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New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "We're Joining OpenAI"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:03:14 +0000

Since time immemorial acquired companies have claimed this sort of thing and then the acquiring companies have shut it down quick. Practically a meme at this point.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:58:59 +0000

I read the post and felt a lot of sympathy. Then I saw your response and re-read the post and it comes across as quite manipulative (if your statements are factually correct). My comment is less about this person (great library, btw), but more how it is Interesting how context can totally change how words on a page are received.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:20:58 +0000

Setting aside the founder or company itself, philosophically and ethically the “ends justify any means” concept is deeply flawed.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:09:29 +0000

This is a very weird take. Lots of people want to actively work on things that are interesting to them or impactful to the world. Places like Meta potentially give the opportunity to work on the most impactful and interesting things, potentially in human history.

Setting that aside, even if the work was boring, I would jump at the chance to earn $100M for several years of white collar, cushy work, purely for the impact I could have on the world with that money.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:03:08 +0000

They’re pretty sophisticated people and weighed the trades. It’s not as if they’re deserving of any sort of sympathy.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:08:41 +0000

My Garmin doesn’t get 30 days but does routinely get 2 weeks, which is fine with me. The battery life is probably the only reason I have never tried the Apple Watch, and I check every generation to see if there has been an improvement. Even the large sport / epic one only gets pathetic 36 hours. It’s mind boggling how Garmin can be so good at this and Apple cannot.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:25:06 +0000

Related: Funnily enough I’ve been getting a ton from robo applications who prepend a whole page with ascii art declaring that this is a robot application and the applicant (whose CV follows) is a “great match” and that I should reach out to the ai application mill with feedback. Naturally those are straight to the bin, but it’s just insane.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Palantir is extending its reach even further into government"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:00:38 +0000

It didn’t work on you. You’re so smart and savvy.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Palantir is extending its reach even further into government"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:44:17 +0000

Just kind of summarizing from the comments in this topic (I also couldn’t be bothered to Google Palantir’s thesis): sticky/useful tools to combine and enrich data sources with a focus on a sector where there is a lot of compliance-driven security, data sources that aren’t easily queryable outside of their direct users, and high barriers to entry.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Palantir is extending its reach even further into government"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:59:32 +0000

BAH was the “bad guy” in the sense that they were grifters competent at only winning contracts and then extending them indefinitely through incompetent delivery to suck as much money out of the government as possible at the expense of having good systems and taxpayer money.

Palantir is good at delivering what they promise.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "So you want to parse a PDF?"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:27:54 +0000

I love that the employee’s (CEO’s?) response to a “there’s no pricing on your website” comment is a link to a review on another kinda random website of a testimonial that getting pricing from them sucks and was marginally above the baseline of “the customer didn’t get scammed.” Ringing endorsement, along with the implied “we’ve been doing this ten years and still haven’t been able to implement self service sign up or even an html pricing page on the site.”

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Writing a good design document"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:04:33 +0000

If I get one more resume from a “seasoned professional” who has “decreased X by N%” I am going to close hiring, quit tech, and go be a hermit.

N.B. I received such a resume while typing this comment and am absconding to Outer Mongolia as I type

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Scammers unleash flood of online gaming sites"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:49:00 +0000

Who exactly is online gambling? And out of that subset, who is doing super shady appearing online gambling? I don’t mean to be flippant, but who exactly is falling for this slop? At some point, permit me to victim blame, the victim is somewhat to blame.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Our $100M Series B"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:39:27 +0000

Very bullish on this team! Congrats. I’ve been pushing my company to adopt their hardware, and we have!

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:04:56 +0000

> So, not unlimited?

Correct, not “unlimited” as in the dictionary definition of unlimited. Unlimited as in the plain meaning of unlimited as it is commonly used this subject matter area. i.e., Use it reasonably or hit the bricks, pal.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:44:13 +0000

I would absolutely do this if I ran anthropic. Of course unlimited implicitly means “unlimited without abuse.” There are always these “power users” who run it 25/8 and use all the resources, or sell access to others. To Anthropic: of course the “power users” are also going to be the top 5% of extremely online folks who are going to angrily pen long form tweet storms and this whole thing will die down soon for the other 95% of us. Weather the storm.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:04:15 +0000

This seems to me to be exactly what the post is about.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:03:18 +0000

Basically they’re saying implicitly to be principled about adopting frameworks and other dependencies, evaluating whether they’re needed for one’s project before adopting them. It’s a pretty thought provoking post, even if it may be too subtle for some folks.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:12:01 +0000

So I see what you’re saying. You’re talking about the whole system. Take land and then plant trees, the trees sequester carbon as they grow, some of them fall to the forest floor continuing to sequester carbon. But, I think the issue with your argument is, this process isn’t indefinite. The natural cycle is that these trees will decay, fall, rot (releasing carbon naturally) or natural forest fires will burn them anyways (releasing carbon naturally). Then more trees will take their places and sequester carbon, ad infinitum in the cycle that has taken place for the last 2 billion years since the Paleoproterozoic era.

But I see no difference between humans speeding this cycle by planting quick growth trees, cutting them down, releasing their stored carbon, planting more. It’s the same thing being sequestered and released continuously.

New comment by MOARDONGZPLZ in "Katharine Graham: The Washington Post"

MOARDONGZPLZ — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:16:12 +0000

To be fair, I think the implication was that there would be a class of folks whose jobs it was to create and then indefinitely prolong strikes, not that they should have no jobs.