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lannisterstark··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
1. You do not know what they're using it for. 2. Get off your high horse please. 3. Immoral my ass.
lannisterstark··on Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out
>What exactly is your objection?

Feels based anti-science.

>HPV vaccine is not risk free

No vaccine is "risk free." The entire point is that vaccinations overall have less risks than you would suffer if you had gotten the disease it's helping safeguard against.

lannisterstark··on M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025
>Get Al Dente Pro and set your battery to 80% and do a full cycle once a month

MacOS does that natively. My battery rarely charges above 80% because I "almost never use it on battery so there's no need."

lannisterstark··on Open models by OpenAI
This isn't reddit.
lannisterstark··on KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland
Yep, been there. It's baffling just how strange Gnome devs' priorities are, not to mention how they interact with the community. Rest of the DEs seem to be more "Okay, community said this, let's try this with x or y." Gnome is more "We know best, no we're not listening to you" from all the interactions I've had with gnome devs.

"Can you tell me a use case for this?" for a feature for example present in every other DE. I forgot what the exact context was or I'd pull up the ticket. Something to do with the sorting of files from the header of the sort display or some such.

lannisterstark··on KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland
Hah. Just yesterday Bambu studio did this shenanigan when the application crashed. 10 focus changes within a 1 second, repeat indefinitely.

It was infuriating. Had to reboot and it does it on every filament sync now.

lannisterstark··on Beyond Meat fights for survival
>people do not, empirically

Words and phrases have meaning. That's not what empirical evidence means.

Because there's only single manufacturer of plant based products, right? and it's not as if meat isn't heavily subsidized by the government otherwise. Pfft.

And you know why plant based milk is shelved next to milk? SO PEOPLE CAN FIND IT. People don't want to go to another specialized aisle just to find products.

lannisterstark··on Beyond Meat fights for survival
Your experience is not universal and just because you haven't seen anybody do it doesn't mean that people haven't. If anything it is your take that is reddit tier. Nobody forces you to buy that stuff, people who want to eat that stuff do. Have you tried being any less entitled?
lannisterstark··on Are we the baddies?
>he would spend at least a little time reflecting

It's Hotz. Why would you waste time expecting that.

lannisterstark··on Are we the baddies?
>Or the fact that he volunteered to work for Twitter

Worse! He volunteered, then went "Hey anyone want an internship? Fix twitter search, Make the code MIT, and then maybe I'll give you an internship."

...had 0 authority to give anyone an internship btw. Dudebro just wanted free fix.

lannisterstark··on Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable
>Please consider the level of <slur> this comment requires, it's impressive.

It'd be nice if you blatantly didn't break HN rules.

lannisterstark··on The Rise of the Japanese Toilet
>sorry there's a tp tube up your ass about tp quality

Hm, unsure why the hostility there. My quip wasn't nearly this hostile.

>I use 2-ply and 3 squares at most.

Yes, that's not bad quality TP lol, and not what I was talking about. You ever seen TP in universities/restrooms for supermarkets etc? That's what I am talking about. Further, you ignored the points about using toilet paper as tissue paper, which is what a lot of people in bathrooms also do.

lannisterstark··on The Rise of the Japanese Toilet
>if you spray your asshole first, the quality of the tp does not really matter.

Great, go rub a TP that feels like sand paper on your anus even to dry it off then. See how it goes.

(Quality of TP still matters, even for usage as minor wipes/tissue paper etc)

lannisterstark··on Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)
>star-trek future of luxury communism,

Banks' Culture Communism/Anarchism > Star Trek, any day imho.

lannisterstark··on Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)
> I still spend hours doing the dishes and laundry every week, and I have a dishwasher and washing machine.

I don't mean to sound insensitive, but, how? Literal hours?

lannisterstark··on Black Mirror's pessimism porn won't lead us to a better future
I always go read a novel or two of Iain M Banks' Culture series whenever I want a Utopian future. It hits everything I want fairly perfectly.

Honestly there are way too many dystopian "omg this tech will do this" media as opposed to "this tech will do this good thing."

lannisterstark··on Gemini Robotics
Iain M Banks - Culture novels.

Strong warning: Start with either book 2 (Player of Games) or book...7, Look to Windward.

I strongly suggest you skip book 1 until you're comfortable with the rest of the books that focus on the Culture itself, and not some weird offshoot story that barely involves the Culture.

lannisterstark··on The Demoralization is just Beginning
Remember when he wanted to "fix twitter search?"

Then a few weeks in he went "Anyone want a job? Fix this, make your code MIT and we'll see!"

...despite the fact that he just wanted to steal code and had 0 authority to give anyone a job.

lannisterstark··on Elon Musk revoked $80M in FEMA funding from NYC bank accounts
Oh please. Funding you disagree with isn't "waste, fraud, abuse." I don't think there's a single citizen anywhere that agrees with everything the government spends on.

Musk has yet to provide a single line item that does so. If "no need for FOIA, everything is transparent" is so transparent, let us have every single line item, why he thinks it should be removed (the real reason, not "WFA"), and a method to submitting public comments that he then goes over and actually makes decisions like how rule changes are proposed, commented, and finalized in federal registers.

"I dun wan it" isn't a good enough reason.

lannisterstark··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
Or you could just read actual wire services. AP/Reuters etc have close to no clickbait.
lannisterstark··on How I Use Home Assistant in 2025
I'm currently building a local LLM (multiple threads - one for each sensor suite) sensor array for more proactive needs. I don't want it else conditions, and I don't want to turn lights on when I do x or y. The sensors are cheap and plenty on AliExpress and all it takes is an esp32-s3 or similar.

A smart home should predict my needs dynamically rather than do stuff based on predefined conditions and is more than just "turn living room red."

lannisterstark··on OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web
I only ask LLMs if I want to get a quick fact that isn't that important. For actual reading and knowing the information bit I still defer to Wikipedia.
lannisterstark··on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
Timeflux or some such are better alternative to store timeseries data.
lannisterstark··on Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
It's not a cultural thing to accuse customers of committing fraud their first interaction.

Not being an absolute insane jerk off is a good expectation of people.

lannisterstark··on Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
Problem with current folds is that I want the screen to open/extend. I don't want to open YET ANOTHER LARGER screen. This makes most sense tbf. You want a phone to extend into a tablet, and actually have the first screen still be usable. It cuts down cost and waste of always having at least one screen always off.

Original Huawei mate x and the new trifold does what I'd like. But then again... Huawei so can't in US lol.

lannisterstark··on Tesla Robotaxi
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lannisterstark··on AI is an impediment to learning web development
>Is this "AI is good" or "Google is shit" or "Web is shit and Google reflects that"?

It's a -"I can ask it questions based on results and/or ask it to tweak things and/or ask it dumb what if questions" that I can't on web "good."-

Honestly one of the major plus towards LLMs is that it is immediate and interactive.

>Hmmm, that almost sounds like we're trying to use AI to unwind an Eternal September brought on by StackOverflow and Github. I might buy that.

I mean, what's the alternative? You're not going back to web of 90s (and despite nostalgia, web of 90s was fairly bad).

>you can't trust textual web results anymore--you need a secondary channel

I wonder how good LLMs would be at verifying other LLMs that are trained differently - eg sometimes I switch endpoints in LibreChat midpoint during a problem after I am satisfied with an answer to a problem, and ask a different LLM to verify everything. It's pretty neat at catching tidbits.

lannisterstark··on AI is an impediment to learning web development
>t's a bad argument. You do need to learn longhand math - and be comfortable with arithmetic. The reason given was incorrect (and a bit flippant), but you actually do need to learn it.

But...this applies to engineering and/or webdev too. You can't just expect to copy paste a limited solution limited to 4096 output tokens or whatever that would work in a huge system you have at your job, which the LLM has 0 context of.

Smaller problems, sure, but they're also YMMV. And honestly if I can solve smaller irritating problems using LLMs so I can shift my focus to more annoying, larger tasks, why not?

What I am saying is that you also do need to know fundamentals of webdev to use LLMs to do webdev effectively.

lannisterstark··on Controversial Windows Recall AI Search Tool Returns with Proof-of-Presence
When did they ship it? It was never shipped out to consumers iirc.
lannisterstark··on Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated
I'm sorry but the last claim seems extremely exaggerated.
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