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New comment by jxramos in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

jxramos — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:20:16 +0000

It’s not only more comfortable to file off those sharp edges but also makes the laptop less dangerous to carry around. Those sharp edges not only cause discomfort but can chip paint, damage furniture, and inflict damage in general. If you had to you could use it as a weapon I suppose.

New comment by jxramos in "The more evidence behind a therapy, the less the public trusts it"

jxramos — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:23:57 +0000

There’s an OBGYN we’ve long had a relationship with who takes on residents and cross pollinates with them for a win win knowledge transfer. They also volunteer overseas with charitable medical efforts. Those are probably interesting avenues for keeping up with things from the outside to some degree I imagine.

New comment by jxramos in "The more evidence behind a therapy, the less the public trusts it"

jxramos — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:21:40 +0000

The secret is to find independent doctors who have their own private practice and who have hospital admit privileges. Also physicians who take cash payment and operate outside a big health organization or who have affiliations with them but don’t answer to them.

New comment by jxramos in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

jxramos — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:41:11 +0000

I don’t know one way or another but what specifically are the pain points of deflation and how do those compare to the never ending inflation? I’ve lived under inflation all my life, it’s a slow creeping nearly sub threshold insidious process that erodes the value of money. Buy what is life like under deflation, is there pain but ultimate correction to a sane state? It feels like there is no correction to inflation.

New comment by jxramos in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

jxramos — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:43:30 +0000

What would it take to shift the balance of inflation to restore the purchasing power of the penny? Just out of curiosity how does a government and a people and their economy go the other direction?

New comment by jxramos in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

jxramos — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:30:15 +0000

characterize it in terms of truth, clarity of truth, simplicity, and correctness. I think we should always evaluate things along those dimensions. Is it true, does it produce truthful things. It makes the evaluation very objective.

New comment by jxramos in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

jxramos — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:25:28 +0000

every attempt I've attempted thus far has failed at first run, but it was close to a solution that could be adapted and fixed. This has been especially helpful in areas where I'm charting very unfamiliar territory for very narrow scoped problems.

But hearing your 10 line constraint gives me a very https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem vibe to the challenge.

New comment by jxramos in "Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown"

jxramos — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:17:22 +0000

maybe even epub, which is xhtml

New comment by jxramos in "I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it"

jxramos — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:42:25 +0000

> On July 1, 2011, HP launched the TouchPad tablet running WebOS 3.0. > While Apple was selling 9 million iPads that same quarter, TouchPads were gathering dust on store shelves.

Ipad's first release was 4/2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_(1st_generation), we're talking a year later to enter the tablet market. Would folks agree that's still a pretty fresh market to enter into? What exactly differentiated PDAs from tablets?

New comment by jxramos in "Deep Learning Is Applied Topology"

jxramos — Tue, 20 May 2025 21:26:14 +0000

Ayasdi immediately came to mind too seeing this post. I haven't thought of them in a long time, looks like they got bought out in 2019, prepandemic too which was probably best since mid pandemic had a lot of poor valuations

https://www.symphonyai.com/news/financial-services/ayasdi-jo...

New comment by jxramos in "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip"

jxramos — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:19:51 +0000

lol, this interaction may possibly become known as "grooming the AI"

New comment by jxramos in "German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph"

jxramos — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:07:01 +0000

I can imagine these "relative text patches" could just commit as is written but could be committed with a corresponding metadata and referential locations array backed by some kind of encoding that lands in the same commit. That would unlock a visualization tool that could render a strikeout for the earlier precedent legal text or something like that in whatever way the modification applies.

New comment by jxramos in "Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users"

jxramos — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 02:07:30 +0000

it does leave the door open for pointing the finger for who's at fault when text groups with OS blends get all scrambled https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255769788?answerId=2607...

New comment by jxramos in "Half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya: new research"

jxramos — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:48:28 +0000

that term "gemanic tribes" comes to mind for sure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples

New comment by jxramos in "Show HN: I'm working on a Chrome extension for viewing EXIF data of images"

jxramos — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:44:02 +0000

checks out for me, just spot checked this image https://github.com/ianare/exif-samples/blob/master/jpg/Canon.... I loaded as an unpacked extension, works great so far.

Looks good too for imgur which typically has no metadata on the images https://imgur.com/i2iHgAI https://i.imgur.com/i2iHgAI.jpeg

Thank you for this useful extension.

New comment by jxramos in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

jxramos — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:24:47 +0000

They're easy to spot too on account of them not being subject to shrinkflation like other products can. A dozen will be a fixed unit forever I imagine.

New comment by jxramos in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

jxramos — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:45:23 +0000

good quip over here https://x.com/pmarca/status/1887003073530286569

New comment by jxramos in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

jxramos — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:42:55 +0000

I think they're posting their daily updates on their X channel https://x.com/DOGE

New comment by jxramos in "Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries"

jxramos — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:06:17 +0000

that's an excellent verifiable test! I've been struggling to articulate the behavior too, advertisements and slanted search results have effectively gotten in-between my information retrieval and being steered to products and services. It's so hard to find what I'm looking for a times I often just give up and move onto something else.

New comment by jxramos in "Anthropic achieves ISO 42001 certification for responsible AI"

jxramos — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:14:16 +0000

I'm curious what the specific test criteria is precisely