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New comment by user2722 in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

user2722 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:09:45 +0000

Agree. But according to Gemini [for what's worth] the final 1990 Mashmallow's study [since first versions were cautious] did indeed jump to conclusions to point there was a causation to a better later life. The media might have amplified, but the wrong (or misleading) conclusion was already present in the _scientific_ paper.

New comment by user2722 in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

user2722 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:13:41 +0000

It really calls into questions the conclusions drawn from the last 50 years. Here's the ones disproven I remember:

* kids grow to be rich because they accept delayed gratification

* alpha males are the leader of the pack and all other males are useless

* people accept violence if there is a higher authority which justifies it with a reason

How many people suffered or delivered suffering because of their beliefs in the above?

New comment by user2722 in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

user2722 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:24:19 +0000

NASA operates as a terminal, bloated monopoly that has completely severed its feedback loops with physical reality in favor of preserving a 25-year-old architectural fantasy. The Orion heat shield is essentially a buggy hardware release being pushed into a mission-critical production environment despite the fact that its own internal telemetry is screaming about a catastrophic failure. By choosing to ignore the spalling and the melted structural bolts, the agency is deliberately discarding the engineering equivalent of core dump data to maintain a schedule that satisfies political optics rather than Newtonian physics.

New comment by user2722 in "Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access"

user2722 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:28:14 +0000

I like Cryptomator's solution: donate to get a pretty banner.

Also, it didn't work -- Mountain Duck is closed source.

Personally I donate €50 every now and then when the average of the donation goes below a certain value (varies by project) but it requires tracking in a Spreadsheet.

New comment by user2722 in "Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations"

user2722 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:05:07 +0000

Ya but in this case, it _is_ AI. It was just an experiment though -- most market absolutists talk like this.

New comment by user2722 in "Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations"

user2722 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:21:21 +0000

You are right. However I've found most market absolutists write similar to this. The fault is always someone else's. I had thought I had gotten the contents humanly sociopathic enough to go below the LLM radar.

I actually intended to leave a comment explaining but I started to lose points and deleted the explanation; I was however unable to delete the main comment.

New comment by user2722 in "Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations"

user2722 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:04:44 +0000

It is truly tragic to see 5,500 people on the North Shore forced from their homes as the century-old Wahiawa Dam threatens to erase their livelihoods. One can only hope the evacuation orders were received in time to save what is most precious. Sentiment aside, this is a textbook case of a natural audit. The Wahiawa Dam is a 120-year-old stranded asset that should have been liquidated decades ago; instead, it was kept on the books as a "high hazard" liability while the state and Dole Food Company bickered over a $20 million repair bill. Governor Green’s $1 billion damage estimate is simply the market finally collecting on 20 years of deferred maintenance and mispriced risk. Those living downstream without private insolvency insurance were effectively shorting gravity, and the "Kona Low" just called their margin. If the dam breaches, it isn't a disaster—it's the violent, overdue restructuring of an obsolete irrigation system. Nature is the only regulator that doesn't accept a settlement.

New comment by user2722 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

user2722 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:07:10 +0000

Is it? My IT forces a reboot every weekend.

Windows has some apparel to hot-patch functions. A regular reboot is recommended just for higienic purposes but should be possible to reduce them.

New comment by user2722 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

user2722 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:06:58 +0000

Actually it's the wrong question. Implement rebootless updates is the right ask. You'll have to reboot like once a month still but it's better than how it is now.

New comment by user2722 in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

user2722 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:35:41 +0000

Agreed. But please, someone change [2] to have a freakin' direct link to the Nextcloud product/service offered by the linked website.

New comment by user2722 in "Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video"

user2722 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:38:25 +0000

I get really annoyed at those articles which advocate the developer to sacrifice themselves towards a better future.

Companies externalize costs. I refuse to be the one, as an individual, with the burden of fixing society ills to my own detriment.

Tell me to get into politics, join an association, whatever. Now, as an individual, lose money for morals? No thank you. I may, and probably will, do it -- but don't expect I do it. I have no business, in a society with less and less public services, to harm myself and my family for refusing to do well paying jobs.

I will externalise those costs as much as possible. I will bring awareness. I will write letters. But don't ask me to leave a well paying job -- that's someone else job to fix.

New comment by user2722 in "Maybe there's a pattern here?"

user2722 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:52:00 +0000

Do you have privatized healthcare in your country?

New comment by user2722 in "Maybe there's a pattern here?"

user2722 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:51:16 +0000

That has probably more to do with you bank account digits.

I'm on the inverse moral ladder currently, specially as more and more services are privatized (public health here is on fast-track to be americanized).

New comment by user2722 in "Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario"

user2722 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:44:47 +0000

I'd posit the faster we feed LLM exhisting nuclear crisis and invented, dissimilar to its training corpus, nuclear scenarios, the better we will know how wrong they can be. Fear-mongering isn't lucrative, isn't dopamine triggering, isn't actionable, doesn't look good on the resume, so it's tipically ignored.

New comment by user2722 in "Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario"

user2722 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:42:34 +0000

No-one got fired for ~buying IBM~ following a statistical-based text output.

New comment by user2722 in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

user2722 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:51:56 +0000

I do hope however having a Snapdragon device will be beneficial to having postmarketOS support.

For now having Android-type OS on a daily driver is a must, but for older devices (thinking of 10 years time) I'd like to explore an OS which doesn't depend of Google open-source drops and delayed security open-source drops, which is the situation for ROMs without an ODM partner.

New comment by user2722 in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

user2722 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:35:48 +0000

Ya, I believe that's the correct answer. I believe there is an IOMMU or equivalent on modern phones to prevent those doubts binary blobs bring.

New comment by user2722 in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

user2722 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:47:08 +0000

Some people said it's using libhybris. I thought this one was vanilla Linux. Any pointers either way?

New comment by user2722 in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

user2722 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:44:20 +0000

I always buy 2-in-1. I run both Gnome and Android [Waydroid] when in tablet mode.

New comment by user2722 in "Intel XeSS 3: expanded support for Core Ultra/Core Ultra 2 and Arc A, B series"

user2722 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:25:04 +0000

What does this mean? That Arc series is not being discontinued after all?