mihaaly

Vegetation as the enemy, that is a sad consequence.

Always?

Like 100 out of 100?

From every users?

Can you please consider this aspect too in your above pseudocode - no alternative execution path, or else - so there can be no misunderstanding about the always aspect? You know, some people use always to a majority part (>50%) of what they encounter, or even less when they weight that part dearly, but that does not account in the whole domain. Human chats may need clarification on trivial details like this.

> A lot of those

46, actually. 46. I am pretty certain that the explanation lies completely elsewhere...

(overuse of overstatements, for the sake of manipulation, perhaps? something that makes their saying unreliable this way - e.g. they forget to mention the other end of the range, or perhaps the mean, completely .... except when it is good for them, e.g. prices ... that's borderline to lying this way...)

I am sure I'd love computer products more without the nauseating marketing bs. With dry boring technical facts only. I am repelled now, need more self drive and effort getting to the cashier, than without it.

(Scroll-oriented web pages see me running away fast. Not only Apple, which is a champion in it, but articles in general. That make me a passive spectator eating what they want me to eat, the way they want me to. Rather than a free discoverer. I hate being pushed into something. I like freedom.)

You small be trying LLM's once. They can do a lot for you, man. People use it in real life now!

(It was more like quoting a point of view of some source, named, btw. As you can clearly see. You have my thoughts there too. In case you missed those.)

Probably they want to use the userbase, not the technology? There was a heavy emphasis - too heavy for my taste so it bounces me back - about that they will do what is the best for the user. I think that was already there, Stripe was not needed for that. This is more for the benefit of others.

PE is desperately competing other PE to get into the promise of some AI thingy NOW?

Just guessing. The frenzy around popular, good already, and successful services with the corporate crap flowing from this acquisition announcement too is appalling. The "what's best for you, the user" heavy emphasis when this would be inherently evident in any honest service forecasts the opposite.

Some highlights from one of my agents asked for a no bullshit evaluation:

"By buying OpenRouter, they own the routing layer that decides which model gets called and at what price."

"Stripe wants to be the economic infrastructure for AI — meaning they want to be the toll booth and the traffic cop for the entire AI economy."

"... insider market intelligence that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google don't fully have. Stripe would now have it."

"The $7B+ price is absurd on any financial metric, but this isn't a financial acquisition — it's a strategic positioning play to own the platform layer of the next computing paradigm."

"140x revenue multiple: At ~$50M revenue, this is not a financial valuation. It's a strategic land grab — buying the chokepoint before someone else does."

I do not feel a particularly strong smell of 'best for the user' here for some reason... More like the usual 'how do we squeeze out more for our PE folks from this' kind of scent.

That's even better! They can start a complaint about the button by contacting the support, of course.

I could be the best money saver for them - and ask for a hefty premium for my services - by terminating all support. No costs, nada, full save! Genius, right?! Never gives false info, never!

Ok, ok, need to have a tickmark next to the 'support' item in the quarterlies, let it be an eternal spinning wheel presenting on clicking the 'Our award winning instant support is HERE!' button then. Its close to the real experience anyway, right?

This is a nice personal point of view. And you don't care much about privacy or being exposed to the conduct of others completely, do you?

It is so sad and worrying when the already oppressed population argue for paranoid practices constraining their own practices considerably and with great efforts, eroding the other thing that constitution was so famous about, freedom, so some officers supposed to serve the population can do things easily to anyone. If they please and want it easy for themselves.

And what did this judge think (not much, apparently)? Punishing you will make you respect the cops?! This idiot confuses the fear of punishment with respect. Also, does not understand that respect is not to be forced but to be earned. Forcing it will erode respect and generate lots of pretension and covert hate. This judge basically endangers all cops (and the community) for giving revenge to this one prick lacking self control! It's mind-blowing that someone less mature than a teenager can become a judge!

That plan comes with Kagi Assistant, which is more than enough with big selection of simple models for a great portion of AI assisted queries. If you need no advanced Ai tasks then that is way enough.

Recently I started to get hold of the daily events with Kagi News, world, science, local news, AI, Cybersecurity, ... That gives a very good platform to have a broad overview quickly and as a jumping board into details of specific events making me interested. Usually it is better for (configurable to my needs) quick overview than any big news portals out there.

I think their Kagi Assistant is quite fine for AI search. Free models, or cheap ones perhaps, but for search all are great. With some privacy benefits. I even use to cross-check the findings of Claude, which sometimes pays off! (new angles, discrepancy in important details to dive into, ...)

That, and the green belts suffocating the cities where people can have jobs, and the passive money accumulated in funds seeking reliable place to park. Some others too, anyhow, better not to pick a single one.

Before studying the document with great curiosity I need to express the feeling of newcomer entrepreneurs to the construction sector not living those highlighted barriers before starting this noble quest.

I agree with you.

However succeeding is increasingly harder and harder.

You can be the best communicator in the world but when the world only want to push their story to manipulate you towards their will then the only skill that counts is obedience or being the most aggressive manipulator. I wish that meaningful communication was a key to good and content life.

You still can have your bubbles in the universe though, there it is invaluable, of course. Isolationism on the personal level might be necessary, unfortunately.

This "serious reader" expression makes my skin crawl.

Like if it was something of a sport with olympics where people compete in their own weight and it is measured in the end to the hundredths of seconds in front of spectators in a stadion shaped library cheering READ, READ, READ! Quality is mentioned, remotely, through selection, but still, the mental picture remains the same. The post smells like a training guide from a large gym franchise for readers. It's name is 'Serious Readers!'

No! You are not alone! That is very sad! : /

You know, there are millions of ways having fun that endangers no others. Millions!

(also small children have no fun, not at all! Woken up to be scared to shit, for f's sake, that's opposite of fun, the very opposite! Use your brain please!)

All were purchased already I assume.

Yes, the typical endangering or hurting others for the sake of fun culture, very very precious and rich culture indeed! : /

I am usually unemployable and unfit to the team because I believe in the existence of several correctness. Several truths. And consequently, not really putting 'enough' attention into technical details, not as much as the mainstream does, not as much as recruiters in the mainstream do. For most, it is a religion. To me, it is a tool, one of the many possible, that wears out and can be thrown away after no longer needed. Learned to be used to the level mandated by the task. Task by task. The arguing mentality (rooting in the knowing-of-THE-truth confidence) that permeates the profession just repels me. : /

So many people are willing to participate in this kind of robotic practices in human employment makes me think that many are starting to consider that this is as unavoidable as global warming and rather play along, adapts their career (life) to it, sculpture it towards a specific look, doing things that will give them point on some arbitrary test run. Which I feel being dangerous, leading to superficial minded workforce, not those good in something, including judgement of a problem and solution. But good at manipulation.

Speculative thought only, of course.

Just like with almost everything Photobucket was sold or raised money from investors throughout the years repeatedly.

That money they want back!

From somewhere, any way, pimping the EBITDA and ARR numbers to the expected one for the 5-7 years resale cycle or such. ARR needs subscription, and if you have user lock in - well, otherwise you wouldn't buy some trivial service like this wouldn't you? You counted on the lock-in, that is central to you 'business model', or more like exploitation - then try cash it. Now! You can alienate people down the line? Let that be the problem of the next owner of the product, you will cash out soon anyway. And next PE look at the price/ARR ratio mostly, anyway, it will be a fine add-on to some other PE target at least, if the ARR ratio is fine.

PE is shitting where it eats.... and others eat too ... ruining it for everyone. Don't care. Why don't they buy oil or beef farms or whatever, why they need to ruin the internet too?

Not true for HR. Despite their name, which is a complete mislead - except handling humans as resources -, nothing human exists there, robotic approaches are the norm there.

So feel free to use AI to pimp your resume, they will use AI to process it.

But the same person can get paid for it. So there is an incentive to create, or at least pretend problems.

Because this f%#n sh*t is jumping at you and is in your way promoting itself and want to configure and engage right away, or start some random item remained there when you in interim loss of your senses tried this crap, every time you press play instead of 8 or 9 by mistake, accidentally! But you don't want to start it, ever, anyway, that's why!

These kind of things backfire very hard. I will never ever use Apple Music whatever products, never. Just like those drawn to this remedy like flies to sugar. They make so shitty and offensive user experience that supporting them by not avoiding the vicinity of it is a crime against humanity! Basically supporting bullying kind of behaviour.

Why not to have a simple way to turn this offensive behaviour off? Nonsense. It is intentionally offensive and forceful! Straight forceful behaviour that needs to be cut down at the sprout! Otherwise it will multiply and suffocate you down the line.

Too much of the product designers adapt this arrogant attitude, Apple is just a (sizeable) drop in the sea!

What makes it serious to me going all the way back to New York instead of the closest airport in a situation believed being risky ...

> someone's KPIs to grow the engineering team to a specific number

Sigh!

Specific numbers!

I believe a more common specific number is the yearly EBITDA or ARR (or some other acronyms in this alley I care zero about to memorize) nowadays, for investor's sake. Like in our company. Since we were acquired - and some time before - the only talk in company meetings are EBITDA, ARR, compared to a number dreamed up by someone and to be reached in 5 years time. Specific financial results in specific timeframe. Our goals are specific numbers being above today's numbers by a chosen margin. The company talk are marketing campaigns and reach, campaign efficiency measurements, pricing strategies, subscription centric licensing, sales strategies, churn, and other slang around customer bullying I also do not care about, also organizational streamlining - what a loaded word! -, bla bla bla, all for the specific sacred number put up on the pedestal.

What we have zero talk about? Functionality, engineering.

I seriously do not understand these people. Why are they fiddling around with selling software in a niche sensitive to global economic fluctuations insted of selling ... I don't know. Shoes? Or better yet sugary water ... no, better is vitamin water ... no, the trendiest is protein water. That is something that needs no balanced functionality and engineering that is laborous so it is resource intensive to achieve. And is in the way of reaching the sacred number put up there. Engineers are in the way towards our goals. We are pulling back the cart! We are cost center now!!

I do not stay long.