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New comment by teeray in "CrankGPT"

teeray — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:45:42 +0000

Now we know why everyone was generating power on bikes in “Fifteen Million Merits”

New comment by teeray in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

teeray — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:25:58 +0000

Yet another conglomerate

New comment by teeray in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

teeray — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:14:58 +0000

My pen weighs in at 10g in my backpack and is capable of durably recording information for thousands of years. No battery to charge, cheap, and plentiful.

New comment by teeray in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

teeray — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:59:18 +0000

EU folks: are ADBs the panacea that all these articles always make them out to be? I’ve seen mixed reports.

New comment by teeray in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

teeray — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:48:34 +0000

Encumbrances and easements tend to follow the land even if they aren’t explicitly mentioned in the deed in question from the most recent transaction. They must be explicitly struck. Source: land attorney when asked this question about a deed restriction from a past deed. It was about NH real estate law, but I was told this was a general principle. It’s part of the reason title searches are done. The effective deed is a fold over the sequence of deeds.

New comment by teeray in "The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games"

teeray — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:31:40 +0000

I wish legislators would poison marketing language more frequently in cases like this. It’s bad enough with “unlimited* data”.

New comment by teeray in "The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games"

teeray — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:29:37 +0000

Companies are hypocrites about this. On the one hand they say “we need to shut this down because we’re losing money on it.” On the other hand, asking them to release aspects of the game to self-host the infrastructure: “but that’s our IP and it’s valuable to us.” You shouldn’t be able to have it both ways. Sitting pretty on unprofitable IP in the hopes that it might someday make you money again is a net loss to society.

New comment by teeray in "Hey Facebook: I can prove I am me. If you let me"

teeray — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:31:52 +0000

I had a friend get her account hacked, and it’s mystifying why Facebook won’t leverage the friend graph to restore access. If Facebook was like: go collect these restoration tokens from these people and we’ll give you your account back, that would be awesome.

New comment by teeray in "Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler"

teeray — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:03:35 +0000

We’re not talking about security researchers here:

> there is lots to gain from being the first to write about the new malware on some registry, so *companies* are actively downloading and inspecting literally every package.

(Emphasis mine)

New comment by teeray in "Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler"

teeray — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:10:05 +0000

> Except there is lots to gain from being the first to write about the new malware on some registry

Show me the company writing to their customers “we intentionally decided to ship code with potentially novel vulnerabilities. One of those vulnerabilities caused disclosure of your data, but cheer up! We have this cool security blog post about it now.” Meanwhile their competitors freeride and their customers’ data is safe.

New comment by teeray in "Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler"

teeray — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:10:03 +0000

It basically devolves into a Volunteer’s Dilemma. There’s no incentive here to be the guinea pig, so nobody will want to be.

New comment by teeray in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

teeray — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:30:25 +0000

I fail to see how nonstop recording of every interaction with people in everyday life will pass muster in a two-party consent state.

New comment by teeray in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

teeray — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:45:35 +0000

I can see a corporate future where tokens are haggled over in department budgets just like any other line item. Some projects will get more of them, other projects will get less of them. "Use AI for everything" will become "use AI economically and build things that outlast our budget for it."

New comment by teeray in "Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant"

teeray — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:08:17 +0000

> Some might argue that mobile phones can also be used to make secret recordings

Not to mention that doing so is a felony in a two-party consent state.

New comment by teeray in "The dead economy theory"

teeray — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:27:01 +0000

I think the parent is speculating that there may be an order of magnitude improvement in the cheap / OSS model space such that one running on a piddling desktop cluster could match or exceed the capabilities of the current SOTA on billion-dollar datacenter.

New comment by teeray in "NixOS 26.05 Released"

teeray — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:13:25 +0000

I’m a fan of looking at the new modules during releases, since I frequently find cool projects that I haven’t been aware of, but that are mature enough to warrant a NixOS module:

https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes#sec-rele...

New comment by teeray in "Claude Opus 4.8"

teeray — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:55:54 +0000

Yes, but if version number go up, so do all other number

New comment by teeray in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

teeray — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:24:23 +0000

I like it. Reminds me a bit of the table format on Cooking for Engineers (scroll to the bottom of the recipe): https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/19/Erics-Chocolat...

New comment by teeray in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

teeray — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:55:29 +0000

> There will be businesses no human can comprehend or manage. This may not be productive but will be profitable for someone.

Which also means that it will probably outstrip our ability to comprehend whether or not such things are actually crimes or whether they should be considered as such.

New comment by teeray in "Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)"

teeray — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:35:10 +0000

It helps if the land is currently an eyesore and you’re the first to do something with it.