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New comment by greasegum in "Tesla Roadster"

greasegum — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:08:47 +0000

Wondering how loud this would be if you were in the driver's seat or, worse, standing nearby.

New comment by greasegum in "How to Not Be Replaced by AI"

greasegum — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:56:50 +0000

Maybe I'm way off, but this post reads like AI wrote it, which diminished my interest in reading it. This probably has some bearing on the thesis. To wit: when mediocre analysis is so very cheap, actual human touch, i.e. editing/filtering/writing becomes way more valuable to anyone who cares to read it. Relatedly, reading becomes much more of a chore when I both have to filter for what interests me, and also simultaneously be on guard for whether I am reading the unedited machine written slop. The perceived value of the written word is taking a massive hit and that's frankly terrifying.

New comment by greasegum in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"

greasegum — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:39:58 +0000

This is an inspiring project! I would love to see more stuff like this and updates if you decide to evolve the project further.

New comment by greasegum in "Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative"

greasegum — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:23:55 +0000

All I remember from seeing this as a kid is that, in the final scene, River Phoenix asks the hot government agent for her phone number. The number she gives is a real non-555 number--pretty sure it was 818 area code?. You could call that number and hear a message from the character for many years.

Was this the only movie ever to do this?

New comment by greasegum in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

greasegum — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:09:50 +0000

It's just words, obviously contradicted by many of Harvard's recent actions, but all I can think is what a fucking lay-up. If only Columbia's administration had half a spine they would have responded similarly.

New comment by greasegum in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

greasegum — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:29:42 +0000

Came here to mention this too. Seem almost so obvious that I'm surprised this isn't the dominant angle.

New comment by greasegum in "CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins"

greasegum — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:23:54 +0000

I think people are missing one very sympathizable effect of this joint research, that it prevents either country from gaining an offensive edge from dual-use research that could be used for bio-weapons. You could argue that this has the benefit of preventing a bio-weapons arms race.

Vertiginous to think about the layers of unknowns.

New comment by greasegum in "14-Year-Old Casper Wind Farm Has Not Turned a Blade in at Least 3 Years"

greasegum — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:09:39 +0000

Part of the subtext seems to be that constructing these turbines was a greenwashing campaign on Chevron's part. This kind of project helps to bolster the naive impression that these are "energy companies", as one commenter alluded, not just "oil companies". So in a sense these turbines have fulfilled their purpose.

Even more insidiously, the fact that the wind farm is now sitting idle achieves oil companies' secondary goal of making green energy look bad and unreliable. Thus keeping people divided on whether to support other green power initiatives and allowing our reliance on oil to continue. Profits protected.

I don't think I'm giving them too much credit.

New comment by greasegum in "Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021)"

greasegum — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:02:36 +0000

Software engineers don't want you to know this one weird trick()

New comment by greasegum in "An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023"

greasegum — Fri, 24 May 2024 18:20:56 +0000

>But where does the 1978 year in the title come from?

This seems to come from the fact that although MMWR has been in publication since 1978, 100% of papers they have published on the topic has been in the past 3.5 years.

New comment by greasegum in "We've been put in the vibe space"

greasegum — Wed, 08 May 2024 11:22:42 +0000

Not discussed in the article, but I think relevant, is the breakdown of search as a useful tool even on such venerated platforms as eBay, which has become similar to Facebook Marketplace in its vibes-based algorithm. Laser-focused search precision is a losing business model, apparently, and not the way of the future.

New comment by greasegum in "Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died"

greasegum — Thu, 02 May 2024 11:40:24 +0000

The movie Michael Clayton springs to mind for some reason.

New comment by greasegum in "Show HN: NeuralFlow – Visualize the intermediate output of Mistral 7B"

greasegum — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:11:49 +0000

You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.