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Double_a_92··on Kezurou-Kai #39
Is the skill for this competition in honing the tool, or in using it? Or a combination of both?
Double_a_92··on Data centers contain 90% crap data
The problem with that is that what you might find important or beautiful changes with time.

That random photo of your messy living room might be trash right now, but beloved in 20 years when you want to remember your old home.

Double_a_92··on Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?
I think the conclusion was that they had to remove that for legal reasons, since technically they were already doing something that could be considered selling data.
Double_a_92··on San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time
Why did they decide to do meth?
Double_a_92··on Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki
People stop naming things after real existing words.
Double_a_92··on Common mistakes in architecture diagrams (2020)
Looking at the graphics is much easier than understanding the text for me. If I read the text I essencially have to build that graphic inside my mind, if I want to understand and remember it.
Double_a_92··on Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"
You can, but it would be pointless since it would just filter out some honest people.
Double_a_92··on The origin of the cargo cult metaphor
Because it somewhat removes that implication that that different way is harder to live with.
Double_a_92··on Polyhedral Compilation
I have no idea what this is, and I still have no idea after reading the website.

It reads like one of those fake AI written papers about nonsense that seem kinda real at first glance.

Double_a_92··on It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor
Ironically that feels kinda rude to me. Like if I wasn't able to walk, I would want people to aknowledge that... instead of pretending that I just move differently.
Double_a_92··on Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s
Without knowing the encryption key, it is just random data though. And since not even the creator knows, there sadly is no easter egg.
Double_a_92··on I deleted my social media accounts
I don't understand what people are doing on social media that they can get addicted by it, or at least specifically by the social aspect of it.

E.g. facebook for me is mainly the messenger and a few random photos or people. Everything else on there is not enjoyable.

Reddit is like a forum where I can occassionally say things about my hobbies. Also nothing that sucks me in, in an unhealthy way.

X and Mastodon are mostly news and random people showing off things.

Youtube is like TV where at some point you watched what you wanted to watch for the day.

The only thing that seems addicting to me are Apps like Tiktok or Instagram, where you are just one simple swipe away from the next bit of short term entertainment.

Double_a_92··on Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
Yup. This is nothing more than "Hmm, this Nokia has its physical UI on a separate board... maybe I could use that somehow".
Double_a_92··on Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
I think the idea here is to basically create a new phone, but use the original case, buttons and display.
Double_a_92··on Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival
That's more a language issue than a number issue. 1000% is already a factor, it's literally the number 10.

The problem is that the whole sentence doesn't make sense with a number there. "Company claims 10 price hike drove it from VMware..."

Double_a_92··on Universities enrolling foreign students with poor English, BBC finds
By just studying, and consuming media in that language? You certainly don't need to enrol in some masters course in UK for that.
Double_a_92··on World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image
The issue is that they are overselling it. It's not a world, it's a 3D image at best.
Double_a_92··on We are shutting down Ondsel
> They're running the kernel on the cloud behind an API, streaming video to the client and billing by the server-minute.

That sounds absolutely horrible though. There is no chance of it being truly free because the servers cost money. You are fully locked-in in that system. It won't work offline. You can't use it for secret projects...

Unless it's intended for companies to run the API on their own servers?

Double_a_92··on 1. Ask HN: What's the future of AI employees (or interns)?
AI won't replace any specific workers. At best it will make workers more productive, say by 5%, which will at a big scale remove 5% of jobs.
Double_a_92··on We are shutting down Ondsel
Am I missing something, or is that just a fancy openSCAD?
Double_a_92··on We are shutting down Ondsel
I think the main sentiment was more about FreeCAD being extremely bad to use, and not against Ondsel's efforts to make it better.

I just tried installing the new RC of FreeCAD, and it's still a horrible horrible unusable mess (despite all the improvements of Ondsel).

Anyone trying is probably better off starting from scratch on the GUI, and only extracting the algorithmic bits from FreeCad.

Double_a_92··on A $1k Wheelchair
Probably because of the title. A 1$k wheelchair doesn't sound like anything special. While their selling point is that it's a $1k wheelchair that is actually worth that money.
Double_a_92··on [dead]
For the love of god remove that useless piece of garbage chatbot thing.
Double_a_92··on Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?
Btw this is also used as a sob-story tactic by the scammers if you eventually call them out after some time.
Double_a_92··on Death of the Department Store
For me personally they are just not a very attractive place. At best you get the grocery section and the shoe store.

Everything else is usually too expensive, doesn't offer a good variety and quality of products, or is highly targeted at teenage girls for some reason. As a guy I honestly don't know where to go shopping for clothes... I just have to hope for occasional random finds.

Double_a_92··on Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers
This is basically a regular real estate agency, but they use AI to book appointments and extract some key value from PDFs. Nothing really to see here... Just another company using the current buzzword for advertising.
Double_a_92··on Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers
Also in my mind those 5 star reviews with peoples photos are strongly associated with fake/scam websites. Would consider removing them. (Or maybe they do actually work with regular people??)
Double_a_92··on iPhone 16 is much easier to repair
The battery is still held in there pretty well even without any adhesive. See also: Any phone battery before ~2015.
Double_a_92··on iPhone 16 is much easier to repair
Where do you live that getting your phone stolen is a bigger concern than being able to repair your stuff? Thats more a society issue, not something that Apple needs to fix.
Double_a_92··on iPhone 16 is much easier to repair
How about they just get rid of that nonsense instead?
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