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grapesodaaaaa··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
The enshitification of search engines is driving me more and more to LLMs for all their warts. I can usually force them to provide sources and do my search that way.
grapesodaaaaa··on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
I wish they had made a pro mini. The only reason I got rid of mine was for the zoom of the pro.
grapesodaaaaa··on Libpostal: C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world
In the shipping scenario, you can’t really know if it’s a local address or not without talking to someone with local knowledge.

The FAA even legally accepts “third house down from the barn” in some instances.

The KYC scenario is different, and a PITA for people like me, because I spent half my life without a physical mailing address (we picked it up at the post office).

The real world is messy, and u feel like SV and finance have done a lot of hand waving to ignore this.

grapesodaaaaa··on Gothub.org (OpenBSD’s Game of Trees) now has a hosted community
Game of Trees (a BSD licensed Git clone that’s affiliated with the OpenBSD project) looks like it’s going live with a community platform.

More info is available at their site: https://gothub.org/

grapesodaaaaa··on US Supreme Court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders
To some extent, laws are enforced and interpreted subjectively.

The famous quote “give me the man and I will give you the case against him.” Comes to mind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_g...

Legal settings (at least in the US), have always favored the wealthy who can find an army of lawyers to find loopholes.

I don’t agree with this, and hopefully what is currently happening raises awareness.

For example, the Patriot act post-9/11 famously gave law enforcement unconstitutional powers within 100 miles of a national border (I could be off, but this is how I remember it). If you really want to split hairs, the US has a LOT of borders if you include international airports.

grapesodaaaaa··on I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
If they keep predicting that, eventually they’ll be right!

(It’s hard to harvest more power from a star than a Dyson sphere is capable of)

grapesodaaaaa··on What you need to know about EMP weapons
As mentioned elsewhere, streetlights were a very different design back then.
grapesodaaaaa··on Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
That's actually a nice perk since I have LLMs summarize or re-word my research findings quite often. I'm a disorganized person, so they've been a big help with me organizing my work.

I also like that Markdown is being added since it's what I typically use for documentation (github, etc). The default formatting in notes currently leaves something to be desired...

grapesodaaaaa··on Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial
This sent me down a rabbit hole, but high altitude periodic breathing seems related for some people living at high altitude.

Sleep apnea can be a disqualifying condition for pilots, so I like to be 1000% certain and have plans A, B, and C ready to go before seeking treatment.

grapesodaaaaa··on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
100% this. If I have something juicy I want to show my wife about how they’re messing up our 401k’s, etc. I take a phone picture so that there’s no record of it happening on the official device.

Microsoft doing this is a huge waste of time other than catching the bottom 5% of people doing something like that.

I just want to add that my company has our stuff so locked down, that it’s easier for me to take a phone pic, transcribe the code with ChatGPT, fix the issue on my personal machine, then type it back into the work laptop for some issues. It’s absurd how businesses want to control everything to such a degree that 1) there are now these crazy, leaky workarounds, and 2) it’s to the detriment of people actually getting stuff done for the business.

grapesodaaaaa··on Show HN: JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people
Yeah, I think you’re right. I don’t think anyone has figured out how to moderate AI well, so many of them seem overly-zealous at this point.
grapesodaaaaa··on Show HN: JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people
I asked “ Toddlers should be allowed to be licensed to operate a motor vehicle.” with yes/no answers.

It errors out with “ Please moderate the content of your question before submitting it.”

grapesodaaaaa··on Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check
Let’s not forget that the highly combustible liquid gas either needs to be stored with complicated cooling or under immense pressure (feel free to disprove me if I haven’t kept up with technology).

It can be done safely, but adds a lot of complexity on top of all the complexity needed for ICE engines.

Your points are also great.

grapesodaaaaa··on A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled
I can foresee a lot of places using battery “reservoirs” as batteries become cheaper. Gas stations don’t have pipelines straight to the pump.

It only makes more sense if you want to make the grid greener & have price arbitrage based on the time of day.

I’m sure there are problems with this (feel free to point them out).

grapesodaaaaa··on Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law
That’s hilarious to me suggesting that DNS can facilitate privacy.

What about the people who own the copper that’s transporting the piracy? That actually seems like it’s more of a direct link than DNS.

grapesodaaaaa··on Claude can now search the web
> Actually, it's astounding to me that companies haven't created a more user friendly customization interface for models.

To be fair, LLM technology in its current form, is still relatively new. I would also like to see what you are suggesting, though.

grapesodaaaaa··on Study finds 46 percent of U.S. counties have pharmacy deserts
Similar story here. Our insurance likes to mail things, but gets the prescription wrong or it doesn’t show up 60% of the time.

We spend a lot of time arguing on the phone.

grapesodaaaaa··on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
Somehow, my father in law managed to set some sketchy search engine as his default. I forget exactly what it was, but it was definitely serving malware ads.

I’d prefer a static list for those people.

I could write a book on the crazy stuff he has done to his iOS devices. I’ve contemplated putting “child mode” or whatever on his account to prevent him from changing settings or installing apps.

My favorite so far was a malware VPN that was harvesting ALL of his traffic.

grapesodaaaaa··on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
In principle I agree, but there needs to be an “old person mode.” The number of times I’ve uninstalled malware on my relatives’ computers is astounding.
grapesodaaaaa··on Tether and Circle are battling to win the US stablecoin market
Much worse things than fraudulent cryptocurrency transactions.
grapesodaaaaa··on 2025 Hiring Pause
This is also the fallacy of looking at one metric.

Do staff include productive researchers producing net positive incoming?

Other comments mention the medical school. Are these staff providing patient care (and billing insurance)?

University staff aren’t necessarily just your traditional educators. A whole lot of productive stuff (both for the university and everyone else) can potentially benefit from “staff.”

grapesodaaaaa··on Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
While true, they are not sustaining combustion within the turbo. I believe this is what makes the problem more difficult, and it sounded like what the OC was suggesting.

Turbos float on a layer of motor oil, and have a crude design compared to combustion-sustaining turbines.

grapesodaaaaa··on Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
Suggesting a turbine could go in a gas car on size/weight alone isn’t a great idea.

I’m saying this as someone in the aviation industry. Turbines are amazing pieces of machinery and incredibly reliable, BUT incredibly expensive to operate.

They require all kinds of specialized maintenance and what I would call “exotic” oils that won’t break down in the harsh environment.

It’d make a really great generator for a vehicle, but I don’t think the economics will work out for a family car anytime soon.

grapesodaaaaa··on YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info
I’m sure the police would come to my door, but I could show records of it not really being “my phone number”.

Family plans are pretty common here, so I wouldn’t expect too much friction.

I would absolutely cooperate (obviously through a lawyer) with records if someone else on my family plan did something illegal.

I also have records showing that they pay me for the line.

Also yes, it would be a huge hassle. The probability of that happening is small, and I’m willing to risk it like many other things in life. I only do this for very trusted people.

grapesodaaaaa··on YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info
I currently pay for 4 other people, because the way plans work in the US, it’s a lot cheaper.

I don’t bother to update the names on their lines, so they all probably link back to me.

grapesodaaaaa··on Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all
I used to be a volunteer SAR member in Colorado. You are correct that it takes many, many hours in a lot of cases. Helis were almost never used, and you’d get rolled down the mountain on a “big wheel” if you couldn’t walk. This was not fun for the subject or SAR members.

Not only that, but guess who mostly has time to volunteer? Retirees.

I wish SAR had better funding, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon. I would urge everyone in the backcountry to do their best to be self sufficient and make good choices.

grapesodaaaaa··on RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available
I have always had issues with this on my Lenovo X1 series laptops. Why is that?
grapesodaaaaa··on FCC Proposes Nearly $4.5M Fine for Apparently Illegal Robocall Scheme
Until things like this carry mandatory jail time or we have corporate structure reform, they’re going to continue happening.

It’s easy enough to structure companies such that you can declare bankruptcy and spin up a new one. It’s also a lot harder to prove intent in court when only looking at historical factual data. The actions themselves should be enough for jail time.

grapesodaaaaa··on Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy
I’m not saying this is a good idea, but conspiracy/prepper YouTube channels seem to be thriving off ad revenue these days.
grapesodaaaaa··on Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet
Do we know if Carl Sagan used cannabis as an adolescent?
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