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New comment by jawilson2 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

jawilson2 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:50:29 +0000

My Land Rover Defender has this as well.

New comment by jawilson2 in "98% isn't much"

jawilson2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:15:10 +0000

Ha, I had the same thought, if you actually know the history of Luddites vs the more colloquial usage of "someone who hates all technology."

New comment by jawilson2 in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

jawilson2 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:28:23 +0000

I had the same experience, but with a strict keto diet, <20 net carbs / day. I started in 2014, and have maintained it more or less since. When I periodically stop it for a month or so, I get anxiety attacks, migraines, and obviously weight gain. So, I just don't stop it.

New comment by jawilson2 in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

jawilson2 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:14:29 +0000

I don't understand why this is still confusing to people. The second "L" in LLM is language; these things are AWESOME at producing things that SOUND like language, including code. They have so much training data that it is almost always grammatically correct, and often makes sense. Extending this, it has obviously been trained on data containing phrases like "acromial undersurface" and "thin bursal fluid", and "coracromipal arch", in the context of shoulder injury and related imaging. BUT IT DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO DIAGNOSE ANYTHING. So, it SOUNDS like a radiologist or specialist, and might be in the ballpark of correct-ish-ness, but ultimately is a fancy Markov model.

New comment by jawilson2 in "The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring"

jawilson2 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:57:54 +0000

> That said, I think that the target audience for the DLC was always people who thoroughly played through the game.

That's true, but it is strange that you get there and get early-game upgrade materials, like Smithing Stone 2, etc. It seems like they wanted to emphasize that the Scadutree Fragments are the important things for scaling, and not your Base Game level, but you already have to be pretty high level and upgraded to beat Mohg.

New comment by jawilson2 in "Siri AI"

jawilson2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:58:59 +0000

My high school kid has a printed basketball schedule for this summer. I tried taking a pic with Siri to parse it and add it to the calendar with their visual intelligence thing or whatever. It can't do it. I had Claude parse the calendar picture and generate an ics file. Calendar on iPhone and on their website can no longer import ics files. This is like remedial AI functionality that probably could have worked 20 years ago, and it can't do the simplest most basic task.

New comment by jawilson2 in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

jawilson2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:44:29 +0000

I know that's the trend, but it is backwards to me. Like UDP vs TCP. If you need an immediate answer for something, why send a one-way communication where you have no idea whether the person on the other end A) received it, and B) acted on it. A 15 second phone call accomplishes this, whereas if I text you it could be hours, unless you immediately respond.

New comment by jawilson2 in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

jawilson2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:04:28 +0000

I've told people this for years. The mode of communication reflects the urgency. If you text me, expect a response on the order of 3+ days. If you call, and I recognize the number, it will be more urgent. If I DON'T recognize it, it goes to voicemail and back in the 3+ days queue. If you show up at my door, it is immediate. Even with my wife, she will text while I'm at the grocery to pick up some extra food items, and it doesn't necessarily come through or I'm on silent. I'll get home, and she'll ask where the food is, and I ask why she didn't call if it was timely. I just do NOT check my texts that often, it isn't because I'm deliberately ignoring anyone.

New comment by jawilson2 in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

jawilson2 — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:31:40 +0000

Because the manager/owner/techbro class has decided we don't need employees for anything anymore, AI can do it all. This is phenomenally untrue, but that doesn't help you pay off your $400K of student loans or buy a house.

New comment by jawilson2 in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

jawilson2 — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:14:13 +0000

Or adding "-ly" at the end.

"Just use Cashly!" "Download Crditly"

New comment by jawilson2 in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

jawilson2 — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:08:14 +0000

"When you say Antigravity, you think of a platform..."

No, I don't.

I've never heard of Antigravity, but have (rarely) used Gemini, so there's that.

New comment by jawilson2 in "How to deal with your kid leaving"

jawilson2 — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:37:02 +0000

I'm 45, and my parents have been 2 of my best friends for about 15 years now. Probably not a coincidence that this corresponds to when I started having my own kids. I call and check in several times per week, even if it is just "hey, what did you guys have for dinner?". I hope my own kids, the oldest of whom is a year away from college, eventually feel like they can and want to do this too.

New comment by jawilson2 in "Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)"

jawilson2 — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:13:23 +0000

Blocked in the US by NBC Universal.

New comment by jawilson2 in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

jawilson2 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:22:22 +0000

I think the problem is that we're all waiting for the patented Silicon Value Rug Pull and ensuing enshittification, where there are a dozen tiers of products, you need 4 of them, and they now cost $2000/month. I want to hedge against that.

New comment by jawilson2 in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

jawilson2 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:29:16 +0000

Then they should be in jail. Just like Trump and everyone enabling fascism.

Have any other whatabout-its?

New comment by jawilson2 in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

jawilson2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:54:39 +0000

Well THIS is a bit prescient:

"Well, out of curiosity - how much did you lose?"

The Confessor seemed to freeze, for a moment. "What?"

"How much did you lose in the legislative prediction markets, betting on whatever dreadful outcome you thought would happen?"

I had to go see if this was written in the last month or so. It is from 2009.

New comment by jawilson2 in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

jawilson2 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:55:10 +0000

I have the external Magic Trackpad. It is wonderful. I use it with my split Moonlander keyboard, and keep it in the middle. I honestly can't use a normal keyboard now, MacBook Pro included.

New comment by jawilson2 in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

jawilson2 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:28:44 +0000

I'm in the process of moving all of my repos off of github and deleting that account.

Hope that helps.

New comment by jawilson2 in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

jawilson2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:19:40 +0000

Algorithms and models for a proprietary trading system? My personal notes? The latex text of my phd thesis?

I will go screaming and kicking and fighting into this dystopian nightmare post-privacy shithole world that so many people seem fine with. If I have to move off of every service or technology to maintain some semblance of privacy so be it.

New comment by jawilson2 in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

jawilson2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:40:49 +0000

If you are 3-400+ pounds, quickly shedding 100+ pounds makes exercising MUCH easier, and the accompanying loss in appetite will HOPEFULLY teach you better portion sizes. Countless morbidly overweight people have tried for years/decades to lose weight, without success, and GLPs allow them to bootstrap the process.

Yes, CICO, blah blah, but overcoming food addiction by asking people to eat less is like forcing a smoker who wants to quit to work at a cigar bar or something. You can't just not buy food, especially if you have a family you have to feed.