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icehawk commented on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data   neowin.net/news/report-mi... · Posted by u/bundie
dboreham · 13 days ago
Reading the article, the headline is inaccurate/wrong: the problem is crappy SSDs (an age-old problem) that can't handle/brick under some workload presumably involving high write rates. This Windows update happens to include an application that can generate such a workload.
icehawk · 13 days ago
> the problem is crappy SSDs (an age-old problem) that can't handle/brick under some workload presumably involving high write rates

which part of the article leads you to believe this?

icehawk commented on VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project    · Posted by u/marcjschmidt
andsoitis · 17 days ago
In meditation, we learn to let go.

Attachment is discontent.

icehawk · 17 days ago
Just because one ignores something, does not mean they've let it go.
icehawk commented on Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices   github.com/actuallymentor... · Posted by u/rahimnathwani
LoganDark · 20 days ago
A replaceable battery doesn't have to make the phone thicker, heavier, or less waterproof if implemented correctly. For example, you could hold the back glass to the phone using mounting pressure rather than permanent adhesive. You could also hold the battery to the inner casing using mounting pressure rather than permanent adhesive. The weight difference is negligible. Congratulations, the battery is now replaceable.
icehawk · 20 days ago
If it didn't have to make the phone thicker, heavier, or less waterproof if implemented correctly why isn't it currently an option?
icehawk commented on Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment   probablydance.com/2025/08... · Posted by u/ibobev
balfirevic · 21 days ago
> A heat pump is an air conditioner that can run in reverse

Is this really the correct terminology? I'd say every AC is a heat pump, whether or not it can run in reverse, because that's how it works. It pumps heat from a colder place to a warmer place.

If it has been crippled so that it can't run in reverse, that's crappy and unfortunate, but it makes it no less of a heat pump.

icehawk · 20 days ago
Its more complex to have a reversible heat pump, because in addition to the reversing valve, you also need two metering devices and a bypass for each of them.
icehawk commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers   simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh
quantummagic · 22 days ago
> all LLMS are bad friends and therapists.

Is that just your gut feel? Because there has been some preliminary research that suggest it's, at the very least, an open question:

https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-chatgpt-psychotherapy-28415/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10987499/

https://arxiv.org/html/2409.02244v2

icehawk · 21 days ago
> Is that just your gut feel?

An LLM is a language model and the gestalt of human experience is not just language.

icehawk commented on The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken   tushardadlani.com/the-lev... · Posted by u/tush726
ehnto · a month ago
I don't think you should be getting mental health advice from LLMs, it has been shown that their sycophantic nature reinforces your own diagnoses not that of a professionals. Using an LLM in a field you're knowledgeable in would make you think twice about their accuracy in fields you are unable to know the correctness of personally. It will all sound very convincing, but may be a fundamentally flawed diagnoses.

Another way of thinking about, a non-trivial amount of training data is internet comments and blogs, which have an alarming amount of self diagnoses, non-professional diagnoses, and totally fabricated facts about mental illness.

icehawk · a month ago
I am really beginning to think that the Gell-Mann amnesia effect has a shining example in LLM usage.

Its obvious there's no intelligence behind it when you make it try to do something with data that gets parsed by a computer.

icehawk commented on The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken   tushardadlani.com/the-lev... · Posted by u/tush726
halayli · a month ago
When you read the title, "Why everything feels broken and what can we do", it is obvious op turned a me problem into an us problem.

It's a common pitfall to take yourself out of the equation when you are about to make assertions without evidence to back them up. The title could have been written as:

"Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it".

you will end up writing a completely different post as a result. a more sincere one, and one that is closer to the reality of the situation that needs to be addressed, and that is one's perceptions, biases, and feelings that come from our own personal experiences.

icehawk · a month ago
Actually, when I read this, it was obvious that this issue was an us problem and not just a me problem.
icehawk commented on So you think you've awoken ChatGPT   lesswrong.com/posts/2pkNC... · Posted by u/firloop
AaronAPU · a month ago
I don’t know how people keep explaining away LLM sentience with language which equally applies to humans. It’s such a bizarre blindspot.

Not saying they are sentient, but the differentiation requires something which doesn’t also apply to us all. Is there any doubt we think through statistical correlations? If not that, what do you think we are doing?

icehawk · a month ago
How often does ChatGPT get retrained? How often does a human brain get retrained?

There's a very material difference.

icehawk commented on Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2   theregister.com/2025/07/2... · Posted by u/rntn
SoftTalker · a month ago
The graph on that page is suspect. Why does the Y axis start at 320? Why does the X axis start at 1960?
icehawk · a month ago
It's really not. "[Mauna Loa Observatory] was founded on June 28, 1956, as part of the US Weather Bureau"

And if you look at the tick marks on the graph, it starts before 1960.

icehawk commented on Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling   news.samsung.com/global/i... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
fghorow · a month ago
For those worried about tiny COPs from these gizmos, trawling through the actual paper -- as well as the PR from JHU APL -- in this HN post [1] shows claims of COPs of ~15 for Delta Ts of 1.3°C.

A compressor based cooler gets a COP of about 4 in the real world. I'm pretty sure this is an apples to oranges comparison to an expert (I am not one of those) but a factor of 3+ increase in COP is fairly noteworthy -- if it holds up.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424087

icehawk · a month ago
The COP generally varies with Delta-T, a compressor-based heat pump's isn't any different. An AC unit is more efficient when it is cooler outside.

That said, 1.5C is tiny.

u/icehawk

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