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New comment by solarpunk_enthu in "Thinking will become a hobby"

solarpunk_enthu — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:47:23 +0000

Sometimes I wonder how many people miss doing math by hand instead of using a calculator.

Historically, improvements in tech allowed us to focus on higher level reasoning. For example, spend more time on equations instead of calculations.

So if AI can replace all your reasoning, maybe its time to level up?

New comment by solarpunk_enthu in "GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions"

solarpunk_enthu — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:24:05 +0000

Could be an honest mistake.

New comment by solarpunk_enthu in "PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace"

solarpunk_enthu — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:51:53 +0000

I am hoping for the future where we have a law that allows customers to freely choose and install software on the hardware they own.

That thought popped in my mind when I saw mac neo: laptop with the same chip that runs my iphone. But on mac I can install whatever I wish, and on iphone only what apple wishes?

I am hopeful that EU will headline this legislation sometime soon.

New comment by solarpunk_enthu in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

solarpunk_enthu — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:10:17 +0000

I think what’s missing in "AI is dangerous and needs control" is a lack of measurable harm. For example, with nuclear weapons development in the 1940s-1980s, it was clear to everyone how devastating the technology was.

With AI, what is it? Scraping Australian government's data, and going around a bug in a website to get in?

I think humanity develops all its technology in three phases. Build it, see if it’s too bad, apply regulations and or roll back. We naturally won't move to the phase 3 before we see the phase 2.

New comment by solarpunk_enthu in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

solarpunk_enthu — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:15:20 +0000

What gets me is people saying macOs 26 -> 27 is an improvement. Maybe so. But Sequoia -> 26 -> 27 is still a noticeable downgrade. So is it really an improvement: making something much worse and then slightly improving it?