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New comment by hudon in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

hudon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:45:40 +0000

I agree, but HN doesn't like metacomments that just complain on how an article/comment is being upvoted, hence you being downvoted. See guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Just downvote and move on.

New comment by hudon in "Having Kids (2019)"

hudon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:38:55 +0000

The single folk envy the married and the married envy the singles. Life is suffering either way.

New comment by hudon in "Canada Announces Divorce from America"

hudon — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:16:49 +0000

Canadians would commit to guerrilla warfare? For decades? Have you met Canadians?

New comment by hudon in "Canada Announces Divorce from America"

hudon — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:12:59 +0000

No, I didn’t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93China_relations

New comment by hudon in "Canada Announces Divorce from America"

hudon — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:00:06 +0000

As Canada is separating from the US, it is growing closer with China. This makes Canada a threat to the US. This makes the US a threat to Canada. This makes the US more likely to grab Canada's arm and pull it back in its circle by force. Canada just did a model of how long it could last against a US invasion and the answer was that its defenses would last 2-5 days.

It's all unnecessary and will just cause pain to end up where it started.

New comment by hudon in "Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer"

hudon — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:39:42 +0000

and a teacher is hired to teach, but some self-improve so they may become headmaster

New comment by hudon in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

hudon — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:20:00 +0000

A gun is a good tool easy to shoot yourself in the foot with

New comment by hudon in "Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly"

hudon — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:02:24 +0000

I don't know if it's intentional, isn't this the ultimate form of liberalism? To give the individual full autonomy, unshackled from the dependencies of family, neighbors, community, and any other local associations individuals are "born in". Seems like we are exactly where we've been aiming at for a couple hundred years.

New comment by hudon in "My thoughts on renting versus buying"

hudon — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 23:00:16 +0000

yes, because he forgot about the car. The reason we don’t befriend our neighbors is because as soon as we leave our home, we put ourselves in a metal cage, ensuring no one will talk to us if we don’t want them to.

Befriending your neighbors kind of works in a city but only REALLY works in Amish communities.

New comment by hudon in "Clankers Die on Christmas"

hudon — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:09:34 +0000

This isn’t satire.

New comment by hudon in "Clankers Die on Christmas"

hudon — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:07:59 +0000

An image is a projection, it lacks at least one dimension of that which is projected

New comment by hudon in "Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy"

hudon — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:24:43 +0000

> they're not strictly necessary. We know this because humans can drive without a LIDAR

and propellers on a plane are not strictly necessary because birds can fly without them? The history of machines show that while nature can sometimes inspire the _what_ of the machine, it is a very bad source of inspiration for the _how_.

New comment by hudon in "AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore"

hudon — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:14:49 +0000

After the operating system and the spreadsheet, most software is toys.

New comment by hudon in "AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore"

hudon — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:11:34 +0000

This is a distinction without a difference. Even if you take a rudimentary raw cloth comparison like cotton vs heavy wool (the latter being fire resistant and used historically used by firemen, ie. “Safety critical”), the machines’ output quality was significantly lower than manual output for the latter.

This phenomenon is a general one… chainsaws vs hand saws, bread slicers vs hand slicing, mechanical harvesters vs manual harvesting, etc.

New comment by hudon in "AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore"

hudon — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:56:04 +0000

“ …by the mid‑19th century machine‑woven cloth still could not equal the quality of hand‑woven Indian cloth. However, the high productivity of British textile manufacturing allowed coarser grades of British cloth to undersell hand‑spun and woven fabric in low‑wage India” [0]

“…the output of power looms was certainly greater than that of the handlooms, but the handloom weavers produced higher quality cloths with greater profit margins.” [1]

The same can be said about machines like the water frame. It was great at spinning coarse thread, but for high quality/luxury textile (ie. fine fabric), skilled (human) spinners did a much better job. You can read the book Blood in the Machine for even more context.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_loom

New comment by hudon in "AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore"

hudon — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 05:22:43 +0000

What caused textile machines to replace the manual labor wasn’t the quality of their output, it was quantity. In fact, manually made clothing was of higher quality than what was machine-produced.

New comment by hudon in "I Am An AI Hater"

hudon — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:12:41 +0000

The environmental problem is enough for us to pump the brakes. By the end of this year, AI systems will be responsible for half of global data center power demand… 23 gigawatts. For what? A more useful search engine, a better autocomplete, and a shit code generator. Is it worth it? Are we even asking that question? When does it become not worth it? Who’s even running the calculus? The free market certainly isn’t.

New comment by hudon in "Partially Matching Zig Enums"

hudon — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:00:10 +0000

I interpreted his post as saying it's not binary safe/unsafe, but rather a spectrum, with Java safer than C because of particular features that have pros and cons, not because of a magic free safe/unsafe switch. He's advocating for more nuance, not less.

New comment by hudon in "The Decline of the U.S. Machine-Tool Industry and Prospects for Recovery (1994)"

hudon — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 03:16:31 +0000

If the carpenter owns weapons, a lot of my farmland, a lot of shares in my farming business, and my debt… I will learn to build my own crossbow

New comment by hudon in "The Decline of the U.S. Machine-Tool Industry and Prospects for Recovery (1994)"

hudon — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:36:03 +0000

Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortages_related_to_the_COVID...