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linotype··on Microsoft Engineer Dies at Work at 35 as His Family Warns of Overworking Employe
Get a physical every year. Work out regularly, even if it’s just a walk a couple times a day. If your company is pushing you to the breaking point, quit. Someone else will be hired and they’ll reach the same point and hopefully quit too. Don’t let multi-trillion dollar whathaveyoudoneformelately corporations ruin your life.
linotype··on Tesla Says Its Robotaxi App Now Open to Public Riders
So Waymo…
linotype··on AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger
It says a lot more about the pearl clutching of the people complaining about it than it does the dev.
linotype··on Tesla Says Its Robotaxi App Now Open to Public Riders
Surely this will double their metrics to ten rides a day.
linotype··on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study
I’ll let you know when I know.
linotype··on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study
What’s really happening is companies are using AI as an excuse to fire people and make those that remain work harder. Eventually people are going to mass quit and go into other industries.
linotype··on U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%
Not just American products.
linotype··on Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility
I’ve been out of the loop, what happened?
linotype··on Enrollment at trade schools is expected to grow
Section 174 has been restored, thankfully. We’ll see if the damage is done.
linotype··on Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift and others without permission
Anyone not surprised by the cringiness of Zuckerberg hasn’t been paying attention. Get off that garbage.
linotype··on Synthetic gasoline
gestures broadly at all the people driving 20 miles each way to work every day getting 20 mpg in not a classic car

You should be thankful to EV drivers for making the only fuel classic cars take last longer.

linotype··on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
I almost feel like NeXT was a reverse acquisition, like Apple became NeXT with an Apple logo.
linotype··on A bubble that knows it's a bubble
Citing Ray Dalio makes me question the credibility of the whole article.
linotype··on San Francisco's Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda
The longer we let SF be run by the ultra rich the worst it will get. Maybe when all the rich leave it will finally it rock bottom and the people will be able to pass the reforms needed to get the city back on the right track.
linotype··on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices
gestures broadly at things I have no control over and things I wish didn’t happen
linotype··on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices
Amazing what you can do when you don’t have elections.

Edit: I’m 100% for renewables. Unfortunately half my country is against them and they won last time.

linotype··on Palantir CEO Alex Karp's Letter to Shareholders
Is all of Silicon Valley on ketamine?
linotype··on Southwest Is Changing Its Rules for Plus-Size Passengers
It’s within their rights to do what they want, I just don’t like it and if they institute something like that I’ll take my business elsewhere.

I’m curious how people in wheelchairs are treated.

linotype··on Southwest Is Changing Its Rules for Plus-Size Passengers
I have very broad shoulders and while my butt fits in the seat with room to spare my shoulders encroach in other seats due to Southwest’s small seats. Why should I be required to buy another seat for something I can do nothing about?
linotype··on CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations
After the Pixel announcement (Jimmy Fallon? Cringe) recently and the bafflingly bad fumble with LLMs, I’m surprised people think he works at all.
linotype··on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC's Tech Scene Is Not
I don’t think it’s possible to be more insufferable than the All-In gang (David Sachs, etc), even Friedberg has gone anti-science (Natural gas? Really) and MAGA. Calicanis moved to Texas. These aren’t Silicon Valley people.
linotype··on Nissan announces 2026 Leaf pricing, 300 mile range starting at $29,990
Aesthetics.
linotype··on GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire
Wait until someone tells them the ratio of public cloud vs self-hosted.
linotype··on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring [video]
Frankly as someone who has a new M4 MBP and had a butterfly keyboard MBP, I’m glad form is following function. I don’t care if my laptop is 1 mm thicker if the performance and reliability are better.
linotype··on Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription
I wonder if the German government will let them go out of business. The only way they could do something this stupid and petty is if they think they have an incredible backstop.
linotype··on China Is Run by Engineers, and the US by Too Many Lawyers
It’s a well known issue that’s been beaten to death.
linotype··on China Is Run by Engineers, and the US by Too Many Lawyers
As if China isn’t also building towards that same position.
linotype··on China Is Run by Engineers, and the US by Too Many Lawyers
The anti-US sentiment is exhausting. If you don’t like the US, stop using our technology and our markets.
linotype··on "None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of FL's Book Ban Bill
> it's probably unconstitutional to teach from it or promote it

https://oklahoma.gov/education/newsroom/2025/march/despite-c...

The Constitution only applies if there are people able and willing to enforce it.

linotype··on Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy
I think you’re downplaying the effect of “precedence” and the medical lobby.
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