Hacker News: slowhadoken

New comment by slowhadoken in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

slowhadoken — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:10:55 +0000

Not a great sentence.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Astra for Law"

slowhadoken — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:00:36 +0000

Wouldn’t this and similar efforts to centralize bureaucracy make AI the new gatekeeper? Without reliable transparent models we’re just trusting OpenAI instead of a hundred top legal firms.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

slowhadoken — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:20:04 +0000

It’s been in bad shape for the last 11 years.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler"

slowhadoken — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:28:08 +0000

Writing code with an LLM seems like a deal with the devil but debugging logical errors or type coercion bugs is hell.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

slowhadoken — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:58:59 +0000

It’s not cynical, you’re just over simplifying. Many of my family members are very bright and funny. I’m generally considered a funny person. It’s not an either/or. I mean, you’re kind of illustrating my point.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

slowhadoken — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:13:11 +0000

Math is a thing of interest and time investment to better understand the world but it’s also got a IQ entry fee.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

slowhadoken — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:12:16 +0000

She’s your secretary, she’s paid to be pleasant.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

slowhadoken — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:27:16 +0000

Because we’re social animals and 84% of the population can’t do calculus or understand any meaningful statistics. It makes honest discussion and cooperation with the average person nearly impossible.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

slowhadoken — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:25:08 +0000

Not if you’re ignorant to what DDT is doing to you.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

slowhadoken — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:24:28 +0000

A high IQ allows for a higher quality of life both superficially and meaningfully. This experience is usually weighted down by bullies and vindictive dysfunctional people. Envy is an intense oppressive force.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

slowhadoken — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:20:45 +0000

Stupidity in the sense of doing nothing good for themselves or anyone else, yeah. People are mostly a collection of local context clues about overly emotional nonsense.

Stream PS Plus Games to Steam Deck

slowhadoken — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:51:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eurogamer.net/steam-deck-ps5-streaming-app-asobi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238362

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New comment by slowhadoken in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

slowhadoken — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:34:48 +0000

It’s a lot of transnational corporate level head game stuff to realign Democrats towards neoliberalism. It results in gutting companies for ideological and/or post-political globalist ends. Grifting has nearly eliminated civics. It’s like players are trying to buy, strip, and flip America. Like a leveraged buyout of the US or something. Look at everything that came out about Blizzard for example. It’s spooky.

New comment by slowhadoken in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

slowhadoken — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:53:08 +0000

Tech corporations co-opted open source technologies and liberalism by employing a bunch of wokies to act as social interfaces. Feminism has been doing the same thing to tech and media that Mitt Romney and private equity firms have been doing to brick and mortar businesses for the last 25 years.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Don't be a meat proxy"

slowhadoken — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:36:41 +0000

I’ve been saying for a long time that most fights in your personal life are a proxy war but I never thought of a single person as being a meat proxy. Nice.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

slowhadoken — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:23:40 +0000

Sometimes things are black and white. The syndicate needs people like Watterson and without them they’re broke. The Cartoon Network fell apart not heeding this law and its great artists continue on.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

slowhadoken — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:13:37 +0000

It should tell you how much hysteria is surrounding LLMs and VLMs right now that someone has to say this stuff. It’s almost like most humans aren’t conscious.

New comment by slowhadoken in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

slowhadoken — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:56:08 +0000

Everything you’re saying I’ve heard a thousand times before. People tell me this kinda stuff all the time. I’m just good at predicting things. People talk in circles like you’re doing or laugh and then they see. Good luck.

New comment by slowhadoken in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

slowhadoken — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:20:18 +0000

Right, not enforcing laws is criminal. It’s like you’re agreeing with me but you’re depressed and apathetic about it. It’s not just me, you see it all over social media. People are grossed out by potheads. I grew up with hippies and didn’t have a problem with it until normies started abusing it. Legalizing drugs or gambling is a trade off, it’s dirty money. Politicians know this, they have meetings about how high crime will go up afterwards. Again It’s just a fact, it’s not my “feelings” or “opinions”. I’ve studied political science. My observations easily fit within an Isaiah Berlin‘s concept of liberty.

New comment by slowhadoken in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

slowhadoken — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:10:31 +0000

Even if a state legalized marijuana it’s still illegal to possess a lot of it, to sell it without a license, and can violate tort, municipal, state and federal laws about drug smoke outdoors or indoors. It’s not my opinion, it’s regulation based on scientific evidence to protect public health. A lot of this is understood in California but cash poor states with huge budge problems look the other way. Potheads know this, they use these facts to pressure cities and states to take their dirty money. Since the revenue from taxing marijuana isn’t going to K-12 schools a lot of locals are getting tired of the bad money coming from pot. It’s a trade off like legalizing gambling but with no benefits. Smokers make up a fraction of the total population so you’re going to see pushback very soon.