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New comment by loa_in_ in "Protect your shed"

loa_in_ — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:01:26 +0000

One can deprioritise health but what does it bring long time? I know it sounds cliche, so I will add that sometimes sacrificing health a little bit is worth pondering.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

loa_in_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:09:35 +0000

The kids you mention likely have multiple VR, AR and other gadget setups in their own home. Too much of a good thing is just that.

New comment by loa_in_ in "DoorDash Tasks"

loa_in_ — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:49:36 +0000

In a certain Euroland country an analogous delivery company just awards the driver minimum hourly payment on certain agreed before hours if they're clearly working but circumstances had them earn less. Minimum wage requirements stifle nothing.

New comment by loa_in_ in "DoorDash Tasks"

loa_in_ — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:41:50 +0000

It's also appears to be a hustle side job employer in PR regarding employment MO, while clearly trying to capture the market for deliveries in weekday work hours.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Fatal Core Dump Game"

loa_in_ — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:06:58 +0000

I think that the best aspect of games or challenges based directly on real life concepts is that the tutorial is the real thing's tutorial. So in this case the man pages and stack overflow.

New comment by loa_in_ in "FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video]"

loa_in_ — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:37:37 +0000

I thought it was easy: watch videos with your kid, don't allow them to doomscroll or be raised by the "featured"/"front page" algorithms.

New comment by loa_in_ in "FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video]"

loa_in_ — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:35:09 +0000

How does one make sure the implementation is sufficient and complete? It feels like assuming total knowledge of the world, which is never true. How many false positives and false negatives do we tolerate? How does it impact a person?

New comment by loa_in_ in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

loa_in_ — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:24:12 +0000

It's surprisingly tame still given it interests tens (hundreds?) of millions of people at varying age and background and mostly when the mind is occupied by a problem. I always found it surprising there's not more defacing and toxicity.

New comment by loa_in_ in "AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2"

loa_in_ — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:52:11 +0000

There's lots of _marketing_ promising unsupervised agents. It's important to remember not to drink the cool-aid.

New comment by loa_in_ in "What is “literate programming”? (2024)"

loa_in_ — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:19:32 +0000

The examples are definitely acknowledgement worthy.

I imagine the biggest hurdle on the path towards adopting this is writing down clear, readable prose using highly technical language. And naming things. Using ambiguous human language to describe a complex algorithm without causing a conflict in a big team.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Unreal Tournament 2004 is back"

loa_in_ — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:17:37 +0000

No, these are class based team FPS, core of UT and Quake is (team) deathmatch

New comment by loa_in_ in "We are building AI slaves. Alignment through control will fail"

loa_in_ — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:25:45 +0000

So is mine. So what stops a physical process from being simulated in an exact form? What stops the consciousness process from being run on simulated medium rather than physical? Wouldn't that make the abstract perfect artificial mind at least as conscious as a human?

New comment by loa_in_ in "We are building AI slaves. Alignment through control will fail"

loa_in_ — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:05:06 +0000

That sounds like picking the most convenient and least painful for the believer option instead of intellectualising the problem at hand.

New comment by loa_in_ in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

loa_in_ — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:20:11 +0000

It almost sounds plausible but it's not. All fuel is extremely heavy elements that in still water falls down and deposits on the bottom.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Sora 2"

loa_in_ — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:28:37 +0000

Think of it as Tenor GIF (a reaction gif provider) but if your prompt isn't there it's AI generated and cached (added) to the global library.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Ig Nobel Prize: UVC light sterilizes shoes, kills odor"

loa_in_ — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:27:02 +0000

The ingredients are: Anionic active ingredients less than five percent, fragrance, hydrogen peroxide, sodium bicarbonate, acetic acid, preservative - methylchloroisothiazolinone.

I don't see at a glance how it's bleach infused as the packaging claims.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow [audio]"

loa_in_ — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:19:38 +0000

But it's us who wrote current laws, not some magical entity.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Ig Nobel Prize: UVC light sterilizes shoes, kills odor"

loa_in_ — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:31:45 +0000

I use bleach infused cleaning wipes and I stuff few of them inside each shoe for few nights. I take them out whenever I put on the shoes. On a negative note, it caused some cheaper insoles to literally fall apart overnight while doing this.

New comment by loa_in_ in "A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans"

loa_in_ — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:03:31 +0000

Notably, technology is computers and networks but also pumps, presses, gears, everything since the wheel.

New comment by loa_in_ in "Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme"

loa_in_ — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:58:36 +0000

Having money allows you to spend time elsewhere, like cherry picking desperate employees. I know temp agencies that have it as the whole business model. If you aren't desperate you don't fit.