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New comment by fluxusars in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

fluxusars — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:29:39 +0000

I think that's a bit disingenuous. We've only begun to apply LLMs in the real world and a lot of industries don't move very quickly. Not to mention that we're still very hardware constrained, we don't yet have the equivalent of an ESP32 chip we can just stick into any piece of electronics to provide state of the art LLM responses. But we'll get there, soon.

New comment by fluxusars in "Programming Isn't Special"

fluxusars — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:26:48 +0000

You two both prove my point. For both writing and acting there's high art and average slop. Do you think actors for a washing powder commercial give 110%? Do you think writers for the local newspaper give 110% on everything they do? You save that kind of stuff for where it matters, like big movie roles, or magnum opi.

New comment by fluxusars in "The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less"

fluxusars — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:25:50 +0000

My default mode is to phone it in at work. Been doing this for years, and I've been at my most happy when I have phoned it in. This is usually after some holiday or other personal life moment that gave me perspective on how little value my work really has to me. Occasionally I slip, get serious, 10X it, and get burnout. Somehow I don't seem to learn from this.

New comment by fluxusars in "Programming Isn't Special"

fluxusars — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:31:53 +0000

Programming because a company pays you to do it is not the same as programming for programming's sake. If you think a company hired you to create artful code then you've got your priorities wrong. That's something you do on your own time.

New comment by fluxusars in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

fluxusars — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:41:37 +0000

I think this is true, but I also think that AI has made the mental burden of putting up with a less than ideal job much lighter. I am no longer mentally exhausted at the end of a long working day, yet I have made a meaningful difference in terms of technical progress. And, at the end of the day, I am still bursting with energy about exciting personal projects I can now take on and make real progress on because I'm not dead at the end of the day.

Not sure if this fits, but the mechanic, rather than performing hard manual labor mounting horse shoes on horses, now just has to read software error codes during the day, and gets to enjoy driving his sports car in the evening.

The grey goo scenario is happening

fluxusars — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:03:51 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@fluxusars/the-grey-goo-scenario-is-already-happening-04f4892bf00d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875712

Points: 2

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New comment by fluxusars in "Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike"

fluxusars — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:53:33 +0000

"Claude, was this sarcasm?"

- You're absolutely right!

New comment by fluxusars in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

fluxusars — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:27:23 +0000

Very nice. I thought it wasn't going to save a "You Go Girl" style story about "My Dick", but it turned it into a conference anecdote with a powerpoint slide about Richard III. Hilarious.

New comment by fluxusars in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

fluxusars — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:57:21 +0000

If you really believe the UK is a privacy-friendly and anonimity-friendly country then you have definitely been brainwashed. I can't think of a first-world country that's worse than the UK in this.

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

fluxusars — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:50:49 +0000

I too love USB-C, though sadly my laptop only has two of those ports, and only one of them can do power delivery and display, so my only choices are between having a powered laptop with only the built-in display, or on battery with external display, or carrying an extra power brick..

New comment by fluxusars in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

fluxusars — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:33:36 +0000

The moiré effect of vertically striped wood walls gives me a headache.

New comment by fluxusars in "The Eternal Sloptember"

fluxusars — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:11:18 +0000

I think the ai-as-an-exoskeleton analogy is quite apt: 1. It still requires your intent to move in the right direction rather than being fully autonomous, and 2. It's too big and bulky to use for delicate tasks.

New comment by fluxusars in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

fluxusars — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:32:41 +0000

I can recommend Vernal desks. I just bought a corner desk that's height adjustable and it feels like quality.

New comment by fluxusars in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

fluxusars — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:12:20 +0000

I dropped them when they silently dropped support for veracrypt/truecrypt drives: https://old.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/1ol0pgf/backblaz...

They're really proving lately that they are a company that can't be trusted with your data.

New comment by fluxusars in "Productive Procrastination"

fluxusars — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:02:46 +0000

Stop minmaxing. Not everything has to be perfect.

New comment by fluxusars in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

fluxusars — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:37:32 +0000

The thing that supposedly sets Bitcoin apart from other cryptocurrencies is that it's deflationary and 'immutable', in that Satoshi is gone forever and any deviation of Bitcoin from his golden idea will result in undermining its essence. If Bitcoin can get quantum-attacked then, from a technical point of view, nothing will be lost. The Bitcoin core devs can issue a word-of-god statement stating that they'll roll back the chain to before the attack, and all is well. Then they'll change the cryptography. But at that point, is it still Bitcoin? Because you've undermined the immutability. If the core devs can just say "this core property of Bitcoin is now something completely different", who's to say that they won't change their minds about the deflationary nature in the future? All credibility will be lost. Now, if you accept that, is perhaps all credibility lost already? ...

New comment by fluxusars in "Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety"

fluxusars — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:41:52 +0000

Return them and get what instead? Every other popular phone platform is even more restrictive.

New comment by fluxusars in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

fluxusars — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:09:20 +0000

> I have a great psychiatrist who has me on antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, and mood stabilizers

Disclaimer: this is not medical advice, but have you considered being on less medication? I have seen a close family member become absolutely numbed from being on antidepressants, and although I have personally never been on them, I am highly skeptical that the amount of drugs the average American is being prescribed is healthy. My preferred choice of self-fixing is by quiet introspection, though I've had some useful experiences from therapy sessions as well.

New comment by fluxusars in "Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?"

fluxusars — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:14:28 +0000

I never stopped using foobar2000 on the desktop. I can recommend Evermusic on iOS for it's excellent playlist management, carplay integration and last.fm/scrobbling if you're ancient like me and still using that.

New comment by fluxusars in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

fluxusars — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:48:43 +0000

You will literally get a fine for going three miles per hour over the speed limit in many countries.