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New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Everything you do is being recorded"

ileonichwiesz — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:59:08 +0000

I like to avoid the risks of processed foods by simply not being hungry.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Why do we assume everyone should be working?"

ileonichwiesz — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:29:10 +0000

Aren’t birth rates already at a historical low in most parts of the world?

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

ileonichwiesz — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:18:58 +0000

Isn’t that the plot of an episode of Always Sunny?

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Taste Is All That's Left"

ileonichwiesz — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:15:59 +0000

That’s a solved problem, you just add another agent to check if the tests are any good, and one more to oversee the test-checker, and one more…

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

ileonichwiesz — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:53:29 +0000

If I did have kids, I probably wouldn’t want them to run around a big heavy robot with very little spatial awareness.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language"

ileonichwiesz — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:56:47 +0000

Very interesting topic, but a strange choice of source. I'd recommend these instead:

Coller foundation press release: https://www.jeremycollerfoundation.org/news-and-insights/pre...

The actual publication in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads8482

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Is the iPhone birth control? Causal evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 monopoly [pdf]"

ileonichwiesz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:32:31 +0000

A point mutation is very unlikely to produce “the next Einstein”, it’ll just produce someone with one slightly different protein in their gut.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore"

ileonichwiesz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:41:04 +0000

> For example, in the old days, the internet was scarce, so people had the sense that their online self and their real-life self were the same.

I’d argue the opposite. On the old internet we all used nicknames, and everyone knew not to share their personal info. These days nearly everyone posts stuff on social media using their real name and a photo of their face.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "macOS needs its grid back"

ileonichwiesz — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:37:06 +0000

I don’t think the analogy was the issue. What does it mean for a system to be so transparent that it’s obvious when it’s compromised?

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

ileonichwiesz — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:11:25 +0000

I’m at a large Fortune 500 company. On a recent call, a mandate came from the CEO himself - “we have to use more agentic AI”.

And I found it really funny, because for what? Use it for what? It’s a tool. Imagine a guy coming down to a construction site where everything is progressing fine and saying “We need to use more screwdrivers”.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Accelerando (2005)"

ileonichwiesz — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:02:06 +0000

Lawyers run the US, I don’t think anything that reduces the country’s dependence on them has any chance of widespread adoption.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

ileonichwiesz — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:56:18 +0000

What I’m seeing in that link is that the organization pays 16 people a total of $3.6 million.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

ileonichwiesz — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:58:23 +0000

> There’s almost always a better alternative for those who value having something better.

That alternative comes with a $60/year subscription these days, though.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Why Law Is Law-Shaped"

ileonichwiesz — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:17:00 +0000

Similarly, I sometimes daydream about those ancient law systems that were so simple that they could be engraved on a stone pillar and placed in a public area. Could you imagine a legal system that can be read and understood in minutes instead of the sprawling, byzantine thing that takes years of law school to comprehend?

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Rebasing in Magit"

ileonichwiesz — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:47:19 +0000

Isn’t this just something that any IDE has built-in these days? Maybe I’m missing something, but how is this fundamentally different from the built-in git timeline view from something like VSCode or Jetbrains?

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Billion-Parameter Theories"

ileonichwiesz — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:40:50 +0000

This might be an unkind reading, but to me this just sounds like an attempt to reinvent the very same kind of mysticism that it mentions in the first paragraph.

“No need to study the world around you and wonder about its rules, peasant - it’s far beyond your understanding! Only ~the gods~ computers can ever know the truth!”

I shudder to think about a future where people give up on working to understand complex systems because it’s hard and a machine can do it better, so why bother.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

ileonichwiesz — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:41:28 +0000

> How would a touchscreen MacBook improve on something?

It won’t, but there’s now an entire generation of users who get confused and angry if any kind of display doesn’t react when you poke it with your finger.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

ileonichwiesz — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:38:15 +0000

That’s not OCD, it’s just paying attention to detail.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

ileonichwiesz — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:30:46 +0000

It’s not that much higher, actually. I just looked at some unskilled production line job offers, and looks like they start at 15-18€ per hour. Scale that to full time, and it’s less than 30k€/year - and of course without the free food and accommodation that you mentioned.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

ileonichwiesz — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:43:34 +0000

True, but muscle memory and a couple keyboard shortcuts (or heck, even using the mouse to select and drag the block) is always going to be faster then describing the changes you want and reviewing the output, at least for simple stuff.