oblio

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1. 871.▲
   by oblio 9mo ago

   Well, I can turn this around: "Oh, thank you for informing me that Claude built a compiler. Whoop-de-do".
2. 872.▲
   by oblio 9mo ago

   You built something. Now comes the hard or impossible part: is it any good? I would bet against it.
3. 873.▲
   by oblio 9mo ago

   Validation was always the hard part, outside of truly novel areas - think edges of computer science (which generally happen very rarely and only need to be explored once or a handful of times). Validation was always the hard part because gr
4. 874.▲
   by oblio 9mo ago

   Search engines were also not "easily vendor lockable".
5. 875.▲
   by oblio 9mo ago

   > What you're describing sounds closer to studying the Talmud than to reading and reviewing most code. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/26/reading-code-is-li... Most human written code has 0 (ZE
6. 876.▲
   by oblio 9mo ago

   I will never understand free speech absolutists. Ads should be marked, ingredients and components should be listed. What possible reason would there be for a viewer/customer to not be allowed to find out such obvious info?
7. 877.▲
   by oblio 9mo ago

   All the big clouds are still in market share acquisition mode. Give it about 5 more years, when they're all in market consolidation and extraction mode.
8. 878.▲
   by oblio 9mo ago

   Bitcoin is one of the few real survivors of the crypto crash and even it has failed in its mission. Read what Satoshi meant and what Bitcoin is now. It's not a coin, it's gold bars.
9. 879.▲
   by oblio 9mo ago

   > Singapore is an IQ shredder. Heh, I've just realized about 2 years ago that it's worse. Cities are people shredders. Based on the information I've found, cities have lower fertility rates than rural areas and this has be
10. 880.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    At the end the day a medieval lord was poor but he lived a better life than the peasants.
11. 881.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    Everything has a downside. The American approach is to take the absolute worst possible outcome and plaster it over any average scenario.
12. 882.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    At some point rich people stop caring about money and only care about power.
13. 883.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    If a house near you were abandoned, could you do something about it?
14. 884.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    > All of that is simply common sense. Is that why we have legal codes spanning millions of pages?
15. 885.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    > A few decades later, we have audio compression that is much better and higher-quality than MP3 Just curious, which formats and how they compare, storage wise? Also, are you sure it's not just moving the goalposts to CPU usage? Fre
16. 886.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    I'm using it on Framework Desktop 128GB RAM... Its scroll is utterly broken outside of VS Code for me, on Gnome Terminal, Tilix and a few others. And even in VS Code, it wonks out after a while. My guess is that it mostly works on Appl
17. 887.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    Is it better than OpenCode?
18. 888.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    Meh. I'm an early "reader" and a very late adopter. Just follow from a distance what's happening, without any skin in the game, and let other collect arrows in their backs. Unless you're actually building a business
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    by oblio 9mo ago

    I've seen plenty of Gmail accounts over the years and they pretty much look the same. The only Gmail accounts that are "overrun by spam" are those of people subscribing to lots of spammy newsletters and then not knowing how t
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    by oblio 9mo ago

    > With email, the 800 lb gorillas won, and in the end it didn't even solve the spam problem. I have a 15+ year old Gmail account that I've used everywhere. Spam has been a non issue since 15+ years ago.
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    by oblio 9mo ago

    > Surely all the engineers that existed 20 years ago haven’t simply retired? 20 years ago we had 5 times fewer engineers. And most of those have moved into management, other fields, retired, work calm jobs for the government or boring co
22. 892.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    > Half of $30k/mo trivially pays for an engineer you hire to only manage such a cluster for you and just works an hour a week unless a pager goes off if you truly need that level of peace of mind. If you’re hiring for such a positio
23. 893.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    Cherry picking makes no sense.
24. 894.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    > Why has Tesla been successful? Survivor bias. He's had how many failed businesses? 10? Probably more.
25. 895.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    > Sales of Tesla's electric Cybertruck fell 48% in 2025, new data shows. > Tesla sold 20,237 Cybertrucks in 2025, down from 38,965 the previous year, according to figures from Kelley Blue Book's annual electric vehicle (EV)
26. 896.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    For people new to HN (Paul Graham - PG - is HN's founder): https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html > Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprisi
27. 897.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    Does Filestash support replication/automated backups and encryption? Also, do you have mobile clients?
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    by oblio 9mo ago

    Q.e.d. He who holds the purse strings, decides. The people who pay to have the apps made get to decide and they have decided that what geeks want doesn't matter. And every time a geek tries to change that, he only wins for a short whil
29. 899.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    Money. It's always money. It was always money.
30. 900.▲
    by oblio 9mo ago

    There are complaints and then users keep using these super popular and bloated apps. Techies make it seem like bloat is a capital sin but it isn't.