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New comment by richiebful1 in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

richiebful1 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:09:36 +0000

I'd love to see a division of DOT have a bounty program for illegal parking. They do it for idling trucks, why not do it for vehicles parked in bike lanes/illegal double parking/etc?

New comment by richiebful1 in "CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled"

richiebful1 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:25:32 +0000

If the tech industry is any indicator, frontier labs were applying a "move fast and break things" mentality to AI models. Now that they really are breaking things in the real world, they have to reckon with the reality that product safety matters

New comment by richiebful1 in "Performance Improvements in .NET 11"

richiebful1 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:05:14 +0000

I noticed that audio quality begins degrading above 100% (at least if the media is already at high volume), so it really is a useful concept. I'm unsure what Linux distro I'm recalling this from, but it was useful on my little old netbook from college

New comment by richiebful1 in "Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%"

richiebful1 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:12:55 +0000

It was an interesting, but counterintuitive result that water temperatures went down after artificial beaver damming. Their theory is that the water is able to permeate more into the ground and exchange heat with the ambient underground temperature [1]

1. https://www.science.org/content/article/beaver-dams-without-...

New comment by richiebful1 in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

richiebful1 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:08:33 +0000

I love the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project for questions like this. Linguists figure this comes from Scots-Irish immigrants to the US

https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/needs-washed

New comment by richiebful1 in "Aptera announces a $44M to design and build a solar electric vehicle"

richiebful1 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:25:19 +0000

Electric scooters are a walking enhancer in an urban area. Now you can go 20kph in a city and easily park your vehicle. They're also super cheap to own and operate (or borrow one when needed). That's a totally different animal than a $40k subcompact trike car that requires an actual paid parking spot

New comment by richiebful1 in "State of the Map 2026"

richiebful1 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:13:25 +0000

You can also import gpx files to the online editor! But you do have to manually trace them to add them to OSM proper

New comment by richiebful1 in "Pixel Watch 5"

richiebful1 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:20:46 +0000

This is why I bought a Casio G-shock smartwatch. I use my watch primarily as a watch: I like to track my workouts, and it is nice to get important notifications to my watch when I'm busy / trying to focus

New comment by richiebful1 in "Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones"

richiebful1 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:13:16 +0000

Reducing the R^2 value to ~1.5 excludes skin colors that are extremely blue, green and purple. That seems to be a happy medium between including real outliers and excluding colors like green.

New comment by richiebful1 in "AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough"

richiebful1 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:30:07 +0000

Public investment was responsible for Apollo, so there was no expectation of profitability. Private investment is largely responsible for the AI buildout, and private investment isn't doing that for charity

New comment by richiebful1 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

richiebful1 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:28:44 +0000

We carry ketamine on our ambulance where I work part-time. I wouldn't be surprised if some people were legally receiving drug therapy for depression

New comment by richiebful1 in "For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings"

richiebful1 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:11:18 +0000

It is a commodity product and the price is everywhere you go. It's just a low effort topic to talk about, like the weather or the local sports team

New comment by richiebful1 in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

richiebful1 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:50:19 +0000

Directionally, that's why companies are getting rid of token leaderboards and imposing limits on LLM costs. There's a diminishing marginal return to tokens

New comment by richiebful1 in "The Emacsification of Software"

richiebful1 — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:47:43 +0000

There's limited research on readability of monospaced font. But this study suggests monospace is weakly more readable than variable-width font:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/2897736

New comment by richiebful1 in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

richiebful1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:16:14 +0000

People forget that LLM code cannot be covered by copyright. So LLM code cannot be placed under an open source license

New comment by richiebful1 in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

richiebful1 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:59:01 +0000

AI or not, the government would benefit from investing more money in improving digital services. Merely slapping an AI onto the existing system will only make things worse. Try using one of the AI hotel receptionists right now to get an idea of what that future looks like.

New comment by richiebful1 in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

richiebful1 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:05:41 +0000

wanderlog is a separate web service

https://wanderlog.com/

New comment by richiebful1 in "Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry"

richiebful1 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:11:28 +0000

"Me" in this case being a stand-in for the principal owner, which could be a corporation, individual, or group of individuals

New comment by richiebful1 in "Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line"

richiebful1 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:07:42 +0000

Honestly, there should be laws against gen AI models creating fake media with real individuals. We're going to end up with a massive mess on our hands once the video starts looking more realistic

New comment by richiebful1 in "Radios, how do they work? (2024)"

richiebful1 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:05:16 +0000

I've had my ham license for ten years, but I've only ever used a basic car-based mobile setup and my handhelds. My morse code speed is abysmal. QRP and all that are really cool, but I just use ham radio to supplement my fire/ems handheld in a natural disaster.