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tempaccount5050··on We let AIs run radio stations
I don't live near a big city and that's the point I'm trying to make. Yes I know the Internet exists. That isn't radio.
tempaccount5050··on We let AIs run radio stations
What stations? All of the stations I can pick up in my area are top 40 country, rock, and pop, + npr.
tempaccount5050··on We let AIs run radio stations
On actual radio waves?
tempaccount5050··on We let AIs run radio stations
You're missing the point. Radio was consolidated into Clear Channel and took away what made radio radio. Local radio. Like what made Chicago jazz different from New York jazz etc. Not internet stations that may as well be podcasts. Regional culture.
tempaccount5050··on Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)
No one uses it outside of tech or office jobs. There's no use case.
tempaccount5050··on Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)
If you leave large metro areas you'll find people are absolutely rabidly against AI. Go to a little blue collar town and ask about it where there are no hip coffee shops for wfh techies.
tempaccount5050··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
Nah, I wrote physics programs on my computer at home in high school and it absolutely helped with my schooling. Yeah, maybe iPad apps aren't the best things in schools but you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Computers bad is simply not true.
tempaccount5050··on Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'
#thanksimcured
tempaccount5050··on Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. "Liking" or blindly accepting everyone regardless of what believe or do just because you have known them for some period of time is silly.
tempaccount5050··on Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials
Homogeny is not good for society.
tempaccount5050··on Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials
Worrying about what other people think is the biggest waste of energy. I'm glad a lot of people wouldn't be friends with me because of some of my ideals. I don't want to be liked by everyone. Why would you?
tempaccount5050··on Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'
When you're going 35 mph and suddenly hit a 2 ft deep puddle (I've done this), that sensor isn't going to help at all.
tempaccount5050··on Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
You can't automate it as it will require you to make big changes to your infra. It can take a year or more to actually do when you have a full team dedicated to it. Absolute outside the realm of a self service process.
tempaccount5050··on "Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage
I didn't stay long enough to find out, but yeah, they probably would have. The pressure was definitely to default to deny it. That's what the run books (very few) were defaulted to. It was really just a bunch of expendable people to deny claims. The turnover was wild for obvious reasons.
tempaccount5050··on Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
I'm talking about off-boarding not general day to day security.
tempaccount5050··on "Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage
In the early 2000s I got a job right out of highschool working at a Blue Cross Blue Shields call center. I thought it was going to be customer service but it was insurance claims. Training was supposed to be 6 weeks but they pushed me live after just 2. I had no idea what I was doing. After floundering for a couple weeks trying to learn to basically be a fuckin doctor, I just started approving everything. "Patient needs emergency surgery for X" "Approved". The whole experience was completely insane.
tempaccount5050··on Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
Yeah I don't see why that's necessary. I'm sure you can always reach out to HR and ask (I have facilitated this in the past, pulling contact lists and phone numbers) but that also gives them ways to exfiltrate data. It's company data. Just think of all the info you have in your inbox. Unless you've managed offboarding for high level IT positions it seems harsh, but the risk is just too high to allow the user to do that stuff themselves.
tempaccount5050··on Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
When you are talking about access like they had "make firings as abrupt as possible including terminating all access immediately" not doing this is incompetence. This is absolutely a standard and has to be for these kinds of positions. I've never worked anywhere where it wasn't for the majority of IT staff. You meet with HR, someone clears your desk, and security walks you out.
tempaccount5050··on The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube
No one said you can't do it. There's just no reason to do it. Tube amps are basically a standard and it's what the amp repair guys know how to work on and it's easiest to work on.
tempaccount5050··on The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube
Eh. As far as instrument amps go, it's not about perfect fidelity. It's about color and distortion. You'd never say "perfectly white lights are the best for your living room." No one actually wants a perfect white light, people want some more yellow in there because it looks better. The goal isn't equal spectrum coverage or whatever. People like the non-linearity of tubes and that's ok.
tempaccount5050··on Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house
The I stands for impaired. There a zillion other things that can impair your driving.
tempaccount5050··on Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI
3GW per what? Hour? Year? Minute?
tempaccount5050··on Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI
Yep. 10000 gallons per query, spews out toxic water, contaminates the water supply, uses more power than an entire state, and on and on. I'm convinced it's a psyop to prevent the US's progress in tech. It's so over the top crazy and obviously false, but everyone I know is falling for it.
tempaccount5050··on Rotten Dot Com
A motionless dead person is a far cry from a soldier getting his head sawed off by a jagged bayonet and screaming through a gash in his neck while he chokes on his own blood.
tempaccount5050··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
This list is funny.

All of these things existed in pre computer form.

A scheduler used to be a person putting punch cards into a machine.

tempaccount5050··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
And without software, what then, make a bunch of books and mail it to all these people? On this site of all sites, it's blowing my mind that this kind of thing isn't obvious to everyone. I guess maybe it isn't if you were born before the internet, but man, I'm really surprised by some of these comments.
tempaccount5050··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
I think it is. Before computers you would have had to write all that down on paper logs. By using code, you saved yourself time. If it wasn't less labor, you wouldn't have done it that way.
tempaccount5050··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
"ok guys, that's enough progress since now it's my job at stake, we can stop."
tempaccount5050··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
Whether or not you want to admit that is up to you. If you're selling automation or efficiency gains, you're removing human labor.
tempaccount5050··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
Software companies have been about automating human labor since the invention of computers. It's the whole damn point. Why do you think finance used to be (sometimes still is) the head of the IT dept? Because we automated accounting away. Then typists. Then secretaries. Then drafting. Etc etc.
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