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The Whispering Earring

iamsam123 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:27:02 +0000

Article URL: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yvain-thewhisperingearring.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213503

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by iamsam123 in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

iamsam123 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:16:24 +0000

Any popular thing with a dog in it is now a rug pull opportunity!

New comment by iamsam123 in "Scaling markets with non-human operators"

iamsam123 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:15:01 +0000

Thoughts on how online markets will scale when they aren’t operated by humans. Thoughts on how human participation in markets will be impacted by LLMs.

Scaling markets with non-human operators

iamsam123 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:15:01 +0000

Article URL: https://selectfromwhereand.com/musings/scaling_operators/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850828

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by iamsam123 in "One-man SaaS, 9 Years In"

iamsam123 — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:53:49 +0000

Apparently taking outside money can 100X MRR with no trade offs! Awesome!

New comment by iamsam123 in "The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas"

iamsam123 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:10:45 +0000

Fair, and the number of people that use Excel and understand this sentiment is also remarkably low.

New comment by iamsam123 in "New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro"

iamsam123 — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:30:13 +0000

Interesting how many different offerings they have now outside of just spending the initial ~$1000 on the ipad itself. Purchasing the pencil, usb-c, key board, smart folio, logic pro (subscription), final cut (subscription), etc...

I'd be curious to know the average age of an ipad in circulation is now. I used an ipad for school from 2012-2017, never used the apple pencil, but it always worked great for my needs. My girlfriend got one for med school and uses it with the pencil especially when shes not at home.

New comment by iamsam123 in "Robinhood Crypto Gets Wells Notice from US SEC"

iamsam123 — Mon, 06 May 2024 16:51:47 +0000

"Everything is Securities Fraud" - Matt Levine

New comment by iamsam123 in "Relational is more than SQL"

iamsam123 — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 15:51:17 +0000

Does it SELECT * by default if I never define a SELECT below my FROM? ... Continuing to encourage folks by allowing them to SELECT * easier is would not be fun for me... I could be wrong?

Agreed, just parsing out the formatting so its "fewer lines" than traditional SQL soured me.

The expressions example is ridiculous, in Redshift I can do this all day?? SELECT 1 + 2 AS num1 , num1 * 2 AS num2 -- Literally no difference

Just learn SQL...