How strange to come across someone whose medical stuff so mirrors my own. I was just a decade older and don’t have epilepsy symptoms with meds. I can get behind all the advice here. Running out of “juice” and needing a break is very much thing. Before too but more so now. And taking a lot of semi stream of consciousness notes to help my more limited memory is too.
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boardwaalk commented on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock techcrunch.com/2025/10/16... · Posted by u/gman83
I commented on a similar post earlier, but my entire neighborhood, hundreds of houses, came with them preinstalled. Can’t even leave my house without being surveilled.
Some people have the setting on where it starts announcing stuff any time it sees a person, which it does all the way to the sidewalk. So you go on a walk and get yelled at through a super shitty speaker several times.
And it’s about as dystopian as you can imagine with people posting recordings constantly on the neighborhood Facebook group and arguing.
I swapped to HomeKit secure video because of no additional subscription, included in the iCloud one I’m paying anyway. Allegedly end to end encrypted too.
I had one neighbor with the announcement thing but they eventually turned it off. No illusions that it’s not still recording. But how horribly hostile to have that on, right? No accounting for taste, I guess.
I’ll continue staying off nextdoor and the rest and keeping my camera feeds to myself…
Though it doesn’t mention it by name exactly, I think a related idea for systems that are optimized close to a point of phase change is “the edge of chaos”
boardwaalk commented on The Unreliability of LLMs and What Lies Ahead verissimo.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/talhof8
MongoDB was basically "vibe coding" for RBDMs. After the hype cycle, there will be a wasteland of unmaintainable vibe-coded products that companies will have to pump unlimited amounts of money into to maintain.
Or we’ll just leave them behind and that’s fine. And I work day maintaining old stuff of varying quality. Conceptually, software composting.
boardwaalk commented on EV maker Canoo, once worth $2.4B, files for bankruptcy sfgate.com/tech/article/c... · Posted by u/bane
What does the inclusion of the move to Texas actually have to do with the downfall of the company?
I get that it is the original title, but even the article itself points out that the company was in dire straits well before the move.
The move (and forced relocation of employees) was likely a way to force attrition, since it was followed fairly quickly with layoffs elsewhere.
If anything, including mention of the move in the title just muddles the readers' expectations of the article, IMHO, and the article would be better off without it.
I agree. I think we can reasonably posit why given the source. Call it selective YIMBYism maybe?
boardwaalk commented on Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch blog.hopefullyuseful.com/... · Posted by u/ranebo
Reaffirming my belief that I want nothing “smart” controlling critical infrastructure in my home. What if it were dead of winter, would he have been able to control the heat?
There are thermostats, among other things, that use standard protocols and still work in a “dumb” way if not connected. You just need to do some homework.
As someone with damage to my visual cortex with a very specific effect I’m very curious what this would come up with for me. Not something useful on its own, but more understanding means more possibilities for treatments.
boardwaalk commented on The Morgan XP-1 is an eccentric English electric vehicle arstechnica.com/cars/2023... · Posted by u/Tomte
You may as well say the same about motorcycles. And yet plenty of us ride and enjoy motorcycles.
At least motorcycles have ABS and decent stopping power, though usually less than a car.
A lot of people see software as a list of features, hardware as a list of specs. But when you think about how much time we spend with these things, maybe they just aren’t that utilitarian. We think of buildings not just as volumes of conditioned air — but also as something architected, as something that can have a profound effect on how you feel, something that can have value in itself (historical buildings and such).
boardwaalk commented on Yahoo is making a return to search searchengineland.com/yaho... · Posted by u/georgehill
I know it’s easy to throw stones from the outside, but Google’s results are so compromised it seems like it’s a good time to get back in.
As one just example, I searched for a unique error message in code that exists on GitHub, is in a fairly popular repo, and is not new and Google just could not find it. That seems like a very basic failure.