Having very older parents, what an important use case!

Long gone are the days of writing a family update, including physical photos, and putting them in the post.

Fortunately, I’m able to guide my parents in their tech usage. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be their age and have nobody to do the same. The sheer isolation… It’s horrible to contemplate.

> I used to be a polyphasic sleeper

Why? If you don’t mind me asking.

How many ounces consumed over how many minutes?

Indeed. It’s like a leet version of Unicode’s “Symbols for Legacy Computing” block.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing

“It mimics the behavior of liquid by creating a particle system that reacts to the computer's orientation.”

Do you have data to support that?

90 comments 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596355

They’re probably aware. From the paper:

> We end by discussing how doubling-back aversion is distinct from established phenomena (e.g., the sunk-cost fallacy).

Is the author of this pop sci article aware? Hard to tell.

How is that relevant at all?

They pretend that behavioral psychology somehow isn't aware that perceived human irrationality is very common.

Finding just another example of that is not noticing a previously unobserved phenomenon.

Link should be https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/exhausted-man-defeats-ai-...

Why not ask AI how to use <appropriate library / framework> to implement <thing>?

Doesn’t seem like you can blame NIH on AI more than other motivations for NIH.

Edit to add: If AI makes NIH easier, then it implies that AI is good at solving problems, and speaks to AI’s credit.

From me using Claude Code, without a proper system prompt, Claude generates code rather than using a library, this week e.g. command line parameter and flag parsing. The difficulty is where the tipping point is to use a library, it can't be https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even