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itsoktocry··on Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs
>They might not be moonshots or unicorns, but they always have longevity.

We're going to need a fact-check on this. I'll bet the failure rate of co-ops is well beyond those of standard business structures.

itsoktocry··on Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs
>Do you think more employee ownership and control, a "seat at the table," would've prevented technically competent leadership from testing customer hostile business decisions?

Do you think there's some magical moral/ethical line that gets drawn between employees and executives, where the former are naturally "good" and the latter "bad"?

>Like Costco, employee and customer happiness first, profits after.

This is such a strange myth. Do you go to Costco? There's nothing great about the customer experience. It's a discount store of decent quality that pays the employees decent wages. It's better than Walmart and Amazon, but nobody dreams of working there.

itsoktocry··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
>It’s a simple substitution request where I provide a Lint error that suggests the correct change. All the models fail. I could ask someone with no development experience to do this change and they could.

I don't understand why this kind of thing is useful. Do the thing yourself and move on. For every one problem like this, AI can do 10 better/faster than I can.

itsoktocry··on EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
>but I don't really care about EA or their legacy anymore.

They own the entire sports gaming genre, and it's a massive money maker.

itsoktocry··on The AI coding trap
People will complain about letting the LLM code because you won't understand every nuance. Then they will turn around and pip install a dependency without even glancing at the underlying code.
itsoktocry··on AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
>not just the most statistically most likely response to a given query.

Some people really are going to hang on until the better end (and beyond) eh?

"AI can't code like me!" people are going to get crushed.

itsoktocry··on Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon
>What skills does he have that I completely lack?

You'd be amazed how "successful" one can be if willing to lie, cheat and/or steal.

itsoktocry··on The madness of SaaS chargebacks
>If a stolen card is used to make a purchase, why is the merchant on the hook for this?

Did they confirm the identity of the person matches the card?

If the merchant has no liability, if opens up a whole world of new fraud.

itsoktocry··on How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
>Diesel generators come with maintenance overhead that adds up year over year.

A good diesel generator is going to need very little maintenance operating few hundred hours per year.

Why do people talk about engines like they are unreliable? They are modern marvels.

itsoktocry··on If my kids excel, will they move away?
The fact that you think Trump is running a scam on foolish people, while the natural state of things is an altruistic Democratic government is why you lost and will likely continue to lose.

The "Democratic"/"left wing" platform is not as popular as you believe; not in the US, not in England, not in Canada, not in Germany...

This all stems from backlash against those policies. You need to fix the issues, not tell people "you voted for the wrong guy".

itsoktocry··on Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease
Try it and see where you get, since you assume these scientists are so foolish.
itsoktocry··on Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
Another shooting. Predictable. What say you? As I said, this is going downhill, fast, because people like you normalize it.
itsoktocry··on America is in a serious jobs slump
>I beg to differ. First, you made a very clear judgement in your wording;

Case in point. You "beg to differ" because you read incorrectly into everything.

I said they looked convenient to the last administration, which Trump said himself. I even added "baselessy?" as in, "maybe it was baseless? I don't know".

Think about what you're saying here. I TOLD you "I'm not making a judgment", and you say "Ahcktually..". You can spare me the moral lecture.

>But you made no separation between trumps words and yours.

Huh? How poor is your comprehension that you would require this?

>This sentence is more dangerous to me than the current administration.

This is an actual sanity test. If you think the sentence I wrote is more "dangerous" than anything you are, indeed, way off-kilter.

itsoktocry··on America is in a serious jobs slump
>The whole of trumps first stint?

Is it hard to imagine a world where things from 10 years ago aren't the same as today? Can you not see that politicians will do anything to win?

Biggest downward revision ever recorded this morning, by the way.

itsoktocry··on Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
Mark Zuckerberg isn't paid obscene amounts of money by anyone, he is rich because he maintained ownership over something he built.
itsoktocry··on Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
Are you saying that what the executives have done here in this article is a crime? Specifically Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO in question?

Then what are we even taking about.

itsoktocry··on America is in a serious jobs slump
You are only half reading the news.

Yes, revisions are valid and happen. Yes, a look at historical revisions don't show any bias.

But where are you seeing that half made Trump look good?

https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesnaicsrev.htm

itsoktocry··on Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
Because I pay attention to what's happening in the world.

We've had attempts on the life of the President, and a literal CEO gunned down in the street. It's amazing how quickly this got normalized.

itsoktocry··on America is in a serious jobs slump
As an avid half-pay-attention Bloomberg viewer, analysts figure Q4 is where it really starts to show up, partially because some importers were able to front run the tariffs.

Thing is, it's not even the tariffs themselves that's the issue; it's the uncertainty. Are the tariffs legal, or not? Are they just a bargaining chip or not? How can a company invest without any idea if the tariffs will be around in a year?

itsoktocry··on America is in a serious jobs slump
Well, it's not even true.

Trump did (baselessly?) fire the BLS head, but it was because of revisions that looked convenient for the last administration.

itsoktocry··on Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
Kills the CEOs, but don't punish actual criminals, very left-coded.
itsoktocry··on Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
>I haven't followed that closely, but Gemini seems like a pivot based on ChatGPT's market success

"AI" in it's current form is already a massive threat to Google's main business (I personally use Google only a fraction of what I used to), so this pivot is justified.

itsoktocry··on Data engineering and software engineering are converging
>And if you try to explain to them things like partitioning, indexes, sketches, etc then they are not able to comprehend and argue that it’s not their job to learn, and that it’s the “proper engineers” job to scale the processing.

Make up a person and attack him, literal strawman. You sound pleasant to work with.

itsoktocry··on Data engineering and software engineering are converging
Ironic, since "Data Engineers" are probably far more in demand right now than "Software Engineers".
itsoktocry··on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity
Classic zero accountability take.

Why are you getting suckered into buying something you don't need because a commercials says so?

itsoktocry··on The End of Tesla?
Yes, because believe it or not, lot of people love cars, car ownership, and driving.

Other people detest public transit.

You think Robotaxis are a solution to either of these?

itsoktocry··on The End of Tesla?
The fact that you think "his far right friends" are actual Nazis and were in awe to see this salute is comic level stuff.

The left lives in absolute fairy tale land, it's amazing.

itsoktocry··on The End of Tesla?
It was both.

It was a joke, but intentional, and because he has little self awareness, had no idea how offensive it was.

itsoktocry··on The End of Tesla?
Well, it's certainly going to be cheaper, but it's completely naive to believe it's simply "the cost today, less the cost of the driver". Driverless is a new paradigm.

For one single issue, look at the society we live in; who is going to clean the car when the inevitable happens? How will that even work? Or do you think people will happily jump in a dirty car?

So, while you do not pay the driver (who makes little anyway), there will be new costs.

itsoktocry··on Show HN: I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python
>not the highest quality

I bet AI writes better code than 80% of developers out there.

But all developers think they are in the 20%.

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