Hacker News: scld

New comment by scld in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

scld — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:10:46 +0000

easy now

New comment by scld in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

scld — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:42:51 +0000

Did you find your CM through your own network? Tradeshows? Cold calling?

New comment by scld in "Parking lots as economic drains"

scld — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:04:06 +0000

Even better, solar panels on the top of a 15 story mixed use building.

New comment by scld in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

scld — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:38:58 +0000

That I acknowledge there are great minds on both sides of the debate means that I wouldn't treat it as a hard fact when talking about it in an online forum, which was the explicit point of my response.

New comment by scld in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

scld — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:52:53 +0000

You're acting as if your personally held philosophical beliefs aren't contradicted by some of the most famous minds in history.

New comment by scld in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

scld — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:56:53 +0000

Doesn't Python weaken your thinking about how computers actually work?

New comment by scld in "Steam Frame"

scld — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:00:45 +0000

Game rendering is what they're talking about here. John Carmack has talked about this a bunch if you'd like to seed a google search.

New comment by scld in "US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up"

scld — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:52:30 +0000

Luckily we have a lot of fabs in the USA for microcontrollers and the like that drive these smaller robotics.

New comment by scld in "PCB Edge USB C Connector Library"

scld — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:35:04 +0000

This is the way

New comment by scld in "Lightning declines over shipping lanes following regulation of sulfur emissions"

scld — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:05:50 +0000

Aerosol injection is only a reasonable solution if you believe that temperature increase is the only drawback of additional CO2 in the atmosphere.

The oceans will continue to soak it all up as we inject temp-balancing aerosols.

New comment by scld in "Zinc Microcapacitors Are the Best of Both Worlds"

scld — Fri, 16 May 2025 20:53:33 +0000

Yeah, as long as self-discharge/leakage rates are acceptable, there are a lot of use cases for this middle ground tech.

New comment by scld in "New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer"

scld — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:19:26 +0000

This is a chicken and egg scenario. Before we had cars, people got to work fine. Now we're OK with killing 40,000 people a year and injuring many more so that people can "get to work".

New comment by scld in "Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency"

scld — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:38:03 +0000

Probably because they're just prompting "Please package this software" and shipping it if it works once.

New comment by scld in "New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer"

scld — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:56:29 +0000

Maybe humans shouldn't drive in those conditions then.

New comment by scld in "John Carmack on AI in game programming"

scld — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:38:51 +0000

The new Kevin Smiths are on youtube.

New comment by scld in "Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)"

scld — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:18:01 +0000

For what its worth, the top google result for USofAian is literally this thread.

New comment by scld in "3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec empire"

scld — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:12:02 +0000

This is what I want to explore with a VR headset.

New comment by scld in "Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)"

scld — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 01:09:25 +0000

Society "regulating" the language of others is almost entirely how languages develop.

USofAian is almost unreadable and unrecognizable in text to the general public when compared with American.

New comment by scld in "My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking"

scld — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:00:51 +0000

Or they can just do it all at school.

New comment by scld in "How dermatology became the 'it' job in medicine"

scld — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 15:18:31 +0000

In something as large as a nation's regulated medical industry, I agree that no one thing will be the whole story.

However a concrete example is the "pulling up the ladder behind you" effect of regulatory capture.

There are more people who want to become doctors than our country allows to become doctors.

Our current state of affairs regarding compulsory medical residency programs is a result of years of increasing the barriers to entry (for good or bad reasons, doesn't really matter). Now it's up to Congress to pass Medicare reform laws to update their funding for the residency programs, but that has just not happened (one of the major I-told-you-sos when dealing with government intervention).

It's probably not the case that we want to completely deregulate, however a major consequence of almost any regulatory intervention that operates on the basis of increasing credentialism is that we will end up with some % less than ideal supply.