skybrian
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Comment · 2 days ago
Maybe ChatGPT could figure it out?
Comment · 3 days ago
It seems unfortunate to become so sensitive to frame rate that you can only buy high-end equipment. I wonder how that can be avoided?
Comment · 4 days ago
I thought that post was interesting when I read it over a year ago, but the startup seems to have gone dark since then.
Comment · 5 days ago
They spent the tokens so you don’t have to. This is clearly AI-generated but doesn’t look low-effort, even with heavy AI assistance.
But if you’re sure it’s easy, why not give it a try?
Comment · 6 days ago
Yes that's true, but if someone were to infer that there are therefore no retired GenXers, they would be wrong.
Comment · 6 days ago
But see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_movement
Comment · 6 days ago
In the US, there are a lot more rich people than there used to be [1] and they're often driving prices up because they can afford to pay. (Most obviously in real estate.)
[1] https://pages.skybrian.com/2026/us-households-by-income-band...
Comment · 6 days ago
Sure, but are there any examples of hospitals where lowered costs for transcriptions are significant enough to affect their financial reports? How much of an expense was it in the first place?
Comment · 8 days ago
On the other hand, contrarianism isn't a shortcut to the truth, either. You still have to investigate.
Comment · 8 days ago
It seems like some kind of network logging would be useful? Even if you don't catch it, you'd want to know what it did.
Comment · 9 days ago
Do you have a source for this? I'm curious about the details.
Comment · 9 days ago
Such policies might not be legal in the US:
> The indefensible extension is that banks aren’t liable for defrauded customers. That is a potential policy regime, chosen by the polity of many democratic nations. The United States is not one of those nations. Our citizens, through their elected representatives, made the considered choice that financial institutions would need to provide extraordinary levels of safety in electronic payments. In reliance upon that regime, the people of the United States transacted many trillions of dollars over payment rails, which was and is very lucrative for all considered.
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> With a limited number of carveouts (e.g. wire transfers), Reg E is intentionally drafted to be future-proof against changes in how Americans transact. This is why, when banks argue that some new payments rail is exempt because it is “different,” the correct legal response is usually some variation of: doesn’t matter—that’s Reg E.
Comment · 9 days ago
I wonder how terrible would it be to use DuckDB as the main database (running transactions) for a small project?
Comment · 11 days ago
Another advantage of AI, though, is that it becomes easier to maintain more than one TypeScript compiler. Perhaps there's some benefits to having some diversity?
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