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New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+"

mrgoldenbrown — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:33:12 +0000

My family's Pixels have all lasted physically long enough for Google to stop supporting them. My wife was annoyed when I told her she needed a new one because from her perspective there was nothing wrong with her existing one ( lack of security updates is not on her radar.)

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first"

mrgoldenbrown — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:43:00 +0000

From a site selling the dice: "With these dice all players will have an equal chance of ranking first, second, third and fourth. And only one roll is required."

Wikipedia distinguishes between "go first fair" and "permutation fair". I believe Harshbarger wanted to find permutation fair dice.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need"

mrgoldenbrown — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:26:40 +0000

I think Gabe is an example of how you can stop at absurdly rich and still make your customers happy. The enshittification is only necessary to go beyond absurdly rich.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space [video]"

mrgoldenbrown — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:46:04 +0000

Don't forget the various types of damaging radiation that will be pummeling your expensive and delicate GPUs.

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space [video]"

mrgoldenbrown — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:42:43 +0000

Musk was confident we'd have people on Mars by the end of 2026, so maybe he's assuming we'll put the data centers there?

New comment by mrgoldenbrown in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

mrgoldenbrown — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:23:52 +0000

If the only way you know how to code is via LLM, it makes sense you would get defensive/ragey when someone discourages it.

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.