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New comment by ardacinar in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

ardacinar — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:12:33 +0000

They're happy that it is locked down. They're not happy that they're not the ones doing the locking down.

New comment by ardacinar in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

ardacinar — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:34:09 +0000

I don't think there are any pneumatic air gun "provider"s that come with an associated risk of them claiming your carpentry work.

New comment by ardacinar in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

ardacinar — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:25:36 +0000

Well, for my case, I was paying $0 (Exactly, I managed to hunt down and delete every last resource in my account a few months ago). It was displaying $430 million for me. I don't think that is 0*2^30.

New comment by ardacinar in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

ardacinar — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:15:43 +0000

I hope they're not planning for that large of a cost increase.

New comment by ardacinar in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

ardacinar — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:10:21 +0000

Well if you're calling an API you host yourself to populate that said UI, not needing to host that UI as a webpage is not that much of an advantage.

New comment by ardacinar in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

ardacinar — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:09:43 +0000

Yep, that's not an excuse. Claude goes down all the time, should pi also go down?

Oh wait (from another comment under this article): > https://pi.dev/models is throwing an internal server error for me.

New comment by ardacinar in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

ardacinar — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:18:38 +0000

Citation needed. Machine Learning was NOWHERE NEAR as overused as AI in user-facing communication.

The last one is a traditional nerd criticism though, it has been present on HN for the last ~20 years. Kind of ignorable.

New comment by ardacinar in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

ardacinar — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:01:33 +0000

Neither is your time writing that prompt. When people are talking about elaborate prompts, with a lot of detailed instructions, guardrails etc. I'm kind of assuming it takes time.

New comment by ardacinar in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

ardacinar — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:51:07 +0000

You real solution is literally the workers controlling the means of production.

New comment by ardacinar in "A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses"

ardacinar — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:06:21 +0000

Well, you can just treat them like they are anybody else. So, $1000 fine plus a point on the license of Waymo. And as suggested by another commenter in the thread, if the cars in the fleet (collectively) accumulate more than 4 points within 12 months, Waymo loses its license. As in, all cars operated by Waymo.

New comment by ardacinar in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

ardacinar — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:12:43 +0000

Practically; yes. MMOs have been doing this kind of thing (Preventing alteration / automation of the client) for ages now.

New comment by ardacinar in "TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components"

ardacinar — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:47:55 +0000

GraphQL and SQL are about as related as Java and Javascript

New comment by ardacinar in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

ardacinar — Sat, 10 May 2025 20:04:25 +0000

Are we sure that the things listed here will not go away in a few years if Google continues to exist?

https://killedbygoogle.com/

New comment by ardacinar in "Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)"

ardacinar — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 08:15:09 +0000

Expected Value

New comment by ardacinar in "Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it"

ardacinar — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 18:00:38 +0000

By the way, acquisitions are easier to defend IMO. There are definitely cases of "Business X acquires business Y" that have no anti-competitive intent or anti-competitive consequences. But at least anecdotally, I can say mergers that do not lead to anti-competitive behavior are quite rare.

New comment by ardacinar in "Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software"

ardacinar — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:34:48 +0000

It is called something like chai in half of the word and something like tea in the other half :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/etymologymaps/comments/g4bmh3/chai_...

New comment by ardacinar in "Finnish as a world language?"

ardacinar — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 19:38:17 +0000

Not Finnish, but in Turkish (another language without gendered pronouns) I'd use something like "o ne dedi bu ne dedi" (what did that say, what did this say)

I'd guess Finnish has more than one demonstrative pronoun, too :)

New comment by ardacinar in "What will a Chromium-only Web look like?"

ardacinar — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 11:46:24 +0000

A blockchain-free protocol is not a protocol with "no you can't do anything blockchain related on this" restriction. A blockchain-free protocol is one where the protocol itself does not involve a blockchain. Like HTTP, or FTP, or Gopher, or IRC, SMTP etc.

New comment by ardacinar in "Turkey's Financial Crisis"

ardacinar — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 18:32:29 +0000

I remember there was an instance of a soldier being beheaded on the Bosphorus bridge. Not sure about the plural though

New comment by ardacinar in "Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation"

ardacinar — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 07:25:33 +0000

It is y/y (comparing Nov 2021 to Nov 2020). m/m 7% inflation is generally something more catastrophic.