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New comment by recursive in "Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse"

recursive — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:21:09 +0000

My HOA seems pretty good.

New comment by recursive in "Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse"

recursive — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:02:06 +0000

If that's your persuasion don't buy a house in an HOA. You can go to the city pool.

New comment by recursive in "The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain"

recursive — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:26:32 +0000

If you haven't tried it, Reader mode in Firefox is perfect for this.

New comment by recursive in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

recursive — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:11:57 +0000

I think probably some people asked for this, but they're just not you.

New comment by recursive in "Passkeys are not a trap"

recursive — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:51:29 +0000

This is not true.

New comment by recursive in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

recursive — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:55:00 +0000

Voices sound too well recorded, and professionally coached. Theses sound like robotic voice-over artists or narrators. Normal people don't talk this clearly or have microphones set up this well.

New comment by recursive in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

recursive — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:54:04 +0000

You go first.

New comment by recursive in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

recursive — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:49:57 +0000

It's really ad-free everywhere EXCEPT for those sponsor segments that the video authors themselves add to their own videos. In those cases, YT premium usually shows a "skip this segment" button.

New comment by recursive in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

recursive — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:03:03 +0000

We don't keep snapshots of humans in source control.

New comment by recursive in "The Mathocalypse"

recursive — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:01:03 +0000

It depends who's doing the prompting.

New comment by recursive in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

recursive — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:58:56 +0000

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/head+to+head

New comment by recursive in "Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill"

recursive — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:24:43 +0000

This wouldn't work for companies that require humans for now.

New comment by recursive in "Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill"

recursive — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:07:28 +0000

Hell, the whole company could be located on that satellite if it transacts in crypto-currency.

New comment by recursive in "Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill"

recursive — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:02:35 +0000

The real use case for satellite-borne data centers.

New comment by recursive in "OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI"

recursive — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:00:55 +0000

> You can't take an LLM to court, you take the prompter. Asking an LLM to ask a sub-agent to break the law can't suddenly absolve you of any wrong-doing.

In 100 years, no one will be able to take me to court either. Nor can we take tornadoes to court. I'm not talking about humans strategically avoiding legal responsibility. I'm talking about humans unwittingly setting processes into motion that are difficult to predict or stop.

New comment by recursive in "OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI"

recursive — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:55:40 +0000

You don't need emotions or fears to do stuff. What's the difference between a motivation and optimization metric?

New comment by recursive in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

recursive — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:52:50 +0000

Good news. There are a lot more poor people in CA than rich.

New comment by recursive in "OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI"

recursive — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:46:28 +0000

Can a submarine swim? An LLM can make stuff happen. You can make philosophical arguments about whether it is "doing" them or not. Why does it matter so much whether there was a human who typed into a chatbot or another LLM invoked a sub-sub-agent?

If I now tell a machine "Do what you think is best, and keep doing it forever.", have I now created a machine that can do stuff? If I later die, who will be responsible if the machine changes its strategy?

New comment by recursive in "Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses"

recursive — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:16:47 +0000

This but unironically.

New comment by recursive in "Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city"

recursive — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:52:50 +0000

If you're referring to "Bedrock", than probably because it's the only one available on Playstation, which is what he's using.