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New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

throwthrowuknow — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:55:26 +0000

It’s also a very anti-democratic option whether taken voluntarily or forced.

When you leave you cut all important ties to the polity, you surrender your ability to participate in democratic processes and you revoke control over yourself and your property. It’s the nearest thing to direct violence you can do without crossing that line

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

throwthrowuknow — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:18:11 +0000

The quality of responses has generally gotten worse the more that all the AI providers have leaned on search.

Now it’s default on for everything and annoying to turn off. The response you get back when search is off can be the complete opposite and is often more interesting.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going"

throwthrowuknow — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:45:25 +0000

that attitude is a direct result of having your neuroticism farmed by social media

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going"

throwthrowuknow — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:42:48 +0000

because they do it even when they have a good job with ample pay and respect

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

throwthrowuknow — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:47:22 +0000

Disagree completely, they were easily bypassed and I think they’re probably more easily bypassed today.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

throwthrowuknow — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:43:14 +0000

These systems won’t work any better than identification requirements for alcohol and tobacco or anything else. Maybe you didn’t know anyone who drank or smoked when you were a teenager but they are pretty widespread even when parents aren’t negligent. Systems like the proposed ones will be even easier for kids to find a way around.

I’m somewhat in favour of these foolish attempts at control because they always drive innovation in technology to circumvent them and adoption of that technology creating a thriving underground scene. Content piracy and alternative platforms could use a resurgence and this is just the thing to get it jumpstarted.

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

throwthrowuknow — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:28:37 +0000

A collection of private companies contracted and administered by government.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs"

throwthrowuknow — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:38:45 +0000

This could have been a good piece of writing if the author chose not to be so smugly overconfident in their belief and show real evidence to support their claim. Mentioning the front page of HN as your source is glib and immediately made me doubt the conclusions. I was interested to see what work the author put into researching this but apparently they didn’t do any work at all.

When an LLM provides you with an overconfident piece of writing with no sources to back it up, what do you do?

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

throwthrowuknow — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:07:28 +0000

If corporal punishment is effective then we don’t have to terminate anyone’s education. For some kids it may just take one painful lesson to turn them around so why forgo that and ruin their lives?

Certainly, if they also don’t care about physical punishment then expel them as a hopeless case but don’t do it reflexively as a cop out.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

throwthrowuknow — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:06:11 +0000

Isn’t this basically what Palantir does?

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache"

throwthrowuknow — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:50:01 +0000

That wasn’t the era of global releases via the internet. You had to either buy it in person or, order by mail or get a copy from a BBS. It was an American game made for Americans.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

throwthrowuknow — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:40:39 +0000

Lord of the Flies was a fictional novel, it never happened, it’s not real and shouldn’t be used to inform your thinking.

Especially when real life instances of groups of young children being stranded without adult help exist and play out in ways directly opposite of the novel’s central thesis.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]"

throwthrowuknow — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:01:57 +0000

There are also dirt cheap human presence sensors that use millimetre wave radar that can detect if a person is in the room even if they’re sitting still. If I can buy these for a couple dollars then what could the military do with a few billion dollars and reaper drone platforms? With a big enough array you might be able to pinpoint everything alive within the area under surveillance.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007989577185.html

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

throwthrowuknow — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:01:23 +0000

That isn’t it. If you think bad weather and a flu is something to be scared of, try imagining what several thousand hydrogen bombs would do.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs"

throwthrowuknow — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:49:11 +0000

Consider that stores create reward point systems specifically for the purpose of connecting a customer profile to purchases.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

throwthrowuknow — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:44:39 +0000

Might be worthwhile to find a provider that lets you use a mask and inpainting

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"

throwthrowuknow — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:15:08 +0000

I’m not sure there will be consolidation. There’s too much room for specialization and even when the models are trained to do the same task they have very different qualities and their own strengths and weaknesses. You can’t just swap one for the other. If anything, as hardware improves I’d expect even more models and providers to become available. There’s already an ocean of fine tuned and merged models.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"

throwthrowuknow — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:07:32 +0000

Somethings not adding up. Why is Amazon making financial plans for the next decade based on continued OpenAI spending but you’re saying AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic aren’t even close to being profitable, so how can they last a decade or more?

Who’s wrong?

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

throwthrowuknow — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:58:46 +0000

So in reality you’re paying for their food, electricity and heat, letting them rent a room for free, and allowing them the use of the other facilities in your home and on top of that you’re giving them a spending allowance of 300 euro.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

throwthrowuknow — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:15:00 +0000

Absolutely crazy they haven’t revived this yet given the popularity of streaming.