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I assume people in government, at some level, are weighting constituent inputs by taxes paid. Which keeps it upright. :)

my life was ever so slightly better prior to reading this rantlet. I'm glad someone flagged it. If ever there was a use of the expression "go touch some grass" -- this is it. Of course author has already pre-avowed to never read any reactions to his screed.

I fully expected to age out of tech by the time I hit 40 (just hit 49, still in tech) -- so I do flight instruction, aircraft inspections and relocation. It's tech money but not tech consistency, and has basically pivoted my favorite hobby and turned it into a job, which has its own challenges.

I'm still building it out. Going for my Repair Station license next year and hoping to add pitot-static and transponder calibration to my services menu. I wrench on my own plane, but the liability exposure is insane, so I won't sign work for others.

It's really odd, but I think when I disclose this to my tech masters, there is something of a novelty value, and they appreciate that I can sling code... and also other things. That old "well rounded" trope I guess.

I would think there is some >0 value, if only to find the coveting person and destroy the object in front of them.

People with 4MM lamp money have grand scope for their spitefulness :)

I run Claude Max 200 as my primary. I also have GPT Plus (so Codex) and OpenRouter for MCP calls which I can load via IDE in a pinch.

I seem to have access to Gemini CLI due to one google sub or other, but each time I have a reason to try it, it underwhelms me.

I feel like the recent and strange habit of people telling me, unprompted, all about their assorted minor medical maladies, syndromes, and treatments -- is a form of "I don't always do the right thing because of these tribulations that I suffer"

Like it's pre-loading being an asshole. I hate it. Have your bad day in a way that doesn't continue the dominoes falling and causing other bad days, however much misery loves company.

You stole their username :D

Thank you for FAXing this comment in :)

Seems like the word for this is "complicit"

Imagine hand-crafting a PR and fighting through the AI-generated review comments with no cultural support for pushing back. It's like Brandolini's Law but in github.

Thanks for this. I've been daydreaming about something like this to replace my Lantronix Spider, but... sounds like I'll stick with the steampunk old-tech for a little while longer :)

Moats cost money. Thinking that everything can be commoditized once there is inertia is how we all get Alibaba Maps in a few years.

I would not presume to request changes to HN. I think it's sublime and I love what I discover here.

...but if I did, it would be to wish for a tip jar or some way to give back to the unflappable mods.

I wonder what % of the country (much less the world) make less than 150k and this thread is just shitting all over them. 90%? 95%? 98%?

I'm embarrassed by this whole thing.

I use OpenRouter for similar reasons -- half to avoid lock-in, and the other half to reduce the switching pain, which is just a way to say "if I do get locked in, I want to move easily"

I'm surprised at this expectation.

I work hard to cultivate hobbies outside of programming, but inevitably, I find a way to improve that other hobby with software. I'm just wired like that I think. I love systems. Code is my love language. :)

I'm currently trying to digitize a hopelessly analog procedure to calibrate aircraft engine fuel injection systems. Rpi, transducers, and python to the rescue! :D

I'm good at ignoring these "deals" but oh man my kryptonite remains "spend X more to get free shipping" -- Prime has ruined me for valuing shipping cost.

Literally in buyer remorse right now because I overbought about $80 worth of very lightweight aircraft parts from Wichita to score the free shipping. Shipping of a few ounces of aluminum.

I'm a gullible idiot :D

For my case, and my workload, the answer has always been "RAM is cheap, and swapping sucks" -- but there are folks using Rpi as a NAS platform so really... my anecdote actually sucks upon reflection and I'd retract it if I could.

For every clown like me with massive RAM in their colo'd box, there is someone doing better and more amazing things with an ESP32 and a few molecules of RAM :D

"More RAM than you think you'll need" -- particularly if you virtualize. :)

Blocking is a "no" and also a "I don't even respect you enough to deliver my answer to you or acknowledge your question". About as tactful as ghosting.

The charms of Indiana have been consistently lost on me over the years; it enhanced the article for me, and I read nearly his entire blog after his Greenland rantlet. I learned a few things.

Different strokes I suppose :)

From coveting the corner office, to coveting the corner 200x200px zoom square. What a time to be alive. :D

I job hop frequently, and have a large zeroth-order network because I did good work at each one.

When I am in a hiring role, I am not flipping through memories of good times with former coworkers that I had deep and meaningful time with -- I'm thinking back to who was the verb who got ish done and will make my project a success.

I have a dryer outlet that caught fire charging our little i3. I'm not sure why GP said "some countries" -- I'm in the US. The heat warped the plastic just enough to bridge one leg of the power socket to ground. It got pretty melty before the house breaker stopped things.

The torched outlet was installed specifically to charge prior homeowner's EV and was only 3 years old.

I moved to an EV-rated 50A outlet which can handle the duty cycle. We have charged two EVs off of it and so far so good. It has a cute little green logo on it and costs 5x as much as a typical NEMA plug. :) Weighs about 5x as much too and grips the grizzl-e plug very tightly and with much larger contact areas.

I'm a believer.

Very excited for my impending choice between a 30-day extension to my Prime membership or a $5 off of $50 coupon for anything in the Prime Fresh store.

...after 5 years of lawfare and gozillions spent, of course. :/

FTR I had no problems reading this. I think the writing style conveyed a gritted-teeth tension and added to the seriousness of the subject for me.

Yeah, after I posted (and disappointed a few people apparently) I was thinking about just how sticky this stuff really is, and how our political system is a "broad brush" system. It seems to muddle a lot of the smaller sensible details.

Thought-provoking for sure. I'm glad I ride in a filtering-legal state :)

Ignoring the massive political elephant that exists in all of this stuff -- isn't this a good trigger, as demand for the "updated standards" products will force these companies (or resellers of these products) to either validate their products for sale in the US or force the US to recognize these EU standards?

I suppose an immediate counterpoint is that the US Consumer seems unwilling to clamor for high-quality products. :/

Claude and some of the edgier parts of localstack are not friends either. It's pretty okay at rust which surprised me.

It makes me think that the language/platform/architecture that is "most known" by LLMs will soon be the preferred -- sort of a homogenization of technologies by LLM usage. Because if you can be 10x as successfully vibey in, say, nodejs versus elixir or go -- well, why would you opt for those in a greenfield project at all? Particularly if you aren't a tech shop and that choice allows you to use junior coders as if they were midlevel or senior.

(somewhere far away, the sound of beers being held)