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New comment by wewtyflakes in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"

wewtyflakes — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:20:43 +0000

This sounds like the worst case outcome for society; real estate permanently allotted to some entity that chooses not to use it. It is not an envious model; it is a model that should be eliminated.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

wewtyflakes — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:55:41 +0000

Update: Things trended significantly worse for me over the day, to the point where I no longer trust the code being generated; I ended up reverting to Opus.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Waymo Premier"

wewtyflakes — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:40:16 +0000

They presumably know their wife better than you do, internet stranger. They did not hide that they were talking from their experience, and not from a published paper on Uber statistics.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Waymo Premier"

wewtyflakes — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:36:02 +0000

That would be lovely; I want to live in the world you think we live in.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

wewtyflakes — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:38:05 +0000

I have found Fable is good for doing code failure diagnoses but lackluster at its corresponding remediation. Have been going back and forth with it all this morning about its half-thought-out point-solutions.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions"

wewtyflakes — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:59:47 +0000

I know you are a bad-faith bot account, so this is not posed to you.

I am wondering why there are so many of these accounts popping up. They seemingly only exist to antagonize. What do their operators get out of that?

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

wewtyflakes — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:19:15 +0000

Pile on enough assumptions and qualifiers and then suddenly everything is so easy

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

wewtyflakes — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:07:33 +0000

How does 100M tons of platinum safely deorbit? Is the idea to let it crash into the sea?

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation"

wewtyflakes — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:54:42 +0000

That strategy would be a taxable event.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809)"

wewtyflakes — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:28:55 +0000

Aristocratified?

New comment by wewtyflakes in "My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck"

wewtyflakes — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:23:56 +0000

Extra trots, you mean.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

wewtyflakes — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:10:51 +0000

Much of what you mention in your post seemed spammy; messaging regarding cart abandonment, etc. I aggressively label messages like that as spam, and I suspect others do too. I also suspect after blasting out messages like that, your accounts will get burned.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

wewtyflakes — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:39:28 +0000

> I think it is safe to say that those brains are having a blast

How could you possibly say that? You are positing that the brains are both conscious and happy. Both of those are leaps.

> It just invokes a strong emotional response because it's so "abnormal"

You are making an assumption about why people find this horrifying, and the assumption you made was uncharitable.

> OTOH, this is HN, I guess. Having empathy for real people would be harmful to the business model of most people's employers.

I do not see how people on HN being horrified by human brain experiments means they do not have empathy.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator"

wewtyflakes — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:52:22 +0000

I was not making a pun, though the terms of art in that area were clearly made to be puns. I was pointing out that the byte-size of a CPU is typically defined as its smallest addressable unit, so, I was confused to see a CPU using an architecture that works with half of that size; it does not make sense to me.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator"

wewtyflakes — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:56:34 +0000

If the CPU is nibble-oriented, wouldn't that mean that that is its byte size?

New comment by wewtyflakes in "US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants"

wewtyflakes — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:54:43 +0000

It should be illegal to send the data, and illegal to accept it; burn both sides of that bridge.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

wewtyflakes — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:32:58 +0000

Maybe it is better to let the airline that treats people like adversarial cattle to die; maybe it is a good signal that that is a bad business model.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "I won a championship that doesn't exist"

wewtyflakes — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:34:20 +0000

That's fair, though on the other hand it kind of feels like "Don't drive cars, there could be rocks on the road! See, just look at all these rocks I put on the road!". Which is true, and real, but perhaps frustrating for people who just want to get someplace in peace.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Things C++26 define_static_array can't do"

wewtyflakes — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:51:00 +0000

This is so on-brand for C++, whether that is a blessing or curse is left up to the reader.

New comment by wewtyflakes in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

wewtyflakes — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:30:32 +0000

We, the people, ostensibly get to say what these security interests are. Also, the security policy executed on by the state is not some immutable monolith. One can agree or disagree with it as it changes over time, and hopefully, influence its direction to arc towards goodness.