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sfmike··on Things that apparently cause cancer
seems higher income and gluttony? is what causes cancer?
sfmike··on Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo
what book did they get it from that they burned?
sfmike··on OpenAI scraps release of Astra 6.1 model over safety issues
Don't pull the same con twice...
sfmike··on All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen
what if this was a ultra genius move to end authoritarianism by being so blatantly bad that we actually get a new amendment added for right to privacy and flock was a non profit all along
sfmike··on New York passes pied-a-terre tax
Against all new tax. It's spent too inefficiently. Why does there need to be more New York Learing Centers. Would you keep adding buckets of water into a leaky boat or try to patch where it's leaking first?
sfmike··on Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone
Is this prevented by physics or cost or just no one has the motivation?
sfmike··on AI data center project sucked 29M gallons of water
The title doesn't mention a time horizon it states what was used which it was. This is not misleading.
sfmike··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
the problem is what if the victim fights back, then they might be misconstrued as the bully and get caned.
sfmike··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
aren't most installers like 10 mb then downloads when run? that's way more then 5x
sfmike··on I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support
i ran prompts used up a ton of usage, and got no return just showed error.

Asked support hey i got nothing back i tried prompting several times used a ton of usage and it gave no response. I'd just like usage back. What I payed for I never got.

Just bot response we don't do refunds no exceptions. Even in the case they don't serve you what your plan should give you.

sfmike··on Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
so aaron schwartz is alive?
sfmike··on Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message
what are some of them?
sfmike··on My Google Workspace account suspension
you keep the old number forever and when travelling get a data sim only
sfmike··on My Google Workspace account suspension
people who travel shouldn't trigger account abuse
sfmike··on Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Social-Media Addiction Trial
its gone too far half of browsing now gets blocked as a normal user
sfmike··on GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
5.2 is the best model on the market.
sfmike··on GPT-5.3-Codex
It's the opposite? codex course corrects and is self inquisitive. opus is just wrong and need to refeed it it's wrong.
sfmike··on US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years in November
whats a rice country person?
sfmike··on The Myth of the ThinkPad
TIL Thinkpads are New Balance of Laptops
sfmike··on Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
but if something is used in CLI it makes sense it would be in order to be used with other things in the CLI
sfmike··on Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
find codex better by far in some cases
sfmike··on Lessons from 14 years at Google
I see it differently then UX at all. I find the need for better customer support 1000x more pertinent to helping users.
sfmike··on Joseph Gordon-Levitt wonders why AI companies don't have to 'follow any laws'
You can use your eyes and rapidly "scan" troves of data as well to deep train your own personal model of self. You can observe and soak up ideas and iterate them as well. You can access any publicly facing data as well.
sfmike··on GPT Image 1.5
Hope to see more "red alert" status from the ai wars putting companies into al hands on deck. This is only helping cost of tokens and efficacy. As always competition only helps the end users.
sfmike··on GPT-5.2
Everything is still based on 4 4o still right? is a new model training just too expensive? They can consult deepseek team maybe for cost constrained new models.
sfmike··on Cursor 1.0
This won't create race conditions all of them will know the others live accept of commit to directory? or have to wait then hit enter on other tab instantly after?
sfmike··on Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello
trello has gotten worse and worse actually could charge for features like n8n and more extensibility. Its gotten the opposite of kanban and zen where I just want clean cards it forces weird views and panels and overlays and difficult to find boards now it wants you to switch to other atlassian products from trello as a priority on the left over just trello unfortunately its the classic indie product amazing then eaten by Private equity until just crumbs are left and its just an acquisition vehicle until it turns rotten and shut down as a cost saver.
sfmike··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
its also seo linkjuice as they are links
sfmike··on Googler... ex-Googler
Google rips away people via tos with no explanation everyday should have argued for more toil during your tenure
sfmike··on No one knows what the hell an AI agent is
Some terms are all encompassing. This is one. Similar to the components or monad arguments.
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