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arealaccount··on You can't pay me to prompt
But the badge looks like it was created by Chat
arealaccount··on The Dilbert Afterlife
Personally I hated them they felt dehumanizing, and loved my first open floor company

I also don’t like WFH, I wonder if people who like open plans also like RTO

arealaccount··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
At least
arealaccount··on Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files
And if you don’t pay the subscription they hold your gmail hostage.

I put the effort in to move off gmail, was worth it. Now gmail is just my spam inbox

arealaccount··on Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them
Nobody can figure this out for some reason
arealaccount··on Pokémon Team Optimization
Slaking can only attack every other turn making it a bad choice outside of niche teams.
arealaccount··on How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little?
Many of the people they cut were able to negotiate a full year severance, then were hired back as contractors effectively earning double pay.
arealaccount··on Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
While I probably wouldn't make a career out of it, I have the same feelings about painting. It's a satisfying zen and I love doing weekend painting projects on the house.
arealaccount··on BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove
I think the schtick is they can block these tools from being sold via trademark infringement.

Thats why the BMW logo is in fact necessary

arealaccount··on Pornhub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data
Conversely, being forced to use a VPN for these services is great for your personal opsec :)
arealaccount··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
Orion browser is a thing
arealaccount··on I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
I find tech leads to be the most difficult people in any organization to work with (always with exceptions), I think it’s because they are still learning the lead part, and at the same time are trying to prove themselves.

Coming in with a hexagonal overhaul is a great example. At least in this case it seems the writer didn’t dig his heals in too much.

arealaccount··on Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?
Fortunately a linkedin user has found a defense mechanism

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ken-cheng-991849b6_ai-will-ne...

arealaccount··on AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
The where this doesn’t work section is chefs kiss

- anything that requires very high uptime

-very high volume systems and data lakes

-software with significant network effects

-companies that have proprietary datasets

-regulation and compliance is still very important

arealaccount··on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
From https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/

It's an equity investment, and yes they're agreeing to a committment to protecting the rights of the creators.

> Disney and OpenAI affirm a shared commitment to responsible use of AI that protects the safety of users and the rights of creators. >Alongside the licensing agreement, Disney will become a major customer of OpenAI, using its APIs to build new products, tools, and experiences, including for Disney+, and deploying ChatGPT for its employees. >As part of the agreement, Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity.

arealaccount··on Show HN: I got 50% of my traffic from ChatGPT instead of Google
I thought people were already using AEO (answer engine optimization)...
arealaccount··on Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage
Imagine driving around a 2 stroke engine inside an airport
arealaccount··on Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern
Classic similar blog post https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction
arealaccount··on X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules
It would have been hilarious if they hit X with a $420M fine
arealaccount··on US will now review H-1B applicants' social media – require them to make public
How does this work if you don't have social media accounts?
arealaccount··on Don't push AI down our throats
> We don't need to do it this quarter just because some startup has to do an earnings call.

What startups are doing earning calls?

arealaccount··on Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
I mean entirely different use cases, right?

Borking a space mission vs someone’s breakfast status update can be optimized differently

arealaccount··on Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines
This would be an offer on the spot from me
arealaccount··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
I don't know what you mean by "turn into" it's always been that way
arealaccount··on The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies
I have literally been throw them away for years, they’re annoying clutter
arealaccount··on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
Create vpn on a GCP ip address, use googlebot user agent, paywalls gone
arealaccount··on Two billion email addresses were exposed
DM me your passwords Ill do it for you
arealaccount··on What the hell have you built
I think the 2 hours bit was the important part
arealaccount··on Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states
The article touts the ~300k users of direct file as a big number, and the “just 3% of eligible tax payers” used free file as a small number.

Wouldn’t the 3% number come out yo millions of people?

arealaccount··on Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists
The majority of people don’t inherit anything, so you are still luckier than most!
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