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New comment by xz0r in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

xz0r — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:46:45 +0000

> I disagree with most comments that the brusque moderation is the cause of SO's problems

Questions asked on SO that got downvoted by the heavy handed moderation would have been answered by LLMs without any of the flak whatsoever.

Those who had downvoted other's questions on SO for not being good enough, must be asking a lot of such not good enough questions to an LLM today.

Sure, the SO system worked, but it was user hostile and I'm glad we all don't have to deal with it anymore.

New comment by xz0r in "Apple M5 chip"

xz0r — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:04:44 +0000

I've seen every new OS update leading to M1 Air performance degrade, at this point I'm pretty convinced Apple is doing this intentionally.

Edit: Same experience with iPhone X

Edit2: I still remember the feeling when I got them initially - that Apple is on customer's side, but now I feel totally helpless and i'm being forced to upgrade

New comment by xz0r in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"

xz0r — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:40:12 +0000

Let me direct you to the reddit AMA where people were literally begging to bring back 4o.

New comment by xz0r in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

xz0r — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:40:26 +0000

A weekly 1 hour call, where pair programming/ exploration of an on-going issue, technical idea would be enough to replace face to face time with seniors. This has been working great for us, at a multi billion dollar profitable public company thats been fully remote.

New comment by xz0r in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

xz0r — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:42:11 +0000

> how did the pilot realize it was the cut-off switches?

The answer to this question is explained by a pilot in here https://youtu.be/00ooqCuRoU8?t=731

The pilots can hear engines spool down.

New comment by xz0r in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

xz0r — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:17:19 +0000

Ever thought about how there's a magnetic quality to mirrors that keeps us looking? I see GPT in a similar light, it functions as a mirror, reflecting aspects of our reality.

New comment by xz0r in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

xz0r — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 04:01:17 +0000

The article links to a forum post which kind of explains how engagement is maximised https://community.openai.com/t/uncovering-the-intent-behind-...

New comment by xz0r in "M4 MacBook Pro"

xz0r — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 02:56:04 +0000

I too bought a 2020 MBA M1, it was great initially, but now seems like its getting throttled, same goes with my iPhoneX, I used to love Apple, but its just pathetic that they throttle older devices just to get users to upgrade.

New comment by xz0r in "Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions"

xz0r — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:43:43 +0000

If Adguard is able to work on MV3 why isn't uBlock able to ?

New comment by xz0r in "Netflix Canada just got rid of its cheapest ad-free plan without even a heads up"

xz0r — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 06:14:28 +0000

Please open source it.

New comment by xz0r in "There is no A.I."

xz0r — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 01:05:21 +0000

Correlation is not causation. It feels more like smarter automation to me.

New comment by xz0r in "Travel is no cure for the mind (2018)"

xz0r — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 12:11:34 +0000

Time accelerates as one gets older is due to relativeness of perceived experience of duration.

1 year for a person who lived 50 years is relatively short(2%) compared to someone who lived for only 20 years (5%)

New comment by xz0r in "Boring Languages Are Underrated (2015)"

xz0r — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 08:37:48 +0000

Instagram uses Python.

New comment by xz0r in "Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation"

xz0r — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:16:51 +0000

> In the past, through various practices and substances

If you don't mind, could you mention what practices and substances are you referring to?

New comment by xz0r in "We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression"

xz0r — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:15:42 +0000

> Too much weed makes me feel I'm dying.

You should try a strain with less THC and more CBD. More THC will lead to anxiety. The feeling that you're dying is quite common at high THC (for people who smoke rarely), but once you know how to "deal" with it, it opens up some experiences which are quite hard to put in words, but are quite enjoyable. A lot of it depends on the "set" and "setting". Without right setting (or music), I'm sure it would lead to racing thoughts and paranoid feelings.

Hard Problem of Consciousness

xz0r — Sun, 31 May 2020 17:02:51 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23370835

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by xz0r in "Why is AI so useless for business?"

xz0r — Tue, 26 May 2020 18:37:44 +0000

> Logistics companies rely on huge amounts of optimization and problem-solving.

Having worked at the largest tech based Logistics company in India, I can say, we did rely on optimization and problem-solving, but none of them involved AI, they were mathematical models and not black box.

New comment by xz0r in "I was tricked into thinking I had “grit”"

xz0r — Wed, 06 May 2020 09:07:51 +0000

I'd argue, its not impossible. There might be people who are able to manage everything, we just don't know.

Prescription for treating pneumonia infected by novel coronavirus

xz0r — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 14:33:34 +0000

Article URL: https://patents.google.com/patent/CN110870402A/en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22794051

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by xz0r in "Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich"

xz0r — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:18:23 +0000

If they are able to do this by creating the dataset just by scraping public social media web images, and having a facial recognition algorithm in place, whats stopping anyone else to do that ?