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New comment by klik99 in "Which Buffett? Warren or Jimmy. Can you tell them apart?"

klik99 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:10:52 +0000

My favorite Jimmy Buffet story - after a gig everyone was hanging out partying, when they realized Jimmy wasn’t there. Someone went to his room to find him, and he was deep in running through financials. Jimmy said “Don’t tell anyone you saw me doing this!” Like it was shameful. What we know as Jimmy Buffet is just a character, he was a businessman.

New comment by klik99 in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

klik99 — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:13:47 +0000

I read about this previously and had the same reaction - something seems missing, it’s too crazy, this has gotta be just one side of the story. Normal reaction in this media landscape. But this seems to be one of the rare cases that, yes, it really is a case of an edge case of law allowing theft.

New comment by klik99 in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

klik99 — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:25:41 +0000

I remember lack of generics being pitched as a feature of Go initially, not a lack. The original design goal was simplicity. I don’t use Go, so have no opinion on this, just interesting that it’s going in this direction.

New comment by klik99 in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

klik99 — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:14:45 +0000

He finally realized that you could just rsync

New comment by klik99 in "My I3-Emacs Integration"

klik99 — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:33:13 +0000

I have to mainly drive Windows 11 for work reasons so I use komorebi for a tiling window manager (highly recommended btw). I bet the ideas in this post can be applied in that environment too, gotta try it now, great idea

New comment by klik99 in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

klik99 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:51:26 +0000

IIRC the interview that quote was from came with the story - Russia was seen as a lost cause by the game industry, there was so much piracy that nobody even bothered trying to give legitimate ways to purchase, why invest in distribution when they’ll just pirate? Now of course Steam does heathy business there so that’s obviously not true. But indicates writing off piracy is a self fulfilling prophecy

New comment by klik99 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

klik99 — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:02:44 +0000

You’re spot on.

I’ve lived in Atlanta for many years, grew up with family in northeast, so I know how to drive in snow and have seen how Boston, New York and Atlanta all deal with it. Atlanta has a very very small fleet to clear snow and ice because the cost of maintaining a large fleet just isn’t worth the low frequency they’re needed. So it’s common for bad ice to shutdown the city for 1-2 days. That’s a valid trade off.

Every once in a while Atlanta would get a bad one and people would start complaining about needing a bigger fleet, then a couple weeks after it’s over just forget about it.

New comment by klik99 in "Flipper One – we need your help"

klik99 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:14:53 +0000

"Build the most open and best-documented ARM computer in the world, with full mainline Linux kernel support." ... "the HDMI port is proprietary and requires licensing fees"

Are they upstreaming opensource HDMI 2.1 support? I mean I'm sure they're not, since they paid the toll, just feels they're not totally sticking to their guns. It's the kind of choice that shows if you really mean what you say. The more that won't license, the better chance of actually getting open drivers for common technology.

None of this takes away from how awesome this looks. Very excited by all this.

New comment by klik99 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

klik99 — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:23:45 +0000

This is why the comparison to people’s reactions to Darwin/evolution is just wrong - people had thought experimented things that looked like evolution, but when we were able to measure it we could start linking it to the real physical world. AFAIK consciousness is the only thing that we know for certain is real, but have no way of measuring it. People are still conscious when they lose sense of self, and blacking out or surgical sedatives might be related to memory more than losing consciousness, these affect qualities of consciousness but aren’t consciousness itself. This article reads like “I f’ing love science” level thinking, saying people are ignorant for thinking consciousness is not just a physical process, but zero understanding of scientific process.

New comment by klik99 in "NetHack 5.0.0"

klik99 — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:20:55 +0000

I love Roguelike Celebration! Thanks for volunteering at it, and for boosting it here!

New comment by klik99 in "Men who stare at walls"

klik99 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:16:20 +0000

Literally regular Zen practice, in fact where I used to go we always called it “sitting and staring at the wall”, to remove any woo associations or any idea that you’re doing something grand.

I remember sitting in an intro session and the teacher asked everyone for what they expected - one of the guys there was a dude bro who was obviously there because his girlfriend dragged him. He said all the fancy things about reaching higher consciousness, like he thought the whole thing was stupid but he was playing along. Then after sitting for 15 minutes he was more into it than his GF. He clearly had an experience and excitedly struggled to find the words to describe it. I honestly think the less you expect out of sitting, the more likely you are to get something, weirdly.

New comment by klik99 in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

klik99 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:02:18 +0000

Apropos of nothing, “I was a tween debatelord” sounds like a b-movie title

New comment by klik99 in "SDL Now Supports DOS"

klik99 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:41:37 +0000

Awesome. Why? But awesome. There does not need to be a reason why

New comment by klik99 in "Not buying another Kindle"

klik99 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:03:16 +0000

Again, this is after 13 years, so the subsidized price is worth it for me (personally) for at least 13 years of use. In the original article it compares it to kobo and says “Meanwhile, when you buy a Kobo, you are buying a tool that can be maintained for a decade or more”, so 13 years either way. That said, I don’t like Kindles approach, this is purely a cost benefit calculation and Amazon subsidizing the hardware makes it worth it (for me). I only use ereaders for reading and don’t want/need any more features.

New comment by klik99 in "Not buying another Kindle"

klik99 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:36:28 +0000

I have several Kindles for me and my kids, I have never bought a book on the Amazon store, instead I side load everything. Amazon basically subsidized a cheap and tough e-reader assuming it would drive everyone to the store, which I actively do not engage with. If it gets bricked in 10 years, I still think it would be worth it.

New comment by klik99 in "A Brief History of Fish Sauce"

klik99 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:55:46 +0000

Ketchup also has origins from fish sauce

New comment by klik99 in "The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment"

klik99 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:49:03 +0000

I find it weird because I've seen traces of it before in people who believed in the singularity 20 years ago, people who really believed that anti-AI was pathological. Back then the stakes didn't seem as real and immediate as now, and now you can see it on pro-AI reddit subs. But I agree that language and attitude is co-opted for marketing purposes, for example last year when there was a lot of talk about doomerism.

New comment by klik99 in "The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment"

klik99 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:23:56 +0000

The company whos blog it is is "AI-assisted clinical documentation" - I feel this is an attempt to explain anti-AI sentiment as an unreasonable aversion to AI rather than the real reasons for anti-AI sentiment. There's a weird trend in the AI industry to pathologize people who don't like AI.

New comment by klik99 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

klik99 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:26:23 +0000

I mostly agree with you - he seemed happy for the chance to play the victim. When the system is working, war is different because it has democratic process behind approval (Iran is obviously showing the system is breaking down)

But just because horrible people exist in positions of power doesn’t mean I have to become horrible myself. I accept that there is a threshold where that changes, but I think we would disagree that we’ve hit that threshold. If anything violence now just gives more excuse to justify further consolidation of power (look I got attacked! The anti AI people are crazy, any criticism of me is just encouraging them!) Imagine if it was a serious attack on sama, they could spin it into some serious gains for them.

New comment by klik99 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

klik99 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:31:39 +0000

Genuinely surprised at the extreme comments against sama here. I don’t think he’s a good steward of the technology, but I don’t think violence is funny or justified. I also don’t think it’s justified for him to use it to say that a negative article about him is correlated to this event. Seems to imply that an “incendiary article” led to this and that criticism is tantamount to calls to violence. He drives the conversation with apocalyptic terms, and both investors and crazy people buy into it.