Hacker News: unfamiliar

New comment by unfamiliar in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

unfamiliar — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:05:22 +0000

What do LLMs have to do with it?

New comment by unfamiliar in "This blog is written in en-GB"

unfamiliar — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:33:00 +0000

> How do I get it back?!

> Inexcusable that Paramount used the UK dub on some episodes

> Just downloaded it and had the same panic in my house

Sure I was being hyperbolic for effect but a lot of the tone is closer to panicking than “wondering”.

We are exposed to American accents all day every day. Americans often seem to want to protect themselves from having to be exposed to anything non-American, even going as far as to remake entire TV shows rather than just broadcasting the original.

New comment by unfamiliar in "This blog is written in en-GB"

unfamiliar — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:40:12 +0000

If you want to read some hilarious reactions of Americans panicking when they are suddenly exposed to non-American English/British accents, check out these threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PawPatrol/comments/1q68v16/british_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/PawPatrol/comments/17wcsdm/my_digit...

New comment by unfamiliar in "Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion"

unfamiliar — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:04:56 +0000

Absolutely deranged

New comment by unfamiliar in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

unfamiliar — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:26:51 +0000

Or Grok just has just spent too much time on Twitter.

New comment by unfamiliar in "Obsidian Note Codes"

unfamiliar — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:39:38 +0000

What problem is it aiming to solve (that the file name doesn't already solve)?

New comment by unfamiliar in "Bored of It"

unfamiliar — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:21:56 +0000

Just like a psychological diagnosis is often based on proximity to a cluster of symptoms rather than specific ones that must be met, you can't point to one particular line that makes it AI. It is the combination of all of the sentences that aligns with our perception of AI.

New comment by unfamiliar in "Topological Problems in Voting"

unfamiliar — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 20:47:35 +0000

Am I missing something or does the article fail to explain the point of Arrow’s Theorem? Is it satisfied for the discrete case, provably impossible, or what?

> While this applies to discrete rankings and voter preferences, one might wonder if it’s a unique property of its discrete nature in how candidates are only ranked by ordering. Unfortunately, a similarly flavored result holds even in the continuous setting! It seems there’s no getting around the fact that voting is pretty hard to get right.

I don’t follow any of this paragraph.

New comment by unfamiliar in "Vera Rubin's primary mirror gets its first reflective coating"

unfamiliar — Sun, 05 May 2024 05:14:37 +0000

Dumb question, but why don’t they just use a single more highly-curved mirror rather than a series of 3 bounces?

New comment by unfamiliar in "Show HN: CLI for generating PDFs for offline reading"

unfamiliar — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 07:08:00 +0000

PDF sounds like a terrible format for reading on the kindle, why not MOBI or epub or whatever it uses?

New comment by unfamiliar in "On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney"

unfamiliar — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:00:02 +0000

I don’t think it is. What you describe is similar to any other industry disruption, and I don’t think those are unethical. I’d actually argue that preventing disruption is often (not always) unethical, because you artificially prolong an inefficient or inferior alternative.

New comment by unfamiliar in "Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics"

unfamiliar — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 08:31:24 +0000

Waiting for someone to explain to me why this is hyperbole and bluster.

New comment by unfamiliar in "Cdpath: Easily Navigate Directories in the Terminal"

unfamiliar — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 12:18:13 +0000

Zsh has a better builtin solution.

    hash -d x=/path/to/x

Then you can cd to there with just

~x

And use it in commands like

    ls ~x/whatever/

New comment by unfamiliar in "Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support"

unfamiliar — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:27:42 +0000

With all due respect, I think you're wildly out of touch with how most people use "phones" these days. Actual calls probably represent about 5% of my phone use. The term "phone" is essentially a historical misnomer at this point.

New comment by unfamiliar in "Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding"

unfamiliar — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:12:33 +0000

Why don’t you just keep it with the Pi?

New comment by unfamiliar in "Matryoshka Diffusion Models"

unfamiliar — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:15:17 +0000

“Siri, what’s 9am Pacific Time?”

> gives me the current date.

“Siri, what’s 9am Pacific Time in my local time zone?”

> gives me the current time.

I could go on…

New comment by unfamiliar in "They can and will ruin everything you love"

unfamiliar — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 10:53:25 +0000

Those things are bad because the people involved are not able to consent. The journalists and techies working for band camp entered into voluntary contracts that they can leave at any time. To equate the two is absurd.

New comment by unfamiliar in "They can and will ruin everything you love"

unfamiliar — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:58:07 +0000

Like growth needs to continue because just maintaining value is not acceptable for shareholders, maybe the problem is that the founders/sellers need a big payday because just having a steady income is not acceptable (to them).

New comment by unfamiliar in "They can and will ruin everything you love"

unfamiliar — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:53:23 +0000

Yes. That’s a problem to sort out between the employees and the company, it has nothing do to with users or customers. As a user I’m not going to pretend I know any of the relevant context to engage in activism on behalf of anyone.

New comment by unfamiliar in "Blackmagic Camera for iPhone"

unfamiliar — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:45:17 +0000

What’s your app?