tavavex

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by tavavex 5mo ago
What extra free time? Have we gotten more of that in the last years? From what I can see, everyone is still working full time jobs, needing to make more money than ever in recent history to survive.
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by tavavex 5mo ago
I know it's not the point of the conversation, but this is very overly harsh to Ikea. Their products are cheap (or, at least, they focus on cheap products), but why poorly-designed? I never had any of their furniture fail on me, and th
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by tavavex 5mo ago
I don't really understand what's so jaw dropping about input averaging. Let's be clear - this is a fallback state that handles a situation that should never come up. Pilots aren't supposed to try to control the aircraft
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Comparing Boeing's compliance hack and Airbus' system that's pushing 40 years now is very questionable. Airbus planes don't get in the way of flying, and there's extensive procedures and redundancies for everything
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by tavavex 5mo ago
They know that getting a legitimate majority vote is pretty much impossible. This probably isn't their intention. They want to get any vote on the ballot, then cry about the results being falsified and beg the US to invade. They want t
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Is it really that common? I know it exists, but everywhere I go I hear of everyone paying for enterprise subscriptions, the implications that LLM usage rates have for businesses, companies burning through allotted tokens, the use of cutting
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Yes, and there is still good tooling now, you don't have to use Electron. The reason why many companies use bad tooling or bad practices was provided in the sentence immediately after the one that you've quoted. When tech was new,
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by tavavex 5mo ago
The Curta is the ultimate calculator to own. I wish someone was still making modern replicas, but it seems that it's just too complex or at least too complex to bother with. So we're stuck with scavenging the ones that are still w
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by tavavex 5mo ago
I will admit that, being more directly impacted by the way AI is deployed, I have some 'harsh' opinions. You're not required to agree with them, and the point I was making wasn't to win you over to a different opinion. (
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by tavavex 5mo ago
> If I run a model on my own hardware am I working with the "AI" political project? No. Obviously, what you do on your PC is inconsequential to the rest of society. But despite this, AI and its consequences in big tech have bec
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by tavavex 5mo ago
You could ignore the ugly sides in 2018 or 2022, when the tech consisted of fun toys that existed alongside everything else and not instead of it. In 2026, unless you're wealthy or are one of the few that don't need to use the int
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by tavavex 5mo ago
It's shocking to see such an article title on HN, especially with so many upvotes. It would've been unthinkable in 2025. I always saw this website as very AI-boostery and pro-VC, pretty much as pro-AI as you could find without get
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by tavavex 5mo ago
The problem of low-quality software is a problem of people and organisations, not tooling. It's not like writing good software is harder today than it was before. The biggest players just learned to optimize away every shred of 'e
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by tavavex 5mo ago
I'm also a recent graduate and I can confirm everything you've said. Both me and everyone I know in my age and social group are feeling more hopeless and jaded than ever. What are your classmates saying? Since our class has little
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Why would they? It's so trivial to do it yourself, it's easy to imagine what they're concerned about. Things like the optimal number of agents to deploy in their swarm, the best way to use AI to route yacht and private jet mo
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by tavavex 5mo ago
But it's not that simple. The point I'm making is that their reaction to making money also feels very inhuman. Suppose your comapny just won a key contract, putting your competitors out of business. Would you go to stand on a stag
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Their behaviors feel so detached and alien to me. Here are my hypotheses: - They love AI and are so self-absorbed that they struggle to think of other people's perspectives. They only view it through their own lens and are oblivious to
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Sorry, I don't want to sound too blunt, but as someone who's young and fighting in this job market, this kind of advice comes off as the 'Come into the office, look the manager in the eyes and shake his hand' of our age.
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Definitely not the majority. Looking at the US, which is probably home to the most users of this website, the threshold for top 10% net worth is at $1.8m, and the threshold for top 10% income is $210k. There's many rich people like tha
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Don't give them the idea, before too long they'll retire the email part so you could use it to train agents and use AI in your workflows by leveraging Artificial Google Intelligence (AGI)
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Only if: - The device isn't PIN-protected (doesn't ask for a Bitlocker password on startup) - It runs a vulnerable version of Windows (apparently anything after 10 and before whatever version Microsoft will probably patch it in)
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Just be thankful the ads were on a display that you could disable. Soon, we'll have heads-up displays that project partially transparent videos over your windshield, so you literally can't drive without looking at an ad. And add i
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by tavavex 6mo ago
> I have a problem with people being very negative and cynical and also defeatist. Why? Does it honestly seem like there's a serious possibility that this will turn out well, that there's something people will do to stop it? Ca
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by tavavex 6mo ago
It is just handwaving. They're billionaires. The only thing they're capable of saying is the thing that's going to lead to the best outcome for them. They found out that 'UBI' is a collection of sounds that's a
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by tavavex 6mo ago
Really? I thought the subtext is as obvious as it could've been. The point they're making is that a duopoly that controls the flow of money itself deciding to ban a whole market segment for ideological or profit reasons is no diff
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by tavavex 6mo ago
When we're talking about the examples people bring up in this comment section to illustrate high chargeback rates ("Uncle Derek bought a $500 subscription in a stupor and his wife is about to find out"), the definition would
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by tavavex 6mo ago
This is the common explanation I see when this topic comes up, but it always made zero sense to me. It frustrates me that people fail to realize the amount of purchaseable things that could qualify as 'explicit'. This is Kickstar
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by tavavex 6mo ago
This is a game, not a "story" and definitely not something that would be covered on TV.
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by tavavex 6mo ago
Sometimes it almost feels like there's more than one person on HN holding more than one opinion. I'm from the younger, lower end of the job market, far from the average HN user. You could accuse me of being excessively cynical. Th
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by tavavex 6mo ago
This may seem like an important change that's making things different today, but it's not. Farms back in the day were constrained by supply, software today is constrained by demand. A farmer couldn't create a farm from nothin

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