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New comment by qup in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"

qup — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:12:30 +0000

Bit of extra Internet history:

Blogs existed in a previous iteration, before anyone coined the weblog term. The community called them E/N sites.

New comment by qup in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"

qup — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:00:23 +0000

That's true. And answers that seem obvious later, aren't obvious when you're young or less informed.

My personal example: I had to do a lot of research, distillation of sources, and so on, in about 2001, to figure out the answer to a simple question:

Can a person truly be a professional poker player--that is, be able to profit consistently in a proveable way, not some kind of lucky tournament win and then you masquerade as a pro--or is that a bullshit dream held up by a few desperate gamblers?

I recall it took about a week before I felt confident about my answer and I had to overcome my own bias.

New comment by qup in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

qup — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:15:46 +0000

You called them out for being slow; turns out they weren't. You called them out for un-merging your work; turns out they didn't.

Now you keep saying you had other bad interactions, but you haven't even said what they were. I have a feeling that if you named them, shortly later I'd read a comment about how it wasn't true. Again.

If the library didn't match your needs, that's fine. Who cares? That's happened to all of us many times, right?

New comment by qup in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

qup — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:11:35 +0000

I think it's really neutral in tone and I appreciate the record being corrected.

2 days is a great turnaround time for PRs isn't it?

New comment by qup in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

qup — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:02:43 +0000

I want them to report the facts, not their opinions.

Reporting that corporate called it attacks is good. I do prefer direct quotes.

However, when they quote one word, the journalists are inserting their own opinion about it. I want to make my own opinions based on the facts. I don't need the reporter to draw the conclusions for me.

New comment by qup in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

qup — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:04:09 +0000

Many accidents are single vehicle and the vast, vast majority don't involve pedestrians.

New comment by qup in "Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"

qup — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:59:17 +0000

At least that's a decision vs a bug.

New comment by qup in "Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?"

qup — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:38:50 +0000

I'd give an llm a shot before I ruled it out.

I had it generating .docx the other day and it did pretty well, so I assume it understands the format just fine.

And they're excellent at markdown.

New comment by qup in "Ask HN: Are You a Workaholic?"

qup — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:36:42 +0000

I move between workaholic and lazy bum.

I try to capitalize when I'm feeling like working, and work as much as possible.

New comment by qup in "Tell HN: Happy Father's Day"

qup — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:50:29 +0000

My dad taught me "do what you say you're going to do," and I had the same experience with the real world.

The lesson has served me well.

New comment by qup in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

qup — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:40:07 +0000

ZapsTick

New comment by qup in "Court Records Should Be Free"

qup — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:12:21 +0000

Which types of foreign citizens are that interested in US court cases?

New comment by qup in "Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids"

qup — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:34:32 +0000

It strikes me that it also might be the best way to build a tall structure, for the ancients. It takes modern materials to build skinny and tall.

New comment by qup in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

qup — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:57:13 +0000

I don't read it as a deadline. It's the latest date we will all understand what an economic flop the Internet turned out to be.

Not the latest date at which the Internet was still on par with the fax machine.

New comment by qup in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

qup — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:09:16 +0000

I have a business where it's important we don't have roaches.

So we spray more often.

It costs me $83 per three months. I haven't seen a roach in sixteen years.

New comment by qup in "The Website Specification"

qup — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:40:33 +0000

So what if we don't know? We can find out at the same time.

We're trying to authenticate a pair: user/pass.

New comment by qup in "The Website Specification"

qup — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:36:31 +0000

I was still supporting ie6 in at least 2014 for a couple of clients.

I miss those times, too, but not the IE6 bullshit.

New comment by qup in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

qup — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:24:48 +0000

You need glasses to see far-away stuff now?

Doing close work with your eyes can cause your ciliary muscles (they flex your lenses to focus) to be overworked. They seize up, and lose the ability to relax to their former length. When your lens can't relax, you can no longer focus to infinity.

"Nearpoint stress" is the term I believe

New comment by qup in "Flipper One – we need your help"

qup — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:50:14 +0000

When the AI is good enough to be indistinguishable from a human author, will you still care, or will you then accept it?

New comment by qup in "Claude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD"

qup — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:23:39 +0000

Aren't those people filtered out when he says "majority of people reading this"?