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New comment by silisili in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

silisili — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:51:00 +0000

I think most if not all US cars do this now. My current one doesn't even have a way to keep the brights on permanently. Now to wait 8 or so years for all the old ones to cycle out :(.

New comment by silisili in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

silisili — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:18:49 +0000

OpenAI has been the absolute worst about this, historically. I found myself having to change my queries because it refused to serve things it deemed insensitive.

New comment by silisili in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

silisili — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:36:58 +0000

It's CPI, they'll just keep changing the basket of goods until the numbers look like they want them to.

"Well, inflation since 2015 is nonexistent if you swap out steaks for 3 day old catfish and fruits for kool aid packets"

New comment by silisili in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"

silisili — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:59:52 +0000

Kentucky for some reason has an epidemic of this. My father lives in the middle of nowhere in a perfectly safe area, yet still at least once or twice a year someone steals the phone or power lines leading to outages. I live in a similar area in another state and it's nearly unheard of.

I wish they'd up the severity of these crimes - people willing to damage infrastructure for everyone else just to make drug money are not conducive to a functional society.

New comment by silisili in "Claude Opus 4.8"

silisili — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:53:57 +0000

The vast majority (if not all) of these make it impossible to turn, among other fun things. Only out of curiosity, have you tried prompting further with how a bike must operate to see if it does the right thing?

New comment by silisili in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

silisili — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:09:25 +0000

It is, I suppose that's the joke. But now we find out Feng Shui says the folks with smaller living rooms had the right idea all along.

Anecdotally, I've lived in both types of setups and vastly prefer layouts conducive to seating against the wall, regardless of room size.

New comment by silisili in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

silisili — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:20:48 +0000

I'm quoting the article without technical analysis or personal biases.

> But he wanted to be “properly acknowledged” for possibly revealing “a significant security gap

New comment by silisili in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

silisili — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:56:24 +0000

I'm not in the community, so I'm taking this article at face value. If I read correctly, he made software that possibly exploited a security gap, they asked him to remove it, then he demanded free hardware. They said no, and the conversation turned sour.

Why is everyone mad at them? I'm not blaming either side, but it sounds like a rather typical failed negotiation.

New comment by silisili in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

silisili — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:16:43 +0000

That's funny, because there was a joke going around many years ago that you could tell how much money someone had by how far their couch was from the wall.

Out of curiosity, I was trying to find a source for that, but didn't find much other than old Reddit threads and a 'viral TikTok trend.'

New comment by silisili in "Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers"

silisili — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:08:54 +0000

Same. All I can do is vote with my wallet. I tend to spend more to do business with folks that are more personable, and actually answer calls should I need them. So far it's my mortgage company, bank/credit cards, ISP, and who I order coffee from - but I'm always on the lookout for more.

My fear is that the AI will create a new race to the bottom, where it's all we're left with because people just want to pay as little as possible in general.

New comment by silisili in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

silisili — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:42:33 +0000

I feel like you just stated what I said but with more details. Admittedly, it's not for everyone. But it will work for the vast majority of filers.

New comment by silisili in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

silisili — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:07:56 +0000

FreeTaxUSA is pretty close. I live in a no tax state so it is completely free. I think state tax is $15.

Hate to sound like a shill, but they've been great. I have a more complicated return than most, but not everyone, and it handles it all(multi-state, capital gains/losses and rollovers, depreciations, etc).

The only thing I wish they'd change is the name. It sounds scammy.

I actually have started agreeing to their probably mostly BS Deluxe/Audit Defense just because I felt guilty about using it for free so long.

New comment by silisili in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

silisili — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:29:43 +0000

Great tools really. I wish they'd bite the bullet and change the battery. Make adapters or have a trade in program. I know that's their schtick, but it's time.

New comment by silisili in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

silisili — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:01:22 +0000

I don't know all the details because I'm not a cryptologist, but Wire messenger seemed to have solved this in a way that wasn't annoying. I haven't used it since they pivoted, so can't speak much to its implementation, but I remember it working seamlessly across devices.

New comment by silisili in "Draw Marc Andreessen on an Egg"

silisili — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:07:04 +0000

If the author sees this: the "play the game" link is broken (.game vs .games)

New comment by silisili in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

silisili — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:08:03 +0000

I think that's fairly standard for Wikipedia. Most tools have no page at all, and popular tools will typically have a small wiki with the author in black text. Then an author who writes multiple widely used tools may or may not get a page. Look at the wiki of someone prodigious like Bellard and even then it's just a rather sparse straightforward list of things he's done.

New comment by silisili in "I want to live like Costco people"

silisili — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:53:22 +0000

That's the takeaway - that people are supposed to be bored in line? I wasn't insulting the people, I was describing what to me is the awful human experience of shopping at Costco.

New comment by silisili in "I want to live like Costco people"

silisili — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:46:52 +0000

I've only been to Costco a handful of times in my life. It seems like each time, there were hordes of people standing lifelessly in a huge line waiting to check themselves out(sometimes with help from an employee), which took longer than it should. Then, once that task was accomplished, they'd then stand in another huge line waiting to leave. Is this the typical experience or did I just happen to pick the worst times/locations?

I happily pay more at places like Publix to -not- have to do that.

New comment by silisili in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

silisili — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:17:57 +0000

As is the overlap between DNSSEC and DNS itself, to be honest.

I once worked at the level of administering DNSSEC for 300+ TLDs. It's its own world. When that company was winding down, I tried to continue in the field but the most common response (outside of no response, of course), was 'we already have a DNS team/vendor/guy.' And well, then things like this happen. I won't throw stones though, it's a lot to learn and can be incredibly brittle.

New comment by silisili in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

silisili — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:03:16 +0000

> The other thing I do is keep it soft focused on them, 100%, until they ask me about me.

This is the big one. People like to talk about themselves, and often use others' stories to segue it into something about themselves.

I realized at some point if you can avoid doing that, and instead commit yourself to investing in a person's story - ask questions, make comments, etc, they'll think the world of you and often won't even realize why.