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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

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

jedimastert — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:42:13 +0000

Fair, the youths very much much get blamed for smoking and gambling back in the day as well. Sort of pivotal to the story of Pinocchio, for example

New comment by jedimastert in "Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography"

jedimastert — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:10:04 +0000

Even if it's not the same resolution there's still benefits, a bit one that it will likely be WAY less expensive, both upfront and in maintenance, even after building the water tank. It might also replace a fair amount of routine ultrasound usage because of the reduction of operator skill.

Also, there's plenty of people who can't be in MRI machines, and likely a lot safer for everyone else.

New comment by jedimastert in "90% of the T Distribution"

jedimastert — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:56:38 +0000

A kind of literal translation would be that he cannot match the amount of love and support that his wife shows, both in amount or in intensity.

A rewording might be "she is more supportive than I could ever be, and better at being supportive than I could ever be"

New comment by jedimastert in "Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine"

jedimastert — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:25:49 +0000

I appreciate the AI disclosure, I hope that becomes normalized

New comment by jedimastert in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

jedimastert — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:02:02 +0000

Open source it all, I double dog dare you

New comment by jedimastert in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

jedimastert — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:28:01 +0000

I mean, the numbers are pretty significant, but like there really isn't a great argument when they're already talking about second non-primary homes. Like no one is forcing them to own them, it's not a necessity

New comment by jedimastert in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

jedimastert — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:12:13 +0000

Edit: I've done a little research, and it looks like they might only be changing the valuation method for the super expensive homes

New comment by jedimastert in "Can we have the day off?"

jedimastert — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:28:56 +0000

It was, the 40 hour work week was hard fought for.

Also, 996 is apparently a thing

New comment by jedimastert in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

jedimastert — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:29:05 +0000

> But when they get into the business of slowing down technology adoption to protect workers, that's when they get into the territory of giving unions a bad name.

I would consider the emputus more on companies to not roll out new technology in a way that harms workers.

New comment by jedimastert in "Magnifica Humanitas"

jedimastert — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:05:43 +0000

> I'm curious if there has ever been an instance where people have been able to "tame" a technology to consider a broader, societal good, or if we've always just been at the whims of how any particular tech naturally concentrates or dissipates power.

One example that comes to mind is cloning. It's technically fully possible to clone a human right now (as in make an embryo with one person's DNA), but it's wildly taboo.

New comment by jedimastert in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

jedimastert — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:34:45 +0000

> it's worth considering why it hasn't totally taken over "naturally".

Because is advantageous for employers to keep workers as close to the brink of burnout as possible as a method of control

New comment by jedimastert in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

jedimastert — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:59:32 +0000

This looks awesome, and I've been waffling about moving from Notion to something local/markdown based for a while. My only issue is that I really like using "databases"/tables, specifically for moving through processes ticket-style, in Notion. Does anyone know if there's something similar elsewhere? I'm not familiar with the knowledge-base/wiki space, I just kinda fell into notion.

New comment by jedimastert in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

jedimastert — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:57:10 +0000

I would say "open source markdown knowledge-base similar to Obsidian" but I'm not a marketing guy

New comment by jedimastert in "Dogma 25 – Vow of Chastity (2025)"

jedimastert — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:06:37 +0000

So this is my art degree coming out, but I feel like invoking the name of Dogma 95 and the "vow of chastity" without what appears to be any of the original people involved or blessing feels a little lame, especially when the actual rules are pretty different from the original. At least, I don't see any indication of like a real personal connection to the original.

I feel like they probably should have come up with a different name and just noted the connection in the manifesto

New comment by jedimastert in "Dogme 25 – Vow of Chastity (2025)"

jedimastert — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:00:19 +0000

I feel like people are reading this as "this is how the under signers think all movies should be made, and we are judging movies not made this way as a moral failing", when I think a better reading would be "as directors/film makers/story tellers, this is how we think we can maximize our own creativity and joy when we make movies".

New comment by jedimastert in "Dogma 25 – Vow of Chastity (2025)"

jedimastert — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:56:59 +0000

> Nothing like rules for spurring creativity.

I feel like it's pretty well known in creative spaces that constraints breed creativity.

New comment by jedimastert in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

jedimastert — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:04:46 +0000

That's not really a computer helping you though, that's just a computer allowing a human that's far away to help you right?