hyperdimension's comments

On: Ask HN: What's a book that fundamentally altered your mental models

[hyperdimension]

Is it that good? I quite liked The Plague Dogs. He writes with a nice flowery style.

[rzerowan → hyperdimension]

Yeah its a must recommend from me , worldbuilding is very immersive and the characters are A+. Havent read Plague Dogs - will put it on my List. Ta

On: I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

[hyperdimension]

Neat, I didn't know there was an upside down interrobang.

On: Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers

[hyperdimension]

Interesting! That makes sense now. I thought it stood for CAble TV and always wondered why they used two letters instead of just CTV.

On: Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia

[hyperdimension]

Yeah, I'll freely admit I'm a curmudgeon with respect to technology "upgrades", but we've really lost a lot of solid reliability in our phone systems (landlines at least)

Now it feels like an afterthought compared to all of the redundancies they had put in place back then.

[ssl-3 → hyperdimension]

Aye, indeed.

I experienced local POTS phone lines for something like my first 35 years.

Bad ice storms? Weeks-long power outages? Whatever; POTS didn't care.

The only time I ever picked up a real telephone at home and didn't get a dialtone, I wandered out to investigate and saw the wire for the house just laying there in the alley -- apparently, it'd been hooked by a passing truck.

They (The Phone Company) had it fixed within one hour after we let them know.

(An hour of downtime over 35 years. How many nines is that?)

On: The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia

[hyperdimension]

I guess my opinion rounds down to nothing now. I guess that fits my track record.

On: I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]

[hyperdimension]

Funny, I use toilet paper and check if it gets wrinkled, but I like your method better.

On: Download responsibly

[hyperdimension]

Yeah, but everyone knows that one. ;)

[account42 → hyperdimension]

Everyone also knows the API keys that are used for requests from clients (apps/websites/etc.). ;)

On: iPhone Air

[hyperdimension]

That bothers me way more than it ought to too. When I hear people saying it IRL I keep thinking that trillion dollar companies are engineering our speech.

What can ya do? :/

On: A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in

[hyperdimension]

That's the point. It hardly does what is claimed to do.

On: Pixel 10 Phones

[hyperdimension]

Until we find the murderer's face!