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New comment by whynotmaybe in "America has lost its war with Iran"

whynotmaybe — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:33:26 +0000

In today's world where nuance is a disappearing diaphanous concept, the USA didn't win, so they lost.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case"

whynotmaybe — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:25:50 +0000

"You kill a whale, you'll get the greens, you'll get Greenpeace, you'll get Commander Cousteau on your back! But decimate a school of sardines, I like to tell you that you will be helped to can them!"

From the 1992 movie man bites dog.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

whynotmaybe — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:19:00 +0000

In business, nothing's off limit to destroy others.

You can be better, or you can report them for any "illegal" stuff.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

whynotmaybe — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:58:35 +0000

So what now?

They'll make a book with mythos's code and sell it like Phil Zimmerman did with PGP?

New comment by whynotmaybe in "A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air"

whynotmaybe — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:49:15 +0000

Outside of the environment?

New comment by whynotmaybe in "πFS"

whynotmaybe — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:41:46 +0000

I can only imagine opening dbeaver and running "select * from hn.posts where site like '%github.com/philipl`"

New comment by whynotmaybe in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

whynotmaybe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:33:11 +0000

It's the same for girthub copilot [1] which is more present in gov than aws's solutions.

Anthropic is trying, well see if it's a bold strategy.

1. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-claude-fable-5-is-g...

New comment by whynotmaybe in "The 15-minute city is a dead end"

whynotmaybe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:37:01 +0000

The whole US societal model of judgment of anyone's wealth can't be maintained because anyone walking is supposedly poor.

So if you create cities where someone has to "walk", in their minds you're forcing them to be seen as poor.

That's what also included in the concept of valet parking, you're rich because you can go directly from your car to the hotel/restaurant entrance without walking among the poors.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive'"

whynotmaybe — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:00:45 +0000

They don't get everything, spare parts are made by other companies, same with tires, servicing can be done outside their network...

Microsoft handles more verticality.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive'"

whynotmaybe — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:30:24 +0000

Imagine a world where every car company would get money every time someone uses their car.

Instead of monthly subscription for self driving or heated seat, it would just cost a few cents a minute.

This would be a strong push to try to destroy public transportation everywhere

New comment by whynotmaybe in "NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised"

whynotmaybe — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:39:23 +0000

Shouldn't you also restrict version number for a package not just the latest?

New comment by whynotmaybe in "The History of "Prisencolinensinainciusol""

whynotmaybe — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:32:09 +0000

And missing the point that Urban Trad did a complete album, not just Sanomi

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Dav2d"

whynotmaybe — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:57:34 +0000

I understood it as compression is 25% better : a quality of 10mbps in av1 can be achieved with 8mbps in Av2. But, it needs 5 times more compute power for this 25% gain.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates"

whynotmaybe — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:44:51 +0000

No, internet was just another media added to the list.

Reagan was elected before general Internet availability.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

whynotmaybe — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:23:09 +0000

Yes, it's easier to settle a debate on the best Linux distro than on the best Strat.

For Mayonnaise, Billy Corgan used a 60$ guitar that produced unwanted feedback but kept the sounds into the final result which makes it so unique, it was the best in that situation.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

whynotmaybe — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:15:00 +0000

I have seen 1 "helpful" ad yesterday.

When searching for sonarqube, I received an ad for a competing product I'd never heard of and I'll check them today to see if it fits my need.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

whynotmaybe — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:56:32 +0000

If you usually drive a manual transmission you might have a bad time if you try to brake with your left foot

New comment by whynotmaybe in "The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming"

whynotmaybe — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:33:19 +0000

Louis XVI was at the top, the public made him understand nobody's safe.

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

whynotmaybe — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:12:46 +0000

It's been picked up late because it's from Goma, a region in Congo currently operated by the March 23 Movement a "rebel" group against the current Congo's government.

New comment by whynotmaybe in "Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators"

whynotmaybe — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:23:25 +0000

Neither does mudrunner and snowrunner and I play with a keyboard.