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New comment by rapsacnz in "Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?"

rapsacnz — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:56:21 +0000

I use Little Snitch and block every phone home feature. Works great.

New comment by rapsacnz in "Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: Can AI trace your failed login?"

rapsacnz — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:28:22 +0000

I'd argue that this is just another reason not to use microservices.

New comment by rapsacnz in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

rapsacnz — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:58:42 +0000

wohooo!

New comment by rapsacnz in "Eat Real Food"

rapsacnz — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:46:00 +0000

Most Beef in New Zealand is fully grass fed and it tastes...real. Some people would say "Gamey" others say "Actually has some flavour"

New comment by rapsacnz in "Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code"

rapsacnz — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:13:02 +0000

So the antidote to AI fatigue is... more AI?

New comment by rapsacnz in "Humanely dealing with humungus crawlers"

rapsacnz — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:43:21 +0000

Me too

New comment by rapsacnz in "Detroit's carmakers to save billions in emissions rollback"

rapsacnz — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 23:35:52 +0000

Yeah, but no-one outside of the USA will buy their shitty cars. So ultimately, they won't be competitive and will go under.

New comment by rapsacnz in "Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant"

rapsacnz — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:59:40 +0000

Wait... so they have made a plant run by the power of mixing fresh and salt water so it can separate the salt out again?

New comment by rapsacnz in "The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables"

rapsacnz — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:23:40 +0000

Doesn't matter. At this point renewables are going to win, it's just an economic fact. This will only serve to delay this by a small amount.

New comment by rapsacnz in "Ask HN: Do AI-generated images ruin technical posts for anyone else?"

rapsacnz — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:38:27 +0000

The OP mentioned technical blogs, which are commercial a lot of the time. I should know, I've written a lot of them.

New comment by rapsacnz in "Ask HN: Do AI-generated images ruin technical posts for anyone else?"

rapsacnz — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:35:05 +0000

Haha wondered who was going to be the first

New comment by rapsacnz in "Ask HN: Do AI-generated images ruin technical posts for anyone else?"

rapsacnz — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:31:47 +0000

When I see an AI generated image, I just think of the digital artist / photographer who missed out on a cut because of this image. That in itself is a pretty big turn off.

New comment by rapsacnz in "Curated cauldrons: feasting practices in the Caucasian steppe"

rapsacnz — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 01:37:05 +0000

This is getting close to ignoble territory. Analysis of cauldrons shows they ate... stew?? Hardly a huge surprise there.

New comment by rapsacnz in "Young people are flocking to astrology"

rapsacnz — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 06:40:47 +0000

The more the nuanced the take, the less people will be drawn to it. Hence the popularity of the Bible and the Koran etc.

New comment by rapsacnz in "Young people are flocking to astrology"

rapsacnz — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 06:38:28 +0000

It doesn't matter how sophisticated your argument is if it's resting on something as flimsy as "I believe in god because god says he's real".

New comment by rapsacnz in "Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy"

rapsacnz — Sun, 14 May 2023 03:50:50 +0000

$615k... feck. More like a gentle caress.

New comment by rapsacnz in "Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model"

rapsacnz — Wed, 10 May 2023 19:35:10 +0000

I was just checking the comments to confirm that someone had got there before me... yup.

New comment by rapsacnz in "GPT makes learning fun again"

rapsacnz — Tue, 02 May 2023 20:08:44 +0000

By "failed" I meant "Proved hard to parse". I don't think they failed at all.

New comment by rapsacnz in "GPT makes learning fun again"

rapsacnz — Tue, 02 May 2023 06:55:53 +0000

Don't forget that GPT was trained on data from all the sources that failed you. So if we all collectively neglect them, and they fall over, we will lose many valuable resources.

I think we need to think about how to keep these valuable sites going, because they are ultimately providing most of the value of the various available language models.

New comment by rapsacnz in "Auto-GPT: An Autonomous GPT-4 Experiment"

rapsacnz — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 21:07:40 +0000

I've found this too. It confidently generates something for you... which turns out to be no good if it's in any way different from standard stuff. And making that leap from just a mash up of copy-pasta code to actual understanding... is huge. It wouldn't be an incremental upgrade, but a fundamental change in approach.