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New comment by gwill in "What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate"

gwill — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:37:31 +0000

Dune, Children of Time, Neuromancer and Blindsight.

for "sci-fi" that reads like fantasy, the Sun Eater series is really fun.

New comment by gwill in "Should We Respect LLMs? A Study on Influence of Prompt Politeness on Performance"

gwill — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:24:11 +0000

neither do LLMs.

New comment by gwill in "AI Is Facing a Crisis"

gwill — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:46:24 +0000

at scale, data centers use cooling towers with fresh water, not a closed loop liquid cooling system.

https://oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-much-water-does-ai-consume

New comment by gwill in "Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses"

gwill — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:41:56 +0000

anyone have an alternate link?

New comment by gwill in "Crew-9 Returns to Earth"

gwill — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:04:54 +0000

There are no audits, there are no reports, there is little to no transparency with DOGE. They're gutting first, thinking later and it's costing us a ton. How can you trust an administration to expose corrupt spending when they freeze the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?

New comment by gwill in "Sigma BF Camera"

gwill — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:00:01 +0000

that's fair. i was whack. one of my favorite lenses is a Sigma, i was just comparing to Leica and let some bias slip in.

New comment by gwill in "Sigma BF Camera"

gwill — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:24:39 +0000

do you want interchangeable lenses and a full frame sensor as well?

New comment by gwill in "Sigma BF Camera"

gwill — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:35:21 +0000

Would you mind answering those questions? I love photography and when looking over a camera can get an idea around strengths/weaknesses. This seems like they wanted to cheap out on construction with fewer physical controls and still be able to advertise as a compact FF camera despite having a low MP sensor.

New comment by gwill in "Sigma BF Camera"

gwill — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:33:15 +0000

I think those folks would rather buy a Leica/Ricoh. what does this offer? worse glass, sensor, controls. I really don't get this camera.

New comment by gwill in "Sigma BF Camera"

gwill — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:31:21 +0000

also a 24mp FF sensor in 2024. is this supposed to be targeting lowlight photography?

New comment by gwill in "America desperately needs more air traffic controllers"

gwill — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:00:46 +0000

i think you have your numbers flipped, but for me personally no commute is worth the drop in stress and increase in free time

New comment by gwill in "Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries"

gwill — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 03:41:14 +0000

how did you reset the algo?

New comment by gwill in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

gwill — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:02:33 +0000

having lights on during the day absolutely helps, especially when overcast or foggy.

New comment by gwill in "Apple to pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping"

gwill — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:01:47 +0000

I hadn't thought eavesdropping was possible given the programming of siri and the architecture of the hardware. Does this settling mean that Apple is guilty?

New comment by gwill in "Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15"

gwill — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:51:09 +0000

odd, i'm also on latest but it was enabled

New comment by gwill in "Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)"

gwill — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:24:14 +0000

I found it funny that your phrase: Low Information High Satisfaction > L.I.H.S. is a homonym with "lies".

Great phrase btw

SpaceX wants Starbase to become an official city in Texas

gwill — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:42:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-wants-starbase-to-become-an-official-city-in-texas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42447940

Points: 1

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New comment by gwill in "NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway"

gwill — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:26:21 +0000

i use nextdns and don't have any ads on the site.

New comment by gwill in "Coffee, sandwiches, underwear, beer: a day in the life of Japan's konbini"

gwill — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:12:26 +0000

the food i've gotten at konbini in japan is on par with specialty gas stations, such as KwikTrip, Casey's, Wawa or Buc-ees in the US. I don't trust food at my 7-11 at home. in japan they get shipments of fresh food _at least_ daily. Soba, onigiri, sandwiches aren't necessarily junk food but they had plenty of those options as well. The US is only junk food.

New comment by gwill in "Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries'"

gwill — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:51:21 +0000

that isn't walking back that we're on the brink of breaching the 7th boundary. it just adds more detail into what these boundaries are.