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New comment by satellite2 in "The Hormuz Hypothesis – What If the U.S. Navy Isn't in a Hurry to Reopen Hormuz?"

satellite2 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:16:57 +0000

Mmh yes and no. There are two arms in this hypothesis and you can summarize the second one (the main one) as basically wanting to piss off / punish the Europeans. This is perfectly on point and fits the character.

Occam's razor might well describe actions of a cold calculating leader. But of Trump..?

New comment by satellite2 in "Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Cases"

satellite2 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:48:21 +0000

Wouldn't they then expose themselves to discrimination and loss of revenue lawsuits from targeted drivers?

New comment by satellite2 in "Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Cases"

satellite2 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:24:54 +0000

Interesting. When it's the state I think the overwhelming opinion is that predictive policing is dangerous but when it's a private company we actually want it to enforce it?

New comment by satellite2 in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

satellite2 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:30:50 +0000

Aren't you just moving the problem a little bit further? If you can't trust it will implement carefully specified features, why would you believe it would properly review those?

New comment by satellite2 in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

satellite2 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:38:27 +0000

Exactly, his whole tirade felt extraordinarily far fetched, sketchy if not outright racist.

New comment by satellite2 in "Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan"

satellite2 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 05:59:12 +0000

Well it's 2025, we've just spent the better half of the year discussing the bitter lesson. It seems clear solving more general problem is key to innovation.

New comment by satellite2 in "Go Proposal: Secret Mode"

satellite2 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 09:53:10 +0000

Alternatively:

  enclave, err := secret.GetEnclave()
  // err contains whether the platform doesn't support it
  enclave.Do(f)

New comment by satellite2 in "How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs"

satellite2 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:46:40 +0000

Incredible teamwork: OOP dismantles society in paragraph form, and OP proudly outsources his interpretation to an LLM.. If this isn’t collective self-parody, I don’t know what it is.

New comment by satellite2 in "Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions"

satellite2 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:06:52 +0000

Are those really standardized in the US?

Where I live the condition vary widely. And basically the switching costs might easily dominate the total costs if you move/sell.

I've found that taking this into account it was better to trade a few places in term of interests for better conditions.

New comment by satellite2 in "CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns"

satellite2 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 06:03:39 +0000

Dynamic led plate that are totp. Where you can determine who is who on which date only with central access.

New comment by satellite2 in "Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities"

satellite2 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:00:54 +0000

Of course. But what if the holding lives in a country that don't enforce this (or is too weak to). Then all the subsidiaries are really sovereign from the host country perspective.

It seems the solution is ages old. Don't have the holding incorporated in an empire...

New comment by satellite2 in "The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry"

satellite2 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:03:20 +0000

I'm not sure about this.

If the job market is representative of this then we can see that as both sides uses it and are getting better it's becoming an arms race. Looking for a job two years ago using ChatGPT was the perfect timing but not any more. The current situation is more applications per position and thus longer decision time. The end result is that the duration of unemployment is getting longer.

I'm afraid the current situation, which as described in the article is favorable to customers, is not going to last and might even reverse.

New comment by satellite2 in "The decline of deviance"

satellite2 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 02:28:11 +0000

Your meta-analysis is one degree too high. You were going to have the long tail anyway. It just shows there was an interest for the deviant.

New comment by satellite2 in "Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?"

satellite2 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:25:23 +0000

Do you mind citing providers/product names?

New comment by satellite2 in "How they clean the balls in a ball pit"

satellite2 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:56:49 +0000

They're foamy in the middle after ingestion and before being sucked in the tube it seems

New comment by satellite2 in "LLMs can get "brain rot""

satellite2 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:04:36 +0000

Is that right? Isn't the current way of doing thing to throw "everything" at it then fine tune?

New comment by satellite2 in "LLMs can get "brain rot""

satellite2 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:01:55 +0000

Yes but the other interesting bit which is not clearly addressed is that increasing the garbage in to 100% does not result in absolute garbage out. So visibly there is still something to learn there.

New comment by satellite2 in "An Unexpected Benefit from Quitting Coffee – 10 Months In"

satellite2 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:44:54 +0000

Interesting for me it's the opposite. Since they haven't fully disappeared I get one whenever it's available. Next too it a zero is far too sweet and a normal one is gross.

New comment by satellite2 in "Our Paint – A featureless but programmable painting program"

satellite2 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 15:19:07 +0000

> there's a built-in assumption that no commercial entity would _want_ to use it under GPLv3 terms.

We also have a fairly strict no GPL dependency at work which I find surprising. Especially for a software like this one that you only use, never ship nor modify I don't understand the risks this license poses. It's like we went from a reasonable "be careful around it" to a "don't touch it with a 10 foot pole". And it's leaving me wondering if there is a more concerted effort to demonize this license

New comment by satellite2 in "Are hard drives getting better?"

satellite2 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:12:52 +0000

At least if you don't encrypt and those are jpeg it doesn't matter. I lost two discs at once with theWD debacle a few years back and couldn't recover anything as I encrypted the disk. Another drive that got bad, I easily recovered 90% of the files using foremost.

So no encryption on the local backup for me, only the emails dump by encrypting the zip that contains them. It's not perfect but that's the compromise I (think I) have to make. (The remote one is encrypted though)