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New comment by jamiek88 in "The only known trebuchet casualty in history"

jamiek88 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:31:47 +0000

And to spread disease.

New comment by jamiek88 in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"

jamiek88 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:24:07 +0000

(Yes but that wasn’t criticism it was attempting to incorrectly correct.)

We’ve nested enough folks haha.

New comment by jamiek88 in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"

jamiek88 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:54:59 +0000

(English doesn’t work like that people use cringe as an adjective therefore it is one, it’s an extremely flexible language.)

New comment by jamiek88 in "In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace"

jamiek88 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:43:17 +0000

Murder. He was murdered. Let’s stop using nice words for it. It wasn’t a president.

New comment by jamiek88 in "I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program"

jamiek88 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:57:02 +0000

That used to piss me off 10 years ago when I last saw it.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

jamiek88 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:22:05 +0000

Fortunately, it’s inevitable. :D

New comment by jamiek88 in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard"

jamiek88 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:05:04 +0000

Judging by how my nieces and nephews text this has already happened!

New comment by jamiek88 in "The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)"

jamiek88 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:51:29 +0000

I really liked disqus back in the day. When I was in my kinda cringey singularity phase, Kurzweil and all that. Tracking comments across similar blogs with the same people was handy.

New comment by jamiek88 in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

jamiek88 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:56:55 +0000

Snail mail scams like that were common for decades prior. My mates dad nearly fell for one once.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"

jamiek88 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:00:28 +0000

Typo for ‘now late to the party’ prob.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

jamiek88 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:32:05 +0000

That says a huge amount about YOU and nothing about ‘most people’. What a very revealing thing to say. Wow.

New comment by jamiek88 in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

jamiek88 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:17:15 +0000

Weird way of apologizing for being wrong. Keep that shit on Reddit.

New comment by jamiek88 in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

jamiek88 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:13:40 +0000

Came to power in 2021 - time traveler too is he? Did you mean Trump?

New comment by jamiek88 in "Resetting Xbox"

jamiek88 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:51:55 +0000

Anyone else deeply deeply weary in their bones about people doing this?

I hate this timeline. We can’t even talk about fucking corporate margins without some chud shoehorning some of this shit in.

New comment by jamiek88 in "I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025)"

jamiek88 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:12:52 +0000

Mate this is genius! How have I not thought of mmWave detection. Rabbit hole activate!

New comment by jamiek88 in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

jamiek88 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:30:36 +0000

What an unnecessary comment dismissing the expertise of an actual expert - what’s your robotic experience to dismiss him so contemptuously?

New comment by jamiek88 in "Your ePub Is fine"

jamiek88 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:48:00 +0000

No, Steve was very vocally against it until jailbreaks forced the issue. It’s well documented.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

jamiek88 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:13:27 +0000

Matters of degree, no?

But that was poorly punctuated I meant selfishness or even evil not that they were equivalent.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

jamiek88 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:23:21 +0000

I glanced at this and moved on but then my brain did a kind of record scratch on this comment.

Great question does intelligence require selfishness / evil?

I’m gonna think about this a bit, but my knee jerk was to (violently) disagree with this but I don’t know why.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

jamiek88 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:16:16 +0000

He’s probably thinking of the accuracy limit to civilians it launched with.