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folkhack · 16 days ago
> (I personally don't mind subsidizing my library + local school district... good schools and libraries are good for the community)

Just sharing random coffee break thoughts... it always blows my mind is how many people _don't_ think like this. When base conditions improve for society, the conditions improve for _everyone_ regardless if they directly benefit you.

I'm also in the boat where I don't have kids, but I'd also like to live in a place that has educated people - so schools make perfect sense to me. Heck, even if I didn't benefit from it, providing children education is just the gosh-darn right thing to do.

mef · 16 days ago
IMO it's because there's both benefit and waste/corruption in these kinds of social benefit structures. some people choose to only see one or the other:

"these benefit everyone including those who don't use them directly! how could you be against it?"

"this money that I'm having to pay is either overpaid to corrupt vendors, or just straight wasted, why would we ever want to increase how much we're paying into this system?"

in reality you can't have one without the other. it's up to each person to decide whether they can take the bad with the good

mef commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues   cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
mef · a month ago
aisuru?
mef commented on Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores   walmart.com/ip/SANTA-SMAG... · Posted by u/Sean-Der
mef · 2 months ago
just don’t ask Santa if there’s a seahorse emoji
mef commented on MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system   espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/4... · Posted by u/pseudolus
mef · 3 months ago
They had this during spring training and it was fantastic. The challenge limit meant it was used rarely, but when it was used it added a fun dramatic element. Players getting to stick it to umpires when they got it wrong, and umpires getting to smirk at players when they got it right.

And at the end of it all, some missed calls get to be corrected.

mef commented on Agents built from alloys   xbow.com/blog/alloy-agent... · Posted by u/summarity
recipe19 · 5 months ago
Wasn't the "mixture of experts" a big thing in late 2023? The idea was that a vendor has a number of LLMs fine-tuned for specific tasks, none necessarily better than other, and that they applied heuristics to decide which one to rope in for which queries.
mef · 5 months ago
this is a different idea
mef commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
colinmilhaupt · 6 months ago
My girlfriend recently got into making sourdough and wanted to keep a log of all her recipes. She really wanted to explore the relationships between recipe water percentage and crumb density, or proof time and oven spring, for example. I built her https://sourdoughchronicle.com - a local first bread journal that allows peer to peer recipe and results sharing. Claude + aider had a MVP built in an hour and she's loving it! Oddly enough the comparison charts haven't made it in yet, but that's the next feature on the the to-do list.
mef · 6 months ago
nice I'm gonna use this!

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