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New comment by fhub in "A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste"

fhub — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:02:56 +0000

Most of the environmental cost of plastic happens when it’s made. Once it exists, burying it in landfill isn’t nearly as bad as many people think.

95+% of the carbon footprint of plastics comes from production and manufacturing.

New comment by fhub in "Kimi Work"

fhub — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:56:01 +0000

The most astonishing thing to me about the AI boom is that nobody really has managed to establish vendor lock-in. Switching is so easy.

New comment by fhub in "Qwen 3.8"

fhub — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:26:16 +0000

China is watching world sentiment shifting away from USA. Doing many small things that show both strength and openness is surely very intentional.

New comment by fhub in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

fhub — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:49:21 +0000

There is an unfortunate cycle that has been playing out this year in USA. Insurance companies are arming up with AI to deny billing codes charged by providers. Providers are arming up with AI to listen in on provider-patient sessions to prove the billing codes are legit (And teach providers to use keywords in session).

The loser, as always, is the patient's quality of care.

New comment by fhub in "How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues"

fhub — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:30:48 +0000

Sydney Opera house comes to mind as something that might still be curious to people in 1000 years.

New comment by fhub in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

fhub — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:30:18 +0000

I have two Bosch powered e-bikes (gazelle Modeo and Turn GSD) and one DJI Avinox (Amflow PL carbon)

A few years between each bike and very different bikes. But Avinox feels like it has come from nowhere to be on par or superior to Bosch. The charging plug egonicis is 100x better too.

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

fhub — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:56:18 +0000

In my experience, rental cars are the worst. They are configured to make so much noise. My kids sleep in rentals more than daily driving too (longer commutes when traveling). My 2022 Volvo treats me like a adult and makes very little noise. Heads up display shows things that might be important.

New comment by fhub in "Factories are just rooms"

fhub — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:57:29 +0000

> libraries full of books about making stuff

Any standouts you recommend? My 6 year old son loves all those David Macaulay books. Haven't taken that to the next level of "How to build stuff" yet.

New comment by fhub in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

fhub — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:20:21 +0000

This won't age well. You just need to code in a way that has fallbacks. Whether that is to older models, different companies. It's going to be a commodity (if it isn't already).

New comment by fhub in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

fhub — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:53:34 +0000

If members of Google Project Zero team are involved then I have hope. If they are not then I have many doubts.

New comment by fhub in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

fhub — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:24:07 +0000

The director that did the announcement tweet may have provided some authority. He seems to have left Google voluntarily recently after 14 years.

New comment by fhub in "Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow"

fhub — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:38:26 +0000

Paid starting it. Paid during it. Paid to end it.

Political capital + diplomatic reputation + military reputation + strategic reputation.. and cash.

New comment by fhub in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"

fhub — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:02:44 +0000

WRT to how it was done in Australia.

"Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, began closing teen accounts from 4 December last year. It said anyone mistakenly kicked off could use government ID or provide a video selfie to prove their age."

So the bulk is done as you say but they still need* an age verification system for when they over-stepped.

* need here is because of the way the laws were written AFAIK.

New comment by fhub in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"

fhub — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:12:12 +0000

I think you’re proving my point a little. You’re treating the costs as obvious and enormous, while treating any potential benefits as essentially zero.

New comment by fhub in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"

fhub — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:01:11 +0000

A lot of issues require holding two ideas in your head at once. Age verification chips away at privacy and internet freedom. It likely also reduces harm to some/many/whatever children, even if it’s imperfect and won’t stop everyone. The interesting question is where the right trade off sits. People often end up arguing only one side.

New comment by fhub in "What's gonna happen to software engineers?"

fhub — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:01:37 +0000

Four day working weeks would be nice.

New comment by fhub in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

fhub — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:46:50 +0000

I outsource a bunch of things in life. Different things at different stages of life. Some of those things I have outsourced I don’t dislike doing myself. But often it comes down to freeing up time and, to some extent, keeping money flowing back to people in my community.

New comment by fhub in "Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out"

fhub — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:01:53 +0000

I think a key goal of senior management at any big company in the last 6 months is to make rank and file fungible or obsolete. It’s one big experiment. There are precedents like the Industrial Revolution. Things get worse for the workers for a generation or so.

New comment by fhub in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

fhub — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:30:44 +0000

I'm glad a very wealthy company is investing in hard tech R&D. Irrespective of the projected financial outcome.

New comment by fhub in "AI is making me dumb"

fhub — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:21:03 +0000

I'm curious how much you have tuned your CLAUDE.md file. You can get very specific and direct about what your expectations/desires are. You can also have another agent do a critical review with your expectations/desires and feed that back.