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New comment by peripitea in "Tesla Roadster"

peripitea — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:43:35 +0000

Yeah and if you do a kickflip over traffic your drinks will fall out of your cupholder. If that's your standard for cool I don't know what to tell you.

New comment by peripitea in "Tesla Roadster"

peripitea — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:37:01 +0000

I think we've lost the plot a little bit if we don't understand why a car that can stick to the road upside down and kick flip over traffic is cool.

New comment by peripitea in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

peripitea — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:52:25 +0000

Except you don't need to solve any remotely hard technical problems for the capabilities to be terrifying here.

New comment by peripitea in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

peripitea — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:15:45 +0000

That doesn't explain why it's abuse, though. How does the company benefit by paying this foreigner $200k + benefits + immigration fees/legal bills compared to hiring a US citizen? Abuse is e.g. bringing in cheap foreign labor at below US market rate. This is not that.

New comment by peripitea in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

peripitea — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:04:39 +0000

How exactly is the system being abused by this guy being paid $200k?

New comment by peripitea in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

peripitea — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:48:13 +0000

Don't worry all those rural hospitals are about to shut down anyway.

New comment by peripitea in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

peripitea — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:44:00 +0000

If you listen to the interview Trump & team gave, it's $100k per employee per year.

New comment by peripitea in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

peripitea — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 22:06:25 +0000

It can be 10-100x faster for some tasks already. I've had it build prototypes in minutes that would have taken me a few hours to cobble together, especially in domains and using libraries I don't have experience with.

New comment by peripitea in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

peripitea — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 22:01:07 +0000

It sounds like you're saying AI is just doing brute force with a lot of force, but I can't imagine that's actually what you think, so would you mind clarifying?

New comment by peripitea in "EverQuest"

peripitea — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:57:35 +0000

Eventually some of your players explore everything there is to be explored, and you need something more involved to keep them occupied.

New comment by peripitea in "EverQuest"

peripitea — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:48:58 +0000

Yes I thought the same.

New comment by peripitea in "EverQuest"

peripitea — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 23:50:16 +0000

EverQuest was my first real brush with agency. I was still a teenager but I loved researching strategies and game mechanics to figure out how my guild and I could play more effectively, and it paid off. We were never world first, but we got closer than we should have for the small server we were on. The feeling that the work I was doing was contributing to the success of an entire organization of people, and that this group of adults was happy to defer to me as long as my work ethic and ideas were good, was so much more powerful and motivating than anything I'd experienced in school. I don't think I felt that empowered again for another ~decade, well into my "real" career.

New comment by peripitea in "4-7-8 Breathing"

peripitea — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 21:44:35 +0000

That is still hyperventilating in a technical sense, as is the breathing you're doing for a minute beforehand; both will result in lowering your CO2. If you're actually holding your breath and going under water, please take an intro freediving class. So many people die every year just because they don't have the basic safety training necessary to turn this activity from extraordinarily dangerous to quite safe.

New comment by peripitea in "4-7-8 Breathing"

peripitea — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:31:22 +0000

You don't do breathing exercises to get better at breathing. It's for your brain.

New comment by peripitea in "4-7-8 Breathing"

peripitea — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:28:27 +0000

Get a cheap pulse oximeter and try it yourself if you're curious. It will not cause your oxygen levels to change in any meaningful way barring some very serious health issues.

New comment by peripitea in "4-7-8 Breathing"

peripitea — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:24:36 +0000

Can you elaborate? As others are saying this can be extremely dangerous. Normally I wouldn't just reiterate other comments but if it might save a life can't hurt to be sure.

New comment by peripitea in "Which year: guess which year each photo was taken"

peripitea — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 04:58:55 +0000

Hey, small bug to report: When you share your stats, the date seems to be based off local time, not the day of the test. So like here in PT, it's 4/23, but I just did tomorrow's quiz (because it releases at 9pm PT = midnight ET); the share text should say 4/24 but it still says 4/23. Or put another way, I shared two different results with my group chat today that both said 4/23.

New comment by peripitea in "Which year: guess which year each photo was taken"

peripitea — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:26:51 +0000

You can just take a screenshot of them. Not the cleanest way to do it but probably the fastest if you don't already have special tools on your phone.

New comment by peripitea in "Which year: guess which year each photo was taken"

peripitea — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 06:53:26 +0000

Tried plugging it into the new o3 model out of curiosity and it got 0.2, i.e. it got everything exactly right save for one that it missed by a year.

New comment by peripitea in "Telegram abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act"

peripitea — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:27:37 +0000

I'm just pointing out how implausible the claim is that the vast majority of Americans are far worse off than Spaniards. Of course there's more to life than money and GDP/capita is an imperfect measure, but the median American leads a very comfortable life.