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New comment by schnable in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

schnable — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:37:47 +0000

Agreed that feedback loops on top of generative LLMs will not get us to AGI or true intelligence.

New comment by schnable in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

schnable — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:22:58 +0000

You can define "ponder" in multiple ways, but really this is why thinking models exist - they turn over the prompt multiple times and iterate on responses to get to a better end result.

New comment by schnable in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

schnable — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:10:20 +0000

It's useful to point out hypocrisy, but are you suggesting we shouldn't try to protect kids because of Jeffrey Epstein?

New comment by schnable in "Claude Opus 4.6"

schnable — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:59:28 +0000

* stop making new models and people keep using the existing models, not switch to a competitor still investing in new models.

New comment by schnable in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

schnable — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:26:37 +0000

well if you're making complaints that aren't true, or asking for functionality that exists already, your complaints don't seem very credible to me.

New comment by schnable in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

schnable — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:41:06 +0000

Yes, and the content itself is clearly AI generated marketing nonsense.

New comment by schnable in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

schnable — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:32:04 +0000

Article is AI slop based on a mostly made up premise.

New comment by schnable in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

schnable — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:16:09 +0000

I think half your examples are made up, or not Apple's fault, but it sounds like what you really want is to disable your passcode.

New comment by schnable in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

schnable — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:15:26 +0000

Siri doesnt make me unlock the phone to give a weather report.

New comment by schnable in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

schnable — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:07:03 +0000

there used to be a higher alignment in the US between political motivations and morality.

New comment by schnable in "SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack"

schnable — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:47:02 +0000

> Should the general public be more diligent in checking the sender domain of the emails they read?

yes

New comment by schnable in "SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack"

schnable — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:45:12 +0000

I think the main motivator is that most people/businesses would not want their transactional emails to include political at all.

New comment by schnable in "SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack"

schnable — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:44:10 +0000

What's the purpose of a primary election? It's to select a party's candidate for a general election. It's not very obvious that this should even be a democratic process, but if it is, why shouldn't party members be the ones selecting their own candidates?

New comment by schnable in "Deprecate like you mean it"

schnable — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:40:05 +0000

This is a bad idea. But in the same spirit, a bad but less bad idea: require the user to actively enable the deprecated feature via config or something, but have a known schedule to eventually expire it (with a hard error, not randomly incorrect data) and force the user to re-enable it. Causes some pain but not random, hard to track down bug. More like dealing with expiring certs - eventually, the user will want a permanent fix.

New comment by schnable in "Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers"

schnable — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:34:21 +0000

how do de-aggregation attacks or whatever you'd call this work?

New comment by schnable in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

schnable — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:10:36 +0000

That's not really a rip off, it caters to people who can't afford to buy in larger quantities.

New comment by schnable in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

schnable — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:03:09 +0000

This is how it was with cable, and it was actually better for the content providers. They made shows and got fat checks from the cable companies every year.

Then they all copied Netflix, because the stockmarket was rewarding it, and had to start dealing with billing, customer retention, technology platforms, advertising platforms. And they all lost a ton of money a doing it.

New comment by schnable in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

schnable — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:00:53 +0000

It still works this way.

New comment by schnable in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

schnable — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:52:19 +0000

Why is it a poor proxy? Someone who really understands the concepts and has the aptitude for it will get answers more quickly than someone who is shakier on it. The person who groks it less may be able to get to the answer, but needs to spend more time working through the problem. They're less good at calculus and should get a lower grade! Maybe they shouldn't fail Calc 101, but may deserve a B or (the horror) a C. Maybe that person will never get an A is calculus and that should be ok.

Joel Spolsky explained this well about what makes a good programmer[1]. "If the basic concepts aren’t so easy that you don’t even have to think about them, you’re not going to get the big concepts."

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...

New comment by schnable in "Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs"

schnable — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:54:57 +0000

If you think they nickel and dime customers, you should see what they do to TV and streaming device makers. They can make basically any demand they want because you can't ship with Netflix.