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New comment by a34729t in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

a34729t — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:50:52 +0000

There is even a book mentioned here a number of years ago - a particulae favorite of mine - that features this as a plot point: Squares of the City by John Brunner

New comment by a34729t in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

a34729t — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:12:24 +0000

Reminds me of that movie "The Lobster"

New comment by a34729t in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

a34729t — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:04:48 +0000

I think its inevitable, especially if we get to artifical wombs. Think about the other side of the coin: you dont want to breed stupid and ugly people, right? Or maybe you want people who will immediately go on welfare and are genetically predisposed to vote reliably for the right party?

New comment by a34729t in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

a34729t — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:00:01 +0000

Oversupply of people, please.

New comment by a34729t in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

a34729t — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:56:03 +0000

Yeah CAPEX for semiconductors is terrifying. They cannot just handwave away large fractions of a decade, especially with the lead time for equipment.

New comment by a34729t in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

a34729t — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:37:44 +0000

Promotion driven development. It was really good before, honestly.

New comment by a34729t in "The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures"

a34729t — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:18:53 +0000

I see lots of people having totally checked out, since management cares less about nines and more about tokens consumed. Plus everybody figures theyll be laid off if not tomorrow next quarter or two, and their career will be unviable within 5 years.

I don't condone this view, but i understand where they are coming from!

New comment by a34729t in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

a34729t — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:29:25 +0000

But can it be fitted nasally?

New comment by a34729t in "Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising"

a34729t — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:09:19 +0000

Paging Elon Musk... surely you can do worse than this!

New comment by a34729t in "Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising"

a34729t — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:07:13 +0000

But for the dining hall presummably you dont just want skinny people, because that probably just means lame salads and stuff. Its like if the chef is too skinny, i suspect that.

If i were to do the dining hall ads I'd make everybody super fat. Look how delicious our food is!

New comment by a34729t in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

a34729t — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:00:55 +0000

I just installed Google maps after 4 years and man it is shitty with cosntant recommendations and nags too. I just want a map and search and directions. But Apple maps is sooooo shitty at those...

New comment by a34729t in "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac"

a34729t — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:16:37 +0000

I remember chatting to some people behind Siri (it was an acquisition), and there was a feeling it was better before Apple nerfed and neglected it. Which is very Apple.

New comment by a34729t in "How GLM built its own inference infrastructure"

a34729t — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:58:23 +0000

I mean all the database stuff is obvious low hanging fruit for inference engines.

New comment by a34729t in "Everybody's Lost Their Minds"

a34729t — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:53:06 +0000

Yeah thats the silver lining in the whole mess: For those of us who enjoy software, hardware and building things, this will be a new golden age and we can filter out all humans and elves.

New comment by a34729t in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"

a34729t — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:40:16 +0000

Re autos, IIRC Holden shut down in the late 2000s. But the Australian economy (and Canadian, for that matter) is just houses and holes.

New comment by a34729t in "Most people prefer traditional architecture"

a34729t — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:48:36 +0000

I wanted to paint my house in Razzle Dazzle, but orange and green. My wife threatened to leave me, so the idea was abandoned.

New comment by a34729t in "Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating?"

a34729t — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:58:40 +0000

Yeah i feel like most people (especially those who entered the workforce in the 2000s and later) just dont give a shit about their code. One of 30yo guys i work with (a good generalist) was recently complaining how most of these chucklefucks are just churning out darios of vibeslop docs and code (darios being like courics, but for vibeslop instead of turds) that they dont understand.

New comment by a34729t in "A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO'"

a34729t — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:02:51 +0000

This sounds exactly what happens when you are required to fill out a reason for say a deployment to your test enrvironment in a jira ticket. After a certain point you just stop obeying cause nobody reads the ticket anyways.

New comment by a34729t in "Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts"

a34729t — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:20:48 +0000

My employer has somehow managed to avoid the constant layoffs since 2022 trend, shockingly, and I think this is a big reason we have relatively low churn despite not having many promotions, refreshers, etc (on top of some relatively uncommon benefits for a large tech company). I was recently interviewing a few engineers from FAANG+ companies who are desperate to get out of the squid games and quarterly layoff fears. I wish more companies would realize what a selling point this is, and I wish my CEO would publicly brag about how is he is competent enough to not need to churn through 10+% of his workforce a year AND have great stock price growth over the last 6 years.

New comment by a34729t in "The Coming War on General Computation (2011)"

a34729t — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:51:10 +0000

The problem China has is that as long as they depend on exports, they depend on the US consumer. If the US consumer stops spending, there is nobody else to pick up the slack.