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New comment by staticautomatic in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

staticautomatic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:57:57 +0000

You can’t interview effectively by limiting yourself to questions where the applicant knows what you want them to say.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

staticautomatic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:07:37 +0000

If you're going to have people use AI regularly, it's worth asking so that you can get a sense of their interest/willingness, experience level, and training needs. That said, more specific questions are typically more revealing. Personally I'm fond of "If you could give Claude only 1 instruction, what would it be?"

New comment by staticautomatic in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

staticautomatic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:45:33 +0000

In what way is “How are you using AI?” an objectively bad question?

New comment by staticautomatic in "FarOutCompany"

staticautomatic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:44:29 +0000

Communes typically fall apart when bad apples join and the commune fails to get rid of them.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

staticautomatic — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:39:38 +0000

Biology? Why?

New comment by staticautomatic in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

staticautomatic — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:44:07 +0000

Clean. This comment is the right shape.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Training our own AI models"

staticautomatic — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:59:52 +0000

Friendly reminder that you don't have to enable PostHog replays at all. I have a site lightly instrumented server-side with the slim bundle, and I'm still gonna double check my account settings but I'm pretty sure it's not even capable of doing the replay telemetry.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

staticautomatic — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:27:59 +0000

Municipal insurers already do that

New comment by staticautomatic in "Google, Microsoft and xAI Agree to Share Early AI Models with U.S."

staticautomatic — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:45:25 +0000

It also posits that there are only two sides.

New comment by staticautomatic in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

staticautomatic — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:57:18 +0000

Doesn't McMaster Carr still use sprites? Is that like the one optimization they managed to get wrong?

New comment by staticautomatic in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

staticautomatic — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:18:09 +0000

Is this not often trivially solved with islands?

New comment by staticautomatic in "Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context"

staticautomatic — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:07:10 +0000

No. Prophet is based on curve-fitting.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

staticautomatic — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:48:57 +0000

Guys they're just disclaiming warranties relax

New comment by staticautomatic in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

staticautomatic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:45:35 +0000

That's not how jury selection works. You never have enough peremptory strikes to "dismiss a huge fraction of the jury pool."

New comment by staticautomatic in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

staticautomatic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:47:40 +0000

It’s actually not that uncommon to lose a ton of people for cause in cases that are a good fit for a transfer of venue motion. But of course it does come down to the trial judge. I don’t understand who this “next judge” is that you’re referring to.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

staticautomatic — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:33:29 +0000

Not peremptory strikes, but you have unlimited removals for cause (and admittedly a steep appellate hill to climb if they’re unfairly denied)

New comment by staticautomatic in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

staticautomatic — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:17:36 +0000

You’re always on your own to collect.

New comment by staticautomatic in "Why I Joined OpenAI"

staticautomatic — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:23:42 +0000

I’ll see your Art and raise you Life https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdrey6U5dU&pp=ygUSVGVjaGNydW5...

New comment by staticautomatic in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

staticautomatic — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:20:36 +0000

How does one get involved?

New comment by staticautomatic in "Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder"

staticautomatic — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 06:50:17 +0000

I can't speak for the Mamiya Press but the Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 for the Graflex XL is rad.