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New comment by flowerthoughts in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

flowerthoughts — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:28:35 +0000

It would be funny if the solution is for Greenland/Denmark to annex Canada as a workaround on paper.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Sony makes bold claim about game ownership"

flowerthoughts — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:41:41 +0000

Proposed new rule:

If there's no technical reason to fuck with the product I have already purchased access to, don't fuck with the product I have already received.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "4 in 10 travellers visit tourist sites to capture social media content"

flowerthoughts — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:16:45 +0000

The nice thing about others taking photos, is that I can focus on the odd ones. I have photos of really well made knots on a guiding rope, and street gutter stones.

You wanna see what Venice looks like in general? Just go on Tiktok; they have better equipment anyway. You wanna see, up close, the nicely carved gutter stones that handles water without breaking the stone pattern? I'm your photographer.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated"

flowerthoughts — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:35:52 +0000

> the doctor will be glad too.

So even the doctor forgot what they had talked about, and assumed the transcription was right? Crikey.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy"

flowerthoughts — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:40:06 +0000

I wouldn't expect the light I emit or reflect to be private, except where I build walls. Why would I expect any other wavelengths to be so, if I haven't taken precautions to shield my house for WiFi wavelengths?

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

flowerthoughts — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:23:13 +0000

Foods that claim to lower weight or fix your heart disease risk.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

flowerthoughts — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:36:03 +0000

You always end up with the people pushing these foods being those who sell them. And then others start selling fake foods with similar claims.

For the "eat to get slimmer" claim, I think we're at the point where "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record"

flowerthoughts — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:32:40 +0000

So the metric GP is after is credit used per credit user? Normalizing the effect of an increase in credit users, and not assuming it's uniformly distributed.

Seems simpler to just publish the delinquent debt separately.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny"

flowerthoughts — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:23:07 +0000

If there's no explanation of why the 70+ bucket has so much larger CI band, having that dominate the totals seems like very fair critique. At the very least, they should have presented another totals with the outlier removed to show the impact.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls""

flowerthoughts — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:24:42 +0000

It builds corporate value. If you end up with a portfolio of patents that someone might want to acquire, you've just created a new market for your company. Individual software patents of common quality probably don't matter.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

flowerthoughts — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:25:49 +0000

Barely. There are import duties on everything. Seems the old agreements that expired were hard to replace. At least they got the academic research funding sorted last year.

Part of EEA and Schengen, but those are not the EU.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts"

flowerthoughts — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:35:56 +0000

The same goes for all reporting on YouTube. Many publishers jumpers the gun without looking at context.

It's also interesting that Citadel is mentioned everywhere as the buyer, as if it's strange that a huge market maker firm would be involved in a large forced sale.

Seems the fund also has Anthropic shares, so it's not like their entire portfolio got margin called.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

flowerthoughts — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:40:37 +0000

Although, you don't know how many species before us caused their own suffering and destruction. Perhaps it's normal and expected. There's a slight chance we'll leave documentation to whatever species comes after us, but they'll probably ignore it, because they know best and it's different that time.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark"

flowerthoughts — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:05:51 +0000

The Epstein affair was eventually successfully forgotten. I still pretend to be surprised, to keep my decency.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

flowerthoughts — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:18:09 +0000

I'm the same. Though I still think they could have made USB much neater as a protocol, USB-C now does everything I need for goto-connectivity.

I recently looked at the connector and reflected on how insanely small it is. It's no wonder it took decades to get to this point, and it's a very neat physical design at a great price. 16 pins and 10A in that little thing. Amazing.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "DKIM2 and DMARCbis Have Landed"

flowerthoughts — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:35:18 +0000

Getting rid of ARC would be so nice, but of course this just means I need to add DKIM2 and need ARC for backwards compatibility.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Ed Zitron on CNBC: GenAI Doesn't Work, and Big Tech Is Out of Hypergrowth Ideas"

flowerthoughts — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:45:55 +0000

I find his way of talking funny and entertaining. I can't say why, but it's a nice way to waste a few minutes. It's very boring if you're only there for the information.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

flowerthoughts — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:42:14 +0000

Fire first, ask questions later.

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

flowerthoughts — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:03:32 +0000

Is anyone using LLM on the other side, to vet incoming PRs for quality and whether it's worth reviewing?

New comment by flowerthoughts in "Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]"

flowerthoughts — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:54:14 +0000

Elon is missing the bigger TAM here. Once they've created a time machine, they can not only sell all these things backwards and forwards in time, they can also start making industrialization come way earlier, which will lead to exponentially turbo charged growth. Plus importing future designs into the now.

It makes sense to focus all effort into building a time machine.