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New comment by scandox in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

scandox — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:16:36 +0000

> when analyzed by actual philosophers.

Kind of proving his point a little

New comment by scandox in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

scandox — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:34:06 +0000

Parents do care about improving learning. I certainly see better outcomes for my kids with book based learning. Mainly because the screen based equivalents have such bad ergonomics at the moment. E-learning "tools" that schools choose seem to be abysmally bad.

For the rest: yeah there's nothing more entrenched than the mindset of the people that run schools. They conceive of their school as the epicentre of all problems and solutions with respect to kids education. They cannot imagine they might be simply irrelevant on some issues.

New comment by scandox in "Show HN: Phantom – Open-source AI agent on its own VM that rewrites its config"

scandox — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:15:56 +0000

> OpenClaw runs on your machine or an ephemeral sandbox. Each session starts fresh. Phantom gets its own dedicated VM that persists

Yeah like any claw type system will be if you install it on a VM. I think the self-tooling thing is interesting but you'll gain by emphasizing that over the VM thing - at least with a technical audience.

New comment by scandox in "Show HN: Phantom – Open-source AI agent on its own VM that rewrites its config"

scandox — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:24:24 +0000

So if I understand this it is an OpenClaw type system but based on the Claude Code Agent SDK? And they suggest installing it on a VM? Or is there more to it?

New comment by scandox in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

scandox — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:08:34 +0000

I'm fascinated to know the kind of work that allows you to intelligently allocate so much resources. I use Claude extensively and feel that I great value out of it but I reach a limit in terms of what I can do that makes sense relatively quickly it seems.

New comment by scandox in "Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"

scandox — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:43:11 +0000

Often these "spam" reports by end users are just accidental clicks as well. Many of the abuse reports we get are like an email from someone's Mum and visibly legitimate. At other times there are users who use the Report Spam function as a kind of inbox management tool - a way of moving mail away so they don't have to see it because Trash or Delete or whatever is just further away from their pointer.

New comment by scandox in "Writers and Their Day Jobs"

scandox — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:50:12 +0000

Doesn't sound exceptional to me. Most of the authors I have some personal knowledge of manage through exactly that: spouses, grants, book sales, residencies and teaching creative writing.

New comment by scandox in "How will OpenAI compete?"

scandox — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:43:12 +0000

My barber does. It's his therapist and the fact that it knows all about his life is very important to him.

New comment by scandox in "Global Intelligence Crisis"

scandox — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:44:20 +0000

Surely only economists get excited by the revelation that consumers have to have money to buy things. I'd say domestic service is going to make a comeback. I do think I'd make an excellent man servant. Eke out my later years being ever so slightly superior to my employer without ever being openly insolent. Hang on...

New comment by scandox in "Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst"

scandox — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:30:04 +0000

Comments by nubg are AI bot slop. This site is being absolutely swarmed by them lately.

New comment by scandox in "What Is OAuth?"

scandox — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:56:25 +0000

https://youtu.be/996OiexHze0?is=5OPbjDzeMAo-UmNE

A classic explainer from almost a decade ago. This explains it from the point of view of the original problem it was designed to solve.

New comment by scandox in "My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza"

scandox — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:22:05 +0000

Better at reading yes but not necessarily better at comprehension which is what I believe people are getting at in these discussions. I read and listen. Initially my comprehension and memory while listening was inferior, but you can learn the skill of deep concentration on audio (or some may have it natively).

New comment by scandox in "Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library"

scandox — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:08:06 +0000

Was looking at the spinner component for a few seconds thinking "that's a bit slow"...

New comment by scandox in "Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986)"

scandox — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:43:40 +0000

I loved Starlight but I'm not sure it was procedural world generation. I mean there was a map of stars printed with the game so they weren't changing. There was a small bit of variation in terms of what one found on planets and so on...the key was it felt like an open world because it was big enough and there was nothing stopping you from doing what you liked and when (except resources).

New comment by scandox in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

scandox — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:39:01 +0000

Some instinct, waking at these memories, stronger than education or piety, quickened within him at every near approach to that life, an instinct subtle and hostile, and armed him against acquiescence. The chill and order of the life repelled him. He saw himself rising in the cold of the morning and filing down with the others to early mass and trying vainly to struggle with his prayers against the fainting sickness of his stomach.

New comment by scandox in "Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles"

scandox — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:04:37 +0000

The Bunkers. My father told me the story many times as a child and he warned me sternly never to buy Silver. There's always more Silver he said. People will be dredging it out of old cupboards.

New comment by scandox in "Doing the thing is doing the thing"

scandox — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:48:24 +0000

Yeah the dude should have stopped doing what he liked

New comment by scandox in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

scandox — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:16:31 +0000

In 532AD the Nika riots[1] in Byzantium ended with 30,000 dead. That's with hand to hand combat at close quarters.

So while the source is biased the numbers are not intrinsically unlikely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots

New comment by scandox in "Text Is King"

scandox — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:35:05 +0000

Elite people don't take books as seriously anymore. That's what's happening. The prestige of serious books is diminishing. The referencing of serious books in mainstream culture is diminishing. If 8 billion people all read one shit book that's all well and good - literacy is saved. But if the people who currently influence events do not read good books, care to be seen to read good books and consider the opinions of the writers of good books important ... then I think it's not good.

New comment by scandox in "The Human in the Loop"

scandox — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:46:23 +0000

On what basis did you make this judgement? I found the article to be reasonable and not excessively padded.