Hacker News: jamesforestwest

New comment by jamesforestwest in "GLM-Legal"

jamesforestwest — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:48:50 +0000

Still, school isn't quite the same as learning skills through work experience, is it?

New comment by jamesforestwest in "DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc."

jamesforestwest — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:50:25 +0000

It is gratifying to see honesty regarding the use of AI.I can't test it just yet, but it would be interesting

New comment by jamesforestwest in "The logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley"

jamesforestwest — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:38:10 +0000

I agree. Sports betting and a founder’s decision to invest in an unproven market are both technically about probabilities, but the former is a form of entertainment with a likely negative expected value, whereas the latter is a business endeavor with a positive expected value where someone influence the outcome.

New comment by jamesforestwest in "Incentives in Academic Research"

jamesforestwest — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:24:17 +0000

Hasn't it always been that way? But it is sad, admittedly.

New comment by jamesforestwest in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

jamesforestwest — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:05:08 +0000

And yet, the scale of the tragedy being blown out of proportion online regarding the high water and energy consumption of data centers seems somewhat exaggerated to me. But, of course, it would be better to build them in places where there are no issues with clean water.

New comment by jamesforestwest in "Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles"

jamesforestwest — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:25:07 +0000

It's so annoying, actually. I’d rather not switch to a newer car because of it.

New comment by jamesforestwest in "Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance"

jamesforestwest — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:28:32 +0000

How do you define the model buckets, and what happens when a session genuinely needs a model that isn't in the bucket the HMM picked?

New comment by jamesforestwest in "Dear Software Makers"

jamesforestwest — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:49:09 +0000

I’m not particularly biased against technology, but even to me, this sounds very dubious

New comment by jamesforestwest in "Management is forcing us to use AI"

jamesforestwest — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:03:46 +0000

It’s sad, but there’s no getting around it. Besides, I don’t think using AI in itself makes you less intelligent.

New comment by jamesforestwest in "12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones"

jamesforestwest — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:21:34 +0000

That's a much less romantic explanation than the skull cult stuff

New comment by jamesforestwest in "Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents"

jamesforestwest — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:35:52 +0000

I have mixed feelings about my teenage years. I wouldn't want to go back, but I can't say that adult life has turned out to be much better, or that I don't miss that time

New comment by jamesforestwest in "Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?"

jamesforestwest — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:57:57 +0000

I’ve run into this problem too, and it’s not entirely clear to me why it happens. It seems pointless for operators to intentionally degrade connection quality, yet I don’t have a logical explanation for it either.

New comment by jamesforestwest in "Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)"

jamesforestwest — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:16:31 +0000

I don't know, it really depends on the person. Writing things out by hand doesn't help me, and I don't see any difference at all between handwriting and typing

New comment by jamesforestwest in "MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco"

jamesforestwest — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:12:31 +0000

Great shots. You can tell those three hours by the tracks paid off. I especially liked No. 1 from 1912 and Dinky from 1896.

New comment by jamesforestwest in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

jamesforestwest — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:56 +0000

Threadripper is underrated for IO-heavy boxes. I made the same mistake with RAM prices, though; should have maxed it out when it was cheap

New comment by jamesforestwest in "Ask HN: Alternatives to Twitter/X?"

jamesforestwest — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:24:41 +0000

Bluesky is almost like Twitter, many people also use Mastodon and RSS. I also heard about threads, but I don’t like it, I can’t recommend it.

New comment by jamesforestwest in "OpenJev"

jamesforestwest — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:46:42 +0000

Typical Hacker News: instead of analyzing the technical side of OpenJev, half the thread is arguing about "vibecoding" and design...

New comment by jamesforestwest in "RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

jamesforestwest — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:42:28 +0000

You're using open-source Apple code (Darwin) and aiming for Cocoa API compatibility. How are you handling the legal side? Apple's APIs and frameworks are proprietary. Are you reimplementing them from scratch, or using something like GNUstep?

New comment by jamesforestwest in "I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system"

jamesforestwest — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:11:41 +0000

What an interesting and fun project. Now I want something similar too.

New comment by jamesforestwest in "OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor"

jamesforestwest — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:39:45 +0000

The caption editing workflow has been a pain point for years. I'm surprised they didn't fix it in a major release.