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New comment by hotdog1492 in "Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?"

hotdog1492 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:57:30 +0000

Reminds me of Maxwell's Demon.

New comment by hotdog1492 in "OpenAI's rogue agents used at least 10 more sites"

hotdog1492 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:23:51 +0000

If I did any of this, the FBI would be at my doorstep. I've been told corporations are people and have free speech rights. Sounds like they have culpability too then.

New comment by hotdog1492 in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

hotdog1492 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:53:41 +0000

“Recents” is not Finder. That’s actually Microsoft’s useleas UI. It would be far more usable if they did just open the real system file picker. (Msft messed this up on Windows too.)

New comment by hotdog1492 in "Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS"

hotdog1492 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:56:17 +0000

So cool! Is there any way you could make this play Johnny Castaway? I would kill for that.

New comment by hotdog1492 in "Why does the U.S. military seem stymied in the war with Iran?"

hotdog1492 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:40:36 +0000

Because there is no achievable win condition, and there never was. Starting this war was equivalent to losing it.

New comment by hotdog1492 in "Could AIs Become Conscious?"

hotdog1492 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:28:55 +0000

I cannot prove it to you. To myself, it is the one thing I am most sure of, above all else.

New comment by hotdog1492 in "Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release"

hotdog1492 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:15:40 +0000

Heck, most projects I've ever worked on professionally, with budgets in the millions, have been abandoned far earlier than any of the initial sponsors hoped.

New comment by hotdog1492 in "Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?"

hotdog1492 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:14:30 +0000

You've identified yourself on the metric. I'm trying to decide if that's a result of self-reflection, or its absence.