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hnthr_w_y··on When To Do What You Love
honestly, I want to be rich. I do make a decent living, but not enough to quit my job. At this rate I'll have to work until I'm 50 or 60, which is same as everyone else, so cry me a river, but even so, it would be nice to dedicate more time to hobby which at this rate I can at most dedicate a weekend to, but in practice it's a bit less because I have to go out with the wife and I have visit my family, etc. Most weeks I have a full day at most to pursue anything.
hnthr_w_y··on Users Get Apple Intelligence to Run on Older Phones
It's not just LLMs. Older phones also have the 'remove object' feature on the Photos app disabled, and they also won't receive the OpenAI integration either.

Locally running LLM is one thing. An iPhone 14 is perfectly capable of removing an object and talking to ChatGPT. Yet these are disabled on 14 and earlier phones.

hnthr_w_y··on Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
TSMC is governed by the Taiwanese ruling class. If the Chinese launches a widespread attack on Taiwanese soil tomorrow, nothing would happen to any of these people. These people are not your random neighbors harboring nationalistic views.
hnthr_w_y··on Why do so many home robots still suck?
I use a cheap Chinese one. I've used multiple since all my relatives have one of these, though the brand is always different. They never last more than 2-4 years, either the leg or some mechanism breaks, or the best case, they are battery operated devices so that becomes the issue. The cost to repair tends to be, likely intentionally, expensive enough you are better off buying a new one.

So that's what I do.

It is the only device I'm annoyed with, at the same time, I'd rather have it do it's work than cleaning the house myself.

hnthr_w_y··on When I'm Dining Out, Should I Have to Deal with Your Dogs?
There's a big difference between 'rowdy' and 'causing trouble'. A birthday grouping will get loud, with no bad intentions.
hnthr_w_y··on In a leaked recording, AWS CEO tells most developers could stop coding soon
There are two sides to the story. Look at the unemployment rates or recent layoffs, a 2% difference is enough to disrupt a lot of things. You don't need a lot.

AI tools has made a significant impact already. But that significant number isn't '100%'.

On the main topic, of course you can't replace a team of 8 compromised of seniors, mids, and juniors with just 2 seniors. Nowhere near that.

hnthr_w_y··on Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid
Which is, honestly, good. Facebook couldn't capture it, so giving it away is far better than the earlier 'keep-it-only-for-us' approach of Google. I don't mean to say Facebook/Meta has anyone's best in their hearts, though.
hnthr_w_y··on Null-Restricted and Nullable Types
forced? modern php is a bliss.
hnthr_w_y··on Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper
that's not very much in the business range, it's a lot when it comes to paying us salaries.
hnthr_w_y··on [dead]
the list style is just such a giveaway.
hnthr_w_y··on Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?
> Though Vuze was also one of the earliest clients and it's also open source for some reasons it never really became popular. Maybe because it's a Java client?

Funny story there.

Vuze had an addon/plugin system of sorts. Rather popular addons were the ones that allowed you to 'fake upload'.

Vuze didn't have this built-in or anything, but it just made it easier.

For that reason basically any and every version was banned from the reputable trackers of the day, private, obviously.

For the users of public trackers, this is obviously irrelevant but that basically killed it right there and then, in time.

hnthr_w_y··on Apple's $50M butterfly keyboard lawsuit gets final approval
but that's the thing, he was convinced and backed out. butterfly was known to be faulty, no one backed out.
hnthr_w_y··on Ask HN: What are some useful certificates to obtain for SWEs?
starting, thanks!
hnthr_w_y··on Greco-Buddhist art
What are the political issues in this context?
hnthr_w_y··on Those AAA game ports for iPhone and iPad have bombed
it also requires iphone 15 pro or iphone 15 pro max. so the target audience in all likelihood is the combination of, a. doesnt have a pc/console/handheld or likes the game/genre so much they want to carry it around b. has the disposable income to buy an iphone 15 pro

so yeah, tough ask

hnthr_w_y··on Show HN: SmokeScanner – Using cigarette price arbitrage to find free flights
A greater saving trick I've found out recently, with even greater gains than saving on cigs is not buying cigs at all.
hnthr_w_y··on Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy
how about a 20% markup that could very well be reasonably defended as a fair premium for a better product over the market, and while doing that we could be buying a lesser-than-average product for this, which we later sell, netting us a higher markup in practice.
hnthr_w_y··on Curl is inside 22,734 Steam games
does this invalidate the idea? i get the core idea, there _are_ some libraries that nobody has ever heard of but for example used in just a few places, one of them being lets say jquery and that creates a misleading example of being some super popular library.

curl is not one of these examples, it is very, very, widespread.

hnthr_w_y··on Canada imposes 5% tax on streaming to fund local news, diverse content
The irony is that kind of behavior _IS_ identifiably Canadian.
hnthr_w_y··on Your Phone, Minus the Distractions
so what's the point of the hardware other than the upsell?
hnthr_w_y··on Garbage collect your technical debt (2021)
I'm looking for a job where this is feasible. And I'm not even being sarcastic, I'd take a pay cut for such a workflow.