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wankerrific··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Yeah. No way we’re getting the full story. It probably goes something like this… we lost native engineers when we switched to React then we lost the engineers that were supporting react recently and won’t be replacing them because stock market. Therefore we’ll switch back to native and go with under skilled engineers using llms. This will work until we have a code base model collapse
wankerrific··on Surveillance company Flock moves to increase oversight after police misuse
Sure.
wankerrific··on US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model
Sure. Its a meeting with major bank execs AND the fed chair to discuss Anthropics new hype model.

Its definitely NOT, in any way, a meeting to discuss potential systemic risk due to insolvency/bankruptcy at some key AI-related company.

wankerrific··on What the Windsurf sale means for the AI coding ecosystem
Yes exactly. The VCs and investors have broken the unwritten contract that early startup employees can see an exit like the founders.

It’s going to be much more difficult to get employees for early stage startups from here on out.

wankerrific··on Some arguments against a land value tax (2024)
Wealth tax on holdings over a billion. Let capital “flight”.
wankerrific··on Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff
Yep. He’s a member
wankerrific··on Waymo driverless vehicle re-routes into oncoming traffic
Had a driverless way make an abrupt left turn in front of me (going opposite direction) on Bayshore a few weeks ago. If it signaled it did so at the last minute. I had to slam on my brakes to avoid broadsiding. They aren’t safe.
wankerrific··on Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
I mean, we could be spending effort on making human driving safer, but where is the monopoly in that?
wankerrific··on Max is taking 4K away from its legacy ad-free subscribers
People over 50 invented Netflix, dude. Try harder.
wankerrific··on Peter Thiel was an FBI informant
They’re all “libertarian” until their favorite bank goes belly up and needs a bail out.
wankerrific··on The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
Yes. The movement funded by billionaires and mass marketed by social media influencing is “counterculture”.
wankerrific··on Twitter lawyers overwhelmed as laid off employees file arbitration claims
Why not do both? Get another job AND get back some income rightly owed you by a previous employer.
wankerrific··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
What’s up with Apple touting this headset for remote work while they were one of the first to force people back to office.

And now Facebook/meta too.

Marketing hypocrisy.

wankerrific··on 250k gallons of sewage spill into Los Angeles River, prompting beach closures
A dry suit in Santa Cruz? LOL!
wankerrific··on Urgent: Sign the petition now
Socialism for the rich. Rugged capitalism for the poor.
wankerrific··on 30% of YC companies exposed through SVB can’t make payroll in the next 30 days
Socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else.
wankerrific··on Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
How about just reconfiguring bullpen office back to semi private cubicles or tiny phone room offices? Make the office a place to come to for a better work environment.

Let’s be honest- these bullpen setups suck and very few people want to “return” to that.

wankerrific··on U.S. bans equipment from Huawei and ZTE, citing national security concerns
These companies are famous for price dumping as well. This ban is a good thing
wankerrific··on Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week
No one got a $1.5m loan @ 2.5%. More like 3.25%
wankerrific··on Elon Musk Tesla email: Remote work is no longer acceptable
100% this is a disguised layoff - “encouraged attrition” if you will. Cheaper than a layoff
wankerrific··on S.F. population fell 6.3%, most in nation, to lowest level since 2010
I agree about the major first dotcom bringing people who didn’t care for the values and culture of the city but disagree about the roughness. The mission and the part of soma near the old trans bay terminal were pretty rough. People got mugged in broad daylight kinda rough
wankerrific··on Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out of pocket
Sure. Just like “competition” in broadband has driven prices down across America.
wankerrific··on The singularity is close?
You’re 19? You should be more worried about how to survive the oncoming ecological holocaust instead of the singularity. One is much likelier than the other. I believe even an ML algo would come to the same conclusion
wankerrific··on Will real estate ever be normal again?
Sorry. You’re going to have to move. Owning is for investors, banks, and other financial entities. /s

The best part is that if things go upside down in a few years we get to bail them out.

wankerrific··on Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine
Just like encouraging people to run around unvaccinated and mask free keeps your donors who make a $2000 per treatment Regeneron very happy.
wankerrific··on Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition
Marsha Blackburn signed on. That can only mean AT&T or Verizon is lobbying for it. She’s basically legislates whatever they tell her to do.
wankerrific··on Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect
Passed by an overwhelming majority of voters
wankerrific··on Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking
Facebook is probably clever enough to have optimized the layout and button placement of their initial alert to generate maximum mis-clicks on the “Allow app to track” button
wankerrific··on Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
this is a contract dispute. Do you not believe in free enterprise?
wankerrific··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
This is less “censorship” and more “ending a business relationship” which Google is certainly able to do.
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