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New comment by stnmtn in "This time is different"

stnmtn — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:35:56 +0000

Have you tried a coding agent such as claude code or codex?

New comment by stnmtn in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

stnmtn — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:12:45 +0000

speaking strictly from an energy standpoint (power grid, megatons of warheads, etc).. it's probably close to that number.

New comment by stnmtn in "I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone"

stnmtn — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:50:53 +0000

I believe this is doable through iOS shortcuts or accessibility - a gesture can be programmed to simulate a tap on a part of the screen.

New comment by stnmtn in "I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone"

stnmtn — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:41:44 +0000

So the biggest thing is the laptop keyboard layout isn't great, and not every input field is tabbable? And that prevents powers users from even trying to migrate?

New comment by stnmtn in "How the AI Bubble Will Pop"

stnmtn — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:44:40 +0000

Largely speaking across technological trends of the past 200 years, progress is nowhere near flat. 4 generations ago, the idea of talking with a person on the other side of the country was science fiction.

New comment by stnmtn in "Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting"

stnmtn — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:59:04 +0000

I find it very fun to follow along daily using the site, We're only at year 2 of his diary on this trip around so it's a great time to join. People comment on every entry and there's a nice little community

New comment by stnmtn in "Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting"

stnmtn — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:47:31 +0000

I would recommend Samuel Pepys' diary as well, a figure involved in England's Navy in the 1600s. He wrote a diary entry every day with a lot of candor, and there's a site I've been following that posts his diary entry for that day - so every day you can follow along with his life over the span of his ~10 year diary. I find it endlessly fascinating, even when his diary summary is basically "I woke up, worked, then had dinner with my cousins". The way he writes and the details he chooses to include I've found to be very fun

Follow along with us at https://www.pepysdiary.com/

New comment by stnmtn in "British naval dominance during the age of sail"

stnmtn — Fri, 16 May 2025 17:49:13 +0000

It was well-known during that period that French shipwrights could built better ships - the problem was that the Royal Navy had better seamanship and would win most naval actions, and commandeer the better-built french ships and integrate them into the Royal Navy. So the british had the advantage of their own ships, and many of the better-built french ships.

New comment by stnmtn in "Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI"

stnmtn — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:19:24 +0000

I'm not sure I understand your point, are you trying to tell this person to not broaden their horizons when it comes to reading? To not read older novels?

New comment by stnmtn in "“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System"

stnmtn — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:58:48 +0000

We really are pretty lucky that the industrial revolution happened. Thank god for England running out of trees to heat homes with, and abundant surface coal on that island.

New comment by stnmtn in "It's all fun and games until somebody loses their retirement savings"

stnmtn — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:38:20 +0000

So that reason is exactly why the person you're replying to said what they said. The OOP said: "If you don't know what you're doing stick to index funds, buy and hold." which is clearly not great advice unless you're under the age of 30

New comment by stnmtn in "Show HN: My iOS app to practice sight reading (10 years in the App Store)"

stnmtn — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:34:22 +0000

Tab notation doesn't provide full time signature information, if you're picking up a piece of music which you've never heard played before

In tablature, imagine one string's line shows ---10-----7--8------11----13. How long do you hold each note? Clearly 7 to 8 is quick, but how quick? Sheet music gives you this exact information.

New comment by stnmtn in "Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities"

stnmtn — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:30:30 +0000

Cigarettes aren't technology so they aren't applicable here, and do you think you would classify cars as "being put back in the bag"

New comment by stnmtn in "Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities"

stnmtn — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:54:15 +0000

I sympathize but there has not been a single time in history in which people anti-new technology have ever halted progress or stopped it - once the cat is out of the bag, all you can do is deal with the cat, you can't put the cat back in.

New comment by stnmtn in "Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers"

stnmtn — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:28:35 +0000

Why would they not be loud about it? I think "We've built out 5G so we can get rid of your data caps!" is a message any telecom would want to broadcast out, unless I'm missing something

New comment by stnmtn in "Tesla drives into Wile E. Coyote fake road wall in camera vs. Lidar test"

stnmtn — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:49:10 +0000

I get your point, but do you think, over the course of a decade, the average human driver or the average car with tesla FSD is more likely to have an accident where the the fault is their own?

New comment by stnmtn in "Youth and what happens when it's gone"

stnmtn — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:11:28 +0000

I don't think it was Silence of The Lambs specifically - it was the experience this author had of watching that movie at 14 years old. Do you have a movie you watched at a young age, and through it you saw a window into adult life you were certain you would step into?

Silence of the Lambs is just this author's version of that. Mine is a different movie - but the way the author talked about silence of the lambs resonated deeply with me about how I feel watching "my" movie at an older age, and comparing it to how I thought when I watched it at 14.

New comment by stnmtn in "EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games"

stnmtn — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:13:49 +0000

This one made me laugh, mostly because the variable names are so dumb

// our RNG is basically shit -- horribly nonrandom at the start of the sequence.

// get a few values at random to get rid of the dreck.

// there's no mathematical basis for this, but empirically, it helps a lot.

UnsignedInt silly = GetGameLogicRandomSeed() % 7;

for (Int poo = 0; poo < silly; ++poo)

{

GameLogicRandomValue(0, 1); // ignore result

}

New comment by stnmtn in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

stnmtn — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:23:50 +0000

You can rely on it for anything that you can validate quickly. And it turns out, there are a lot of problems which are trivial to validate the solution to, but difficult to build the solution.

New comment by stnmtn in "Developers should embrace creative coding again"

stnmtn — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:19:00 +0000

These clearly aren't comparable to the support of browsers. I know this metric isn't really an important signal, but they both have under 500 stars. If I'm a business evaluating whether to build my cross platform experience either on the web using the sandboxing of browsers vs smaller frameworks like this, it's basically not even a choice.