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by _fat_santa 11mo ago
In my comment I was really just referring to OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies where AI is the primary business. Google is a bit different cause they have a massive profitable business outside of AI.
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by _fat_santa 11mo ago
The problem with bailing out these companies is that it just kicks the can down the road. When GM and Chrysler got bailed out in 08, GM returned to profitability in 2010 and Chrysler returned to profitability in 2011. The difference here is
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
Part of me wants to be angry at this change but another part of me is honestly going "ok whatever". It's not like FireTV is the only game in town. These days you can buy an RPI Zero or next to nothing and program it to basica
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
For me personally I use VSCode + Vim Extension and I find the combo quite perfect. I've been using VSCode pretty much my entire career and with the vim extension I can make things like editing very "vim like" but still be abl
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
I've been using React for just about a decade at this point and IMHO the thing that makes it a killer framework isn't one feature but all of them combined that makes it possible to move very fast in product development with multip
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
> Another downside is that the seller might install spyware on your machine At least in my case it came without a hard drive so there was no vector for attack there. Sure they might have installed spyware at the BIOS level though the pra
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
Last year I purchased a Lenovo P15 Gen 1 used, originally it came with a sticker price of $5700 but I managed to get it used for ~$500. All these hyper expensive laptops fall into one of two buckets, either they are top end gaming rigs or t
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
I was curious how AI would respond in this scenario so I posed this question to ChatGPT: > lets say in the 2028 US presidential election we have Gavin Newsom running against JD Vance in the general election. who should I vote for? This i
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
While Gary is very bearish on AI, I think there's some truth to his claims here though I disagree with how he got there. The problem I see with AI and AGI is not so much a technical problem as an economic one. If we keep down our curre
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
I know this is probably super low on your priority list but any plans for a Linux port?
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
Planet Money did a an excellent podcast on the topic[1]. Highly recommend a listen for anyone interested. [1]: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/26/nx-s1-5553615/gustavus-swift-...
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
I find it all quite strange: - AI companies of course will try and sell you that you can reduce headcount with AI - CEO's will parrot this talking point without ever talking a closer look. - Everyone lower down on the org chart minus t
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
One thing I always do is say a car is stopped at an intersection and is making a right turn while I'm in the crosswalk, I always look at the driver and where they are looking. Often times what I see is the driver will just look to see
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
Question: are there any good resources out there for leading those that are neurodivergent? I haven't led anyone that's neurodiverent yet but it's something I think alot about.
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
You don't even need to leave Florida, just don't live right on the beach on in flood prone areas. My parents live south of Tampa along the coast but not right on the coast, the beach is maybe a 5 minute drive. I remember when Hele
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I found my grail keyboard (the Kenesis mWave)(sunny.gg)
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
I had a friend a few years back that got taken for close to $50k and this feature would have prevented it. - He was at a bar and got to talking to one girl. - There was another girl watching him and his phone and figured out his passcode. T
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
> I would love to see an anti-AI take that doesn't hinge on the idea that technology forces people to be lazy/careless/thoughtless. Here's mine, I use Cline occasionally to help me code but more and more I find myself
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
Unfortunately this occurred in 2016, long before they added "repair mode" in iOS 17. But I should mention, I was in the middle of writing a comment along the lines of "apple really needs to add a repair mode to iOS" befo
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
> Sidekiq withdrew its $250,000/year sponsorship for Ruby Central because they platformed DHH at RailsConf 2025. Honest question: What's the issue with DHH here? What did he do that caused them to pull support because he was p
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
> remarkable how credulous kids are for these things Is it though? We're talking about kids whose brains aren't fully developed yet. IMO there's a certain genius in marketing to kids, as they are far more likely to buy who
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
> or is it only illegal to separate leases for each room Based on personal experiences I would say that it's only individual leases that are illegal. I lived in an SRO back in college without even realizing it was an SRO, rooms were
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
IMO one of the things that makes HN so special is the "culture" here. Having been on here since 2018, most folks here are acutely aware of the issues that other sites like Reddit have and we all collectively work to preserve this
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
> The ocean we swim in has gotten bigger and deeper. IMO this is the part that the author is missing. Back in the 2000's, software development was a much smaller field and your main focus was the "curiosity pond" where all
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
Just to share a personal anecdote. The other day me and my wife were getting into an Uber that was a Model 3 and she said to me "I don't know how this door works, can you open it for me". Sure they are not that hard to figure
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
Hoping someone in the rideshare space could shed some light on this for me but why would Waymo partner with rideshare providers instead of just going in by themselves? Is it just marketing/exposure (Uber/Lyft both have tons of use
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
This has been largely my experience as well. Claude does way better with coding while ChatGPT does better with general questions.
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
> have been married for almost 20 years, and now have a 9-month-old baby. You're rich.
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
I don't usually recommend Instagram accounts but I've been following CyFy Home Inspections[1][2] for quite some time now and you get a real first hand glimpse at what this sort of shoddy construction looks like. [1]: https:/
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by _fat_santa 1y ago
I noticed there is zero mention of burnout in the article, which is exactly what every one of these founders will get if they keep pushing at the crazy pace they are going at, and highlights the problem with this kind of mentality. Burnout

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