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manphone··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
All of you misread would and put your own spin on it. She wasn’t even hired yet, and he had never met her.
manphone··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
That’s only true in the public Zeitgeist, there is a huge preference among portions of the workforce for male leadership stated or unstated. This is not a good thing. I literally worked with a guy who was about to quit because a woman would boss him around and she was about 10,000 times as qualified as he was
manphone··on US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones
That’s a hilarious idea. Given the Supreme Court of today, afraid of legislating from the bench? Are you serious?
manphone··on The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive
Which is something like less than one percent of websites, and this technology is deployed much, much more widely.
manphone··on DeepSeek Harness developer preview
Well, that makes one of us. Replacing deterministic processes that work with lossy processes makes no sense. You’re literally reinventing the wheel every single time, what are you talking about?
manphone··on It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video]
Look at the mayor of London. Same shit, different city.
manphone··on Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification
Only if it was not something they constantly already do.
manphone··on “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
That’s because fundamentally you need those strategic items to have space to do those particular detail items. If you have the best strategy and no execution, you can probably hire for that. If you have no strategy and decent execution, you are driving the Titanic into the iceberg.
manphone··on A stray commit buried multiple levels deep cost me months
Many databases do not actually offer this or pretend to offer this, but it is really just one thing.
manphone··on If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
That’s a hilarious comment in the world where companies are getting hacked left and right and consumer data is widely available from how many pieces of software have piss poor security. You might work at companies as where dumb bureaucrats have a tight grip on things, but in most of the world, security practices are not holding us back, they simply don’t exist.
manphone··on The startup's Postgres survival guide
There’s a bunch of features in compatibility, performance, and cost reasons not to choose these cloud hosted managed databases.
manphone··on The startup's Postgres survival guide
#8 is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80... and it’s one upside is that it’s very flexible and it’s downside is literally everything else. If you can be 100% certain that all of the destination value types are the same then it can have compressibility benefits.
manphone··on Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
It’s the same reason why everyone doesn’t wanna read LLM generated blog posts. The agreement used to be generally that you would spend more time writing than I would have to spend reading and when the agreement changes the quality changes as well.
manphone··on There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days
Yeah, this is my favorite one, the number of CEOs I’ve had tell me that they were frustrated how little everyone else was putting in compared to them while they’ve had hundreds of times of the return is hilarious.
manphone··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
I made a media center replacement for something like plex or jellyfin, streaming video or audio whenever I am; transcoding, subtitles, specialized dupe and renaming metadata. A little automated datawarehouse that manages all my output in an object store. My own tag system of course. A personalized eval system for llm tools.
manphone··on Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition
This is what people said about Trump and the Republicans. Of course they wouldn’t do mass deportation. It’s all just rhetoric.
manphone··on U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse
He’s sitting at 30% approval while starting wars and not releasing the Epstein files. You are saying pure cope right now.
manphone··on Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
Oh, they were aware from the phrasing they ate implying that we’ve already spent enough and we should stop, which is exactly what Trump was saying and is totally stupid if you want the world not to be run by Vladimir Putin.
manphone··on Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO
He ran a government institution that recklessly cut public spending and hurt us all. What are you talking about?
manphone··on Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]
That has little to do with building code and a lot to do with customers and releases and operations - giant companies don’t just magically demo software to people.

There’s so many layers today that can’t exist if this is the way forward.

manphone··on Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service
As someone who has worked with all three in many capacities, as is the worst by a mile. Don’t get me wrong. They are all very bad, but Azure is the king of shit.
manphone··on Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]
The concept of a large organization doesn’t even make sense in this model. How do you make decisions? How do you coordinate? What is Google when you have 50,000 individual silos?
manphone··on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
We can walk and chew gum at the same time, the government can regulate thousands or millions of different types of things at the same time. It doesn’t make sense to say there’s stuff on the Internet that is worse therefore we cannot it should not do anything about it.
manphone··on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
That’s not an explanation or an excuse at all.
manphone··on Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
And what point of view does all art have now?
manphone··on Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
And which part of the things he said, would we find a counter argument to in the grass?
manphone··on Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
There’s basically no point of political discussion if you all agree, besides bitching and moaning.
manphone··on Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
That may even be true, but many commenters here are saying these things because they actually happened to them and then they switched off of Firefox because it pissed them off. (Myself included) So when you say this is a comment or narrative it’s the commenters you’re talking to and you’re talking past them in a way that is confusing. I’m telling you that I hated the Firefox changes and I finally turned to another fork. This has nothing to do with a narrative.
manphone··on Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
This isn’t about a fight between two things. This is about a company that completely refuses to listen to their users and then some random guy on the Internet who says you should deal with their telemetry to somehow fix the problem that in no way relates to the actual problem and no way has evidence that they would take steps to fix the problem either. It’s very prosocial to think that Firefox actually makes changes based on user feedback, but almost none of these features have users been clamoring for, this is totally executive bullshit pushed into the product.
manphone··on Why poor countries stopped catching up
Here, you dropped your dog whistle.
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