After deal is done it becomes rational to describe how good it is in comparison to completion to promote it.

It's also possible that it's a post-facto rationalization that only seems prescient in hindsight.

People like to brag

He's signal maxxing so he gets a bigger bonus.

The HN of old is no more unfortunately. Things get up or down voted based purely on political alignment.

Maybe it has always been this way but it seems like these days it's only a matter of time before anyone "authentic" (or at least seems authentic at first) turns into some type of grifter. If you have a big enough following there is too much money to be made not to grift.

There are a lot of people with incentives to hype the AI industry (VCs, founders, CEOs, internet personalities that need clicks, people that sell courses, etc). Last week everyone was hyping Claude Cowork, this week it's Clawdbot. Don't get me wrong I think there are a lot of cool things going on but there is a lot of hype (similar to the original internet bubble).

Agreed. If no one uses gymnastics to traverse a laser filled room it's actually pretty lame.

I switched to kobo for a while but I thought the hardware itself was inferior. Maybe they fixed it but I couldn’t dim the screen low enough to not annoy my wife while she tried to sleep. It felt cheaper too. I begrudgingly switched back to my old kindle.

My work laptop and personal laptop are the same model for this reason. Switching between two different keyboard layouts is very frustrating.

Not the OP but I used to do breathe hold training for surfing and bought a pulse oximeter. I don’t think I ever got below 90%.

That is much higher than I would have expected. Good news. What are they using to charge the batteries though? I wonder if it's offpeak renewables or mostly natural gas?

Daytime solar, in the summer especially. Power demand yesterday was negative from 11:30 to 3:30, for instance, meaning batteries can charge for free to absorb excess solar generation during those hours.

If you scroll to the "Supply trend" graph you can see when the batteries were charging and how electricity was being generated at that time.

It's the renewables during the day while the sun is shining.

Counterpoint: some people are just better at their jobs than others

Counterpoint: some people are simply faking their results, selling them better than they are, or scarify necessary parts which will bite the company months or years later.

This makes it hard to impossible to get reliable, or even fair results. Especially when the review is subjective and is lacking an objective metric as a base.