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amazingman commented on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?    · Posted by u/stephenheron
RajT88 · a day ago
> All that to say: M1 is pretty fast, but the reason the battery life is better has to do with everything other than the CPU cores. That's what AMD and Intel are missing.

Apple is vertically integrated and can optimize at the OS and for many applications they ship with the device.

Compare that to how many cooks are in the kitchen in Wintel land. Perfect example is trying to get to the bottom of why your windows laptop won't go to sleep and cooks itself in your backpack. Unless something's changed, last I checked it was a circular firing squad between laptop manufacturer, Microsoft and various hardware vendors all blaming each other.

amazingman · a day ago
I remember a time when this was supposed to be Wintel's advantage. It's really strange to now be in a time where Apple leads the consumer computing industry in hardware performance, yet is utterly failing at evolving the actual experience of using their computers. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who would gladly give up a bit of performance if it were going to result in a polished, consistent UI/UX based on the actual science of human interface design rather than this usability hellscape the Alan Dye era is sending us into.
amazingman commented on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything   github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/pr337h4m
virtue3 · 14 days ago
We should all be deeply worried about gpt being used as a therapist. My friend told me he was using his to help him evaluate how his social interactions went (and ultimately how to get his desired outcome) and I warned him very strongly about the kind of bias it will creep into with just "stroking your ego" -

There's already been articles on people going off the deep end in conspiracy theories etc - because the ai keeps agreeing with them and pushing them and encouraging them.

This is really a good start.

amazingman · 14 days ago
It's going to take legislation to fix it. Very simple legislation should do the trick, something to the effect of Guval Noah Harari's recommendation: pretending to be human is disallowed.
amazingman commented on Tech oligarchs have turned against the system that made them   liberalcurrents.com/marc-... · Posted by u/colinprince
amazingman · a month ago
I still can't figure out if he was always a charlatan or something happened that turned him into one.
amazingman commented on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral   techcrunch.com/2025/07/01... · Posted by u/exiguus
db48x · 2 months ago
No, that’s simply incorrect. ICE is following exactly the same process that has been in place since 1996. It can’t be due process under Biden but then suddenly unconstitutional under Trump.

ICE is not “kidnapping” anybody, and is not “trafficking” them. They are federal police officers who arrest criminals and deport them according the legal process defined by Congress in 1996.

amazingman · 2 months ago
I didn't realize Biden was instructing ICE to grab people off the street and deport them to a gulag in a country they aren't from before they can have a hearing or make any appeals. Would you please provide references for this?
amazingman commented on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral   techcrunch.com/2025/07/01... · Posted by u/exiguus
aerostable_slug · 2 months ago
When did I defend authoritarian masked men? Perimeter defense is an expensive endeavor, and if you read the words I wrote that's clearly what I was talking about. At first glance, the new budget includes over 50 billion (!) dollars for increasing our perimeter defense. That sounds like capable, rational border security to me.

Please stop accusing people of peddling the straw man you want to tear down. It's Reddit-tier, not worthy of HN.

amazingman · 2 months ago
A single dollar figure (with no additional context) suggests capable, rational border security to you?
amazingman commented on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral   techcrunch.com/2025/07/01... · Posted by u/exiguus
aerostable_slug · 2 months ago
Please stop with the straw man BS. That's not what I was saying at all and I think you know that.

HN has reached Reddit levels of partisan nonsense. Sigh.

amazingman · 2 months ago
It's right there in your framing. The most charitable take available is that you're approaching the problem like a software engineer, and accepting that framing as defensible. It is not. One of the most important facts to remember at the level of government is that while we must abstract human problems in order to solve for them, humans themselves are not abstractions. When perfect becomes the enemy of the good (enough), human suffering increases.

All that aside, feel free to walk your framing back and I'll change mine accordingly.

amazingman commented on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral   techcrunch.com/2025/07/01... · Posted by u/exiguus
aerostable_slug · 2 months ago
Unfortunate for the spotters: they've been wrong about who they're seeing in the field. In this area, all of the Feds that have been seen have been DEA and HSI after suspects who are US citizens, not ICE enforcing immigration law. The spotters are historically not good at distinguishing Feds from each other, which makes the utility of this app a little questionable (unless you're just trying to avoid all police).

My guess, and it's just a guess, is that the ordered scale-back on ICE agricultural worker immigration enforcement took place before they got to this county. That said, I don't know why they haven't been here, just that they haven't.

amazingman · 2 months ago
Sounds a lot like a problem the current administration created. Blowback is a real phenomenon. Americans are having trouble distinguishing which teams of masked men with guns roaming our streets and courthouses are "the good guys".
amazingman commented on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral   techcrunch.com/2025/07/01... · Posted by u/exiguus
StochasticLi · 2 months ago
don't illegal immigrants commit less crimes per capita?
amazingman · 2 months ago
Parent is clearly not interested in that kind of statistic. Instead their framing implies that even 1 terrorist/rapist/murderer/etc that makes it across the border is a problem worth solving via authoritarianism. The only successful response is to draw this out and make it clearer for everyone else.
amazingman commented on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral   techcrunch.com/2025/07/01... · Posted by u/exiguus
aerostable_slug · 2 months ago
Because border security is extremely expensive. The point isn't just removals, it's also deterrence & denial of entry (of people and contraband) in the first place.

The security worry isn't extra laborers driving down wages, it's terrorists coming across the border and blowing up Mardi Gras (secondarily, serial rapists or murderers or what have you coming here to ply their trade). Prevention of entry is the only defense there, because presumably those bad actors aren't here for the long haul, economic gain, etc.

I haven't seen a budget breakdown so I can't speak to how defensible the budget is, just that it seems clear that removal metrics don't tell a useful story on their own.

amazingman · 2 months ago
You're essentially peddling the poisoned M&M fallacy. Do we need capable, rational border security? Yes. Do we need unaccountable masked men armed in our city streets, forcefully detaining anyone who looks like they might be [insert bogeyman caricature]? Absolutely fucking not.
amazingman commented on Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion   xfinity.com/support/artic... · Posted by u/bearsyankees
amazingman · 2 months ago
Put your cable modem in bridge mode and use your own WiFi.

I used to recommend using your own cable modem as well, but these days you have to use the Xfinity modem to avoid overages if you're in a market with data caps.

Comcast has a stellar network operations unit, but their business operations are creepy and exploitative.

u/amazingman

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