Hacker News: jamiek88

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.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

jamiek88 — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:53:32 +0000

You’ve posted EIGHT comments defending this company with what ifs.

ONE comment admitting you haven’t actually got any understanding of the facts.

If you were genuinely trying to get to the bottom of it every single comment wouldn’t be defending the thieves.

Are you Mormon too?

New comment by jamiek88 in "Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?"

jamiek88 — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:23 +0000

I grew up on the Wirral and and moved to USA in my early twenties I’m nearly 50 now and that 632 3003 gave me absolute frisson mate, nice one.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Google changes its search box"

jamiek88 — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:00:33 +0000

So you started with ‘highly doubtful’ as a comment, got given lots of examples and instead of assimilating that info you closed your eyes put your fingers in yours ears and said “oh who cares?’ - you’re on team AI regardless eh? That’s fucking weird mate.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Click"

jamiek88 — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:35:51 +0000

Hmmm. Clever and a little spooky!

New comment by jamiek88 in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

jamiek88 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:10:52 +0000

Can anyone name a PE purchase that made a company better?

New comment by jamiek88 in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

jamiek88 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:09:40 +0000

Except current immigration enforcement. Ignoring that is enough to have citizenship denied. Just happened to a friend of mine in Houston. Culture is to ignore, courts ignore, police don’t see it. USCIS do.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

jamiek88 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:06:10 +0000

Anyone getting emotional in this thread arguing on behalf of either billionaire should have a long hard look in the mirror.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

jamiek88 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:00:18 +0000

It’s a finding of fact and a fundamental law not a ‘technicality’ but I can see that’s going to be the pro-elon position already.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

jamiek88 — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:09:15 +0000

> Why did he need a second 250 billion after the first 250 billion?

Because billionaires are mentally unwell.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station"

jamiek88 — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:44:11 +0000

Yes you can! For example, The Bodyguard. Shite movie, second best soundtrack of all time and possibly the buggiest selling, I know it was at one point.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

jamiek88 — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:39:28 +0000

Super easy to spoof too.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago"

jamiek88 — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:13:35 +0000

NO. NO TIME TRAVEL. NO ALIENS.

Every fucking time we learn something cool about our ancestors someone attempts to undermine it with shit like this.

Neanderthals doing dentistry is way, way, way cooler and more interesting than your fucking woo.

Every single time.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

jamiek88 — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:39:03 +0000

YOU wrote gorilla.bas?! That’s so cool. Sneaking into the library computer at school to play and later edit and remix that game was a formative experience for me.

New comment by jamiek88 in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

jamiek88 — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:24:35 +0000

Yes! When I awoke this morning my very first thought was ‘you didn’t connect the ground wire for the heater’.

Amazing how our brains work. Went back and sure enough I’d omitted that final connection.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Where the goblins came from"

jamiek88 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:22:54 +0000

That is so creepy in a sci fi other worlds type way.

New comment by jamiek88 in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

jamiek88 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:46:09 +0000

Videos in general don’t get much traction here. Most of the time I don’t want to watch them in this context either, when other sites I do.

Maybe it’s just I come here for the old web feel when video was costly, rare and short.