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New comment by roomey in "A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life"

roomey — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:52:43 +0000

Written about as sci-fi in "Change Agent" by Daniel Suarez. Which is a good book in my opinion

New comment by roomey in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"

roomey — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:17:58 +0000

I had that dimming issue in my house... And got the gas boiler serviced cause it had a problem with the ignitor, and all the dimming stopped.

Now the house is ancient, so I'm guessing there was some sort of short happening that was causing this.

Scalzi – Another Reason Not to Use "AI" for Your Writing

roomey — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:06:10 +0000

Article URL: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/another-reason-not-to-use-ai-for-your-writing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134103

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by roomey in "The human-in-the-loop is tired"

roomey — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:14:50 +0000

We've started calling it "Human on the hook" instead of human in the loop in work.

It is more accurate, in terms of, it only matters when something goes wrong.

Edit:"On the hook" is a general expression that means if something goes wrong it lands on you as the responsibile party, generally in a negative way. As in, if it goes right, you don't get kudos, if it goes wrong, you're on the hook for it

New comment by roomey in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

roomey — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:18:55 +0000

Hi Simon, nice article. The parent there may be making the same assumption I am, that large enterprise _never_ pays sticker price.

Also, to just color in the picture here, as I haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere, there is a very large Saas company at the moment who has given everyone unlimited tokens on Claude. And they have a dashboard showing who spends the most. So the "budget" went from about USD500 per per person (split between Claude and cursor) in Jan to... Well a soft limit of USD100k... Per month... Per person.

People can still see the top line sticker price on their spend, but honestly I can't believe that the Saas is paying that full price when the invoice comes in.

That said, there are some finance reports which are probably dropping soon where we will find out!

New comment by roomey in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

roomey — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:22:19 +0000

Your gonna get flagged and all for this comment..... But I agree.

Is there a HN frontend that filters out mentions of AI, it would make a nice change... Maybe I should AI code it /just joking

New comment by roomey in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

roomey — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:18:16 +0000

Check your mouse focus settings in your desktop environment (gnome/KDE/whatever).

There may be an option called mouse stealing prevention or something, but if you have a look you should hopefully see it. On xfce it's in its own tab in the mouse menu

New comment by roomey in "Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank"

roomey — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:14:29 +0000

What do you mean by copied? Ireland was colonised by the English for many years, and was part of their common law system during that period.

When it became independent, all laws weren't suddenly repealed, some were just ammended over time (as any common law system does). It's my understanding that Irish Courts can still refer to court cases from other common law countries in terms of precidence, even now

New comment by roomey in "Thought-Terminating Cliché"

roomey — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:59:37 +0000

Ah sure, lookit

New comment by roomey in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

roomey — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:16:29 +0000

Genuine question, when people talk about apple silicon being fast, is the comparison to windows intel laptops, or Mac intel architecture?

Because, when running a Linux intel laptop, even with crowd strike and a LOT of corporate ware, there is no slowness.

When blogs talk about "fast" like this I always assumed it was for heavy lifting, such as video editing or AI stuff, not just day to day regular stuff.

I'm confused, is there a speed difference in day to day corporate work between new Macs and new Linux laptops?

Thank you

New comment by roomey in "RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web"

roomey — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:34:55 +0000

A feed of the posts from the global feed

New comment by roomey in "RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web"

roomey — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:01:58 +0000

Is there a feed of your global feed? A meta feed? If I download an opml it will just go out of date right?

New comment by roomey in "After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news"

roomey — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:02:37 +0000

Is there an RSS version of the weekly newsletter about Wikipedia articles?

New comment by roomey in "Xfce is great"

roomey — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:48:19 +0000

I have to agree. In fairness I am biased in that I have used xubuntu (xfce Ubuntu distro) for many years, but the one "feature" is that now I find it hard to use any other OS because of "perceived latency".

I see a top comment here speaking about an inefficient architecture.. that may be the case under the hood, but if you use it for a while, the "click lag" is very noticeable when you move off it.

Maybe it's not a good thing! /s. When I started a new role, I had to use a mac for a week until IT did a Linux swap out, and I found it so frustrating. Mostly the inability to set shortcuts that were muscle memory, but also the lag.

I have noticed lag more on a brand new iPhone (the pro one) then on my face... Which is something