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Are we supposed to be up in arms about this?

> 66 different federal political action campaigns (PACs), nearly half of which are supporting Republicans.

Seems balanced to me.

Disagree, if it provides value to me I don’t care who or what built it. This provides value to me. I’m stuck on windows and eventually want to get out, and MS Office (specifically OneNote) is one of the remaining hurdles. This gives me hope that it’s only a matter of time. For the anti-AI people they can wait for someone can do a "proper", artisanal human-written version that builds on the problems that were solved by the AI-written version here.

On the bright side, if enough people agree with this, I could finally buy a house in my neighborhood for <$3M. Prices remain stubbornly high and no amount of "America sucks" on HN and reddit are convincing these (mostly foreign, wealthy) people to sell their houses :(

I find the "normal" forms of gambling very boring: going to a casino, sports betting, lottery tickets, prediction markets, etc. I just assume I'll lose money because that's what tends to happen, so I have no interest in playing. As a result I thought I was a higher life-form, immune to gambling.

Then I played some mobile JRPGs that had gacha (gambling) elements. New fancy unit (big damage numbers or skimpy clothing or both) comes out every week and you get them by spending scarce resources on slot machine-like animations. Somehow I fell for this, despite knowing all about how gachas work, spending hundreds of dollars over the course of a few years. Now I realize I'm not a superior life-form. I just needed to be gifted a few wins of something that mattered to me, and then I'm throwing away money on pull after pull just like a casino gambling addict.

Dang. You're young and healthy enough to do intense snowboarding, and then a few years later suffer a heart attack? Glad you're doing better now, and thanks for the reminder to try to take care of my health.

Don't be fooled by the technical-sounding article that leads with software/licensing/product-related rationale but buries the real reason:

> After one too many PR scandals though, there was one that I just can't stomach as well as the rest. Which is... The CEO being a Trump man.

These are starting to pop up on HN (another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585161). Outright political posts get flagged here so the new tactic looks to be pretending to make a decision for technical reasons.

“It’s ok to do bad things to people/things I don’t like”

Feels good when you get to dish it out doesn’t it?

Without looking too carefully at the box I accidentally bought a pair of Nikes that had prominent marketing about how environmentally friendly the shoes were. Many parts of it were made out of recycled materials, including the insole that looked like it was made out of shredded multicolored plastic. No matter, it was comfortable, so I wore it. Same as you, after 2 months it disintegrated. Now, I refuse to buy anything from Nike. I also check for any over the top statements about using recycled materials.

theverge doesn't like Tesla and neither do the vast majority of people here. Why provide a fair and balanced view if it helps someone we don't like?

> got her Youtube Premium just so she stops seeing all the ads that are feeding on her

I don't blame you for your solution but it is so sad that we have to basically pay protection money to Google now so that our loved ones don't get scammed and robbed while they are consuming addictive/slop content.

That’s a lot of words coming from a very angry place. Frankly I’m surprised and disappointed that this hasn’t been flagged yet.

I’m a gun owner, but I’d rather start saving lives now rather than doing nothing while theorizing about all the ridiculous things that could happen.

Depends what your definitions of "requires" and "full" are. On mine there's some nagging on the scale of once every tens to hundreds of seconds if it thinks I'm not paying attention. You're willingly living a more stressful and unsafe life if you're still manually driving your car in 2026.

That's pretty much exactly my organization, instead of a big box I split them into smaller tubs. USB is further divided via labeled bags into USB A->C, USB C, Lightning, and "misc". On top of those I have a R/C car battery/charging tub and a home automation tub.

There are some 3d printer models for building grids of individual cable organizers (https://makerworld.com/en/models/946444-gridfinity-cable-org...) but I have too many cables and my collection is too dynamic to well-utilize something as static as that.

I love this, thank you for this write-up. A breath of fresh air amidst the pervasive negativity here. I’m going to buy the game to play coop with my sister and then when my kids are old enough I’ll do a coop play through with them as well.

If I went by the prevailing sentiment on HN/reddit, I wouldn't have: worked at FAANGs, bought Teslas and used FSD, had kids, bought a Bambu 3d printer, used Apple products, stayed in America to start a family, and so on. Each of these things have made my life meaningfully better. So I'll be buying No Man's Sky partly due to the complaining here and I'm sure I'll enjoy the hell out of it.

Not sure if online people are just always negative about everything or I happen to be cherry-picking instances where they were wrong, but going against the grain has worked great for me so far.

FSD 14 lite, which is now available for the HW3 (~2019-2023) Teslas, is surprisingly good. I have a HW3 and HW4, and while HW3 isn't as confident and competent as HW4, it's good enough that I don't mind it anymore. My wife was planning on trading in the HW3 for a new Model Y next year, and now she might just wait a few more years.

There’s a difference between on-topic discussions relevant to the post and “discussions” that veer off into the same emotional tribal rants that we see constantly now. We try to ignore it but the constant negativity and “us vs them” is not healthy, let alone meaningful discussion.

Yeah I’m gonna have to go ahead and push back on this. It’s getting worse and trending towards Reddit and using that guideline to tell people to stop talking about it is making things worse. We need to shame and downvote and flag the Reddit-tier posts and comments here.

At what point did Claude fail with that, generating a list of events from the scan, or adding the events to the calendar?

I had a different AI (Grok) successfully take a prompt like "I live at this address and need to pick up my son from school at 2:30pm, and then we need to hit these three stores before heading back home. Find the path with the least driving and add all of these as discrete events to my calendar with their addresses embedded, and give me a google maps link with the full path so I can double-check". Did it correctly on the first try. I'd think other AIs could do that too. So I'm thinking it was the scanned image that gave it problems?

Sounds like you need a lifestyle guru to troubleshoot why your current lifestyle is making you envious of someone else's lifestyle.

People who can afford to spend a bit extra to make things easier tend to do so. When you have money, time becomes your most valuable commodity.

If you read this and the feeling you came away with was "this rich guy is boasting", that's a reflection of your own envy. A mentally healthy, content person is capable of reading about cool things like this and not immediately feeling the need to broadcast their resentment and jealousy.

That may be true and bonus points for successfully managing to connect it back to everyone’s favorite subject, American politics.

There’s a place for it and it’s the news where I can consume it when I feel like it. Not the application launcher of my operating system.

Was fixing something on my dad’s computer and the start menu was featuring some story like “10 children swept away by floodwaters to their deaths” in some faraway country. What a terrible vibe to start the day with. Sensational news has no place in an operating system.

The post seems like a poorly disguised political rant “I don’t like the US, I don’t like the rich” with the license change being an excuse to post it to a technical forum.

I was in school around that time and I always had a graphing calculator in class and most of the time in standardized tests, AP tests, etc. It was basically just math competitions that wouldn't allow it. The graphing functionality was almost never used for anything. But the multi-line display could be used for notes, which is why they were banned for competitions.

Sounds a lot like my life. Agree with all of this. People were flabbergasted when I told them I was retiring “you’ll be so bored!” “What will you DO with all that time?”. I’m busier now than I was while I was working because I can actually commit to regular workouts/sports/projects instead of only being able to claw a few minutes here and there between work and family. Life is infinitely better. Once you gain control of your time, most of your stress melts away.

> Home Assistant

I've been using https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp for my Home Assistant instance and it has been awesome.

"What amps and charging schedule should I set my EV to charge at, so that at peak electricity rate time my house battery is at 90%." Looks at my house battery, car battery, current weather forecast, and house solar production, all of which are integrated into my Home Assistant. Looks at my gmail calendar. "16 amps, 9:30am-3:30pm, higher than usual because you're driving to lunch from 11am-12pm" (shows math). It can even go ahead and set it for me but I haven't given it read/write access to my car yet.

American here, it seems to vary by location. I walked to school as a grade school student (Midwest) and where I live now (Orange county, California) I regularly see swarms of kids biking to school.

This particular situation seems ridiculous. I’d be furious if I lived there.