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New comment by peterleiser in "Voxtral 3"

peterleiser — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:12:50 +0000

Yeah, they're a riot.

New comment by peterleiser in "Solar panels that plug into your wall"

peterleiser — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:42:26 +0000

I sincerely get your concern. Clearly explain on the box what NOT to do and be explicit about the risk. Use an icon of a house on fire. Done. Life is risk, and regulating and banning things based on the lowest common denominator of human judgement is a fool's errand. Should we ban vehicles as well since about 40k people die from vehicle related fatalities annually?

New comment by peterleiser in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

peterleiser — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:11:11 +0000

Agreed. Also, you can try to satisfy both new and expert users. It take more thought and design, but that principle is in both Nielsen's Heuristics and Shneiderman's Golden Rules.

New comment by peterleiser in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

peterleiser — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:55:06 +0000

Wow, really? Do they limit your time on it? I would imagine that thing is in constant demand.

New comment by peterleiser in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

peterleiser — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:53:46 +0000

I had occasional access to a Bloomberg terminal 20 years ago and I still miss it. I miss it a lot. I wish they offered a cheaper option for users who only need to use it infrequently. I mean, $25,000 annually is brutal if you're not a broker-dealer.

New comment by peterleiser in "Jev in 25 Lines of Python"

peterleiser — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:39:57 +0000

With enough repitation you might get repitition.

New comment by peterleiser in "Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems"

peterleiser — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:16:33 +0000

Thanks for the correction! I misread the outbound vs. return mail details. I agree with you about the IF on the cycle of delays.

New comment by peterleiser in "Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems"

peterleiser — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:17:45 +0000

1 million ballots at 10,000 per batch means 100 batches. It seems they will use 400 ballots from each batch as a sample, and if anything is wrong for one of those 400 sample ballots, then the entire batch of 10,000 is sent back. Some nefarious actor could find 100 messed up ballots and include one in each sample of 400, and viola! 100 ballots invalidates 1 million votes. That's quite a system they got there.

New comment by peterleiser in "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"

peterleiser — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:30:57 +0000

> Three honest possibilities, and I’ll be straight with you about each

This. I don't know if the "honest answer" phrasing is part of the system prompt or alignment, but when people say "honestly" all the time I start wondering how honest they're being.

New comment by peterleiser in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

peterleiser — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:04:02 +0000

A website can track where your mouse pointer is, but surely they wouldn't do this on purpose just to get ad revenue.

New comment by peterleiser in "Ultraviolet Bird Photography"

peterleiser — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:56:17 +0000

Wow. That is a worth a glance, folks.

New comment by peterleiser in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

peterleiser — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:29:56 +0000

This. My favorite is when I search for products on a website or app and the results appear in batches, with subsequent results interleaving with the previous results. So when you want to select a particular result and start to move your mouse and click, or move your finger and press, you often end up selecting something unintended because a later result pops into the location.

New comment by peterleiser in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

peterleiser — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:34:08 +0000

But LLM's passed the Turing test, so we're done, right? ;-) Seriously, though, I agree with you that people keep moving the ball.

New comment by peterleiser in "Folding Paper Globes"

peterleiser — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:04:34 +0000

That they don't show how they look when folded is either bizarre, or that the end results are disappointing.

New comment by peterleiser in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

peterleiser — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:15:57 +0000

Exactly, it depends. I completely believe your experience. My wife's experience was instant bricking and Apple's warranty completely excludes liquid damage. If you have Apple Care+ they'll replace it for a fee.

New comment by peterleiser in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

peterleiser — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:59:33 +0000

I agree completely! Our Garmin Descent Mk3i dive computer smart watches are the best watches I've ever seen. They just work. You can charge it for an hour or so and it's good for 25 days. I hated having to charge previous watches every day. It has a double-tap light on/off feature with a very bright LED, four light levels, and a red light mode. It automatically starts tracking my dives and is rated to 200 meters. It can also do diver-to-diver messaging, air tank tracking, and group tracking using subwave sonar. And it has all the normal pulse ox, heart rate tracking, step tracking, sleep tracking, and smartwatch stuff. Just don't enable the one touch kill-switch ;-). Apparently it's a feature for military divers to erase their data (but sounds like a marketing gimmick).

New comment by peterleiser in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

peterleiser — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:35:35 +0000

The only IP ratings that I trust are on dive computers and dive computer watches (but I've read mixed results about Apple Watch Ultras for diving). The Garmin Descent Mk3i dive computer and smart watch is a solid performer.

New comment by peterleiser in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

peterleiser — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:19:36 +0000

Yeah, and drop your iPhone, in a ruggedized case, into 3 inches of bath water for 5 seconds from a height of one foot and then realize apple's IP68 claim is laughable.

New comment by peterleiser in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

peterleiser — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:26:02 +0000

Nashville Electric Service rates are 12.0 cents / kWh. Flat rate, no peak or off peak rates for residential.

New comment by peterleiser in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

peterleiser — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:58:56 +0000

There's always the Death Star angle.