Hacker News: jpfromlondon

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Who Killed the Florida Orange?"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:07:45 +0000

it's also not the only study, just one example, besides that's standard boilerplate CE so as not to assume liability.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:04:16 +0000

2B if you tease the reality out of the oft misreported figure, and the annual rake from smoking is 8-10B so it is profitable to maintain it.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:01:18 +0000

in the UK you cannot smoke on public transport or inside buildings, and this is strictly adhered to.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Who Killed the Florida Orange?"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:30:28 +0000

no metabolic effects from sweeteners, wish you lot would stop moving the goalposts on why sweeteners are unhealthy:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12098100/

New comment by jpfromlondon in "A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:27:28 +0000

Completely true, we as humans cannot see past our own reflection.

We imagine supreme intelligence as approximate to us, when in reality we'd be but ants by comparison, our matters trivial.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:24:34 +0000

it's a taste of what's to come, the anointed class with access to the latest and greatest model in exchange for favours or $$$$, and an underclass making do with the hobbled toy models.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:20:56 +0000

>Thank god the EU standardized on USB-C

Short term thinking, if anyone invents a significantly better connector the eu will lag a decade while they clear the red tape, it hampers innovation inside the bloc people who might otherwise be concocting their own improved connector.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:15:28 +0000

right now Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.6, I've found the latter to have the slight edge but your results may vary.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

jpfromlondon — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:07:28 +0000

anecdotally the quality of output isn't significantly different, the speed seems to be what you're really paying for, and since the alternative is free I'll stick to local.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "I shipped a transaction bug, so I built a linter"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:56:54 +0000

the best advice I ever received, nearly ten years ago now, from by far the best programmer I've ever met was "be your own linter", an ethos that persists in my approach to writing every single day.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "I just want simple S3"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:52:16 +0000

would you not just say "edge delivered content"?

New comment by jpfromlondon in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:09:54 +0000

Reddit is over there ->

New comment by jpfromlondon in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:14:38 +0000

it's not an Adam Smith fan club it's an independent research think tank, easily one of the best, up there with Brookings...

New comment by jpfromlondon in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:53:26 +0000

thank you, couldn't agree more, great idea, amateur execution.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "I quit. The clankers won"

jpfromlondon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:56:21 +0000

Oh absolutely, I'll have a poke around.

For the record I'm not an ai doomer, but I am pragmatic, and the lack of hope is merely a foundation.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "I quit. The clankers won"

jpfromlondon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:50:09 +0000

hoped for something useful in your link, found drivel.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

jpfromlondon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:09:53 +0000

if you've changed a function and are worried about the reason for the change not being tracked or disappearing, then add it as a comment, the commit message is not the place for this.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "7,655 Ransomware Claims in One Year: Group, Sector, and Country Breakdown"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:47:11 +0000

>tech illiterate middle managers

Why they're the very fellows signing the cheques to the:

>clueless ... security industry

New comment by jpfromlondon in "I quit editing photos"

jpfromlondon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:07:35 +0000

there are films that are more resolving than even the best digital cameras, unfortunately limited to black and white.

New comment by jpfromlondon in "How to Spot a Liar: Kate White on the Techniques of Deception in Mysteries"

jpfromlondon — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:35:54 +0000

you only see what the production staff want you to see, things are staged and composited to keep you hooked.