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New comment by plasticchris in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

plasticchris — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:07:47 +0000

I get much different results than others when using these tools. Turns out there is some skill in wielding them, and knowing the domain in which you do.

New comment by plasticchris in "More on Version Control"

plasticchris — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:37:08 +0000

The cause stops mattering after a while, either you have to go on a full time campaign to educate people… or switch the setting to rebase and squash and be done with it.

New comment by plasticchris in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

plasticchris — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:28:52 +0000

It’s a recurring theme, see dune’s references to Samuel Butler.

New comment by plasticchris in "More on Version Control"

plasticchris — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:07:00 +0000

The why is that most people when given the merge option don’t clean up their history so you end up with tons of garbage fix up commits.

New comment by plasticchris in "A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU)"

plasticchris — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:40:18 +0000

Maybe if you can get it to zoom out far enough and wire up an array of lights on the surface of Nauvis…

New comment by plasticchris in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

plasticchris — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:10:23 +0000

It probably depends on the measure used to define peak, but the removal of arbitrary limits on honest intellectual inquiry has huge benefits, eg the enlightenment, science, etc.

New comment by plasticchris in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

plasticchris — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:23:28 +0000

It’s funny because captchas are meant to be hard for bots but easy for people and it might be the opposite now.

New comment by plasticchris in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

plasticchris — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:35:30 +0000

Radar might still have worked

New comment by plasticchris in "iPhone Pocket"

plasticchris — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:31:58 +0000

Wait it’s not April?

New comment by plasticchris in "Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating"

plasticchris — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:23:54 +0000

Probably it means that now we have evidence that… it is a colloquialism

Edit: yep, The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests.

New comment by plasticchris in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

plasticchris — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:44:34 +0000

People talking about efficiency are missing the point - the pedals are only there so it gets classified as an e-bike and not an electric motorcycle (so no license required, registration, taxes, can drive in the bike lane) and doesn’t have the jerky handling of an e-bike with the wheels mechanically linked to the pedals.

They never really intend for you to turn the pedals. It is a regulatory thing.

New comment by plasticchris in "Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview"

plasticchris — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:27:33 +0000

I’ve seen it fail, having tried it for a few years. There’s a type that passes this no problem but isn’t productive.

I switched to a battery of knowledge questions centered on the type of programmer I was looking for, it works much better and is even predictive of coding ability as it helps you learn this stuff.

New comment by plasticchris in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"

plasticchris — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:59:06 +0000

The trouble is, there would also be no unsolved thought crimes

New comment by plasticchris in "Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent"

plasticchris — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:48:41 +0000

Not enough connections to the bureaucracy…

New comment by plasticchris in "Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI"

plasticchris — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:18:41 +0000

At least in the USA it’s legal to record public spaces. So recording the street and things that can be seen from it is legal, but pointing a camera over your neighbors fence is not.

New comment by plasticchris in "Aerocart cargo gliders"

plasticchris — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:11:33 +0000

Traditional gliders also carry ballast for cross country flights, which increases their speed without negatively impacting their glide ratio.

Qualcomm Buys Arduino, Will Bring AI Tools to Your DIY Tech Projects

plasticchris — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:20:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcmag.com/news/qualcomm-buys-arduino-will-bring-ai-tools-to-your-diy-tech-projects

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45506763

Points: 2

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New comment by plasticchris in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

plasticchris — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:23:26 +0000

In a way, but this was also on an incoming call, and the text came from yet another number, there were a lot of red flags despite being legitimate.

New comment by plasticchris in "Restrictions on house sharing by unrelated roommates"

plasticchris — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:17:28 +0000

Everyone has a different peeve, and they all conflict. That’s why population density correlates with regulation.

New comment by plasticchris in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

plasticchris — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:52:07 +0000

Even better, once I had a financial institution tell me I needed to read them a one time code someone would text me. They were actually surprised I had a problem with it when it’s the scam playbook.