious' quality is invoked to explain, is better explained by their relations — these relations themselves being experiences — to one another.

New comment by elliotec in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

elliotec — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:46:38 +0000

Okay, so just to be clear you're not commenting on productivity? Or what does "changes that impact" mean?

I might be missing a lot of self-evident assumptions here but I feel like I'm still missing so much context and have no idea what this difference is actually describing.

New comment by elliotec in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

elliotec — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:14:41 +0000

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is the vast difference? Who's doing more of what, or whatever you're implying? And how do you quantify this?

New comment by elliotec in "One item purchased, ten emails"

elliotec — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:54:27 +0000

An invoice/receipt is often necessary for booking purposes, reimbursements, taxes, etc. But to your point, just put it in the same email as the tracking number and move on.

New comment by elliotec in "Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived"

elliotec — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:03:47 +0000

What successful services have you built because of entitled users?

New comment by elliotec in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

elliotec — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:54:34 +0000

Exactly. The old Iron Triangle. One of the three will always be most important depending on the constraints. Two of them will be possible.

New comment by elliotec in "How to Not Pay Your Taxes"

elliotec — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:27:10 +0000

I don't know if you're right or wrong, but it is an incredibly common tactic and done all the time by many businesses and people. There are of course ways to do this that are less noticeable by the IRS (as acknowledged in the article) and it doesn't seem like they have the capacity to investigate and audit the vast amount of this practice. My understanding is they are typically focused on fraud and/or folks simply not filing.

New comment by elliotec in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

elliotec — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:32:10 +0000

> never the time to short a company

> can be part of a combination strategy

New comment by elliotec in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

elliotec — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:11:39 +0000

Kagi has tons of results from Reddit and they're always high and relevant. I don't know if this means they're doing it even though they're "not allowed to" or what but they definitely get it somehow.

New comment by elliotec in "Wirth's Revenge"

elliotec — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:50:46 +0000

I agree completely. The internet did reset our expectations and tolerance for latency. My observation was not an endorsement by any means, I don't feel one way or another about it. But it sure would be nice to have speed!

New comment by elliotec in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

elliotec — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:45:52 +0000

> In reality tax rates go up or down on everyone at the same time, because that's how the negotiations shake out.

This is absolutely false, especially in the US. Progressive tax brackets, breaks for the rich, and targeted changes for capital vs. income, deductions, etc. are the norm. Tax rate change is _always_ selective.

New comment by elliotec in "The Waymo World Model"

elliotec — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:21:28 +0000

Another comment mentioned the Philippines as the manifest frontier. SF is not on the same plane of reality in terms of density or narrow streets as PH, I would argue in comparison it does not have both.