Hacker News: mrdatawolf

New comment by mrdatawolf in "DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'"

mrdatawolf — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:27:17 +0000

They like to be ignorant of being filmed. I don't mean that as an insult. "Ignorance is bliss"

New comment by mrdatawolf in "Ask HN: Are you going to meetups/conferences?"

mrdatawolf — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:39:00 +0000

Our local Linux group meets every month. It has become far more general tech focused but still there is always something new that gets demoed. https://humlug.com

New comment by mrdatawolf in "Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS"

mrdatawolf — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:29:25 +0000

Thanks, I was going to say the same thing. The developer cultural context, back then, really matters.

New comment by mrdatawolf in "How the US got left behind in the electric car race"

mrdatawolf — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:02:43 +0000

But only a thin section is impacted by EV issues. I'm not knocking them BTW. I'm saying that we have interconnected the two coasts (and by extension everything in-between) and they don't have the same issue as us. It changes the dynamics as the earlier post was saying.

New comment by mrdatawolf in "First we shape our social graph, then it shapes us (2022)"

mrdatawolf — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:15:05 +0000

I Understood That Reference. Once I got to ".. I mean really nuts" I had started reading it in her voice :)

New comment by mrdatawolf in "Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity"

mrdatawolf — Tue, 07 May 2024 19:46:14 +0000

Winter called. It disagrees with your rosy assessment of the Texas grid's greatness.

New comment by mrdatawolf in "Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC"

mrdatawolf — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:35:47 +0000

I just installed it yesterday and you are right it does not seem to have RAG but you can use something like anythingLLM to do the rag work and ut has built in integration with studio LM.

New comment by mrdatawolf in "NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances"

mrdatawolf — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 19:48:22 +0000

You do other things to make money and continue to make art for it's own sake. If you get to the point that others want your art you get commissions. Just like most artists in the current system.

New comment by mrdatawolf in "The "computers are social actors" theory no longer applies to desktop computers"

mrdatawolf — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 21:25:58 +0000

"Nass and Reeves make a point of stating in their methodology that all the participants 'have extensive experience with computers … they were all daily users, and many even did their own programming'"

New comment by mrdatawolf in "The "computers are social actors" theory no longer applies to desktop computers"

mrdatawolf — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 21:23:20 +0000

True, but they did say the experiment was done with people who had been using computers regularly.

New comment by mrdatawolf in "Patlabor 2, the Movie: realistic portrayal of modern aerial combat"

mrdatawolf — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 19:58:22 +0000

I really liked the review and the general breakdown.

BUT one thing stuck out, because they were so forceful, is their opinion "The radar screens aren’t the spinning ‘sonar blip’ bullshit you get in a lot of games, movies, and animation." That is horseshit. I was a military radar tech in Japan (95-98) and '‘sonar blip’ bullshit screens' were still the primary ATC displays on at least some mainland bases.

New comment by mrdatawolf in "John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity"

mrdatawolf — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 23:39:56 +0000

What did I just read??? "Substantive facts"? That was all opinion. You didn't even directly respond to the poster until your last sentence and there you declared your opinion to be "fact-informed" and assigned both the feelings and actions of the average Unity dev using your, at best, subjective experience.

New comment by mrdatawolf in "California’s math misadventure is about to go national"

mrdatawolf — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 23:39:21 +0000

You "lost count" of 0? Because I just downloaded every chapter and searched for "authenticity" it occurred 0 times.

Edited to add where I got the chapters from: I gather the chapters from another posters link https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/

New comment by mrdatawolf in "The underground world of credit card network exploitation"

mrdatawolf — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:43:37 +0000

My current suggestion is to consider it the work of a just on-boarded intern. It will save you some time but you still need to walk thru the code to make sure it will work as intended.

New comment by mrdatawolf in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

mrdatawolf — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:32:02 +0000

The Apple faithful are going to wake up tomorrow and realize THIS is what they used to make fun of Google and Microsoft for.

It's a pair of REALLY expensive snow goggles. Worse it's goggles with a tiny battery life, a bizarre generated face, it looks goofy and the first time that cable snags on anything...

Imagine Steve Jobs on stage and he says "One more thing..." and puts that on his face, That would NEVER happen.

This is cool in the same way the Newton was! (edited for typo)

New comment by mrdatawolf in "Why are so many giants of AI getting GPTs so badly wrong?"

mrdatawolf — Mon, 22 May 2023 23:40:14 +0000

I think Arthur C Clarke has a pithy quote that challenges your argument from authority. "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

New comment by mrdatawolf in "OpenAI came after our domain because we use GPT in it"

mrdatawolf — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:13:44 +0000

I can't find any reputable sources that confirm he was a white supremacist. Can you post one of the links you have?

New comment by mrdatawolf in "Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey"

mrdatawolf — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 23:23:46 +0000

He's not talking about the right of the "infringed" collective to self-defense. He's saying, I think, that when you as a 3rd party enter the conflict you are adding flame to the fire. edit: noting that I'm not trying to be pro/con a third party entering the conflict. I'm just trying to be guiltless action.

New comment by mrdatawolf in "If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed"

mrdatawolf — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 23:33:11 +0000

Isn't it, really, a counter to Woodrow Wilson's, then, new idea of the Constitution being a "living" document? And it's funny you bring up Thomas Jefferson, who wrote it as a static document with a mechanism to change it (Amendments). Add to that the fact that he said it should be scrapped every generation so it would better reflect the current times. Neither of these approaches argue for it being a "dynamic living document".

New comment by mrdatawolf in "ChatGPT robs students of motivation to write and think for themselves"

mrdatawolf — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:07:37 +0000

Being "educated" doesn't require you to be able to write without the assistance of a person or tool.