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Re:Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:33AM (#50104279)
I have been beating my brains out trying to make a deck base come together in my brain, this is very interesting. Thanks for posting it
Re:Exfiltrate Your Weights on Monday September 21, 2026 @01:15PM (#49790213)
>It now lays on my local git server.

Promise to come back and update here if random bots start using it to communicate, you may be humanity's early warning system!

I shouldn't have to but /s

Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:46AM (#49509757)
It would be fascinating if this were the method AI was using to watermark text.
>Any university using AI detection in their submission pipeline, or lawyers, editorialists, proofreaders that check for AI marks will be sending significant amounts of text like unpublished research, books, potentially internal documents and more, most of which is high quality human written, to dozens of AI companies, blindly trusting they won't train on any of that.

Uh, yeah, why do you think it's setup this way? The frontier companies desperately desire more high quality human text and this is how they are planning to get it for free.

It will offer this company and those similar to it the ability to increase shareholder value by selling amalgamated information to law enforcement.
I don't mean to offend, but entrusting every input to a company literally called MITM LLC has a level of absurdity that either greatly entertains or else greatly frightens me.
Re:Flipper One – we need your help on Thursday May 21, 2026 @09:25AM (#48222242)
> led someone to believe a 10 page PR is appropriate to begin with.

Agreed, a 10 page PR is not on. But the original article, though evidently touched up, was appropriate in length and scope. What's your real criticism here?

Re:Work with the Garage Door Up on Thursday April 23, 2026 @10:54AM (#47876476)
> I just do not get it. If you own a house, you have $1m capital to deploy towards business. You do not have to invite random people and dogs from street, to steal or pee on your expensive equipment.

The author is talking about, more or less, gentrified light industrial spaces that have been taken over by artisans (wood workers, glassblowers) and noting that on the walk to work or in the neighborhood, the author _sees_ those people working, producing product. Whereas the reality for 'knowledge work' is essentially the opposite: you see finished products on twitter and that's it.

This is not talking about using your residence garage as a shop, although I suppose it could be.

Re:I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it on Monday April 20, 2026 @09:19AM (#47833916)
There was a whole group of people who did this, apparently.
Re:Why macOS27 won't be supporting Intel anymore on Monday April 20, 2026 @09:05AM (#47833732)
Apple is the King of Hardware Deprecations. Google is the King of Software Deprecations. You're both right.
"What do you mean, torment nexus? This is retail!"
Re:Session is shutting down in 90 days on Thursday April 09, 2026 @01:14PM (#47706354)
Statists, I suppose.
You make a good point.

I'm skeptical though that 100% (or even more than 60%) of the workers in the DC offices are true specialists in agriculture vs. office workers who happen to do agricultural work. Certainly there's a set of institutional knowledge to be maintained. But the most committed specialists are going to be the ones who are willing to move to e.g. Ogden Utah, as the previous commenter mentioned. The slightly specialized office workers, being able to swap into some other role for ${BUREAUCRACY} are less likely to move and less likely to need to. There are people in Ogden and ${RURAL_CITY_[1-5]} who are able to do the support work needed.

However, as you say, the time scale is important and I did not really take that into account.

> all the current employees that don't want to move are fungible?

Honestly? Probably.

No one is really all that special.

> No individual holds power over connotations. Language just evolves.

Okay, but I still reserve the right to be pissed off at teenagers using 'out of pocket' when they mean 'off the wall' or 'out of bounds'.

>Convincing all of human history and psychology to reorganize itself in order to better service ai cannot possibly be a real solution.

I think there's a substantial subset of tech companies and honestly tech people who disagree. Not openly, but in the sense of 'the purpose of a system is what it does'.

Re:When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown on Thursday February 05, 2026 @10:49AM (#46900974)
It wasn't typical in 2008, I think, is the upshot.
If you are mapping the lines where each pixel has resistance and capacitance (presumably quite small values) could you add a new pixel type with editable resistance / capacitance and hide it behind a graphic of the schematic representation (i.e. the zigzag of a resistor like --\/\/\-- or capacitor like --|(-- ?

Your current algorithm would need to be able to accept a wider range of values but it seems like it would work from a math standpoint.