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New comment by verelo in "GPT-6 Astra"

verelo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:03:46 +0000

i wonder if we could train a modal, and omit all data prior to 1899, and see what happens?

New comment by verelo in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

verelo — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:11:31 +0000

This! I get frustrated when i hear folks in the US claim Trump has failed them. You failed yourselves. The system is falling apart and barely half of people turn up to participate in elections? What are the rest of us expected to take away from this? Apathy is what I take away from it, and that does not earn my trust.

New comment by verelo in "We are rebuilding Monica"

verelo — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:44:20 +0000

This seems really simple to store as a graph database. If for some reason it does matter the model can just study the graph to contextualize its response? I don't get why Monica would struggle with this...

New comment by verelo in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

verelo — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:28:40 +0000

That's fair. I replied to someone else with a similar remark, but essentially doing most of my flying in 70s to 90s prop planes, I imagine the tools I'm most used to are just dated. Your point around training is likely very accurate, I had some great teachers but I also had a few instances of being given inaccurate information and having to teach the teacher so to speak.

New comment by verelo in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

verelo — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:27:17 +0000

Yeah that makes sense. My experience is mostly in 70s to early 90's prop planes, I have had the opportunity to use a glass cockpit a few times and it was much easier. I guess i did the typical thing and contextualized this on my experiences and ignored that 99.9% of flights are not GA haha.

New comment by verelo in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

verelo — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:57:09 +0000

On VOR: It's also a PITA to use, and for inexperienced people, or someone who rarely uses it, they can confuse flying towards and away from the station.

New comment by verelo in "Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it"

verelo — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:05:13 +0000

yeah i have no idea why my brain decided to type that (twice...), its clearly 28km

New comment by verelo in "Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it"

verelo — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:14:44 +0000

Amazing. I love that i didn't know this. When i was studying weather as part of my pilots license i noted the basic mental math that i'd lose ~2 degrees celsius per 1000ft, but never did i take a second to ask, what happens when i go up 28,000 km.

New comment by verelo in "Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it"

verelo — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:54:08 +0000

Wait, so at 28k/km the temp goes up to 15C?

This is all very cool but this temperature reading caught my eye as unexpected.

New comment by verelo in "Seven books I keep close because I love them"

verelo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:20:15 +0000

Is no one going to comment on the goggly eyes or 8mm data tape? You people disappoint me.

New comment by verelo in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

verelo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:15:34 +0000

"Evidence" requires citations.

New comment by verelo in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

verelo — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:25:27 +0000

I wouldnt say it is, but there are circumstances when speed is helpful. I wouldn't argue that coding is one of them.

New comment by verelo in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

verelo — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:17:14 +0000

This is the feeling i get too. Cant produce quality, but can produce something that is super fast...so take the wins where they are.

New comment by verelo in "Airport Simulator"

verelo — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:28:22 +0000

pretty nice, the click targets are a bit awkward but otherwise really fun!

New comment by verelo in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

verelo — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:48:56 +0000

Maybe in the US, in Canada i find their online services are pretty average. A lot of the time i search for something and i get a US link, much to my disapointment.

New comment by verelo in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

verelo — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:30:05 +0000

Yeah, home depot is a tricky case. They have a huge array of products, and in my experience when you cant find something you need to search beyond the store you're in....so the database you need access to isn't exactly small. Makes a practical offline experience tricky.

Home depots website sucks anyway, slow, clunky, terrible touch space, and the search is awful.

Aside, they should ad cell repeaters inside to fix all this.

New comment by verelo in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

verelo — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:40:39 +0000

I used to run a company (2010-2018) where our customers were almost always using our product inside of grocery stores, which are almost always metal sheds with some finishings on the walls. Not so great for cell service, it became essential for us to support offline mode if we wanted to keep those customers happy and engaged.

I spent many late nights trying to debug reachability bugs. It's frankly a nightmare trying to build a reliable app when the user has /some/ cell service, but not enough to operate the app reliably.

New comment by verelo in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

verelo — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:34:57 +0000

So i've done similar things in the past - and my justification for 'app' over website has been offline.

Does the PWA state of things resolve that in the modern days? If it did, yeah I'd agree, no need for an app at all. In my case the app was being used in rural Ontario. I cant even make a phone call here without wifi.

New comment by verelo in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

verelo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:42:26 +0000

That checks out.

New comment by verelo in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

verelo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:23:36 +0000

As an Australian, Apples voice models have always sucked. I've tried using stt (again) more recently and its improved, but i'm so tired of having to Americanize my voice to get it to figure out what the hell i'm saying.