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New comment by hawaiianbrah in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

hawaiianbrah — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:23:48 +0000

Seattle Public Schools currently still has a “Highly Capable Cohort” program, though it is phasing it out.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)"

hawaiianbrah — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:32:46 +0000

I’ve been using it in the tech space for many years now, no idea where I picked it up. Also this is the first I’ve heard Claude is using it!

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

hawaiianbrah — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:20:46 +0000

> It's more that money and power enable you to be who you really are

If you’re only a certain way when you have money and power, is it really “who you really are”?

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "FAANG Simulator"

hawaiianbrah — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:56:49 +0000

I just bought a 2008 odyssey last week!

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships"

hawaiianbrah — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:38:08 +0000

The super ferry was incredible. Being able to drive your car on a different island was such a game changer vs buying flights for the fam and then having to rent a car. I miss it!

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Meta pauses AI training program tracking employee keystrokes after internal leak"

hawaiianbrah — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:07:12 +0000

It’s a terrible job market and they pay notoriously well.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "How to earn a billion dollars"

hawaiianbrah — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:58:51 +0000

> Neither will deliver a pizza in 30 min or less, for example.

Looks like Amazon will deliver me a (frozen) pizza in 23 minutes, actually!

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

hawaiianbrah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:37:13 +0000

It was a remote gig

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

hawaiianbrah — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:55:53 +0000

Note “official” in the request… there are unofficial ones.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

hawaiianbrah — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:37:52 +0000

> That's one of the answers: it's seen as a "women's" sport mostly. In school boys play football and girls play soccer in rough general terms.

I’ve never heard that, in fact there are more boys who play in America than girls.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

hawaiianbrah — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:34:25 +0000

I believe most of what you said, but no college varsity player is playing only a few times a week. Even the lowest division of NCAA teams would have practice or matches 5-6 times a week in season.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

hawaiianbrah — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:36:58 +0000

My last employer had a monthly Day of Learning where you could study whatever you want (so long as you could sort of tie it back to work). It was great. They’d organize presentations from employees but you could spend the whole day essentially however you wanted.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

hawaiianbrah — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:27:36 +0000

My last employer had a very generous moonlighting policy. You could absolutely use their hardware.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

hawaiianbrah — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:26:04 +0000

People often have accounts at multiple banks…

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

hawaiianbrah — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:17:37 +0000

That may be true in theory, but not so much in practice where they only have so many people in their classes and extracurriculars.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

hawaiianbrah — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:54:04 +0000

Most people giving birth have insurance, and $20k would not be their out of pocket cost.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "The real cost of owning a home"

hawaiianbrah — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:14:42 +0000

I definitely don’t think they’re generally worthwhile and don’t subscribe myself, but my in laws have had excellent luck with their policy.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "The real cost of owning a home"

hawaiianbrah — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:01:47 +0000

I bought a fixer upper a few years ago. It was a solid six month stretch of various projects of various sizes rushing to be done before my child was born. Since then it’s been very chill, though I did just spend about another six months renovating a bathroom down to the studs myself, but I took that upon myself for the thrill of it.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "The real cost of owning a home"

hawaiianbrah — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:00:24 +0000

Heh, gotcha. Yes, as a homeowner, the buck stops with you since you own it.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "The real cost of owning a home"

hawaiianbrah — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:50:05 +0000

Yep, I debated mentioning home warranty services, but that is also a thing a lot of folks surprisingly don’t know about.