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by genthree 7mo ago
I think the two-income household (two full-time paying jobs, specifically) is a lot of it, and seems to go along with "rich" countries. Having all the stuff that could happen during the day if it were (if you will) someone'
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by genthree 7mo ago
IME babies are the very easiest for almost everything. It's way more work to travel with a 10-year-old than a 1-year-old. Then quadruple that difficulty for each additional kid of roughly that age...
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by genthree 7mo ago
Consider how many people are clingy and/or just have questionable judgement about boundaries with their friends, family, and acquaintances in general, usually with a healthy dose of neuroticism thrown in for good measure. Consider that
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by genthree 7mo ago
No, no, it's the parent. Parents calling their kids in class isn't as rare as you might think...
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by genthree 7mo ago
100%. I had to drop about half my interests and hobbies after having kids, to remain sane (trying to continue juggling all of them was plainly just going to lead to never doing anything, really), and adjust all the others to fit better with
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by genthree 7mo ago
For a non-tech case of this, my wife worked at a place that fired like 80% of their writers in anticipation of huge speed-ups they expected from LLMs, a couple years ago. They had to hire a bunch of them back less than two months later. T
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by genthree 7mo ago
I hate the AI assistants for ticket-writing. The beneficial use there would be to prompt for possibly-useful information that's not present, or call out ambiguity and let the writer decide how to resolve any of that. Coaching, basica
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by genthree 7mo ago
I think this is the result of a c-suite that has never actually done the work of the businesses they're running. The MBAificiation of management. Of course they constantly do brain-dead shit, they literally don't have a clue how a
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by genthree 7mo ago
We're doing that in my office, forced Cursor use. A good chunk of the "edited by AI" lines in my history were just auto-completing about the same as a traditional intellisense-alike would do (and actually Cursor doesn't
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by genthree 7mo ago
I hope for their sake they're using real metrics internally, and not whatever nonsense they're using to calculate stuff like "% written by LLM" in their dashboard, because that's... very wrong.
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by genthree 7mo ago
Incompetently repackaging. They started with VSCode so nearly all the work was already done, but still managed to make it leak memory like it's infinite. The power of AI slop! Their product is an anti-advertisement for the core conce
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by genthree 7mo ago
GAO and CBO are under Congress directly, fortunately. They're both awesome. Anyone who starts talking about all kinds of obvious ways to cut waste in government and isn't dropping references to GAO and CBO reports all over the p
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by genthree 7mo ago
In recent history (last few decades) the scoreboard shows them already being more fiscally conservative than the only viable alternative.
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by genthree 7mo ago
The closest thing I can see to direct monetization of HN is that YC uses it as a captive advertising platform . They don't serve 3rd party ads, but they use it as a job board (with closed comments on those posts, LOL) for their comp
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by genthree 7mo ago
I used to deliberately not block ads on sites that worked directly with advertisers and didn't use big spying malware- and scam-filled ad networks, and only served (more or less) static, non-animated and non-pop-up ads. I also didn&#x2
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by genthree 7mo ago
> The Apple account is the center of your digital life on iOS but on MacOS it's kinda... tacked on Depends how you use it, I guess? The close and zero-effort integration and syncing with iOS is pretty key to my desktop (well, laptop
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by genthree 7mo ago
All the vibe-coded webshitware these companies are putting out seems too be doing the opposite: it's all even more memory- and cycle-hungry than the webshit we were lovingly pooping out by hand for the last decade.
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by genthree 7mo ago
I've seen actual people (mostly this year) who write stuff like, "sure, I can't deny that this is fascism now, but you've been calling lawlessness for the rich, concentration of power in the public and private sectors bo
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by genthree 7mo ago
To be fair, he’s a much, much drier read than Plato.
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by genthree 7mo ago
To me, the LOC claims in the original are such egregiously obvious bullshit (“while being a CEO” LOL) that an extremely blunt, even mean, response is extremely warranted.
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by genthree 7mo ago
Even pre-AI, it was common to “massage” genuine quotes like this so they read better. Hell, anyone who’s been interviewed by a journalist can tell you they do it, too, sometimes to the point of changing the substance of what you said.
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by genthree 7mo ago
Vibe-coded websites are the new Frontpage website, being 10x as heavy as one made by hand would be. But 10x as heavy… on top of a modern Web that had already bloated to 100x what was reasonable. Now we wish the only problem were that the
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by genthree 7mo ago
Semi-on-topic: Anyone know a way to get a good alternative UI on top of Cursor? My company’s tracking how much we use the damn thing (its autocomplete is literally less-useful than standard VSCode, only time it’s consistently good is when i
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by genthree 7mo ago
Sixteen year olds? Sure, mysterious Forest Porn and the older brother who'd give you skin mags have always existed. And Cinemax at night, catching the odd frame that somehow gets thought the scrambler. Whatever. But we can't reali
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by genthree 7mo ago
I did it for my kids to have accounts and I do not understand how anyone who hasn't built a Gentoo from Stage 1 has a prayer of managing to buy Minecraft Java Edition for their kid, and making it actually work. Then you've got the
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by genthree 7mo ago
I haven't seen it in a while (perhaps mostly because I'm in Google stuff way less than I used to be) but for years multiple Google sites would get in a state where its auth would route me through about twenty redirects in a loop
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by genthree 7mo ago
"Their lives seem to have revolved mostly around musical concerts—not so much listening to them, as recording the audio from them like trophies to share for prestige among their peers. Mostly some kind of status-jockeying activity, as
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by genthree 7mo ago
Is it any better than Google's or the one in DDG? Those things are wrong most of the time for questions that couldn't have been answered by looking at a few words in the summary of the very first search result anyway. I find the
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by genthree 7mo ago
Every PC I’ve ever tried to repurpose as a gaming console of any sort has had way more jank to it than I’d ever tolerate in a console, in the 25ish years I’ve been hooking computers up to TVs. Even the Bazzite box I’ve got is pretty bad by
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by genthree 7mo ago
How is this the first I’m hearing of it? Looks like I finally have a reason to own an x-box, aside from the best version of Perfect Dark (the HD release of the original with modern controls, I mean) being on the 360.

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