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New comment by umpalumpaaa in "Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample"

umpalumpaaa — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:00:12 +0000

I did study math at university for a while. Dropped out eventually. In the beginning I was super annoyed by the brevity and hated it. But after like 3 months it suddenly became natural. I also appreciate the clarity of how mathematicians introduce new ways to write things. That is sometimes even more verbose than some random API docs for a new function…

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "Not everything should cost a token: the case for deterministic AI"

umpalumpaaa — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:58:21 +0000

Reads like an ad

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth"

umpalumpaaa — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:37:10 +0000

And swarms

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "Type-checked non-empty strings"

umpalumpaaa — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:47:38 +0000

In the backpack community bellroy is often seen as “meh”. Eg. they frequently don’t live up to the guarantees they give and to the quality they promise. Also overpriced.

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

umpalumpaaa — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:00:16 +0000

I avoid grass all together- especially in the woods.

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "Deno Desktop"

umpalumpaaa — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:20:14 +0000

The beauty of shipping a desktop app would be to not have to deal with that though… also those built in web views are usually older than average.

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "Health insurance claim denial rates range from 13% to 35% by insurer"

umpalumpaaa — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:30:45 +0000

It should be noted that they use the term “medically necessary” which is a very low standard.

There is also “medically reasonable”.

For example getting your teeth cleaned professionally is not medically necessary. But it’s medically reasonable.

I don’t want a health insurance that only does “Medically necessary” things.

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

umpalumpaaa — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:05:10 +0000

I don’t know but the us kidnaps ehhh arrests people on foreign land on a regular basis… and brings them to the US to stand trial. So if it’s “important” enough it will be aced upon…

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE"

umpalumpaaa — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:30:12 +0000

Does this “Drop hack” work well with foreign keys, triggers and constraints?

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "Siri AI"

umpalumpaaa — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:55:04 +0000

They would start on a green field though… which makes it pretty efficient initially

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "Siri AI"

umpalumpaaa — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:46:50 +0000

I am using the latest version of their iOS app and only see my current version except for passwords.

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "Siri AI"

umpalumpaaa — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:44:12 +0000

It’s a system wide iOS feature and has been for a few years now

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "Siri AI"

umpalumpaaa — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:16:02 +0000

1Password gives you access to previous passwords you had for that reason.

Unfortunately not for other fields like email, notes etc…

IMHO the perfect password app could just keep all previous versions of any field until the user deletes the history.

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "People with cancer / HIV could lose Medicaid under new work rules, advocates say"

umpalumpaaa — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:37:05 +0000

I don’t understand the relevance of that link…

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

umpalumpaaa — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:06:59 +0000

It was not only because of the name. I think a big part of the turn around was the non compliance by the passengers. They were asked to turn off all Bluetooth devices but did not.

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

umpalumpaaa — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:04:28 +0000

I see what you are saying but then where do you draw the line? What if the wifi name is “fuck all pilots” - “united is doomed” or “we will all die”?

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

umpalumpaaa — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:22:07 +0000

My iPhone automatically enabled reader mode - I disabled it to see what you are referring to and I agree…

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "Don't Subscribe So Casually"

umpalumpaaa — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:39:38 +0000

Charge back usually never works… at least in my case the provider never actually did it because the seller was in good standing.

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

umpalumpaaa — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:48:25 +0000

You increase prices by 20%

New comment by umpalumpaaa in "WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency"

umpalumpaaa — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:16:01 +0000

Yeah I agree with you here…

Haven’t we been burnt by being not cautious enough when COVID hit? Initially most scientists said “we don’t know if it’s airborne” or they said “there are no signs that it’s airborne” and the media turned it into “nothing flying fear” - and a few weeks later it was suddenly airborne.

“We don’t know” is a normal state in science and policies and personal behavior can take unknowns into consideration.