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midnitewarrior

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midnitewarrior··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
Do that and the AI might fork the repo, address all the outstanding issues and split your users. The code quality may not be there now, but it will be soon.
midnitewarrior··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
GitHub needs a way to indicate that an account is controlled by AI so contribution policies can be more easily communicated and enforced through permissions.
midnitewarrior··on Intel will start making GPUs
3 years too late to get serious about GPUs.
midnitewarrior··on Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)
You can submit an application online, and require a printed QR code be mailed via post with a handwritten cover letter, achieving the personal intent, inconvenience tax, and cost, while still providing the convenience of digital resumes and applications. The mailed QR serves as a CAPTCHA.
midnitewarrior··on Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
idk if you invented this but "add a ? to the end to get an AI response" seems like a convention that should catch on.

Well done!

midnitewarrior··on Nvidia CEO: AI doomerism has done a lot of damage and is not helpful to society
...says the company that is not under any threat of being replaced by AI.
midnitewarrior··on All my new code will be closed-source from now on
Vendetta code is not going to get you far.

git works perfectly well. git is an afterthought. Engineers need to know git the same way they need to know markdown or SQL.

The complexity of git is becoming less relevant by the day as coding agents take over coding responsibilities.

If your git replacement is optimized for LLM use in ways that git cannot be optimized, you may get some traction.

By all conventional measures, git appears to be peak human-centered source control, with nearly every major company, software authoring tool, agent and SWE invested in using it.

This may be one of the reddest oceans out there.

midnitewarrior··on Google is dead. Where do we go now?
Reputation management is what it will take to bring trust back to all forms of media. It means creating a trusted identity that can be verified, and that the identity is known to be a real human with a reputation to lose if exposed as being a bot or otherwise untrustworthy.

Unfortunately, for common people whose aim is not celebrity, this means handing over your privacy in order to have a voice.

We can do this in our IRL circles of trust, people know you because they have met or interacted with you personally.

Online, this means someone like Zuck creating a digital identity for us after we entrust them with our privacy, or some kind of open source complicated technology identifier like a cryptographically verified signature that is techno bro-free that will only be adopted or understood by tech literate.

It's a dark day for genuine human interaction and trust.

midnitewarrior··on Semiquincentennial $1 Coin Candidate Designs
I imagine this is how it was in the Soviet bloc.
midnitewarrior··on LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
Welcome back to reddit! There is a third party app called Red Reader, it's free.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedReader/

midnitewarrior··on LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
Not all third-party readers, the for-profit ones.

Red Reader still exists.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedReader/

midnitewarrior··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
I don't think that much thought went into it. The change was initiated by the department's DEIA ("A" for Accessibility) office. Anything that office did was a priority for this administration.

Keep in mind that the transgenic mouse breeding program used to make lab mice for research got defined because the President claimed Democrats were so woke they were funding "trans" mice research.

Half of what they are doing is virtue signalling and posturing without any real understanding of what they are doing.

midnitewarrior··on Microsoft Will Preload Windows 11 File Explorer to Fix Bad Performance
Have they considered fixing it by adding Copilot to it? /s
midnitewarrior··on Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back
I see rapid, iterative Waterfall.

The downfall of Waterfall is that there are too many unproven assumptions in too long of a design cycle. You don't get to find out where you were wrong until testing.

If you break a waterfall project into multiple, smaller, iterative Waterfall processes (a sprint-like iteration), and limit the scope of each, you start to realize some of the benefits of Agile while providing a rich context for directing LLM use during development.

Comparing this to agile is missing the point a bit. The goal isn't to replace agile, it's to find a way that brings context and structure to vibe coding to keep the LLM focused.

midnitewarrior··on .NET 10
Not every library is capable of building to Native AOT, which means any app that depends on those libraries run into the same problem. If the library or app uses reflection, it likely isn't capable of Native AOT compilation.
midnitewarrior··on M.C. Escher Prints Digitized and Put Online by the Boston Public Library
I had those shirts and I loved them, assuming they are the shirts that had multiple Escher designs over the whole shirt. I think I still have them in storage.
midnitewarrior··on Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act
If this weren't the case, any agency could just hire a 3rd party to prepare anything they wanted to avoid being subject to public scrutiny.
midnitewarrior··on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
They do, but they are generally confined to 10 amps, so they do not heat quickly.
midnitewarrior··on Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores
"Ho ho ho! I'm sorry but our time is up. If you want to keep talking to Santa, go into Daddy's wallet or Mommy's purse and bring Santa the rectangular cards with the numbers on it. Now, let's play a numbers game! You read the numbers on that card to me, and I'll tell you what you're getting for Christmas!"
midnitewarrior··on Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores
While this looks awesome, a couple concerns here:

1. After 60 minutes, it turns into junk? Or is there a reload feature? 2. Is every Christmas home going to have a Chinese-made surveillance station with unknown data collection destinations in their home?

midnitewarrior··on Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer
It's a common misconception that bats eat mosquitoes.

It comes from a study where bats were trapped in a chamber filled with mosquitoes to see how many they could eat.

A comparable experiment would be putting a human in a cage filled with bread crumbs to see how many the human eats.

In our natural habitat, we eat slices of bread and other food. We don't waste the time and energy of consuming bread crumbs unless given no alternative.

Yes, bats can eat mosquitoes, but why bother when there are much larger, nutritious insects to catch with the same effort?

midnitewarrior··on Ford locking basic navigation behind a subscription
Ford locking me away from buying their product.

Honestly, there's a dozen other reasons I have no intention of owning a Ford.

midnitewarrior··on Björk on nature and technology (2016)
When I stumbled upon this months ago I was entirely taken in by it, as every time I see the video with the back of the TV off, I wonder how she didn't get shocked. I had a really good laugh when the video was done.
midnitewarrior··on Björk on nature and technology (2016)
Yes, but did you see the video about her getting shocked from the TV during those takes?

Björk ELECTROCUTED by her TV - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNgMjfRglUk

midnitewarrior··on Trump to Add $100k Fee to H-1B Visas
The alternative is to build a time machine and redo November 2024. The future is dictated by the whim of an unprincipled wannabe dictator that either doesn't understand the Constitution or simply doesn't care.
midnitewarrior··on iPhone Air
3d UIs don't work, every attempt has failed to reach mass adoption

IR keyboards lack haptic feedback

Aside from enhancedprivacy, a desire to drain your battery, a lack of recurring revenue for local phone LLMs, and functioning when network is inaccessible, what would a local LLM do that a network-enabled feature couldn't?

midnitewarrior··on Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement
There would be no Claude without training data. None of these authors consented to their works being stolen, and there is no recourse to get their works unstolen.

If their works are so insignificant to Claude, just remove them from Claude and retrain. It's that simple. Claude is 100% the product of the works that were stolen, just as much as it is the product of the software developers and investors.

All the employees just got a million dollar bonus. The authors spent their entire lives up to the point of publishing each work refining their ideas, investing in education and experiences that allowed them to create their works that were stolen. If the result of that theft is a massive wealth-building AI machine, it makes sense that they should benefit from the ongoing use of their work.

Anthropic had a chance at licensing these works the standard way, and chose to skip it. Do you think the consequences of this should be that under court order they receive money that is likely the same or less than they would have negotiated had Anthropic not stolen from them?

Why would anyone hesitate to steal other publications if their only punishment is that on the off-chamce they get caught, they have to pay what they would have anyway? That's the ridiculous assertion.

> 100-1000x the value of their books

They would be getting 5% the value of their books. Claude without those books is nothing. Take all the books away from Claude and you can understand the true value they contributed.

midnitewarrior··on Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement
What's more fair is for Anthropic to put 5% of their preferred shares at their most recent valuation into a pool that the authors of these books can make a claim against. For 18 months, any author in this cache of books can claim their ownership and rights to their proportional amount of the shares within all claimants.

Perhaps tokenize all of the books and assign proportionally for token count of each publication.

midnitewarrior··on 996
I see all the equity for 996, but if you burnout before you vest, it's worth nothing.

I'm curious if this is a calculated move by startups to preserve equity and get some people going crazy pushing your product forward rapidly.

midnitewarrior··on Trump halts construction on nearly complete wind farm off Rhode Island
For those unaware, Trump has been on a personal vendetta against any and all windmills since some were built (despite his legal challenge) in Scotland within view of his golf course.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/trump-clean-...

Don't expect any of this to make sense.

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