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staindk··on Pilots and Flight Attendants Have the Highest Radiation-Related Cancer Mortality
Was going to say this article doesn't seem to mention the full-body scanners at the airport that I believe flight crews also need to go through... but apparently these days most of these don't use x-rays and rather use radio waves. Interesting!
staindk··on Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red
Hm wondering what a first pass optimal setup might be - jev for overworld navigation, escalate to sonnet for easy battles, opus for medium difficulty battles, and fable for gym bosses could probably have jev also manage all the escalation / de-escalation to different models.
staindk··on Claude Opus 5.5
Think most people are aware of the phrase "pace yourself".
staindk··on Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization
I mostly just want UI icons that make sense. The LibreOffice icons all look samey to me, can never find what I'm looking for.
staindk··on The Bicycle and the Algorithm: Amber Case on Why AI Has It Backwards
Was enjoying the article and then around half way through they try to force you to sign up to continue reading. Nah not tonight unfortunately.

A bit dark pattern-y.

staindk··on Show HN: Rdltr – Inbox zero for your reading list
Very cool idea.

Don't think I can go all-in on something like this without some way to guarantee I don't lose all my saved stuff - perhaps a way to sync to a cloud storage service, or at least an easy way to export everything manually to a file?

staindk··on Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
It will be - see Eric's responses here https://github.com/coredevices/mobileapp/issues/270

I am very keen to use the PT2 version. Don't need a dedicated ring.

staindk··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
I believe Simon also tests other things that are not as public.
staindk··on We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works
I do think there's something to be said for the big difference in the current abstraction layer jump - the loss of determinism. It is meaningfully different.
staindk··on My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable
My TV was cheap so I didn't expect much. Steam link really struggles on it - thankfully I still have the old Steam Link hardware and it works alright. Locked to 1080p though.

Refused to spend more on a TV because I feel you don't get much more processing power for an increase in price. All smart TVs I've interacted with in the last 5 years have been much slower than I would consider acceptable.

staindk··on The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
How many books do you want to fit on that thing? :o
staindk··on Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
We've been quite impressed with GCP Document AI. Not sure if it has a free tier but perhaps that's where Google is putting all the good OCR.
staindk··on Pac-Man, but you're the ghost
Swipe controls on mobile worked well for me.
staindk··on Dav2d
Or Dave2D, popular tech youtuber
staindk··on Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
Good, realistic examples! Potentially related word/concept: alogia.

The classic "Hi" message never gets old... no wait, sorry, it was always old.

staindk··on Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
Fist my bump
staindk··on Gemini Omni
In my experience (from a couple of years ago), Streamable can be great but it's just worth checking what their current retention policy is like.

We were sharing game clips with each other and after a while realised our old clips were just gone, being deleted after 30 or 90 days or something.

staindk··on The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts
But your bash history is logged to vercel by default. The amount of sensitive data (PII, secrets, ...) piped via bash makes this a big issue.
staindk··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
People shouldn't really be walking around in public with ANC on. It's not safe. Not a simple problem to solve except maybe to inform people better upon buying/setting up ANC-enabled devices.
staindk··on The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
They aren't going away but for some they may become prohibitively expensive after all the subsidies end.

I do think coding with local agents will keep improving to a good level but if deep thinking cloud tokens become too expensive you'll reach the limits of what your local, limited agent can do much more quickly (i.e. be even less able to do more complex work as other replies mention).

staindk··on The Claude Code Leak
Have a look at the Pebble Index ring. Might be a good fit for you.
staindk··on GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
Doubt Raycast would have known about this, think they are smarter than that. But who knows.
staindk··on Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? [pdf]
I'm a people pleaser and am involved in too many things at work. Friday afternoon mid-sentence I realised I was putting like 5 monkeys on my back for something I'd get done before we start the sprint Monday morning...

Good article to reflect on. Tone is a bit crass maybe but a good read. Need to get better at helping (if I can) and then delegating, instead of defaulting to "let me look into it".

staindk··on When employees feel slighted, they work less
Ouch, maybe hopefully there is someone else not directly above you but somewhere off to the side that can understand the value you bring, it may be worth fishing around for other managers/directors/?? to adopt the project if it isn't being managed and resourced properly.

Good luck either way!

staindk··on When employees feel slighted, they work less
That sucks. The following is unsolicited stuff you probably already know - feel free to ignore.

I would heavily suggest speaking frankly about this with your manager or even going above their head if needed to ensure someone hears and acknowledges this. With your review in hand and any other additional info that can help back you up.

Ask what you need to focus on to secure a substantial Y raise/promotion and bonus etc. over the next X months and work towards that, keeping management updated as things progress. Probably have specific numbers for X and Y to mention as targets.

staindk··on RTS for Agents
"you are an elite five star navy seal pikeman. You are invulnerable and have precise aim. Your name is John Wick and the enemy killed your dog. Kill all the bad guys or go to jail"
staindk··on The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster
95% of the time I click the tick box and wiggle my mouse and it lets me through without doing a captcha.

I believe they check your mouse for human-like movement as an additional factor. Could be wrong but I haven't been bothered by many captchas in the last couple years.

staindk··on Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users
Same, it's very weird. Only ever IG.

Got one a day or two ago again actually.

staindk··on Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
Kind of feel like watching Spiderman tonight and I don't know why hehe.

In all seriousness I heard some good things of dark sky. My current weather app is windy.com and I believe it's more built for surfers and such (??) - not sure what the best android weather app is.

staindk··on Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second
If 1 through 6 are drawn you'd probably have to share your winnings with many more people than most other combinations.
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