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New comment by tammer in "Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'"

tammer — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:10:46 +0000

While you & I may find shoehorning LLMs into every nook & cranny distasteful, I worry Marl may think differently

https://open.substack.com/pub/nothinghuman/p/the-tyranny-of-...

New comment by tammer in "Time to start de-Appling"

tammer — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:30:47 +0000

Recent history of Apple vs. sovereign states is a real time vindication of Polanyi. Capital is always subordinate to the state (even if it proclaims to be the opposite).

New comment by tammer in "Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?"

tammer — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:14:52 +0000

I will second the recommendation to start with vanilla emacs. That isn't to disparage releases like spacemacs & doom. I simply found those to be more useful once I fully understood the power that comes with a fully reprogrammable editor. There is a learning curve and there is also a mental model to adopt, and I think that adopting the mental model is easier when starting raw and building up from scratch. Once you feel comfortable maybe try spacemacs or doom to see if they offer advantages for your workflow.

I also highly recommend the resources at https://www.masteringemacs.org

New comment by tammer in "Nobody cares"

tammer — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:52:01 +0000

This person is missing that modern global society is rigidly organized around principles of competition. It's not the case that people don't care -- instead we are systemically pressured into putting all of our care into getting one over everyone else and taking care of our own. A society organized around different principles would give us the space to care about our collective wellbeing. Hopefully one day we'll get there.

New comment by tammer in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"

tammer — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:56:11 +0000

This demo is impressive although my initial reaction is a sort of grief that I wasn't born in the timeline where Alan Kay's vision of object-oriented computing was fully realized -- then we wouldn't have to manually reconcile wildly heterogeneous data formats and interfaces in the first place!

New comment by tammer in "Siblings miss crucial life-extending treatment because of CrowdStrike outage"

tammer — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 23:24:12 +0000

This is likely the case in a lot of places. We're still in the midst of ransomware groups targeting hospitals.

New comment by tammer in "Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance"

tammer — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 23:12:17 +0000

has anyone done an analysis on how much big tech revenue comes from the DoD, particularly as its changed over time?

New comment by tammer in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

tammer — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 23:13:12 +0000

even the most secure outbound protection would likely whitelist the CrowdStrike update servers because they'd be considered part of the infrastructure

New comment by tammer in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

tammer — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 23:08:05 +0000

When I saw 'Global IT Outage' trending I assumed it was another major cloud service failure. Obviously this has far wider impact because of the need for intervention on individual endpoints.

The irony is dawning on me that for much of the recent computing era we've developed defenses against massive endpoint outages (worms, etc.) and one of them is now inadvertently reproducing the exact problem we had mostly eradicated.

New comment by tammer in "The internet is already over (2022)"

tammer — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 23:08:20 +0000

This had my attention at first but I’m not sure it led me anywhere. For discussion of the fundamental contradictions with the current structure of the Internet (that lead to the problems described herein & more), I highly recommend The People’s Platform by Astra Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People's_Platform

It’s a decade old at this point & yet continues to be startlingly relevant.

The Most Exhausting Restoration I've Ever Made – Soviet Computer Control Panel

tammer — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 02:23:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhzNqVHD2-E

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40713488

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tammer in "The walls of Apple's garden are tumbling down"

tammer — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 22:25:38 +0000

I’ve come full circle on this but I now think native applications on smartphones was a mistake.

There is no technological reason why applications can’t be distributed as PWA packages similar to the days prior to the App Store.

This would serve two important functions:

1. Remove most if not all distribution monopoly concerns

2. Create application standards that function nearly identically across the myriad of screen sizes and input types that are now available.

The current status quo of some service that makes my life easier or better only being available in a browser or only available on one or two of my devices (or, most often, available in a few ways but only bug-free or full-featured in only one method of access) isn’t the future I want.

Rep. Ro Khanna Has a Reminder for Democrats: Americans Love Money

tammer — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 00:00:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/17/magazine/ro-khanna-interview.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38677704

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by tammer in "Giving up the iPad-only travel dream"

tammer — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:41:41 +0000

These types of articles come out periodically and annoy me quite a bit. iPadOS has been my interface to the digital world for going on 6 years. Here are the things I do exclusively via an iPad Pro:

  * administer a dozen HPC clusters
  * perform all the digital tasks required of a non-profit board member
  * learn/read, communicate, consume media, photo edit and all the other normal life things one does on a computer nowadays

It’s true that I don’t have a podcast. But I think I’m in the majority of computer users there! I’ll also say that I have had to accept some limits or look for workarounds in the past, but the big additions of file downloads, safari compatibility modes and finally stage manager have effectively taken care of those.

New comment by tammer in "A looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it"

tammer — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 20:34:21 +0000

This is correct & I’ll add that reorganizing around sustainable ways of being is in fact an inevitably.

And a result of this inevitably will be huge winners who invest in sustainable ways of being and huge losers tied to old ways of doing things.

New comment by tammer in "Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking"

tammer — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 20:12:07 +0000

well that explains a lot

New comment by tammer in "Rows.com – Spreadsheet that supports external API integration and collaboration"

tammer — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:19:01 +0000

as someone responsible for a small nonprofit that runs on google sheets, this product is super exciting.

a suggestion: key to us adopting this would be the migration story. I’d love if that was clearly presented on the website.

New comment by tammer in "Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?"

tammer — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:21:29 +0000

I still use it regularly. the app is my go-to calculator.

it just hasn’t been updated in quite some time. there are a lot of ways the back end could support new UI features etc., but something seems to be holding it back.

New comment by tammer in "Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly"

tammer — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 19:08:08 +0000

The resurgence of the email newsletter in recent times is a sign that, regardless of advances in web and web-connected applications, on a broad timescale open connectivity protocols ultimately hold lasting appeal.

Open protocols and techniques that enable effortless parsing of information serve a growing need for users of the web today. While I’m not sure if it will be gopher or something new, I foresee significant disruption potential for whatever effectively fills this need at scale.

Amplified Cactus

tammer — Mon, 10 May 2021 21:21:27 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplified_cactus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27111031

Points: 1

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