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New comment by stainablesteel in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

stainablesteel — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:09:51 +0000

If this was 200k of anything else I don't think I'd care as much. I'm not sure why childish objects are worthy of more vitriol than anything else, but I definitely feel that way.

New comment by stainablesteel in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

stainablesteel — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:50:55 +0000

sanity isn't his job

New comment by stainablesteel in "Claude Opus 4.8"

stainablesteel — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:37:03 +0000

i'm beginning to find it comical how every model release always presents itself as superior to every other model on the market, but they always leave just one test where some other model was modestly better, just in case.

New comment by stainablesteel in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

stainablesteel — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:47:33 +0000

initially, not a lot of people were using gemini

google pushed it into their other products to attract people to AI

there was and still are a decent number of people who haven't really used it, as crazy as that sounds

New comment by stainablesteel in "SpaceX S-1"

stainablesteel — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:00:51 +0000

elon has a great wall of china's worth of plaques with comments exactly like this, and his companies are still worth more than their combined weight in gold

New comment by stainablesteel in "SpaceX S-1"

stainablesteel — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:58:23 +0000

putting tesla robots on the moon ran by LLMs seems to be a pretty coherent overall plan, I don't think it's different

New comment by stainablesteel in "Googlebook"

stainablesteel — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:58:56 +0000

man, even google product videos show a "watch this video on youtube". can't link anything anymore

New comment by stainablesteel in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

stainablesteel — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:26:17 +0000

it's either blue, or it's green. pick a side, coward

New comment by stainablesteel in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

stainablesteel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:57:18 +0000

our use of platinum has been limited by its scarcity, having tons of it would completely change the things we could build. saturation isn't a real downstream effect of economics, it would instead be transformative

New comment by stainablesteel in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

stainablesteel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:56:06 +0000

launching things via a mass driver from the moon to the earth requires a lot less fuel, is faster, and cheaper than shipping across the ocean

New comment by stainablesteel in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

stainablesteel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:55:17 +0000

you don't have to ship things the moon, you just build a mass driver on the moon that sends things to earth. it doesn't need to yield diamonds, this would be lucrative with just fresh water

New comment by stainablesteel in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

stainablesteel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:39:23 +0000

the ability to mine the moon or asteroid belt seems extremely lucrative, the logistics of transporting materials to earth costs less than shipping them across the ocean, an astounding level of value creation.

New comment by stainablesteel in "Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution"

stainablesteel — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:13:44 +0000

my understanding of what classifies something as being a part of the same species is the fact that they can make children that are viable to have children themselves

horses and donkeys can breed to make mules, but the mules usually cant reproduce, this is the same with tigons and ligers but sometimes the females are viable

so if they can produce children that can produce children, they're the same species. where this line is blurred, so is the species line. geographical barriers have nothing to do with it.

New comment by stainablesteel in "Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)"

stainablesteel — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:05:39 +0000

it's not like cost and energy use aren't competitive factors in this game

the first model to outcompete its competitors while using less compute would be purchased more than anything else

New comment by stainablesteel in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"

stainablesteel — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:36:41 +0000

sam altman commented on this topic before, and i think he's right

we need some kind of user-chat privilege much like doctors and their patients, or lawyers and their clients

New comment by stainablesteel in "A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman, cutting token use"

stainablesteel — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:00:33 +0000

i'm not sure it is, what's so useful about it?

New comment by stainablesteel in "Talk like caveman"

stainablesteel — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:47:41 +0000

i imagine they're doing superman level distributed compute across multiple clouds somewhere and cared more about delivering the final result of that than having the ability to pause. which is probably possible, but would require way more work than would be worthwhile. they probably thought the ability to stop and resubmit would be an adequate substitute.

New comment by stainablesteel in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

stainablesteel — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:42:06 +0000

i get this is annoying, but any of this supposed to be some kind of safety measure for users against malicious actors?

New comment by stainablesteel in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

stainablesteel — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:54:33 +0000

i dislike LLMs going down that road, i don't want to be punished for being mean to the clanker

New comment by stainablesteel in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

stainablesteel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:15:54 +0000

what will happen is people will get away with it, unfettered, until someday someone ends up in a courtroom for it. they'll be punished, then if it happens frequently enough more people will chime in on wanting a way to inhibit it, maybe people would start wearing those anti-paparazzi-clothes that somehow ruin the footage