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New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

mrgoldenbrown — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:30:56 +0000

Nor Firefox on Android.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "HeyVacay – Cut hotel prices 30-50% by fixing how OTAs mark up inventory"

mrgoldenbrown — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:14:43 +0000

No information on site about how it works or why it's good. Just a sign up page.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

mrgoldenbrown — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:36:57 +0000

Driving is currently subsidized in a variety of ways that hide it's true costs. Almost any effort to make driving's perceived cost closer to the real cost, including externalities, is a good thing.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "How little exercise can you get away with?"

mrgoldenbrown — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:21:08 +0000

Exertion does not actually imply discomfort for everyone (maybe it does for you , I'm not in your body). I would argue most people dancing in a club are doing it because it's fun, not painful. Same with kids splashing in a pool, or anyone playing DDR or beat saber, etc. People have voluntarily exercised throughout history. Certainly it was easier when I was younger, and the endorphins overpowered any pain. I have to be more deliberate now in my old age but there are still plenty of non painful ways to move my body.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)"

mrgoldenbrown — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:24:01 +0000

This is satire.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

mrgoldenbrown — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:10:46 +0000

When you say play perfectly do you mean by exhausting all possibilities? Or is there some way to deduce ahead of time whether the RNG will put you in an impossible situation.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

mrgoldenbrown — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:09:26 +0000

I would consider many scenarios impossible. How do you proceed when 2 bishops are on the same diagonal protecting each other? That was what I got after capturing the initial horse.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

mrgoldenbrown — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:42:27 +0000

SC2 achieved this with balance patches - Blizzard paid close attention to the meta and when it got stale/boring, they adjusted things to keep games interesting and varied. They did their best to make this the case for low and high skilled players.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle"

mrgoldenbrown — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:37:51 +0000

Skynet becomes self aware. From T2: "The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th."

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

mrgoldenbrown — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:11:30 +0000

It's always BS IME.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

mrgoldenbrown — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:09:41 +0000

Jetblue wouldn't let me talk to a human unless I agreed to pay $25.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Codex for open source"

mrgoldenbrown — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:50:50 +0000

Are you saying they aren't getting training data from you?

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

mrgoldenbrown — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:51:01 +0000

Did you manage/hire in a stack rank environment?

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "The World Has Moved On"

mrgoldenbrown — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:02:12 +0000

Those are the core sound bites, but recently conservative party actions don't support them.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

mrgoldenbrown — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:44:58 +0000

Or it could be completely innocent like they asked for a list of all adafruit designs, and flux.ai sent back a list of all designs including some private ones, because their filtering is broken.

Or in your pocket analogy , flux dropped their wallet on the ground and walked away, adafruit picked it up and yelled "hey bro you dropped this"

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Ernst & Young published cybersecurity report full of hallucinations"

mrgoldenbrown — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:03:59 +0000

...>term for the inneficiency caused by chasing efficiency.

Penny wise, pound foolish? Measure twice cut once?

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Protestware for coding agents"

mrgoldenbrown — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:28:40 +0000

You could skip all that scanning and just read the docs that explicitly tell you not to use it with AI tools.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

mrgoldenbrown — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:05:15 +0000

Yeah, the game seems to assert that the kill is safe to run because Claude told me it was safe. But that's the point, I'm not supposed to trust Claude.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

mrgoldenbrown — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:37:04 +0000

Ideally, schools shouldn't have to fix every social problem, but in practice, in modern day America, schools are stuck being the backstop. Schools shouldn't have to provide breakfast to kids, but they do because we keep cutting SNAP and other basic assistance programs. So schools need to pick up the slack, because you can't teach a kid if they're starving.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

mrgoldenbrown — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:25:35 +0000

In your vision how do you force the charters to accept a representative sample of students? Or do you not force them, and allow them to recruit the easy to educate kids and filter out the expensive kids?