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

marliechiller — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:28:16 +0000

Talk about confidently incorrect. Gatwick and Heathrow have water stations all over the place and I recently saw similar in Geneva

New comment by marliechiller in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

marliechiller — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:21:35 +0000

Why? Is this is because of shame or fear of losing your job?

New comment by marliechiller in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

marliechiller — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:44:17 +0000

Thats a term thats used a lot in the British isles too, I doubt its an Australasian thing

New comment by marliechiller in "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)"

marliechiller — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:25:41 +0000

It does, but the L-Theanine has an almost neutralising effect on the more jittery and frenetic aspects that caffeine can bring. It leaves you feeling what I would describe as more focused and calm, rather than alert and anxious

New comment by marliechiller in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

marliechiller — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:04:44 +0000

Can you offer some rebuttal to give some credence to your point?

New comment by marliechiller in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

marliechiller — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:18:04 +0000

I have never vibed with macOS's seemingly default mode of floating windows layered over one another like scattered paper on a desk (mimicking a desktop I suppose). Instead ive been using https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace for the past couple of years and just flicking around via hotkeys. Not perfect but much less friction for my use cases

New comment by marliechiller in "Ian's Shoelace Site"

marliechiller — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:04:38 +0000

Joseph Cheaney, whilst expensive, will save you £££ in the long run (and theyre a classy shoe)

New comment by marliechiller in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

marliechiller — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:22:32 +0000

I dont think this is the same. If you started referring to North America as a name for the USA then it would be equal

New comment by marliechiller in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

marliechiller — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:06:26 +0000

Not trying to be glib, but whats the alternative other than suicide? Keep trying things you know havent worked?

New comment by marliechiller in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

marliechiller — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:07:29 +0000

This seems a bit reductive. You could use this argument for any small town

New comment by marliechiller in "How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground"

marliechiller — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:40:52 +0000

Reading this hurts. I'm on £26 a month for a gigabit connection in Z4.

New comment by marliechiller in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

marliechiller — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:09:09 +0000

As someone that fits some of the above categories, I think you really have to step back and repeatedly tell yourself "get over it". Its the same mentality to "I dont want to go to the gym today". You immediately feel better as soon as youve finished it and wonder why you always drag your feet before.

New comment by marliechiller in "Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin"

marliechiller — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:59:08 +0000

Ive been using nix-darwin for over a year now after using nixos with flakes for a bit. I now have a singular repo with multiple machine configurations. Nixos for my home server, nix darwin on a macbook air and a nix darwin with a work config. This allows me to have common programs on all machines but also overlay some specialised packages and programs in certain environments. After climbing the initial mountain, its been very satisfying and things just work. My work laptop died recently and I was able to be fully up to speed in a fraction of the time it would have taken me otherwise.

New comment by marliechiller in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

marliechiller — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:55:09 +0000

The top 1% arent the problem. The top <=0.001% are the problem.

New comment by marliechiller in "I tried Gleam for Advent of Code"

marliechiller — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:40:23 +0000

One thing im wondering with the LLM age we seem to be entering: is there value in picking up a language like this if theres not going to be a corpus of training data for an LLM to learn from? Id like to invest the time to learn Gleam, but I treat a language as a tool, or a means to an end. I feel like more and more I'm reaching for the tool to get the job done most easily, which are languages that LLMs seem to gel with.

New comment by marliechiller in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

marliechiller — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:27:57 +0000

> A failing company may still be right in identifying other companies failure modes.

Agreed if this is what they are doing, but what if theyre spewing claims to try and discredit an industry in order to quell their shareholder concerns?

New comment by marliechiller in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

marliechiller — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:18:33 +0000

Id argue its already even greater. The amount of botting and astroturfing happening now means that a good chunk of the content people are consuming on those social media sites is generated by LLMs. Social media is the vector, but its the content thats the virus and OpenAI et al control what that virus contains

New comment by marliechiller in "BBC director general and News CEO resign in bias controversy"

marliechiller — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:26:16 +0000

Not in the UK

New comment by marliechiller in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

marliechiller — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:10:14 +0000

wouldnt this be the case for any vendor you choose?

New comment by marliechiller in "The Case That A.I. Is Thinking"

marliechiller — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:37:35 +0000

I'd argue the presence of dictionaries proves the exact opposite. People realised there was an issue of talking past one another due to inexact definitions and then came to an agreement on those definitions, wrote them down and built a process of maintaining them.

In any case, even if there isnt a _single_ definition of a given subject, in order to have a discussion around a given area, both sides need to agree on some shared understanding to even begin to debate in good faith in the first place. It's precisely this lack of definition which causes a breakdown in conversation in a myriad of different areas. A recent obvious (morbid) example would be "genocide".