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New comment by testbjjl in "Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?"

testbjjl — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:15:18 +0000

May being the operative word, for now anyway for certain.

New comment by testbjjl in "Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?"

testbjjl — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:13:46 +0000

Brake pads?

New comment by testbjjl in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

testbjjl — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:20:12 +0000

We both know the answer. Write offs. If your fund was not in AI heavy you’d have no investors.

New comment by testbjjl in "How Kalshi Infects the News"

testbjjl — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:30:53 +0000

Feels like we’re the ones being put in a bottle as rational thinking, integrity, consideration of the greater good on all things big and small are interpreted as being weak and/or arresting people’s freedoms. When you forget hard learned lessons, they have a way of reminding you eventually.

New comment by testbjjl in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

testbjjl — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:56:47 +0000

Intentionally eating good food is a lot more about where your head is at than what you’re eating, like any other devices. You can better understand the mentality of a person by their diet that they evolved through personal experience.

New comment by testbjjl in "Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership"

testbjjl — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:31:20 +0000

Watching what is done versus what is said is an increasingly important executive level function when words can be generated for just a few tokens.

New comment by testbjjl in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

testbjjl — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:22:17 +0000

DeepSeek interpreting screenshots and images I send it at fractions of what I pay Claude and ChatGPT, for me, is of far higher priority than supporting dictation. There are workarounds for dictation but not image processing.

New comment by testbjjl in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

testbjjl — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:12:34 +0000

Have you had an opportunity to read the linked article, or am I missing your counter argument to what the author references from the documentation?

New comment by testbjjl in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

testbjjl — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:56:25 +0000

Vendor lock-in by any other name boils down to monopoly. The moat is their lobby.

New comment by testbjjl in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

testbjjl — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:19:46 +0000

I agree with a lot here and practice keto throughout the year and occasionally break to eat burritos, rice, pasta and drink beer because I enjoy them. But our ancestors were not in constant ketosis. They ate substantial carbohydrates in the food they consumed seasonally, though not as much as we consume today because of our tech. Also, doesn’t ice reduce blood flow? Lastly Ramadan and cancer rates are not supported. This discounts age distribution, smoking, genetics, environmental exposure, etc.

New comment by testbjjl in "Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'"

testbjjl — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:03:23 +0000

Amazon was AWS first customer. I sometimes feel if the AI companies promises of their models replacing all SWE, they would be a top 3 product/service in any number of businesses and not selling shovels to miners.

New comment by testbjjl in "Claude for Legal"

testbjjl — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:24:00 +0000

Not sure why this was downvoted, I came to read more about it. I have a friend that runs a firm and uses Legora and can’t stand it. We have conversations all of the time about pain points. I sent him the Claude Law docs, and while he’s not technical he was intrigued because he envisions his workflows to eventually be similar to mine as a developer.

New comment by testbjjl in "Claude for Legal"

testbjjl — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:18:55 +0000

Wasn’t this the concept behind the toilet in the Your Friends and Neighbors series on Apple TV?

New comment by testbjjl in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

testbjjl — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:44:49 +0000

Have you tried to use this feature? From my experience it’s typically reserved instances that provide discounts for longer contracts. It feels a lot like cable TV to me. I think the interface is difficult to use but am able to get what I want from the CLI and some scripts I have aliased.

New comment by testbjjl in "I want to live like Costco people"

testbjjl — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:31:32 +0000

> I don't want people to buy things that they don't need

What? This is 100% of 100% of us.

New comment by testbjjl in "Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study"

testbjjl — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:29:25 +0000

Why would a 40/50 year old gamble on the outcome of a bouncing ball when they can gamble on the outcome of a political candidate they work for or a government agency response to an event they helped orchestrate?

New comment by testbjjl in "Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today"

testbjjl — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:12:52 +0000

Looks like many could be siloed this summer given the increase in fuel prices across the board. That could also be a downward drag on many industries. Even if we were able to get back to where we were 2 months ago today, there would still be noticeable, non-zero impact.

New comment by testbjjl in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

testbjjl — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:33:51 +0000

Any reason for them to do this other than altruism? I don’t think this can be regulated.

New comment by testbjjl in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

testbjjl — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:08:43 +0000

Definitely experimenting with less expensive ones. I have a few versions of my settings.json

I also wonder if token utilization has or will ever find its way to employee performance reviews as these models go up in price.

New comment by testbjjl in "Why the majority of vibe coded projects fail"

testbjjl — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:06:39 +0000

This reminded me of the shift from gambling with cash and a bookie connected to the mafia, to draft kings/fanduel to prediction markets. In the end the house always wins.