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New comment by throwaway173738 in "Naphtha shortages in Japan"

throwaway173738 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:29:15 +0000

Yes for men mostly it’s red/green colorblindness. It’s one reason traffic lights have a uniform order and why you might get tested on which light means stop and not what color on a written test in the US.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

throwaway173738 — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:05:23 +0000

Just as OP’s derision isn’t a reason for disbelief, “smart people” expressing belief isn’t a reason to believe.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:25:22 +0000

Because what parents have access to now is extremely ineffective unless they prevent their kids from going outside or going to school. Right now the onus is entirely on parents too keep their kids off the Internet equivalent of smoking cigarettes, and it’s a losing battle. What we’re looking for is for the liability to shift off the parent and onto the people intentionally communicating with children. Frankly the proposal above was very reasonable. If you don’t want to intentionally communicate with kids then do nothing and you have no liability.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:09:51 +0000

I’m the same way. Getting good sleep is my best predictor of whether I’ll blow a weight loss attempt or skip exercise.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

throwaway173738 — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:18:28 +0000

Sorry where I come from we drink peanut butter and eat roots are we still American?

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

throwaway173738 — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:10:23 +0000

Look man there are several different ways people argue and calling someone a liar or saying a policy is cruel despite the official line is entirely reasonable. If you’re taking that so personally that you have to personally respond to everyone about that then I have to wonder if you’re just trying to defend the policy in a motte and then retreat to the bailey of “I don’t support the policy I just don’t like how you’re arguing.” Calling someone cruel or a liar is not a slur, they’re calling out what they view as shameful acts. I think it’s within the bounds of civility to call someone cruel or a liar. I really think you’re just trolling with repeated requests for civility here.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

throwaway173738 — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:01:25 +0000

30 years is plenty of time to change the law. We change the tax code all the time. In 2020 or so it was recently amended to substantially increase the standard deduction. Slippery slope is a fallacy unless you can prove the pattern already exists.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:56:11 +0000

I don’t think it’s dooming to realize that these tools are only ever used to extract more of your life faster. When was the last time a technological advancement let us work less? Guys like Eric Schmidt preach that it makes you more productive because they expect more productivity for the same salary. Anyone that falls off the hamster wheel wasn’t worthy.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:52:13 +0000

What’s truly astonishing is that all of that money could be spent on bettering real people’s lives, but instead it gets spent on hubris.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:49:54 +0000

I think it’s messed up that we’re busy handing it off to the next generation instead of actually doing anything. We should be making things better for the younger generation not passing the buck to them.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes"

throwaway173738 — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:20:38 +0000

There are a lot of mechanical reasons your engine will die. For example crankshaft or camshaft position sensors failing will do it because the engine control module can’t time fuel injection or spark properly.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

throwaway173738 — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:40:26 +0000

More like “we did exactly what our constituents wanted and bought a system to do this instead of hiring a team to do this.”

New comment by throwaway173738 in "The Age of the Amplifier"

throwaway173738 — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:01:09 +0000

Most assuredly. One of the things you learn in thermodynamics is how to analyze heat engine cycles based on measurements of a quantity of fluid.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

throwaway173738 — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:23:11 +0000

kagi has been pretty good. Not great but way better for searches for information that happen to have a lot of people selling you something.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:50:43 +0000

Be careful with this because the LLM will just change the tests on you to get them to pass.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:48:33 +0000

Review always misses something.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:47:10 +0000

The concept of a small module is an architecture invariant. You’re making that decision, not the LLM. And you’ve made that decision because the machine is not good at certain things. You’re doing that because you can’t trust the LLM to make that decision on its own.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

throwaway173738 — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:42:14 +0000

It does in safety critical industries. You can get grilled by regulators about your source code. And lawyers will use it as evidence in court.

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable"

throwaway173738 — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:41:04 +0000

Idocracy is basically arguing against the idea that progress is inevitable so we can just sit around and do nothing. Joe’s character development is in his shift away from getting out of the way and toward a follow or lead choice. It’s called out at the start of the movie when he’s sitting on his butt at the military library and his CO is like “you’re not supposed to get out of the way.”

New comment by throwaway173738 in "Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal"

throwaway173738 — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:31:33 +0000

They wanted to focus resources on the very profitable top end of the market and leave the low-margin commodity business to competitors. If you repeat that cycle enough eventually you just stop competing with anyone because you’ve fired everyone who has the capacity to do that. Then it’s only a matter of time before you get eaten for lunch.