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New comment by queuebert in "All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized"

queuebert — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:27:00 +0000

I highly recommend getting the full book. This should be required reading for every housing developer. If you ever felt like a house or community was uncomfortable or made you subconsciously unhappy, you might find the reason in this book.

New comment by queuebert in "Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode"

queuebert — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:18:11 +0000

I'm sure that was 100% secure, too. /s (I did the same thing back then.)

New comment by queuebert in "Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode"

queuebert — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:13:10 +0000

The link OP submitted appears to be a webpage displaying a screenshot of another web page, and the image aspect ratio has been altered. It's so comically bad it had to be on purpose, or someone is doing their web dev in MS Word.

Edit: I think actually it's a screenshot of a screenshot even, and this appears to be the entire design of spaceweather.gov. What in the holy heck is going on there? This has to be a top 10 worst website designs of all time.

New comment by queuebert in "Midjourney Medical"

queuebert — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:39:09 +0000

Statistically overdetection leads to poorer outcomes because interventions have a risk as well. That's why everyone doesn't get a yearly full body CT scan, for example. The current guidelines are based on optimizing for maximum good, and believe it or not some things are best not known about because the risk of dying from it is about the same as the risk of the treatment.

New comment by queuebert in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

queuebert — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:38:16 +0000

Markets are forward looking, pricing in future cash flows. No one should be thinking about SpaceX's present value when buying their stock. If you do that you'll always be too late to the party.

That said, I don't agree on the valuation, but I can see where some people could be coming from.

New comment by queuebert in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

queuebert — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:27:45 +0000

It's a joke about how fast it compiles. whoosh

New comment by queuebert in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

queuebert — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:51:28 +0000

Why is that?

New comment by queuebert in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

queuebert — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:28:08 +0000

> ... applying the same steps and rules n times

I do this too, with a document written for this purpose.

> ... a significant chunk of those runs involved the agent waiting for the compiler, linters, type checks, and test suites, as well as updating journals.

That is a good point. I'm mostly using C, which seemingly compiles in O(1) time, so I could imagine a large C++ or Rust codebase taking much longer to iterate simply due to compilation times.

New comment by queuebert in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

queuebert — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:03:31 +0000

I don't understand how some of y'all use these things. I get garbage unless I give them very specific concrete tasks with as much context as possible. Anything that takes more than 30 min is usually a waste because the scope was too large.

New comment by queuebert in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

queuebert — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:41:23 +0000

Worth noting the cost of dealing with Treasury's absolute dumpster fire of a website, though.

New comment by queuebert in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

queuebert — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:06:14 +0000

I didn't say that at all. I said it was achievable for SpaceX eventually. It's not a $1T company yet. Reading comprehension, people.

New comment by queuebert in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

queuebert — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:31:12 +0000

Historically a $1T market cap with a PE of 20.0 would be achievable with a $50B/yr profit. That seems easily achievable eventually for SpaceX, as it has actual hardware and services and IP.

New comment by queuebert in "Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over"

queuebert — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:24:24 +0000

"What would you say you do here?"

"A lot of things."

You still gave zero concrete information about why HR is necessary. Which is exactly the problem here.

New comment by queuebert in "Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over"

queuebert — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:37:39 +0000

As we enter this era of far more qualified candidates than jobs, HR will die eventually the equivalent of index funds is for hiring. Just as most money managers didn't beat the market and lost out to Bogle's low-cost index funds, people will figure out that HR doesn't do any better than any other random criteria for hiring and firing employees, since most of the applicants for most jobs will be able to do the job sufficiently well. Probably the answer is some sort of AI, but I bet you could do just as well rolling dice.

If most of us are honestly with ourselves, we'd realize the marginal return on difficult hiring decisions is extremely small.

As for the CYA aspect of HR, an AI can definitely do that cheaper and more callously.

New comment by queuebert in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

queuebert — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:56:30 +0000

For me a TUI constrains the style of presentation to something reasonably good. In an era of websites with tiny light gray font on dark gray background, where scrolling is really a javascript page load, and the back arrow is not respected, I just want to simplify to something that works and is always the same and that I can read with my old eyes.

Somewhere along the way, GUIs seemingly went from economy of use to a graphical resume for the developer (or their manager).

New comment by queuebert in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

queuebert — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:38:14 +0000

I don't know, Claude Shannon did okay.

New comment by queuebert in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

queuebert — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:56:17 +0000

We didn't know as much about possible nuclear reactions back then, so I think they thought there was a possibility that there was an exothermic chain involving N or O that could be ignited by the bomb and would be self sustaining. While an asteroid impact is very powerful over large scales, it doesn't create nuclear reactions, so Trinity was indeed a first at that scale.

But, and I'm not sure how much of this they knew back then, we do get bombarded by high-energy cosmic rays, so chances are one of these hypothetical N or O reactions should've already randomly occurred at least in isolated events over the last few billion years if possible.

New comment by queuebert in "Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"

queuebert — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:59:24 +0000

Some chess sites make you solve a checkmate problem for a captcha. Are those automated now, or is that a good method?

New comment by queuebert in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

queuebert — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:14:29 +0000

You are quite correct. I'm also free to dislike him for his choices.

New comment by queuebert in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

queuebert — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:47:54 +0000

So Nate & Co sell out to a big corporation then are upset that it does big corporation stuff? I'm more mad at Nate here because 538 was my go-to for political coverage pre-sellout, and because of his greed it went away.