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Is the emulation layer thin enough for a non-stupidly specced computer to run stuff? Or is this more of a theoretical/advancing for the future thing?

I've been seeing the very opposite. Fintech companies treating design of financial systems with the casualness of a frontend aesthetic change. And tons of business people integrating their vibecoded POCs with financially sensitive data sources.

That's fair, but the stereotypical immigrant isn't near retirement. Positive migration tends to be related to youth, and it's hard to imagine that this will work for most.

Which, fair, it's their right to close the door fully, but lack of immigration and a greatly aged population sounds like a recipe for collapse.

>So? Why is this important to people?

Because it could then tell us if it's related to us or not, potentially we could get to see how life unrelated to us looks like, how life in general is originally formed, how likely in the universe it is...

I honestly struggle to imagine how it can be considered unimportant, unless your stating position is that said life is completely unreachable to current and future tech, which I don't find likely.

Happens frequently. I can't hear tremendous anymore. Just considering ai I'm fed up with load bearing, wrinkle, catch...

It got to the point where I feel irrationally hostile to a message when it claims I'm right :).

Mind that, while the "creatine high dose to fight drowsiness" hack works and has no side effects (other than upset stomachs), the lost sleep still does it thing. You don't notice day to day but it will catch up to you eventually in many bad ways.

Funnily enough, the high seas remain unsailed around here because content got so formulaic I rarely see the point.

I can't remember the last time that talk about a show in my inner circle made me check it. Season 1 severance maybe? It feels forever ago, it used to be an almost weekly thing.

I wish it was a joke, I was being serious. I guess it keeps them from the factory producing extra to sell as knockoffs, or the product being "lost in transit" or whatever.

The thing I hate the most about tech, and I feel completely impotent to change minds on this, is the "fake life" tolerances it is afforded.

Airbnb is not regulated like a hotel because it's tech. Crypto isn't betting because it's tech. Now even breaching state data is ignored.

Can you imagine walking out of a ministry with a stolen cabinet? You'd get shot for doing this physically and people wouldn't bat an eye.

People's algorithm for purchases is usually "what's the best bang for the buck where the name rings a bell".

I'm guilty of it as well, if forced to choose blindly I'd pick Sony over WMFSENSY. But I'm beggining to wonder, with the recent casualness with which brands lower quality, whether they'll be a generational change and people will start ignoring brands entirely.

I'm starting to change my mind myself. My last Nike shoes weren't even the same size/shape (apparently they make left and right shoes in different countries now). At that point might as well go for the knockoffs.

They really don't.

Like, they're close enough for a vegetarian/vegan to get something that reminds them of the taste, but for a frequent meat eater it's not even close sadly. I keep trying from time to time.

As for why, it's much easier to replace the product than it is to replace the need.

The author: "Doctors are caught in a web of business, no longer a noble vocation. The altruism of young doctors have been replaced by the shackles of efficiency, productivity and key performance indicators."

The answer: here's some key performance indicator we can improve.

Sigh.

>Why do you assume "we not seen an improvements in products"? Who is "we"?

Have you? As in, can you name products you use daily that have been transformed night and day?

I am not talking about the existence of minor improvement, mind you. I am denying the existence of anything that is minimally consistent with the level of discourse that surrounds development itself (throwing away practices, checks and balances, hitting constant roadblocks due to the new speed, etc).

A true 100x requires no analysis. If we could suddenly build and improve houses at 100x I would know because I would be typing this from my 5th living room.

That's just volume though. I also know, and have no trouble believing, that github is going down partly due to the weight of all the vibecoded pushes. But that does not necessarily translate to people's needs and wants being covered, for all we know iOS just has a plague of unused POCs.

Do you have actual productive examples? As in, products with a real userbase that couldn't exist or be scaled pre-AI? Genuinely asking, I might have missed some large hits. The closest I can remember was bun rewrite kerfuffle, which seemed more a marketing action than anything.

Surely it makes the backlog clear faster to the point where you reach the non-priority stuff? But I'll bite, what business priorities are being created at 100x?

Here's my constant question:

Everyone's going so fast that they keep hitting walls. Review, CI, product asking for things, whatever.

Why have we not seen an improvements in products?

While every post and thread feels like a 90's wall street office, the new android and iphone ship with fewer features than usual. No indie guys come up with a linux-sized alternative OS. Switch 2 remains unhacked. Windows takes 3 seconds to show the right click menu.

Is everyone just running full speed in circles or something?

There could be gym logic at play. Hundreds signed up, 20 people actually exercising. Though it's probably more likely in the lower tiers.

As a Spaniard, neither is expected. The most censor-like behavior you get is a random mayor from a small town that decides to not support a particular artist of the opposite ideology for public funded shows and it goes viral.

This is meta's choice.

Generationally yes, the oppo is more recent, but (AFAIR, I'm speaking from memory) the 17 improved just on the selfie and accesory lenses, the main camera remained mostly untouched.

Anecdotically, my current OPPO find x9 mops the floor with my previous iphone 16 pro in photography in practice. The 1-1 with apple only seems to be there for Google and Samsung, but the Chinese flagships are a step up.

For video I think the iphone hasn't been dethroned yet.

This looks like a straight LLM output and yet it's sitting third place in my front page.

Is HN getting astroturfed recently? I feel like a lot of clickbaity low effort content makes the top but it might just be my impression/bias.

If our boots get anywhere near Moscow we get nuked.

That's the issue, a belligerent neighbor that permanently sabotages you but which you can't ever get too close to losing.

I just started using windows after being on macOS since Vista. I planned to go full Linux for a gaming pc, but there are still some kinks, so dual booting it is.

The shocking negative was the amount of ads and tracking I had to get rid of, like chinese budget phone tier of crap.

Once you get rid of that though, the experience is halfway decent. But there are absolute head scratchers for 2026: some dialogs literally blurry because they haven't adapted them to my 4k display, apps adding itself to self start at boot left and right, and so on.

The most laughable event happened after I installed windows home when my license was for windows profesional. The official way to solve this was... to turn down wifi and write a hardcoded switch-to-professional key as a fake activation. That was the most amateur workaround I've seen in decades.

The main issue is that many apps will block rooted phones (banks, state apps and the like). Usually more trouble than it's worth.

>Nike is simply too expensive for the (lack of) quality they have.

I always go to buy Nike first after decades of conditioning. These past years I always return.

Outer soles are of a recycled material that slips and feels like packaging material, the upper part is badly stitched and I've had two times where left and right shoes where slightly different size or shape.

I swear Nike knockoffs are significantly better quality than Nike itself now somehow.

The road is neither public nor neutral, and that's where the analogy breaks.

This road is owned by a casino, and its signs are scientifically placed so that you take the wrong turn and reach their business. They place guardrails in the specific spot to hide places they don't want you to see. They actively encourage your children to grab a car and drive on it, even at risk of their health, to groom a new generation of casino clients.

Humanity is very biased for the culmination of work, considering everything that comes before and after busywork for the lower masses.

Replicating a paper is just as valuable scientifically as publishing it, but how many careers advance through replication?

If we move the goal from "find the solution" to "clear up the LLMs work" that doesn't bode well neither for the attractiveness of the problem nor for the career of the professional that takes the challenge.

>It's insane that there's more profit in duping your users to spy on them and sell their data/information, than there is just making and selling a great product.

And it feels like an inflationary behavior: people need marketing because the product doesn't sell itself because it is neglected in favor of data collection and marketing that is needed because GOTO 1.

I'm not American, but if I'm not mistaken, you don't have election day off like in other countries, right?

If so, how is that not clearly discriminatory for those who can't afford the time to go.

I guess I don't exist...