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New comment by tapland in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

tapland — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:34:05 +0000

One of my parents tried this to beat a deadline for product packaging.

There are now bags being sold marked "Lawn Suits", when it was supposed to be Lawn Topdressing

New comment by tapland in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

tapland — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:51:16 +0000

Exactly, you are supposed to have the know-how of how to answer this and, that too, screens away pesky neurodivergents.

New comment by tapland in "Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning"

tapland — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:00:33 +0000

I've been using OBS on wayland, they got captures working really well a few years ago.

But for VR stuff I've been going back to X11, and I was just last night trying to finish a screen capture program on wayland (w/ kde plasma) and idk I just have to do repeated screenshots ana analyze those > horrible fps, but at least I think I got that working finally after many attempts last year.

Gaming is not really an issue now with DEs that help ppl disable compositions and wine/proton.

New comment by tapland in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

tapland — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:07:01 +0000

I passed a series of those and since I remembered the questions from a relatives autism diagnosis testing I asked what they do since they are effectively filtering for things like that.

HR rep said those applicants should probably go see a shrink instead (!!???) and that was the end of me interviewing there.

The testing needs to end. The people using these tools don't know how they work, what they are testing and what blanket denials of personality types really means.

New comment by tapland in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"

tapland — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:40:18 +0000

This has nothing to do with the discussion. Do you have a HN poster bot just acting like an annoyed teenager with gripes about everything? 20 day old new account, what happened to the previous ones?

New comment by tapland in "Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk"

tapland — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:34:42 +0000

I think it says inspired by HyperRogue

New comment by tapland in "Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform"

tapland — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:43:10 +0000

Some just link Israels submission urging channel members to vote for it. Some join and casually but randomly for the channel bring it up "are you guys watching Eurovision this year?" asking what people's favorites are and saying Israel is their favorite (always ends in name calling when someone says Israel sucks or isn't their favorite).

If this isn't automated id love to hear from the people behind it some time. Nice feeling relevant on irc in TYOOL 2026

New comment by tapland in "Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform"

tapland — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:58:10 +0000

I'm getting spam and harassment from accounts promoting Israels eurovision contestant, on IRC, in 2026. It's every year and probably on all newer socials too.

New comment by tapland in "Avian Visitors"

tapland — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:28:43 +0000

I like this a lot. I've been fascinated by Suzuki Toshitakas work on mapping bird sounds to syntax and want to experiment in that space too.

Ive been assisting at a wild bird rehab but not until I got pet birds (released pet birds that no owner could be found for) did I realize they make these extremely faint sounds to each other that I can sometimes just barely make out when I'm right next to them but are not the other quiet humming they make.

My mic can capture those sounds sometimes, but I don't know how to analyze for example 24h of recording in the cage to find slight variations to background noise. It doesn't have to be real-time and not bird specific (want to capture sounds they make that doesn't register as bird in the models).

If anyone has a suggestion please point me in any direction you know of. Audio is pretty new for me.

New comment by tapland in "DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD"

tapland — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:24 +0000

Skål! Looks like a huge effort-reliever, excited to try it out.

New comment by tapland in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

tapland — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:07:18 +0000

Sigh. The unnoteworthy useless ancient device Noone should talk about that has the features everyone wishes the newer versions had.

Yeah, it's the smells wherever you go problem.

New comment by tapland in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

tapland — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:55:48 +0000

Same thing happened while trying to find synonyms to 'dismiss':)

New comment by tapland in "Google changes its search box"

tapland — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:22:12 +0000

Since the best resource is personal recommendations, got any entry level cheap IEM recommendations?

Primarily to avoid even more headphone dent, not an audiophile

New comment by tapland in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

tapland — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:26:49 +0000

Yeah, but I guess harder for the professor to check up on too. It's a course on a specific kind of creative writing so human feedback would be QUITE helpful instead of AI responses about how good parts are.

New comment by tapland in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

tapland — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:39:15 +0000

Taking a distance uni class now to maybe swap away from dev work and my submitted works that are to be reviewed and commented on by other students all come back with AI generated feedback and it's making me go insane. If I needed AI feedback I'd go ask an AI but for any communication now it's a cointoss if you're getting a human reply.

/rant

New comment by tapland in "Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks"

tapland — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:25:50 +0000

Its absolutely lossy and you'd have to know a lot about each piece to know how big the loss is.

New comment by tapland in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

tapland — Sat, 02 May 2026 03:25:08 +0000

Had a very similar one, I wasn't working frontend but had a dream about a frontend vulnerability that also proved to be true. I dreamed about it, and assume it was because it's the kind of thing that bugs me and while dreaming I had some time to think about things other than the code at hand.

New comment by tapland in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

tapland — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:52:28 +0000

Blessing/curse that meat is so expensive in Scandinavia that good vegan options actually became competitive. I know meat is dirt cheap in the US =/

New comment by tapland in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

tapland — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:48:35 +0000

The difference might be there in regards to Iran, with it's global market impact. But it's not there in regards to human life or suffering. That was made _very_ clear during the electoral campaign. But now it's _very different_ because it's "them" doing it and we can say we were always against this.

We have to say "us good, them bad" because we're voting the same way next time, and we're not planning to vote for something bad, right?

New comment by tapland in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

tapland — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:26:38 +0000

No-one supports the war now. But Palestine just had to go? It can't be about _war_ or loss of life, and the people caring can get f-ed we don't need your votes.

But sure one side is extremely against anything like this but unfortunately only get to demonstrate it when in opposition and unable to do anything.