<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: esperent</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=esperent</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:57:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=esperent" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esperent in "The AirPods Effect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If someone is honking that I am in danger I am probably already in it.<p>This is an incredibly dumb and dangerous attitude to hold and you need to rethink things if you've become so overconfident in your driving because you've raced or done "iron butts", whatever those are. Driving on real roads isn't like racing and you need to separate your attitudes and driving styles in each situation before your arrogance causes an accident. Remember that it's not just your life on the line but the other innocent people around you too.</p>
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<p>Apparently I'm either a child voice actor on the cartoon Bluey or an adult film actor. Those were the most interesting anyway. But all of them were hallucinations. The most interesting thing about this, IMO is that none of the models could simply say that they didn't recognize the name.</p>
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<p>That's completely untrue, speaking as someone who drives a motorcycle every day, at least if you're not driving some horrible (to everyone around you) 500cc beast, you can hear things just fine. Especially horns, trucks, busses etc.</p>
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<p>There's just a tiny step from wearing noise canceling earphones with no music playing, to pressing a button and blaring Bat out of Hell while you speed down the mountainside.<p>In any case, it's irrelevant - as far as I know, wearing headphones or earphones while driving a motorcycle is illegal whether or not you happen to be playing music in them, because how would anyone else know? If you get in an accident and get charged with distracted driving, that's on you. If you want earplugs, just wear them. They're much cheaper and more effective than sound cancelling headphones if you <i>genuinely</i> just want to block noise.</p>
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<p>They said it's a median 85x speedup while maintaining byte for byte equivalence. If it wasn't agentic coding that got there, everyone would be singing praises about that.</p>
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<p>Because when all the financial power, lobbying, advertising, housing, manufacturing, media etc. is controlled by a handful of oligarchs, it doesn't much matter what way people vote. Too much of the power is owned by the oligarchs rather than the voting public. That's why oligarchies and democracies are fundamentally incompatible.</p>
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<p>It's probably relative to how much humidity there is where you are. I'm in a very humid area, and I have humidity sensors. Leaving an AC unit on dry mode in a small room does basically nothing - at most it will shift humidity by a few percentage points. Meanwhile if I use the actual dehumidifier I can drop from 85-90% down to 65%. If I turn the machine off for a few hours (or move it to another room) it'll be back up in no time.</p>
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<p>Yes, I've found this. Along with localization - my app will be used equally by two main locales and it's clearly and emphatically noted as non optional to include both at the very first pass of all implementation. However, it gets ignored by all agents, not just Claude.<p>I'd suspect it's because in the vast majority of training data, these are both things that get added later, if at all.</p>
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<p>Yes, you can use ublock. There's a button on the extension to remove elements from a website. Or if you're on mobile you can use Brave browser which has the same function.</p>
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<p>They remove a small amount of moisture, yes. It's nothing compared to what a dehumidifier removes though, even if they're in dry mode.</p>
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<p>At Apple scale I would have thought that makes it cheaper, not more expensive.</p>
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<p>Definitely not normal here although in my current house I did repaint with good paint, but I had to ask the owner permission first.<p>I think that the owner needing to repaint between tenants is considered normal wear and tear here.</p>
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<p>No, I've never seen a residential house with HVAC, even in big apartments. It's all split wall mounted AC units here, or if you're fancy a ceiling version that's basically the same. I think Americans call these heat pumps?</p>
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<p>Absolutely but one thing about living in rented accommodation - you rarely get to choose the paint.<p>I agree that a dehumidifier helps but you basically need one in every room. Where I live you can easily take out 10 liters a day from every room during the humid season (which is the maximum capacity of the machine I rented).</p>
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<p>I've unfortunately lived in too many houses where mold becomes a problem. It's never my fault, it's always been because the house is old/doesn't have proper damp proofing/cheap paint was used, or no damp proofing applied on exterior walls. I clean it, of course, so I'm not literally living in a house with moldy walls, and I keep the house as dry and ventilated as possible. But in certain climates it's nearly inevitable to get mold during winter or the humid season unless the house is very well built and modern.<p>The worst, and again very common, is when the paint is so cheap it can't be cleaned easily - when you use anything that can actually clean the mold (soapy water + a bit of vinegar is my preference, but baking soda, very weak bleach solution, or commercial mold cleaners) it also destroys the paint.</p>
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<p>Yes, it will. It's just delayed because fab buildout takes several years.</p>
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<p>> you can't fully compare their RAM to a loose DIMM stick<p>Why?</p>
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<p>> Can you explain how new data centers "destroy democracy"?<p>Oligarchs (trillionares and billionaires as they get called in the US) are fundamentally incompatible with democracy.</p>
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<p>> As of 2026, web browsers that support JPEG XL had 14% market share<p>From your link.</p>
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<p>>  LLMs are intensely and emphatically non-deterministic and LLM guidance basically becomes gardening advice<p>Have you ever tried doing evals on moderately complex but bounded tasks?<p>I spent some time doing it when testing these "token reducing" tools like Headroom, RTK etc. as well as customizing my Pi tools. What I found interesting was that despite LLMs being deterministic, for a given toolset and prompt, the results were highly consistent for a given eval, across multiple models (I tested at the time using GPT 5.4 mini, 5.5, 5.3 codex, Gemini 3 flash, initially running sets of 5 evals on each task but once I realized how consistent the results were, dropping to sets of 3.<p>Aside: in my tests, RTK and Headroom made the overall context use higher for roughly equivalent results. The context use for those specific toolcalls went down but the number of model turns and overall context use went up.</p>
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