Hacker News: omniglottal

New comment by omniglottal in "Removing Guix from Debian"

omniglottal — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:16:14 +0000

Yes, and these numbers have been established as what we in the industry call "invalid".

New comment by omniglottal in "Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier goes half-fed"

omniglottal — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:45:10 +0000

Maybe they are an aircraft carrier that is deployed in places that no reasonable human can expect a service technician to visit, and this level of imbecility should generally be avoided.

New comment by omniglottal in "The low fertility trap: An analysis of the great worldwide baby bust"

omniglottal — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:53:20 +0000

You're being bad for the community. But thanks for including a well - spoken, albeit opinionated reply, in your otherwise rude, projecting, and downright censorious comment.

New comment by omniglottal in "Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel"

omniglottal — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:02:56 +0000

This rationale is fundamentally incorrect. God's gift of Free Will (unto Man) is specifically the power (with faith) to manifest that which is nondeterministic. Where you got this notion of determinism, and thus nonjudgment, is a fancy set of mental gymnastics which is inconsistent with any known Christian teachings.

New comment by omniglottal in "RestGPT"

omniglottal — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:10:18 +0000

There was insufficient context. Imagine I tell you "turn on that light, where I'm pointing". You'd do no better. No one here is under the conviction magical prescience is involved. This tooling provides the mechanism for an initial API call to be tied to the event described, in natural language, as "look where I'm pointing". The first response (to ask for clarification) is precisely what a human agent would do to get context to clarify the coarse-grained request. The second guess, assuming you disabled the (explicit) allowance for clarifying questions, is also a magnificent recognition of implicit, common-sense context. Seems it's even more effective than you at following the true context for this tools appropriate placement.

New comment by omniglottal in "RestGPT"

omniglottal — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:23:01 +0000

Indeed, the context is "people using natural language to make requests". No soul on earth would consider/use your phrasing. I (a human) have clue what your request is for - "lowest observed request volume"...??? Try "raisr the lights where we usually aren't asking you for much" and you might get tge same result. As far as I can tell, brightness increase in the garage (where, I'd guess, you've made the least requests), the AI apparenyly understood better than you or I what you meant.

New comment by omniglottal in "A group of open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions"

omniglottal — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:54:13 +0000

Your false dichotomy is disingenuous, a distraction/derailment to the discourse, and does not engage in addressing the issue of a person wanting to pay the developer yet having no privacy-respecting way to do so. Please revisit site guidelines on "snark".

New comment by omniglottal in "Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication"

omniglottal — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:04:52 +0000

An "interesting distance" at which this device could communicate is the distance which the Titan submersible operated below its ship.

New comment by omniglottal in "Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication"

omniglottal — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:00:27 +0000

There is no more information, as described in TFA, for reasons of this information having not been discovered yet by the researchers studying the new tech.

New comment by omniglottal in "Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecution"

omniglottal — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:06:35 +0000

The argument for inevitability is inevitably a lie. His opinion is engulfed in the notion that there exists no individual whose will is truly free as if given by God alone.

New comment by omniglottal in "Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecution"

omniglottal — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:58:03 +0000

"Toying with an idea" is fundamentally considering its real world implementation unless your toy idea is intended to only ever be just fantasy.

New comment by omniglottal in "Therapy isn't fixing America's mental health crisis"

omniglottal — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:42:07 +0000

Or, as another apt metaphor, its like taking hydration tablets instead of water. Not that they don't help, but that you're using them wrong. In your example, it sounds like arrogance, hubris, and dogmatic conviction could be problematic if a person cannot recognize room for growth without first identifying a character flaw to grow out of.

New comment by omniglottal in "Therapy isn't fixing America's mental health crisis"

omniglottal — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:35:29 +0000

Yeah, they may be great for empathy, but not so much for advice.

New comment by omniglottal in "Therapy isn't fixing America's mental health crisis"

omniglottal — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:34:10 +0000

Going to a priest may be cheaper, but when they say to "go to god" instead of to the police when reporting rape and abuse, it becomes quite costly.

New comment by omniglottal in "Mentra aims to match neurodivergent jobseekers with jobs"

omniglottal — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:24:00 +0000

There's a lot of imagined, manufactured offense here which should perhaps remain packed up. You know a strawman fallacy makes your paraphrasing both inaccurate and rude, no?

New comment by omniglottal in "Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root?"

omniglottal — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 23:06:29 +0000

But can you uninstall the root certificates of an adversarial government (i.e., your own)? Is it now necessary that the chain of trust includes entities you don't trust?

New comment by omniglottal in "Hackers selling hacked police emails to request user data from TikTok, Facebook"

omniglottal — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 22:58:47 +0000

Analog. Unencrypted. Your intent to misinform appears evident.

New comment by omniglottal in "Hackers selling hacked police emails to request user data from TikTok, Facebook"

omniglottal — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 22:57:44 +0000

One of those countries is the US. Fax is unencrypted analog. If practice, tgis is ver certainly not secure. It's only "more secure" in the sense that unauthorized access to it counts as wiretapping, whereas the feds carved a loophole allowing them to read private emails without going afoul our anti-wiretapping laws. That you don't see the absurdity means our educational system is also doing what feds built it to do.

New comment by omniglottal in "Hackers selling hacked police emails to request user data from TikTok, Facebook"

omniglottal — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 22:53:15 +0000

"Try" == "it's a .gov email - looks good!"

New comment by omniglottal in "Hackers selling hacked police emails to request user data from TikTok, Facebook"

omniglottal — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 22:51:55 +0000

Never buillding a back door for LEOs sounds like a reasonable option.