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jimmygrapeson How ChatGPT serves ads

Charitably, it seems that we have yet to find, as a species/society, anything more effectively profitable than ads. I cannot blame those who come to this conclusion so long as no more powerful and proven motivator yet exists. I hate it, but I understand.

jimmygrapeson Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

> No X, no Y, no Z.

Please, everyone, stop this.

jimmygrapeson US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement

https://www.acquisition.gov/gsam/552.216-75

I get where you're coming from but this is a rough transition for some. Ideally we would hope that more frequent reporting would necessitate development of more seamless systems... but we ain't there yet. There's a lot of flexibility in some systems but they allow that flexibility so that it can be tightened as needed. Be careful.

jimmygrapeson Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL

I've been a fan of Design-Assisted Developer or DAD

jimmygrapeson Homeschooling hits record numbers

I expected this comment coming into the thread. I would just like to point out that there is a huge range of options between those two extremes!

If is entirely possible to teach up a child to be curious AND well rounded in the basics (see also concepts of Trivarium and Quadrivium, sorry can't link the references atm).

jimmygrapeson 210 IQ Is Not Enough

Age reckoning in South Korea (and other east Asian countries) is quite different than what you might expect. Age 1 in this context could be up to 3; if year 1 is your birth date and you age up at the new year, you could be "2 years old" while being alive for only 3 days. It could also work the other way around if they follow one of the other methods. Pretty interesting and not yet fully standardized!

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

jimmygrapeson The Company Man

I may be imagining it but it's very reminiscent of "Scott Alexander" / Slate Star Codex / whatever he rebranded to

jimmygrapeson YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content

I suppose the argument there is that it's not necessarily a megaphone for the fella with 24 followers. The concern comes from when someone amasses a following through "acceptable" means and then pivots. Not sure how to balance that.

jimmygrapeson Job mismatch and early career success

My interpretation based on experience is that the underqualified individuals will often be more prone to volunteering, participation in clubs and committees, and politicking. The overqualified individuals also do this, but will likely be required to do "the real job" more often, leaving a less qualified individual more free to do those things.

Community involvement is a significant factor on both enlisted and officer performance reports. Gotta fill that section in no matter what, and if your section is poor it drags your overall score down.

However, promotion testing is purely knowledge and skill based. A good test taker can overcome the weight of lower performance report scores.

Just my opinion, though.

jimmygrapeson Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis

Manually syncing several of the MEP012 generators was always far more stressful to me than any physical dangers!

jimmygrapeson How the brain increases blood flow on demand

> Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.

-Bill Hicks Don't take this as downplaying at all, because it's a fantastic and uplifting revelation, so long as one doesn't presume they're the first to consider it (it is even better this way imo)

jimmygrapeson Onlycats

I saw your upload (or the one you're referencing), thanks for the rapid ruin if you did that

jimmygrapeson Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Is Down

the internet's down! it is always DNS let us go touch grass

jimmygrapeson Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data

This is an amazing summary of talking points, kudos regardless of your intentions

jimmygrapeson Trump's Tariffs Are Starting to Kill Jobs

I thought we hated placing profit over ideals, did that change?

jimmygrapeson The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI

anybody who's ever tried to play bar trivia with a team should recognize this

jimmygrapeson Vets Who Code

perhaps most importantly, the ability to grin and bear it

jimmygrapeson Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter

I'm not convinced any humans have worked there for most of my lifetime.

jimmygrapeson Bispecific antibodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

I think it's the thing the powers that be said was inconclusive and/or ineffective (monoclonal antibodies) and in the same realm of conspiracy theorist homeopathic solutions. Just takes awhile for things to work out, it's OK.

jimmygrapeson Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI

Honestly it isn't much better here.

jimmygrapeson US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek

It took bipartisan pardons/commutations across 2 disparately ideological faction leaders to even the outcomes for both groups of people who purportedly aimed to overthrow the government that let them all be free.

jimmygrapeson Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet

Yeah well I started smoking weed when I was 16 and I'm a poor man approaching retirement with no family or friends or assets and a tenuous job predicated in my ability to perform manual labor. Now what.

jimmygrapeson Disco Elysium Explorer

At risk of saying too much... I am playing it again right now and am choosing a path of sobriety and contrition and it's been making me think, pray, and cry every night. I'm working on it.

jimmygrapeson The tech utopia fantasy is over

It's not that simple. If all I have is a hammer, I don't view everything as a nail; I see first what other uses my hammer can have, then if a hammer won't do the job I seek or create another tool that will.

jimmygrapeson The 'Return to Office' Lies

Thank you. Truly.

jimmygrapeson All possible plots by major authors (2020)

Your comment does not have a license and even if it did I highly disagree with your interpretation of how it can be both available to all of humanity forever free of all obligation but also I disagree with your monetization scheme, also my partner and I on one of our many hobby vacations have long ago created the solution that sadly was lost to imposter syndrome and inappropriate recycling.

jimmygrapeson Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047

The party isn't doing much lately to encourage the actual democracy part of the name, other than whining about national popular vote every 4 years knowing full well that's now how that process works.

jimmygrapeson When Insurers Exit (2023) [pdf]

NFIP is really strict about what is covered and takes ages to settle. It's specifically designed to NOT cover dumb decisions by home builders/buyers.

jimmygrapeson Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics

But still around 4 to 5% of the global population. Every stat in the global context of usage/consumerism gets weird when you consider this, and even weirder when you account for debt-to-income ratio.