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patrickmcnamaraon M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review

HN always has these completely contrived counterarguments. What is actually going to realistically happen that will prevent use of an LLM provider? Did you think that the OP literally meant the 12 years or maybe it was just to show how expensive using a Mac Mini as an alternative is?

patrickmcnamaraon ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

When has the EU mandated encryption backdoors?

patrickmcnamaraon Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium

Wow, the sculptor got 3.5 million USD for copyright infringement from his copycat statue.

patrickmcnamaraon Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

Windows 7 was pretty neat.

patrickmcnamaraon Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

I don't think the name is that bad. iDeal sounds very dated to me as a native English speaker.

patrickmcnamaraon EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services

They could also just have their maps and others show in the results as normal.

patrickmcnamaraon Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

Codex CLI not having a rewind makes it useless to me.

patrickmcnamaraon Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries

Nothing should be improved unless it solves world hunger.

patrickmcnamaraon Challenging the Narrative of European Decline

https://www.ft.com/content/d419bd2d-a6ba-44a5-a93a-1276f3e5d...

This is the article I was thinking of. I don't think we can pretend that pensions are not a problem, and not a massive strain on government budgets. Incomes of pensioners have increased a lot more than incomes of working-age people, and French over 65 earn more than French working-age (slightly different claim than I made).

> What do you want, when you stress that retired people earn too much

I want to pay less into unsustainable pension system and to be able to save for my own future instead. I would love more of Europe to get a system similar to Australia's superannuation system.

patrickmcnamaraon Challenging the Narrative of European Decline

I don't know why everyone is being so dismissive. Pensions in Europe nowadays are just transfers from young and poor to older and wealthier. The average French pensioner (not working) has a higher income than the average French worker (working).

patrickmcnamaraon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

True hacker spirit here.

patrickmcnamaraon Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing

45 billion / 1500 $ is 30 million workers. How did we arrive at 30 million?

patrickmcnamaraon Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

Nobody ever said other models were bastions of objectivity. They only implied they weren't corrupted by Musk. Which is true, and which is good.

patrickmcnamaraon I moved my digital stack to Europe

Trump 2 is worse than Trump 1 by far from EU perspective. And it also proved that it wasn't a once-off that Americans will vote in someone who threatens to dismantle NATO, invade Greenland, or start trade wars with allies for no reason.

patrickmcnamaraon Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return

It's not a marathon, or any race. There is no a finish line. It doesn't matter that much that someone is a minute ahead.

patrickmcnamaraon F-35 is built for the wrong war

Which system are you talking about?

patrickmcnamaraon Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

Hyperbole.

patrickmcnamaraon Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

I never understand these positions. How do authors make money selling books if someone can legally copy it and give it out for free?

patrickmcnamaraon Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?

The big difference is that the assets are given back when they stop invading other another country.

patrickmcnamaraon Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?

> given Europe seized a ton of Russian assets

Those assets are frozen, not seized.

patrickmcnamaraon Italy blocks US use of Sicily air base for Middle East war

The majority could have voted for a different government if they didn't want this one. I could understand this argument somewhere else, but the US has fair elections and voted for this twice.

patrickmcnamaraon Italy blocks US use of Sicily air base for Middle East war

Americans should stop voting in governments like this then.

patrickmcnamaraon Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety

Who issued this fine?

patrickmcnamaraon Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia

Ryanair are the biggest airline in Europe and they exclusively fly Boeing 737s.

patrickmcnamaraon 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

What is the HN way to say "touch grass"?

patrickmcnamaraon Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)

I saw nobody making those arguments. Most people were thinking that Ireland doesn't burn coal anymore. People who think or care about this stuff know that interconnects exist.

patrickmcnamaraon UUID package coming to Go standard library

I'd love to see proper WebSocket support, and JWTs.

patrickmcnamaraon Gemini 3.1 Pro

Truly we entering the era of AGI.

patrickmcnamaraon EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

People on HN never been wise to any law. For some reason they think that law operates like a set of instructions that a CPU operates.

patrickmcnamaraon Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users

Do bugs and bad implementations not exist in US software? If an US company did this, nobody would be bloviating about how it is a cultural issue or whatever.