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marricks··on DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why
I mean, test@example.com worked so info doesn't have to be that personal...
marricks··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
My own company had a migration from GitLab to supposedly greener pastures but at least when a self hosted gitlab server had an issue someone could figure out what was going on. Absolutely zero control over GitHub.
marricks··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
I guess the AI Slop is that bad in terms of increasing commits/actions/etc
marricks··on Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
If your best defense is "it was easy" you're probably not in a legally great position...
marricks··on SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading
> the share price returning to IPO opening not just a sign that the banks accurately estimated something

I mean who knows where it will end up by the end of the year. Meme-stock-hype train could continue or it could reasonably crash far further back down to earth.

marricks··on The iPhone's Last Stand?
Their most recent iPhone which had no major AI advertisements associated with it GAINED market share over competition[1]

They have no ground to make up on AI, and changing their operating system to center on AI would piss off every iPhone user I know outside of tech, and probably half of them within tech.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/13/apple-q1-market-share-g...

marricks··on Incident with Actions and Pages
I like how tech seems to be all about stacking more and more turtles on top of each other:

Gosh, it's hard figuring out what changes Lorne made if only we had a system to merge those changes. Enter git

Gosh it's hard figuring out what packages Rachel had to make this work. Enter rubygems/pip/npm

Gosh it's hard figuring out sync these changes across a network. Enter github

Gosh it's hard figuring out how to get those packages working on my operating system. Enter docker

Gosh centralizing our distributed version control software system onto one website is getting really unreliable. Enter fossil(?????)

If we go any further having one computer per business with a sign up sheep is starting to sound pretty fucking attractive.

marricks··on Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE
One could (naively) hope that goliath corporations used their massive lobbying power for good. There was a time, long, long, ago, Google refused to operate in China because it refused to censor itself.

Since no matter how much power they have they won't behave good let's go ahead and regulate the shit out of them and tear them into tiny mangable pieces.

If we had a thousand different smaller federated platforms it would be harder for governments to impose rules on them anyways.

marricks··on 560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits
> Those adults who met the 150 minute a week guideline on exercise experienced a modest 8-9% reduction in cardiovascular risk

30%+ reduction from 10 hours a week of exercise sounds ideal, but 9% isn't nothing.

marricks··on OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools
Honestly, yeah, fair point. There's enough money in tech to keep the party going for who knows how long.

The housing market was unsustainable for a long time and went even further up before it crashed. The smart people who called that have lost a lot of money making reasonable bets against things which should have crashed.

The difference now is rich people have positively stupid amounts of money to keep stupid things going for even stupidly longer periods of time.

marricks··on OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools
> Young people increasingly hate AI[1], and children already struggle with AI-enabled harassment that traumatizes them and disrupts their learning. And studies show kids are offloading learning onto AI models, undermining their education and social development.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920401/g...

The coyote is already running beyond the cliff so indoctrinating kids won't save them from an AI winter 6-18 months away.

marricks··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Also, who/what group is pushing for this change internally and what is the opinion of the team implementing it? What is the road map and vision for AI in VSCode?
marricks··on Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
There's only two authors! That's so rude!
marricks··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
> OpenAI is worth many multiples of that

valued at --which I'd say is a reasonable distinction to make right about now

marricks··on Refuse to let your doctor record you
Holy wow, I meant to say lack of people is the problem. Edited to reflect that.
marricks··on Refuse to let your doctor record you
> I do think we are in a situation where everybody knows that healthcare costs need to come down that doctors and medical professionals are spread too thin

The problem is over optimization AND lack of people. As soon as there's an excuse for less staff because we have "digital record keeping" we're going to have less money and even less staff.

Having in person or remote notetakers is a great entry level job to do before you become a doctor. It could be boring but at least the terms are familiar and you get to know the person you're working with.

It's not like healthcare is an impossible problem to solve that needs more tech, we just refuse to spend money on people and (inexplicably) cannot help but dump tons of money into tech.

marricks··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
Like... this has things that AI will seemingly always be terrible at?

At some point the level of detail is utter garbo and always will be. An artist who was thoughtful could have some mistakes but someone who put that much time into a drawing wouldn't have:

- Nightmarish screaming faces on most people

- A sign that points seemingly both directions, or the incorrect one for a lake and a first AID tent that doesn't exist

- A dog in bottom left and near lake which looks like some sort of fuzzy monstrosity...

It looks SO impressive before you try to take in any detail. The hand selected images for the preview have the same shit. The view of musculature has a sternocleidomastoid with no clavicle attachment. The periodic table seems good until you take a look at the metals...

We're reconfiguring all of our RAM & GPUs and wasting so much water and electricity for crappier where's Waldos??

marricks··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
If there was any outside visible thread of reasoning for this war it was "Iran seems like it could have regime change" and I haven't heard anything saying they're more likely to have a different form of government.

I doubt the revolutionaries sympathizers within Iran liked their children being murdered or infrastructure getting destroyed. All the US has done is a repeat of the same thing they've done for half a century: start a war and immediately get more enemies within the middle east. Perhaps the only change is now the US's allies are distancing themselves faster and further than ever before.

marricks··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
> why would the US concede?

Because it has no way of achieving its objectives.

marricks··on CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
Their heyday of good jokes was also when they hadn't produced any ads and seemed like an underdog. "Don't Be Evil" days.

Vibe-wise they all feel closer to Raytheon and I sure as fuck wouldn't want to see an attempt at a whimsical joke from Raytheon.

marricks··on CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
Someone was saying "can we just not with April fools" this year because everything is so grim and dire in the world... but I think this is such a perfect level we need. I could go for more whimsy like this.
marricks··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
Nothing like throwing in the towel before a battle is ever fought. Let's just sigh and wearily march on to our world of AI slop and ever higher bug counts and latency delays while we wait for the five different phone homes and compilations through a billion different LLM's for every silly command.
marricks··on I bought the MacBook Neo and it sucks
> i paid $599 for this disappointment. the thinkpad cost me $180 on ebay like seven years ago and i think it’s mocking me now.

The guy is comparing a $200 ebay thinkpad with linux compared to a macbook with a modern operating system.

They're not the target demographic, I can tell you right now schools and (non-tech) parent's aren't going to buy their kids ebay laptops with linux on them.

You might as well say the neo sucks because a 6 year old m1 ebay macbok is a better deal. It's apples to oranges.

marricks··on France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
Aircraft carrier speed... 33 knots or about 35mph[1]

Boeing 777 speed 554mph[2]

So about 16x!

[1] http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-028.php

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777

marricks··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
100%, a product can't be just good and succeed now. Market's expect something to be "the next thing" or become a failure.

Also, price is always going to be an issue. The US spends billions and billions of dollars supporting the meat industry. The fact meat is cheap is a political choice, which makes direct plant based substitutes a tough financial proposition.

marricks··on MacBook Neo
What the heck is going on here, something cannot be light and use 20gb of memory.

Is LLM driving the RAM shortage or is it hacker news commenters convinced they can't run a single git client without 20gb of free memory.

I am a web dev doing what I'd consider light dev work and the biggest memory hog running for me right now is 2gb for Figma.

marricks··on MacBook Neo
Are you saying you and all your devs are doing light development work? That was the claim you're attempting to refute.

Light development for me is some node programs and a php server. If light development suddenly means 3 docker containers our world sucks IMO. People shouldn't need multiple operating systems to develop, that feels crazy wasteful.

marricks··on Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Normal door bells are pretty great and have less overhead and maintenance...

All tech puts it's best foot forward, some of it's really nifty, but a camera on every street corner is always going to pose more risks than it's worth IMO...

It's work to go back to the old ways but I think this is one we step we should really all take.

marricks··on Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again
Because... user's don't care about AI anymore. They're fatigued by it.
marricks··on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers
Wait, so your argument is there's only 9 crashes so we should wait until there's possibly 9,000 crashes to make an assessment? That's crazy dangerous.

At least 3 of them sound dangerous already, and it's on Tesla to convince us they're safe. It could be a statistical anomaly so far, but hovering at 9x the alternative doesn't provide confidence.

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