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rs999gti··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
You forgot:

3. People who do not care and are not in IT or on Hacker News.

I doubt a lot of regular people care what Microsoft is doing. All they want is a laptop or PC that works or to be able to play their XBOX games.

rs999gti··on Microsoft Outlook hit by service outage
Azure DevOps is degraded as well.
rs999gti··on Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements
Commondreams is a questionable source. Read with a grain of salt and good judgement.

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/common-dreams-media-bia...

rs999gti··on I cut my AI API costs 99% by switching from Claude to DeepSeek
Bad intellectual property protections and implied spyware.
rs999gti··on I cut my AI API costs 99% by switching from Claude to DeepSeek
> to DeepSeek

But China?

rs999gti··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
All I have to say is LOL to holistic admissions.

Use standardized testing. We cannot power the future with feels, we need STEM grads.

rs999gti··on I'm going back to writing code by hand
> Provide a tightly scoped technical spec to Codex as a task, and ask for 3x solutions.

I'm using a personal license and Codex. What does this cost to generate 3x solutions as a starting point?

Even in simple coding I have been doing, I notice Codex will burn through my Open AI subscription rather fast.

rs999gti··on Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
> Coal is neither cheap nor abundant in Ireland.

But it is abundant in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and Poland. Also, there is nuclear power in France.

However, Russia and Ukraine are at war. Germany is willing to go green and destroy itself. EU hates Poland and other east European countries. And EU and the rest of the world can't disassociate nuclear power with weapons.

So I guess EU can enjoy their limited and expensive green energy.

rs999gti··on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet
> but from an outsider America has become one mouthpiece

Really? As a naturalized American I see diversity in the USA's media. Do you have an example?

From what I see, there are two big voices in the media politically.

> rarely do I see dissenting voices in the media

Again, we need an example. I see the official line from the current party in power, and the counter arguements from the mainstream media as a whole. The current party only has a media output from very few mainstream sources.

rs999gti··on Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring
> create a fair international market and let winners win.

Why? It's selfish, but since the US and EU sent jobs out to India and China. India and China, have created protections that make getting those jobs back nearly impossible short of stopping payments. At the same time, these countries have huge trading imbalances (see FR complaining that their CN trade imbalance is untenable) and have become the defacto for cheap labor.

rs999gti··on AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded
In the cobol world, lots of highly paid senior consultants, who come in and out of retirement to support systems.

Other than that, I am guessing junior roles will move offshore to supply the body shops where the corporate IT work has been going.

rs999gti··on Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent
Does the public have claim on all of these artists' art?

They all are now involuntary patreons.

rs999gti··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
> What NPM should do if they really give a shit is start requiring 2FA to publish.

How does 2FA prevent malware? Anyone can get a phone number to receive a text or add an authenticator to their phone.

I would argue a subscrption model for 1 EUR/month would be better. The money received could pay for certification of packages and the credit card on file can leverage the security of the payments system.

rs999gti··on Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change
> In 10 years where do the senior dev's come from?

From company interns. Internships won't go away, there will just be less of them. For example, some companies will turn down interns because they do not have the time to train them due to project load.

With AI, now employed developers can be picky on whether or not to take on interns.

rs999gti··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
> supply chain attacks

You all really need to stop using this term when it comes to OSS. Supply chain implies a relationship, none of these companies or developers have a relationship with the creators other than including their packages.

Call it something like "free code attacks" or "hobbyist code attacks."

rs999gti··on I'm an award winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding
UCLA, where Tao works, has a 10B USD endowment. He will do just fine.
rs999gti··on Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling
> Could you summarize the contents of this video so we don't have to watch it?

Thermoelectric cooling is not very good and takes a lot of energy to do.

rs999gti··on Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
> Trump is being handed EOs that he doesn't have a clue about.

Probably like every president before him.

No president like CEOs can know everything about the organization they head. They are mostly the face and mouthpiece, and depend on chiefs and VPs to tell them what needs to be done according to the agenda that CEO or president has put forth.

rs999gti··on Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
> You have a President who is ordering the defunding of tons of groups (universities, media, aid, institutes) while not clearly having that authority

You have to read into this line from the article:

> Congress directly authorized and funded CPB

He may not have the authority, but his influence over certain congress people and CPB board members can get the process moving.

Also, I have always wondered why CPB cannot just cut federal ties and become a sponsored non-profit?

During all shows you always hear or see that they are sponsored or have grants from major Fortune 500s, private families, and other institutions.

Also, whenever this defund topic comes up, CPB always says, "we receive very little from the fed, so our funding is not much and can be ignored." Well now is the time to put up and split from the US federal government officially.

https://www.propublica.org/article/big-bird-debate-how-much-...

rs999gti··on Redis is open source again
Wow. First time hearing about Garnet. MS should package and deploy it as a service in the Azure SAAS offerings.
rs999gti··on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
> but rather as part of a global digital infrastructure fund

Sounds like a backdoor way to add a kill switch or censor filter to browsers from a central, unelected authority that does not respect the sovereignty and speech and media laws of the individual users' home countries.

No thanks, I'll take an open source, corporate controlled browser 10/10 times.

rs999gti··on Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week
> the toilet paper

I guess these US manufacturers will need to step it up: Kimberly-Clark, Procter & Gamble, and Georgia-Pacific

rs999gti··on Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
> Airlines won't make the seats bigger since that would cut into margins

They would, but would non-business and non-wealthy consumers pay what it costs?

rs999gti··on Ted Cruz Leads Republican Charge to Defund Consumer-Protection Agency
https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx...

> millions spent by agency on travel, office renovations

all with no congressional oversight, only an executive director making unilateral decisions on tax payer money.

rs999gti··on Ted Cruz Leads Republican Charge to Defund Consumer-Protection Agency
> lacks accountability. It is insulated from ordinary congressional pressure because its funding comes from the Federal Reserve and not through the appropriations process.

Ok that makes sense. Why is CFB not overseen by the congress and is a separate agency without oversight?

rs999gti··on Bitcoiners Disappointed: Trump's 'Free Ross Day One' Unfulfilled
NVM, Ross was just freed

https://x.com/Free_Ross/status/1881851923005165704

rs999gti··on Ask HN: Is wind power financially viable without subsidies?
> It's been a big issue for western european countries during the ukraine war.

In 2018, Germany (and France) were warned about their dependence and deals with Russia on oil and gas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu57D9YcIk0

rs999gti··on Why Gen Z is drinking less
You don't live in the city and see the cocktail hour, tini time signs and ads? Also, all the cocktail menus are for really sweet drinks.

I assume this is appealing to young or women drinkers?

rs999gti··on Why Gen Z is drinking less
> Booze, cigarettes, gas

If the government took less of a tax cut from these items they would be a little more affordable.

Also, Z's still smoke, but it's in the form of Zyn patches and nicotine bars.

Booze is mostly a women and poor person thing now. And gas, most of the Z's don't seem to drive because their parents always chauffeured them.

rs999gti··on Bitcoiners Disappointed: Trump's 'Free Ross Day One' Unfulfilled
I wonder if Ulbricht's attempts to hire a hitman are what blocked his pardon?
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