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New comment by jdelman in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

jdelman — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:32:18 +0000

While purely speculation, I believe the same thing would have happened, albeit even sooner, under a Harris administration. Government intervention was inevitable and it will have to be worked out through the law.

New comment by jdelman in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

jdelman — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:55:19 +0000

I can’t help but wonder if this is the basis of the model they’ve helped tune for Apple.

New comment by jdelman in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

jdelman — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:45:18 +0000

The centrality of GitHub was part of its appeal. It’s where you went to see where nearly every (obviously not all) open source project was being developed. Based on his post, the network effect was a large part of the draw and the reason he stayed despite reliability issues. A more federated set of git UIs will never capture the same feeling.

New comment by jdelman in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

jdelman — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:12:41 +0000

Lately I’ve found myself taking the “if you can’t beat em, join em” attitude: if I’m not going to have a job in 5 years, I might as well help get there. It’s a strange feeling where it feels like the only way to exert free will is to accelerate my fate. The feeling of inevitable acceleration is difficult to ignore if you’re a software engineer in 2026.

New comment by jdelman in "The paper computer"

jdelman — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:16:26 +0000

What exactly do you believe to be dangerous? Your comment comes off as judgmental rather than genuine.

New comment by jdelman in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

jdelman — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:38:16 +0000

Pangram says this article is about 50% AI generated, including the opening several paragraphs.

New comment by jdelman in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

jdelman — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:23:35 +0000

That’s simply not what introspection is, though.

New comment by jdelman in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

jdelman — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:19:53 +0000

I’m convinced that he meant rumination, not introspection. There’s simply no way to be “high agency” without some level of introspection. Rumination is essentially a kind of excessive introspection that leads to paralysis.

New comment by jdelman in "Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font"

jdelman — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:48:35 +0000

I remember there was a service that would do this by mail in the 90s. You had to fill out a card with each block letter and then it cost a few hundred dollars. I wasn't even a teenager then so I couldn't afford it, but I always wanted to do it.

New comment by jdelman in "Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones"

jdelman — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:15:39 +0000

I’m switching to T-Mobile.

New comment by jdelman in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

jdelman — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:06:06 +0000

When you sign up for an Apple account, you aren't "buying" anything. In fact there is a set of terms & conditions you agree to when signing up which most likely includes language stating that your account can be closed with the discretion of the platform owner. What we need isn't a shift from "buying" to "renting", but instead something akin to a Consumer Bill of Rights that states that you are entitled to appeal account closure if you are in good standing and can prove as much.

New comment by jdelman in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

jdelman — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:29:35 +0000

Ok fair enough, was a bit hostile there. No involvement with the project, and it’s practically vaporware at this point. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to dig through people’s post histories, though. I also found the reference to 1599 buried in the FAQ.

Having said all that, film labs and rich enthusiasts do seem to be the target market for this product, if it ever launches.

New comment by jdelman in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

jdelman — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:04:44 +0000

This is even worse on voice mode. It's unusable for me now.

New comment by jdelman in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

jdelman — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:26:10 +0000

> I had never even heard of an uncut developed roll of film before

That's how film is developed. Someone at a lab has to cut it.

> who is honestly shooting that much 135 film

How about a film lab? A place where "uncut developed film" is extremely common.

>it's worth 1600 Euros to buy a faster scanner for it

Price is 999 euro.

> pros who still shoot film would use a larger format

Some do, some don't. It depends on the project. I'm a little surprised by your comment looking at your history. You say you're a retired professional photographer and you've never heard of "uncut developed film" before? If you're retired in 2025, you must have been working when all photography was on film. You never developed a roll of film before?

New comment by jdelman in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

jdelman — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 02:06:19 +0000

The workflow for this scanner would allow you to thread an uncut roll of 35mm film through it. You'd have to spend more than $0 to get that kind of speed on a DSLR rig.

New comment by jdelman in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

jdelman — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 02:04:51 +0000

> Yes. We’re collaborating with several film labs in Berlin to benchmark Knokke against Fuji Frontier and Noritsu scanners. > Sample results will be published before the Kickstarter campaign, so you can make a fully informed decision.

I don't care how cool your scanner looks or how "modern" the workflow is - it's samples or nothing. Additionally, if they were really smart, they'd collaborate with a well known film photographer instead of using someone's walk-around point-and-shoot photos.

New comment by jdelman in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

jdelman — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:01:12 +0000

I've noticed a big problem with AirPods Pro 3 on the NYC subway. Maybe my fit isn't right, but Adaptive/Transparent mode is a lot less "transparent" with really loud background noise - I can tell I'm listening to a processed signal rather than the natural muted sound of the AirPods Pro 2.

New comment by jdelman in "Show HN: Iframetest.com"

jdelman — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:14:41 +0000

This is cool. I noticed that, after testing a few URLs, hitting the back button in my browser popped some state to load the previous iframe URL, but the URL of the whole page itself didn't change. It would be nice if the URL had a query param to reflect the currently shown iframe URL.

New comment by jdelman in "macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons"

jdelman — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 02:10:53 +0000

Listen to the episode of The Talk Show with Louie Mantia. They really rip on Alan Dye and Liquid Glass. Not so much the _idea_ of Liquid Glass, which I think they appreciate, but its execution, which is shoddy, inconsistent, and reveals a dearth of holistic thinking about UI design.

New comment by jdelman in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"

jdelman — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:01:23 +0000

You don't think Wozniak is using "happy" to mean "fulfilling"? This is a strawman.