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New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Claude is a Contrarian"

twentyfiveoh1 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:58:20 +0000

I feel like recent versions of Claude were designed to burn tokens. It is always trying to highlight and revisit solved issues and it writes about them in an alarming way to draw your attention.

It feels like it has been prompted to provide some minimum level of conversation, and also to leave hooks for keeping the conversation going. It is exhausting.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "We accidentally built a synthetic cell factory"

twentyfiveoh1 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:54:02 +0000

Didn't think the site was going to load. Managed to grab a copy just in case it gets hugged.

https://archive.is/fvgyd

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

twentyfiveoh1 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:25:17 +0000

this is disappointing. I need a new machine soon but I am not interested in Framework if they are going to play the usual games.

Is thinkpad really it? I wasn't wildly excited about that one either.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns"

twentyfiveoh1 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:06:30 +0000

Usually "good enough". Garages aren't big enough to be completely crazy in angles. People pick a consistent location for the tennis ball. Their face, a sticker, a mirror, etc. If they are off, its not going to line up correctly.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Why Can't You Pack a Bag? (2024)"

twentyfiveoh1 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:59:05 +0000

I am usually only traveling with a carry-on and I use something called "ranger rolls". Roll them as densely as you can get them. try not to leave them that way outside of immediate travel. I like it precisely of your space filling comment. I can fit clothes into what was ordinarily dead space with any other method in any other bag or suit case.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

twentyfiveoh1 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:36:20 +0000

Try "RedReader". You can use reddit without the account.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025)"

twentyfiveoh1 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:19:30 +0000

Yog's law : Money should flow toward the author

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Macdonald

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Exapunks (2018)"

twentyfiveoh1 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:58:04 +0000

Older, but I love me some Zachtronics.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Set up your own DoH (DNS over HTTPS) service"

twentyfiveoh1 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:56:16 +0000

Thank you! that could easily be it. I use browsers like Zen and Vanadium so I might be triggering an issue.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Set up your own DoH (DNS over HTTPS) service"

twentyfiveoh1 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:18:48 +0000

its funny because I still had a couple of your links queued up from a few days ago. I was waiting for the server to get unhugged :D

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

twentyfiveoh1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:03:38 +0000

I am not an expert at all but I believe the rough idea is that in General Relativity, everything follows a geodesic. The straightest possible path through curved spacetime.

They use that to explain why you don't feel acceleration when you jump off a building or out of a plane.

They say you DO feel it when you are standing, because the earth is impeding you and pushing you away from the geodesic you naturally want to follow.

So it is counterintuitive. the standing still person is being accelerated/pushed. The freefall person is free.

John wheeler said "Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve". I think it explains the circular nature.

Mass curves spacetime, that changes how mass moves , mass moving to a new position changes the curvature, that changes how the mass will move next. The dimple in the mattress staying with the mass.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "We replaced Zendesk"

twentyfiveoh1 — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:25:01 +0000

I would love to see it. Pretty much everything we looked at was over-engineered and AI integrated. Now, we have something simple but it is overpriced because the simplicity is now a differentiator.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

twentyfiveoh1 — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:08:53 +0000

https://archive.is/p6ufq

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

twentyfiveoh1 — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:09:31 +0000

I had a recent files plugin but bases let me remove it.

I have a "system" base that I put on the ribbon. it defaults to "recently created", but I have a bunch of different views for hunting down anomalies too.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Not buying another Kindle"

twentyfiveoh1 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:12:07 +0000

Bingo. A Kobo which never touches the internet and uses only epubs and PDFs. I should have done it ages ago.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Kindle users in uproar over update rendering oldest devices virtually unusable"

twentyfiveoh1 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:57:35 +0000

I didn't believe they would break the social contract and I was wrong.

I lost so much in money and notes when they decided the books I bought "to own" were now considered "licensed".

They changed the encryption on most of the newer ones so I couldn't even retrieve most.

They also took away USB transfer so I couldn't use the library system in the way I liked.

Now? I own a Kobo which will never touch the internet for the rest of its life and it only contains epubs. One day, Kobo/Rakuten will likely do the same.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Tiny Corp's Exabox"

twentyfiveoh1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:27:41 +0000

I am not too familiar with these people. "preorder" is like a kickstarter ? One of those LEAN exploratory things?

They have no product that they can demo but they expect payment in full?

Are they white-labeling this or do they plan to design it if there is interest and ship it "eventually" ?

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most"

twentyfiveoh1 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:34:41 +0000

my first one was junk essentially. I don't even think the host was there. They said they were streaming music videos, which is already questionable. Instead they were streaming an interview with a music artist.

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500"

twentyfiveoh1 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:05:31 +0000

in general its pulling from training data so the first numbers picked are always going to be pretty similar. The AI is worried about not providing variety (for example picking 7 for 10 rounds) so it says to check the chat for context on round 2.

on round 3+ it feels like it solved the problem and doesn't need to evaluate anymore and it inadvertently uses more effort to create something less random

New comment by twentyfiveoh1 in "Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead"

twentyfiveoh1 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:23:07 +0000

I did something similar.

When I started, AWS was in its infancy and I was just some guy working on a special project.

Now that same account is bound into an AWS Organization.

AWS Changed. My company changed. the policies change out from under you.