grogenaut (u/grogenaut)

grogenaut commented on Where to Sleep in LAX cadence.moe/blog/2025-12-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

I slept "overnight" (02:00 - 04:30) in the new Berlin (BER) airport a couple of years ago. Not only are the concourses completely closed to passengers overnight, but the floor in the check-in area (the only area that is open) is made of terrazzo. Your hoodie and pants would make essentially no difference on this surface. Certainly not if you were 60 years old :)

grogenaut · 6 days ago

I'd get a hotel if that was the case. I've only slept on terrazo when I was a frat pledge and 18. The hoodie / jacket is a pillow and for warmth not a bed. I agree with you.

grogenaut commented on Where to Sleep in LAX cadence.moe/blog/2025-12-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

grogenaut · 10 days ago

I always bring a hoodie or jacket on the plane with me and wear pants when flying even when it's warm (it's air-conditioned in airports and planes) so I have pads and warmth when needed. It's often looped through my backpack arm strap. Also earplugs and noise canceling headphones/earbuds. My backpack has a nice pad in the back. He'd have been infinitely more comfortable if he had any of these things. And hell a book or something.

With the armrests you can kinda double wedge yourself on them. I got 2 decent hours in the lima airport doing this. They had the similar double seat with no armrest setup.

I got to ORD at 4am for a 7am flight and purposfully fell asleep on the ground in front of the check in desk figuring they'd wake me up. Eventually they did. The attendant woke me up and said "do you happen to be on this flight". I pointed at the first class ticket hanging out of my shirt pocket. "Good thing I checked we're closing the door now". I was like "I figured you'd maybe wake up the person in front of the desk I've been up for 38 hours." "oh you were sleeping I didn't want to bother you".

The entire flight had boarded and just walked around me. I was OUT.

Le Sigh.

grogenaut commented on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bigwheels

throw10920 · 12 days ago

Writing/reading and AI are so categorically different that the only way you could compare them is if you fundamentally misunderstand how both of them work.

And "other people in the past predicted doom about something like this and it didn't happen" is a fallacious non-argument even when the things are comparable.

grogenaut · 12 days ago

I know managers who can read code just fine, they're just not able/willing to code it. Tho the ai helps with that too. I've had a few managers dabble back into coding esp scripts and whatnot where I want them to be pulling unique data and doing one off investigations.

grogenaut commented on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores finance.yahoo.com/news/am... · Posted by u/trenning

davidst · 12 days ago

I left the following comment some months ago, duplicating it here:

[Disclaimer: Former Amazon employee and not involved with Go since 2016.]

I worked on the first iteration of Amazon Go in 2015/16 and can provide some context on the human oversight aspects.

The system incorporated human review in two primary capacities:

1. Low-confidence event resolution: A subset of customer interactions resulted in low-confidence classifications that were routed to human reviewers for verification. These events typically involved edge cases that were challenging for the automated systems to resolve definitively. The proportion of these events was expected to decrease over time as the models improved. This was my experience during my time with Go.

2. Training data generation: Human annotators played a significant role in labeling interactions for model training-- particularly when introducing new store fixtures or customer behaviors. For instance, when new equipment like coffee machines were added, the system would initially flag all related interactions for human annotation to build training datasets for those specific use cases. Of course, that results in a surge of humans needed for annotation while the data is collected.

Scaling from smaller grab-and-go formats to larger retail environments (Fresh, Whole Foods) would require expanded annotation efforts due to the increased complexity and variety of customer interactions in those settings.

This approach represents a fairly standard machine learning deployment pattern where human oversight serves both quality assurance and continuous improvement.

The news story is entertaining but it implies there was no working tech behind Amazon Go which just isn't true.

grogenaut · 12 days ago

The go tech is amazing in 2 places: airport and stadium beverage tunnels. There's a premium price and high volume in those areas. The go tech has basically revolutionized the speed of getting a beer and a dog at the stadium here in Seattle. I can be back in my seat in 4 minutes including the bathroom now which for NFL means I can literally be back in a commercial break sometimes.

no idea how much they make on it, but it's a game changer in that small area.

grogenaut commented on Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/piqufoh

cherry_tree · 18 days ago

>Ubisoft will now focus on developing open world adventure games - which let players freely navigate vast environments - and live service games which seek regular payments from players.

Isn’t that what they’ve been doing for a decade that got them to today?

grogenaut · 18 days ago

"we're going to cut all the other stuff and make assasins creed games and far cry, the stuff that we can leverage our studios on and make money"

grogenaut commented on Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/piqufoh

vardump · 18 days ago

My kids have been waiting for a Rayman sequel for over 10 years now. Is Rayman not profitable enough?

grogenaut · 18 days ago

Rayman legends came out in 2019 or are you referring to another title?

grogenaut commented on eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update valueaddedresource.net/eb... · Posted by u/bdcravens

mkl · 18 days ago

This how Trade Me (NZ auction site) works: any bid in the last 2 minutes delays the close time to 2 minutes after the bid. That can happen repeatedly, and I've seen it go on for over 20 minutes on highly contended auctions. It works well.

grogenaut · 18 days ago

There are 9 time zones in the US and depending on what your buying in the eu, jp, etc, I'm not going to be up to deal with the end of an auction, either too early too late or you know I have a real efing job and i'm doing something. Having ends of auction require you to be around means you lock out large parts of the market.

grogenaut commented on Scott Adams has died youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo

opan · a month ago

Opposite of my experience. I love reading the lyrics and Genius annotations on songs I like. Vampire Weekend has a lot of good lyrics. Reading the annotations for The Black Keys' Turn Blue album was kinda eye-opening, and Kanye has a lot of great memorable lyrics as well. I feel it helps me appreciate the songs more deeply on later listens. Also it kinda bugs me if I can't quite catch some words in a song in the live-listen.

grogenaut · 25 days ago

Example:

I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic at the disco:

So you're a guest at a wedding and you're eavesdropping and passing judgement on people based on a snippet of conversation. Ruined.

Example:

Going the Distance - He's bad at racing and can't realize it. He's burning real relationships. I'd otherwise love this song.

Years ago my brother pointed out that lyrics are just a form of percussion.

I'm glad they add for you, they typically detract for me.

Not paying attention to the lyrics also les me deal with music as just grooves in a flow state as well.

grogenaut commented on Scott Adams has died youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo

EvanAnderson · a month ago

After reading that book I found it a lot less easy to be amused by Dilbert. That experience contributed to my actively trying not to learn things about artists I enjoy. It's that "don't meet your heroes" cliche, I guess.

grogenaut · a month ago

I try and also never actually listen to the lyrics of songs, like 90% of the time I'm disappointed and it ruins the song for me.

grogenaut commented on The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=c0mLh... · Posted by u/cjaackie

CursedSilicon · a month ago

I was rather disappointed by the internet connection on the Cascades line (going Seattle --> Portland and back). As far as I could tell, they use T-Mobile for backhaul. Who are headquartered in Seattle. Yet the connection barely seemed to work for about half of the journey

grogenaut · a month ago

boo, it's in the middle of no where along part of the route. Tmobile coverage is mainly in urban areas and along free ways no matter what slingblade tells you on the tv commercial. I don't know if you'd get any coverage on parts of that route other than wired.

Just like how sometimes when you're flying over the rockies or into canada you just don't get internets. There's still middles of no where out there. Often not very far from the freeway.