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New comment by jedimastert in "Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]"

jedimastert — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:02:56 +0000

It's cool to see Chris Staecker's channel getting some love, he brings a a kind of joy I miss from the old internet. I know it's still around, but it certainly feels more difficult to find and suppressed in many ways.

New comment by jedimastert in "Darktable"

jedimastert — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:13:45 +0000

I can also recommend Raw Therapee as an open source raw editor.

New comment by jedimastert in "Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions"

jedimastert — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:18:46 +0000

I'm reminded of a graphic novel by Barry Jones called "The Book of Niall" about an actor going through "depersonalization-derealization disorder", a similar form of dissociation that the author himself struggled with. It's really difficult to describe but the graphic novel I think does it well. Highly recommend it

New comment by jedimastert in "The Artist Who Colored Ghibli"

jedimastert — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:13:28 +0000

The blog itself, Animation Obsessive, is also all high quality if this kind of thing interests you

New comment by jedimastert in "Did They Ghost You?"

jedimastert — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:06:38 +0000

Yeah I thought it was gonna be a static page

New comment by jedimastert in "Claude Opus 5"

jedimastert — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:34:16 +0000

Kinda? Routing can be compared and benchmarked pretty easily so I'm not as worried about it

New comment by jedimastert in "Claude Opus 5"

jedimastert — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:11:00 +0000

How many tokens did it burn doing that instead of just vendoring?

Like I said in a separate comment, these tools are written and trained by corporations first and foremost, they'll always have conflicting interests.

New comment by jedimastert in "Claude Opus 5"

jedimastert — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:01:21 +0000

> Model Routing will always be done better by models themselves.

> The models themselves will get better at this and frontier companies will simply give that capability

I would never trust something like model routing to the same company that would profit from it, and that goes for telling models doing their own routing when that could easily be trained into the model to make things more expensive. Sort of a conflict of interest.

Models are first and foremost trained by corporations.

New comment by jedimastert in "Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker"

jedimastert — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:06:16 +0000

I mean you could probably say that for most crud applications, the difference is somebody else is already done the work of setting everything up and it looks nice

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

jedimastert — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:33:33 +0000

I'm seeing surprisingly few comments about OP getting homeopathic treatment

New comment by jedimastert in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

jedimastert — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:21:27 +0000

The blog post itself has pretty a pretty strong un-copy-edited ChatGPT vibes.

New comment by jedimastert in "Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?"

jedimastert — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:30:13 +0000

That's a pretty strong assertion just throw out like it's obvious

New comment by jedimastert in "Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?"

jedimastert — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:22:03 +0000

These kinds of policies are exactly what I meant by "distractions", those policies tend to help the wealthy far more than workers, and then those same policies are turned towards the workers when there aren't any more immigrants to hurt

New comment by jedimastert in "Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?"

jedimastert — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:18:21 +0000

I would call that holding steady worldwide in the last decade, which honestly is still unacceptable with how much more wealthy the world has gotten

New comment by jedimastert in "Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?"

jedimastert — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:57:16 +0000

And yet we are also living in some of the strongest wealth inequality in the last 100 years at least.

https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality

New comment by jedimastert in "Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?"

jedimastert — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:37:02 +0000

> Additionally, it often happens that the interests of people in one country are antagonistic to the interests of people in another country.

I find this honestly kind of difficult to believe, except when it comes to distractions by the people who want to stay in power

New comment by jedimastert in "Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?"

jedimastert — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:35:18 +0000

The idea that the answer to this question would not be intuitive to pretty much anyone that participates in an economy is a genuine shock.

New comment by jedimastert in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

jedimastert — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:28:00 +0000

The term "millennials" referred to a specific cohort of people that all share similar experiences and therefore culture because they were born around a specific time (early ninties).

So yes, it would be an evolution to refer to them as college student age today

New comment by jedimastert in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"

jedimastert — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:43:18 +0000

As it was fortold in the prophecy:

Relevant xkcd <https://xkcd.com/1053/>

New comment by jedimastert in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

jedimastert — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:49:37 +0000

The usage of the phrase has evolved past carrying about the actual generation (kind of like how people still talk about "millennials" like they're college students).

Also, Hoffman very intentionally opened the door to talking about generational differences, this kind of feels like the commenter may have touched a nerve