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New comment by jdminhbg in "Claude Opus 4.6"

jdminhbg — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:54:11 +0000

Do you happen to know, is that because it can’t recite Harry Potter, or because it’s been instructed not to recite Harry Potter?

New comment by jdminhbg in "xAI joins SpaceX"

jdminhbg — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:50:49 +0000

He can take out a full page Wall Street Journal ad tomorrow that says “I created hyperloop to kill CA HSR” and it will have no effect on the fact that CA HSR’s failure is 100% the fault of CA’s own dysfunction.

New comment by jdminhbg in "xAI joins SpaceX"

jdminhbg — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:47:26 +0000

This is the funniest conspiracy theory.

New comment by jdminhbg in "Self Driving Car Insurance"

jdminhbg — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:39:53 +0000

Not "currently," "used to": https://www.theverge.com/transportation/860935/mercedes-driv...

It was way too limited to be useful to anyone.

New comment by jdminhbg in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

jdminhbg — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:53:38 +0000

Because for all the incessant whining about "slop," multimodal AI i/o is incredibly useful. Being able to take a photo of a home repair issue, have it diagnosed, and return a diagram showing you what to do with it is great, and it's the same algos that power the slop. "Sorry, you'll have to go to Gemini for that use case, people got mad about memes on the internet" is not really a good way for them to be a mass consumer company.

New comment by jdminhbg in "Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy"

jdminhbg — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:12:52 +0000

> My mother grew up in the Soviet Bloc

Ah yes, famous racial utopias, all of them.

New comment by jdminhbg in "Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say"

jdminhbg — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:40:40 +0000

I think the eye contact in question was a prelude to the two of them kind of following each other around and a minor verbal altercation, so the later context shows that it was probably kind of suspicious eye contact, rather than a friendly "what's up?"

New comment by jdminhbg in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

jdminhbg — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:59:14 +0000

> Browsing history? Search history?

They want to show you things you have recently watched or looked at when you log in, rather than just random TV shows.

> Age?

You can give your kids an age-restricted account so what they watch is limited.

New comment by jdminhbg in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

jdminhbg — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:15:52 +0000

> Both groups are large markets that will have companies cater to them.

More likely, one group is a large market that companies will cater to and the other group is a small market that will be very loud about their displeasure on the internet.

New comment by jdminhbg in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

jdminhbg — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:54:36 +0000

The problem here is just that upthread Muromec said “it’s that I want to gatekeep” when surely they meant “don’t,” and now there’s a whole chain of misunderstanding.

New comment by jdminhbg in "Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line"

jdminhbg — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:52:02 +0000

> as a car passenger

New comment by jdminhbg in "Apple reports fourth quarter results"

jdminhbg — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:11:05 +0000

No, the 2024 number is goosed by paying a big back tax bill after a court decision in the EU.

New comment by jdminhbg in "AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say"

jdminhbg — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:57:39 +0000

It’s hard to think of anything less monopolized than cloud hosting. There are hundreds of providers.

New comment by jdminhbg in "Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA"

jdminhbg — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:44:13 +0000

> These layoffs occur at such scale that it's unreasonable to assume any individual employee being "let go" has even been evaluated as an individual.

There’s no reason to think that you need to evaluate individuals to have a reason to let them go. I might be the best iOS developer in the world but if I’m working for a company that doesn’t need a custom iOS app, they should lay me off.

New comment by jdminhbg in "Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]"

jdminhbg — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:02:13 +0000

A decade ago there used to be a site called rubydrama.org because of how frequently the community blew up at itself.

New comment by jdminhbg in "Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use"

jdminhbg — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:07:02 +0000

Are you sure that every restriction that’s in the model is also spelled out in the contract? If they add new ones, do they update the contract?

New comment by jdminhbg in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

jdminhbg — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:03:26 +0000

The sentences that follow “found utility” say what that utility is:

> For example, Bridge (a stablecoin orchestration platform that Stripe acquired) is used by SpaceX for managing money in long-tail markets. Another big customer, DolarApp, is providing banking services to customers in Latin America.

New comment by jdminhbg in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

jdminhbg — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 03:21:23 +0000

"Long tail markets" here means small countries with currencies you don't have any particular interest in holding. Starlink sells access in Benin and South Sudan, for example, that's the long tail.

New comment by jdminhbg in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

jdminhbg — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 03:13:27 +0000

Once you buy the stablecoins, moving the money anywhere is an API call and a sub-1¢ transaction fee, rather than a cross-border wire transfer and a multi-day settlement process.

New comment by jdminhbg in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

jdminhbg — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 03:08:27 +0000

> A regular log or ledger file could accomplish the same thing as a blockchain

It is kind of wild how a bunch of people hyping blockchains five years ago has resulted in a thermostatic reaction where a bunch of other people have decided that distributed computing is easy, actually, you just need a ledger file.