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New comment by lovemenot in "Stop Sloppypasta"

lovemenot — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:49:43 +0000

Couple of expressions from pre-AI culture: "RTFM", "Google is your friend". These were well-used because they are directed, pithy, abrasive.

(n)amow(?): (not) All my own work ?

New comment by lovemenot in "A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine"

lovemenot — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:22:39 +0000

Are you arguing that USA can no longer build parking lots due to environmental concerns? If so, that would indeed be remarkable since parking lots seem to be the facility that almost every US town has been able to build more than enough of.

New comment by lovemenot in "µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D"

lovemenot — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:44:37 +0000

Such languages can be amenable to LLM generation, reducing barriers to entry.

New comment by lovemenot in "Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data"

lovemenot — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 23:08:46 +0000

AI are not real people. Obviously. Just look at the first line to see the intended line of argument.

It's not about which people per se, but how many, in aggregate.

New comment by lovemenot in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

lovemenot — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:22:41 +0000

I don't know what to say. I have tried to point it out more than once. I agree with EU's approach to earbud access, but am also sympathetic to Apple wrt to ROI on its LLM.

Perhaps the issue you seem to be having is that there's nuance in a position which tries to see an issue from both sides. Whatever is the problem with your comprehension, I advise you to reflect on the fact that others in this thread seem to get it and some have raised valid counterpoints or added relevant information.

New comment by lovemenot in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

lovemenot — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:06:18 +0000

I didn't know this. Then I agree with you.

New comment by lovemenot in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

lovemenot — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 03:12:22 +0000

You seem to be claiming that LLM is necessarily integral to iPhone. I am suggesting that need not be the case.

Remember, half of the consideration here is to find a way for Apple to recoup it's investment in LLM. Without creating anti-competitive forces in another market. If you have a different suggestion, or if you think Apple doesn't deserve compensation, make your case.

New comment by lovemenot in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

lovemenot — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:49:40 +0000

Gasoline is the very definition of a commodity. For now, at least, LLM is very from that.

As far as I know, Apple is unique in delivering inference on such a tiny device. For this they deserve a reward. The question is how. Like the EU, I don't believe Apple-only premium-priced locked-down earbuds is the right way.

New comment by lovemenot in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

lovemenot — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:39:12 +0000

Apple has clearly made very significant investment in creating a LLM small and efficient enough to do inference locally on an iPhone. This is excellent work and should be applauded.

For the EU, the issue is that Apple intends to recoup this investment through premium-pricing a different product in another category - one that has many low-cost competitors.

Wouldn't this best be resolved by productising the Apple LLM? Earphone API becomes open, as required by EU. However, use of the Apple LLM would be controlled by license. Earbud competitors could either license Apple's LLM, perhaps on a FRAND basis, or they could install their own LLM on an iOS device. Apple may bundle its LLM but must allow users to uninstall Apple's LLM, to free up space for alternatives.

In short, this isn't and shouldn't be about access to IOS for earbuds. EU is right in this. It's about monetising access to the Apple LLM, for which Apple deserves a revenue stream.

New comment by lovemenot in "WiFi signals can measure heart rate"

lovemenot — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:35:50 +0000

In the new TV series Alien Earth, the low resolution CRT monitors and clunky keyboards aboard interstellar spacecraft really stand out. Presumably it's an homage to the 80s' movies.

New comment by lovemenot in "Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything"

lovemenot — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:08:13 +0000

I'd be ignoring one more data point

New comment by lovemenot in "Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space"

lovemenot — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:32:58 +0000

There are many varietals of rice. Most do not grow in marsh land. Farmers often do flood the fields at the beginning of a rice growing season in order to drown out any competing plants. Flooding is not necessary though. Rice will grow with normal irrigation.

New comment by lovemenot in "Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman"

lovemenot — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 05:42:24 +0000

iirc, it is LSD, but not LSD-25. Which is the kind usually synthesised and sold on blotters. LSD-25 was so named because it was Hoffman's twenty fifth experimental LSD variant.

Microbes living in the clouds affect our lives

lovemenot — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:16:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250610-the-microbes-that-thrive-in-the-clouds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44246814

Points: 2

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New comment by lovemenot in "ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC"

lovemenot — Fri, 09 May 2025 23:25:51 +0000

>> it's just the best mathematical model we have for physics that are too extreme for us to measure

It's not only a measurement problem. Rather, the laws of physics, as we currently understand them, lead to this singularity. Sure, many physicists may doubt the existence of the singularity. They will need new physics, not only better equipment, to challenge it.

New comment by lovemenot in "The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)"

lovemenot — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:52:14 +0000

Me neither. Me too. We were surely cut from the same ...

New comment by lovemenot in "Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model"

lovemenot — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:27:52 +0000

I am not an expert, but I suspect the disconnect concerns number of data sources. LLMs are good at generalising over many points of data, but not good at recapitulating a single data point like in your example.

New comment by lovemenot in "Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)"

lovemenot — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:45:15 +0000

I am not the person you asked, but it seems to me the key difference is concentration of accessible resources. If so, the areas where the trails behind your house intersect with wealthy suburban or urban areas are the areas most likely to conceal would-be robbers.

New comment by lovemenot in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

lovemenot — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:15:06 +0000

The English word petty derives from the French petit (small). So that's almost tautological.

New comment by lovemenot in "Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?"

lovemenot — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 23:43:59 +0000

Geothermal yes. And hydroelectric, even moreso.