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ARandomerDude··on Minimal Phone 2
Hard to justify for $599/$699 when a new Pixel 10a is currently $424 on Amazon.
ARandomerDude··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
At this point I would take filled potholes.
ARandomerDude··on We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
> I am one of fifteen rank-and-file workers, and we are privileged to be led by thousands of Senior VPs.

This is simultaneously hilarious and painfully familiar.

ARandomerDude··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
This is a joke. If it's electronic the NSA can hack it with impunity, including your ISP. And that's assuming your ISP won't just give them whatever they ask for (unlikely).
ARandomerDude··on Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
> It took me less than 6 months from no knowledge to my first job.

I agreed with you up until this sentence. Entry-level devs with 6 months of require an enormous amount of time and mentoring until they're able to really perform well. I think the greater concern being expressed is not will people be able to type syntactically correct code?, it's will people be able to write software well?.

ARandomerDude··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
Along similar lines, a coworker told me about Caveman and it has made my Claude experience vastly better. I'm already a programmer, Claude shouldn't need to tell me like I'm 5.

https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman

ARandomerDude··on RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax
How can you tell it's AI generated?
ARandomerDude··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
This doesn't account for the substantial difference between military deception and political (self-)deception.

The Midway water shortage deception was a way to gain a tactical, followed by strategic advantage.

Running out of missiles is an "incovenient truth" for the zionist pro-war crowd. History is littered with innumerable examples of political leaders not adequately considering ground-truth military and logistical realities (Confederates fighting in Pennsylvania, Germans invading Russia, etc.).

ARandomerDude··on Deflock Casa Grande
That's because you haven't thought it through. "We only want info on the bad people" might not alarm you personally until any government entity changes the definition of bad and now you're a "bad guy".
ARandomerDude··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Digital property is property.
ARandomerDude··on DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16
Auto GCAS (Ground Collision Avoidance System) exists (pre-AI), although it is nowhere near as sophisticated as what you described. Similar type of idea though.

If the pilot passes out during high-g maneuvers, the aircraft will pull up and bring the wings level until the pilot regains consciousness.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/autogcas.html

ARandomerDude··on Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver
I know nothing about this topic but your comment piqued my curiosity. What would a $500 AMD GPU do better than DGX?
ARandomerDude··on LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
Also to reduce capital murder...
ARandomerDude··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
I've literally had my vehicle alarm and tell me to keep both hands on the steering wheel when I had both hands on for a long time. My biggest concern is where do false alarms take us in the not-too-distant future? Inept sensing -> you can't drive.
ARandomerDude··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Not being mandatory and not having an effect are different claims.
ARandomerDude··on Electric anti-aircraft interceptor drone breaks world air speed record at 434mph
> will still be able to intercept drones cheaply

But likely not at the scale required to make a real dent. This is the problem with the "this new weapon will win the Russia-Ukraine war" mantra we've heard so often (Javelin, HIMARS, F-16, etc). Lots of very capable weapons have entered the fight, but at limited scale compared to Russia's enormous manpower and manufacturing advantage.

ARandomerDude··on US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
IANAL, what are the practical implications of this? I assume the outcome is police would first need probable cause to suspect a specific person of a crime, and then get a warrant for that person's location. Am I wrong?
ARandomerDude··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
This is the problem in the discussion. Many on HN don't remember what it was like to buy a house in 2010, so they assume it hasn't gotten (far) worse. It has.
ARandomerDude··on Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society
This wildly assumes that "I voted for $candidate" means "I like $candidate." Every presidential election cycle we get served up two turds, one with a (D) and the other with an (R) by their name, and we have to pick which turd we'd like to ruin our country for us the least.
ARandomerDude··on WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding
> Starting price reportedly around $2,000.

I'll guess it won't be a Vision Pro level disaster, but most people will skip this device unless the price drops substantially.

ARandomerDude··on 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background
What if we took Japan’s flag, imagined it printed on paper, but made the dot blue?
ARandomerDude··on Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync)
> MongoDB still leads on single-record writes, while SurrealDB is ~1.3× faster on reads

I greatly appreciate when a vendor is willing to run the test and publish unfavorable information, even if it's only in one benchmark category.

ARandomerDude··on Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
“cum” (rhymes with “broom”, rather than “dumb”) is Latin for “with”.
ARandomerDude··on Lisp in Vim (2019)
These days Conjure is the best way to write a lisp language in Neovim, in my opinion. It supports Clojure, Common Lisp, Fennel, etc. Not my project but I’m very thankful for those who contribute!

https://github.com/Olical/conjure

ARandomerDude··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
For what purpose? Murder? Arson? It's amazing how often people say things like "no one is above the law" whenever it's convenient, then totally flip the script when it's not.
ARandomerDude··on Greek Alphabet Cards
For ancient Greek, two great books are:

Greek: an Intensive Course by Hansen and Quinn.

Basics of Biblical Greek by William Mounce

Both are standard texts with solutions easily available online.

ARandomerDude··on Greek Alphabet Cards
Get a decent Greek grammar book and go through the first couple chapters, even if you don’t plan to complete the book. After completing the exercises you’ll be amazed by how quickly the Greek alphabet stuck. Repeat every 10 years if necessary.
ARandomerDude··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
> people must prove their value via an extraordinary work ethic

Ironically, this is the literal opposite of Christianity. Christianity in a nutshell is "Jesus saves people because we are incapable of saving ourselves."

ARandomerDude··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
> And how does it make any logical sense to send 100+ spec ops guys in two big planes to rescue one (1) guy in a remote mountainous location?

I’m a former Air Force officer, and can attest that this is in fact a long-term standing policy. “Never leave a man behind” exists because if we didn’t have that policy, pilots would be too risk averse to fly the missions aggressively.

Check out the “Notable Missions” section for a few very public examples over the past decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_search_and_rescue

ARandomerDude··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
If the US wants the IAEA to agree to something like this, especially considering the global economic impact of refusing, I imagine the IAEA could be convinced.

The JCPOA came about when the US pushed for it in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal

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