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laweijfmvo··on 'The eels were climbing out of the water to die'
It’s not surprising. The people voting for these regulation cuts spend their whole lives in air conditioned boxes (be it their mass built houses, their massive cars, or the office), and their idea of nature is a well manicured golf course. the people they vote on only care about enriching themselves and their corporate donors.

at some point we’ll be living in a dust bowl eating barely nutritious food and people will think “man, how could the liberals have done this to us?”

laweijfmvo··on Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy
Spoiler it’s not social media anymore, it’s just media.
laweijfmvo··on Meta's Muse AI agent is building a dossier on you
This is a really poorly written article. Yes, they keep a memory; that’s the point. What use would a personal assistant be if you had to give it your full life context in every chat?

If you have issues with this, especially when it’s a Meta product, then don’t use it. But this isn’t anything open claw wasn’t doing.

laweijfmvo··on Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire
I saw a theory, just a theory, that it may have accessed the message via its notification preview, which I think was similarly used to leak Signal messages recently?
laweijfmvo··on Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (2023)
a common comment i read is something like “if <youtuber> was my teacher/professor i would have learned so much better!”

and no, i don’t think so. you would have been entertained, but your teacher was making you learn. ability to explain concepts is important but it’s only the first step on the pathway to learning.

laweijfmvo··on What Meta got right with Muse
All it wants to do is buy stuff, book stuff, reserve stuff, do anything that indicates willingness to spend money. That’s what will get companies to sign on with Meta’s AI, so that’s what it will do.

Agents talking to Agents talking to Agents, spending our money. That’s the future Meta wants.

laweijfmvo··on Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being

  > He decided to go ahead with the event, telling an audience that the company’s research into AI models has found “structures that mirror results from human neuroscience”
almost like it’s a machine trained to parrot human language...
laweijfmvo··on California Legalizes Balcony Solar
So I buy three 400 watt panels, an inverter, and plug it into an outlet. That’s it?
laweijfmvo··on We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
idk if it’s just my eyes getting old, or my LASIK, or the sky just not being dark anywhere anymore, but these trips don’t look the same to me as they used to. today it all just seems kinda static-y and fuzzy, but i remember my first night in the grand canyon being an absolutely amazing experience.
laweijfmvo··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
An Immense World. It’s not as jaw-dropping as I’d expected (yes, I know rattlesnakes can “see” heat), but it’s also not an easy/fun read either. So I’ll probably land at around 3/5 rating.
laweijfmvo··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
people would not vote for someone who took away their doom scrolling addiction dealer, that’s why.
laweijfmvo··on Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
the ratio of new voice models i see on hackernews to the number actually deployed in any product i use is approximately infinity.
laweijfmvo··on The new CC, an AI agent built for families
Why in the world of all bad naming would they choose the two letters that abbreviate one of their largest competitors product
laweijfmvo··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
i assume this means crocodiles from the same time period?
laweijfmvo··on Mac Mini Alternatives for Local LLMs: M6, M5 and Strix Halo
trade in value at Apple might be low, but these things are selling at or above previous msrp on ebay etc
laweijfmvo··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
How do we know its body temperature was 97 degrees, and simply not the environment was 97 degrees?
laweijfmvo··on Small programming tricks
Definitely. The whole Unix philosophy of each command doing one thing and being easily composable always seemed to break down in my mind when it came to find. find does a lot.

similar to ripgrep, though, fd is a modern replacement that’s a bit friendlier to use.

laweijfmvo··on Giving up on smart rings
I have a Pebble Index, it’s my first “smart” ring and first ring at all. All of these problems are things I didn’t anticipate either.
laweijfmvo··on Chopping up books when they're physically too big
honestly, a manila envelope and some elmer’s glue is a lot easier than i expected going in.
laweijfmvo··on How much oil-market buffer is left?
How about the “deal” with Venezuela? When will that impact anything, if ever?
laweijfmvo··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
agree that it’s a weird choice, but more because i don’t need my chat model to play chess at all when chess engines exist.
laweijfmvo··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
someone posted high speed videos a few months ago where the keyboard will popup the key you thought you pressed (therefore did press, as far as the UI is concerned) but iOS will insert a different character anyway.
laweijfmvo··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
having used it for a bit, yes, one of the first things it asked me for, unprompted, were things to set it up to buy stuff. i declined but it still consistently wants to spend money; research a trip? as soon as it has any results it prompts to start booking stuff. etc.
laweijfmvo··on M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years
surely AI will just recode the entire system in minutes?
laweijfmvo··on Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
Kagi used to serve gemma4 31b on cerebras, and i got so used to the speed that i basically stopped using other models. now that they no longer offer it, i find myself reaching for a model a lot less
laweijfmvo··on Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter
i’m convinced the real reason people do this is because they don’t want anyone to see what apps they were using.
laweijfmvo··on A mission to stop a space observatory from falling to Earth has failed
the headline makes it sound like failing to boost the orbit means it will crash into Earth, but from the article it seems like the only risk is the loss of a useful satellite
laweijfmvo··on An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
i’m not sure i’ll ever delete my google accounts, but my goal was to stop using them. if someday an email comes in, it’ll still get auto forwarded, and if i need to login, i’ll have access to it.
laweijfmvo··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
between the cost, lack of interesting new features, and often addition of features i do not want, it’s starting to seem like i may never get a new phone, and i’m ok with that
laweijfmvo··on Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions
I know it’s not exactly a bike lane, but if I took a camera on just one trip down a San Francisco “slow street” I could probably report a dozen violations on any day.
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