Hacker News: methodin

New comment by methodin in "Quake's lightning gun bug explained [video]"

methodin — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:21:48 +0000

Thanks for the link! This really took me back to the games I grew up on that influenced me (haven't heard the names ROTT or Redneck Rampage since the 90's)

New comment by methodin in "AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects"

methodin — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:18:03 +0000

Yeah kind of an interesting journey. We went from people writing content for people, to bots writing content for people, to people curating content for bots (ultimately for people). The only permutation left is bots curating/writing content for bots and people are consuming only bot-generated content. In a way we are partially there since some content that was in these models was written by bots.

New comment by methodin in "Define Wokeness Or how you shall know a word by the company it keeps"

methodin — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:55:48 +0000

The irony is that a lot of people on this earth have opinions already formed by bots and AI without knowing it

New comment by methodin in "Starbucks CEO will work a shift at the company’s cafes once a month"

methodin — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:57:50 +0000

Can you elaborate a bit on how the dishwasher role gets the restaurant out of jams?

New comment by methodin in "Home Prices Fell in February for First Time in 11 Years"

methodin — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:52:40 +0000

AirBNB has really compounded the problem - another reason houses are being treated as purely an investment by people who don't live in them. Even worse they are off the rental market.

New comment by methodin in "Mapping hidden corridors and chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza"

methodin — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 14:38:47 +0000

That would actually be a pretty amazing thing to recreate the pyramids relatively close by as modern structures and replicate it so people could experience everything in it.

New comment by methodin in "I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it"

methodin — Tue, 24 May 2022 02:43:39 +0000

I imagine the ultimate goal is to stimulate the responses in the brain not to physically use the senses. It would most likely feel as real as a dream which feels real during it.

New comment by methodin in "Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract more money"

methodin — Sat, 07 May 2022 14:18:25 +0000

Was also never taught to shave and have similar setup. I really wish I would have discovered styptic pencils sooner - would have saved me the embarrassment of going to work with pieces of tissue paper all over my face lol.

New comment by methodin in "Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract more money"

methodin — Sat, 07 May 2022 14:11:27 +0000

There's a ritual to straight razor and traditional single-blade safety razor (what I use now) that is compelling in modern times when everything tells you to shave off minutes from every single thing in your life so you can free up your time. Seemingly this means just more time for internet browsing and things that have no impact on your life but I digress. The daily or semi-weekly ritual that takes time, attention and care is relaxing. I stopped using a straight razor since I couldn't get the edge as sharp as I'd like to but I may pick it up again once kids are older. I moved onto purchasing a $20 classic single-blade safety razor about 4 years back and now buy the razors in bulk. Can be very cheap depending on where you buy them. For the ones I buy it's probably $10 a year if that since I only shave every 3 days or so and a carton of 100 blades lasts a year. Does require 2 passes though but doing it right with shaving cream and brush is something I've come to enjoy.

New comment by methodin in "Saving on egress switching from AWS to Hetzner"

methodin — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:39:23 +0000

Indeed. I don't even see this as a bad thing - it means you pick the best option given your shifting criteria which is what we should be doing. Blindly doing one or the other makes no sense. I don't particularly enjoy the blog posts that are hyperbolic (not necessarily this one) - both AWS and other things can both be simultaneously a good choice for any given company.

New comment by methodin in "Show HN: Browser based deep fakes in pure JavaScript"

methodin — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 01:18:47 +0000

So seemingly this is a Tensorflow model compiled as WASM? Pretty cool no matter how it's accomplished but I'll echo the other commenter that a more detailed writeup would be nice especially for the HN folks!

New comment by methodin in "A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead"

methodin — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:43:53 +0000

And therein lies the main problem with that line of thinking in today's political landscape - when politicians are effectively funded by the large companies that have seemingly unlimited money and power, that will never happen, so where exactly will this new law come from?

New comment by methodin in "The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”"

methodin — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 18:53:13 +0000

Why is having an impact on discourse important? It should not be the job of any media to alter arguments, viewpoints etc... it's job is to provide the facts for people to make their own opinions. The fact that we think media should be able to shape opinion is really the main problem here. Cable news chases profits and profits come from viewership which gets us into that negative feedback loop. Take away money and a lot of problems disappear.

New comment by methodin in "Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right in database"

methodin — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 18:54:11 +0000

Any chance you can link to the conspiracy theories on the left? Genuinely curious what they are.

Edit: Genuinely not Generally

New comment by methodin in "Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse?"

methodin — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 04:38:45 +0000

They are intertwined, no? All the training inputs would be based on the code that was affected by the aforementioned traits.

New comment by methodin in "San Francisco permanently caps delivery app fees for restaurants at 15%"

methodin — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 18:06:01 +0000

This is good. Instead of taking profits from restaurants and drivers they'd be forced to be smarter/more agile elsewhere. A lot of restaurants are shook down for participation in the first place where they have no control over the delivery experience so regulating a fee cash cow seems like a good move. Also I don't buy free-market self-regulation at all. It maximizes profits not "for the greater good" things.

New comment by methodin in "Amazon US customers given one week to opt out of mass wireless sharing"

methodin — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 21:36:02 +0000

Anyone know what happens if you don't have a device that supports Sidewalk (I have a really old Alexa) but want to opt out for the future? I don't see the Sidewalk option on the Alexa app.

New comment by methodin in "Life after an internet mob attack"

methodin — Wed, 26 May 2021 21:15:57 +0000

It's not much different from compute power increases over the same time period. Once more is the norm then less becomes inadequate.

New comment by methodin in "How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?"

methodin — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:33:00 +0000

Search is the only correct answer. SO may be the first click often but limiting your problem solving to that is not something an experienced dev will do.

New comment by methodin in "New study detects lottery-like behavior in cryptocurrency markets"

methodin — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:38:21 +0000

Having only cursory knowledge of this space I'll take a stab at an answer: every consumer of a company that uses crypto internally. AWS doesn't provide any real utility for people outside of the AWS space except for consumers of companies that use AWS. Feel free to point out I'm wrong as again I don't follow this space in-depth.