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New comment by wonnage in "Alan Greenspan has died"

wonnage — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:45:52 +0000

There is an idea floating around that trade imbalances create global inequality (Trade Wars are Class Wars by Klein & Pettis) and the original sin was adopting the dollar as the reserve currency instead of something like Bancor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancor)

New comment by wonnage in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

wonnage — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:45:58 +0000

They don’t have a useful belief system, one of the rookie mistakes of using LLMs is asking them what you “should” do

New comment by wonnage in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

wonnage — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:29:13 +0000

What else is there in CORS? It’s all basically a way for an origin to communicate to the browser which other origins it can share data with. Of course if there’s no browser involved then there’s no need for it.

Client hints are useful for all the shitty “responsive” websites that don’t know how to use media queries. And for ad tracking. Mostly the latter

New comment by wonnage in "Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)"

wonnage — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:07:03 +0000

yeah, it's pretty common to refer to x^2 as exponential colloquially since there's A. an exponent B. a single term for all values (vs. quadratic, cubic, quartic...)

But you're technically correct!

New comment by wonnage in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

wonnage — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:39:03 +0000

Ah, the classic "let's be objective and ignore key constraint that is inconvenient for SV tech bro hype"

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

wonnage — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:07:48 +0000

17: don't worry, i'm sure they'll just ask their LLM to figure it out

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

wonnage — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:06:41 +0000

Kinda sketchy that all of the base stats are hardcoded in the JS (foundingPatrons is 36605, totalPledged is 22816377). Then it fetches some "live" stats and adds values to that.

New comment by wonnage in "Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces 'Palestine' in designs"

wonnage — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:45:07 +0000

Moving the goalposts describes the entire history of AI. it’s “AI” in the hype phase and turns into “OCR” once it actually works.

At various points quadcopters, towel folding, image recognition, sentiment analysis, etc. were all “AI”

New comment by wonnage in "Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces 'Palestine' in designs"

wonnage — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:29:49 +0000

There are trillions of dollars riding on the fact that they in fact think, and a bunch of people here have their lottery tickets tied up in that, so good luck with that

New comment by wonnage in "Men who stare at walls"

wonnage — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:25:29 +0000

Aside from sleepiness, closing your eyes shut also tends to make daydreaming worse.

New comment by wonnage in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

wonnage — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:59:38 +0000

This isn’t a hypothesis, it’s a wild unsubstantiated guess

New comment by wonnage in "1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)"

wonnage — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:33:41 +0000

I think there’s already enough lost in translation that the text direction is the least of your worries haha

New comment by wonnage in "1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)"

wonnage — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:53:47 +0000

This is like saying westerners need to read mirrored manga to truly appreciate the artist’s intent. You can just start reading from the right…

New comment by wonnage in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

wonnage — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:39:14 +0000

This is pretty misguided.A casual mistake like forgetting your cough syrup has acetaminophen can easily cause an overdose and then you fucking die. That’s not the risk profile you want for “most people in most circumstances”.

New comment by wonnage in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

wonnage — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:37:54 +0000

Everyone that’s left either buys into the culture or is stuck due to immigration

New comment by wonnage in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

wonnage — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:19:49 +0000

People already do this by buying cases

New comment by wonnage in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

wonnage — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:38:48 +0000

Conspiracy theory: they intentionally seeded the world with millions of slop PRs and now they’re “catching bugs” with Mythos

New comment by wonnage in "Rail: A self-hosting language that speaks TLS alone"

wonnage — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:23:52 +0000

Today in AI psychosis:

New comment by wonnage in "The looming college-enrollment death spiral"

wonnage — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:07:48 +0000

Some colleges seem to be glorified sports teams that happen to have a school attached.

New comment by wonnage in "The Closing of the Frontier"

wonnage — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:23:49 +0000

They’ve been shilling the same statement since GPT-2