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New comment by scandox in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

scandox — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:23:52 +0000

Because, in practice, it turns telling people what they want to hear into a first-class virtue.

>> "We told him about how our land had been stolen and our people were dying. When we finished he shook our hands and said, 'Endeavor to persevere!' ... We thought about it for a long time, 'Endeavor to persevere.' And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union."

New comment by scandox in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

scandox — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:29:37 +0000

I've been thinking about the expression "Reading the Room" for the last ten years. I've come to the conclusion finally that it is extremely pernicious.

New comment by scandox in "Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late"

scandox — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:49:04 +0000

One of the problems I've encountered is that the people who do speak up, by their very nature, don't do so in a way that has a chance of being heard. Even the phrase "speak up" suggests the failure that is coming. Getting decisions changed is a diplomatic manoeuvre that requires understanding how to frame the issues in a way that is meaningful to the decision maker. It's compromising and complex. Engineers need someone on their side who can perform that role.

New comment by scandox in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

scandox — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:17:28 +0000

All through the agile era I wrote detailed specs for projects and then followed an agile process. The most successful parts of every project were the ones that we were able to spec best even when they diverged significantly from the original spec.

You don't plan to follow the plan. You plan in order to understand the whole problem space. Obviously no plan survives contact with reality.

New comment by scandox in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

scandox — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:27:26 +0000

Lidl has 375,000 employees. They have stated they employ 7,500 people in their digital services division.

New comment by scandox in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

scandox — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:05:43 +0000

So the 7,500 they say they're employing...is not true?

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).