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New comment by fwip in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

fwip — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:20:31 +0000

I've also seen this. It'll run 'strings' against the binary and then convince itself that the Makefile isn't working right, and there's some imaginary sandbox preventing the code from compiling properly. So it will compile it by hand, and never run strings against the new binary, and proceed happily.

New comment by fwip in "Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land"

fwip — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:10:08 +0000

If a government does not respond to the wishes of its people, violence is an inevitability. It is in the best interest of the state to be accommodating enough to placate the citizens.

New comment by fwip in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

fwip — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:18:43 +0000

Thankfully, you can buy a cable extender for like $2, because it's a standard that has been around for 150 years.

Example: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=648

New comment by fwip in "Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search"

fwip — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:04:41 +0000

And they all do. I had to add special instructions to tell Claude Code to prefer its built-in read_file tool, rather than using `sed -n 180,210p` everywhere.

New comment by fwip in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

fwip — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:46:41 +0000

Kind of a circular argument, isn't it? "Some people are saying it's very good at coding. If that's true, I don't care if the code is good."

New comment by fwip in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

fwip — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:43:25 +0000

Sure, but if there's a trillion dollar company saying that it's going to replace all our road workers or engineers - I'd want to listen to the opinion of an expert. Some reporter from CNN driving over it like "yeah seems good to me, good this" has approximately zero persuasive power to me.

New comment by fwip in "Google's 20% 'project' has become AI's 120% 'attention'"

fwip — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:49:30 +0000

Is this more AI writing, or are my sensors just on the fritz ?

New comment by fwip in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

fwip — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:23:31 +0000

If I lease an apartment for two years, that's not an investment.

New comment by fwip in "Siri AI"

fwip — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:02:02 +0000

Limiting the character set is done to reduce the frequency of "can't enter my password" support calls, not to increase security directly. Same with the maximum password length.

New comment by fwip in "Siri AI"

fwip — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:50:54 +0000

It's hard to take your argument seriously when you're being hyperbolic.

New comment by fwip in "Apple Core AI Framework"

fwip — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:43:32 +0000

Maybe not per watt, but unless you already happen to own a 3900 cited by that post, you'd have to buy that as well, which is currently selling for around $1400 used.

New comment by fwip in "90210 – running the show without property tax"

fwip — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:28:32 +0000

More slop.

New comment by fwip in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

fwip — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:40:42 +0000

What is AF in this context?

New comment by fwip in "Show HN: Soft Body Jiggle Physics"

fwip — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:36:54 +0000

There are much better soft-body sims out there to jack it to, if you are so inclined.

New comment by fwip in "Show HN: Soft Body Jiggle Physics"

fwip — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:35:56 +0000

It depends on what you're simulating. A lot of what you'd use soft-body sims for run as a shader on a GPH - think hair, or a smirt - as long as it looks good, that's good enough, because it doesn't have physics interactions on other objects. So it's more natural to just use the frame rate steps, with a delta-t if necessary.

New comment by fwip in "Show HN: Soft Body Jiggle Physics"

fwip — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:46:48 +0000

I dunno, the readme is clearly LLM vomit. It's hard to praise docs that might not even have been read yet.

New comment by fwip in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

fwip — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:20:32 +0000

Victims of stalking would likely be greatly harmed by such a rule.

New comment by fwip in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

fwip — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:07:11 +0000

Rosetta 2 is software, but there are design decisions made for the M-series chips that are specifically made to improve the ability of Rosetta to work in a performant way. The main one I'm aware of is the x86-TSO memory-ordering mode - most ARM chips don't support this, but the M-series have it so that Rosetta can toggle it on for x86 emulation.

I'm not sure what the total cost of these are, but it's not zero.

New comment by fwip in "The dead economy theory"

fwip — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:22:52 +0000

The dishwasher does automate a large part of doing the dishes, but not the whole of it. A Jetsons-style robot maid would also be able to clear the dishes from the table, restock the cabinets, and set the table before dinner - in addition to doing the cooking, cleaning, lawncare, etc.

It maybe wasn't the least-automated part of the chores, but if anything, doesn't that strengthen their point? We as people were happy to automate our dishwashers, and would probably spend more money on other chore-automations as well (see: Roomba, robotic lawn mowers, etc).

New comment by fwip in "The dead economy theory"

fwip — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:47:04 +0000

For a fictional example, you can look at the United Federation of Planets, from Star Trek.