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New comment by asib in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"

asib — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:34:24 +0000

Generational wealth generally is used to mean something like you and at least your children can live very comfortably off of investment income for the rest of your lives, I.e. none of you have to work for a living. That’s why sibling’s def of 1.5-5m per child is much closer to the commonly understood meaning.

We can debate “live comfortably” if you want, but no 4.5 people are doing that from the investment proceeds of 1m.

What you are describing is kind of more like social mobility.

New comment by asib in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"

asib — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:59:38 +0000

1 mil is not generational wealth in the US. It is a big chunk of money, no doubt. It’ll buy a reasonable 2-3 bedroom house in the city I live in, with nothing left over. No one’s definition of generational wealth involves not touching the money for two generations…

New comment by asib in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

asib — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:11:20 +0000

Farage won an election in which no other major party participated.

The standards committee doesn't make decisions based on what they think is best. They make decisions based on the rules.

New comment by asib in "Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints"

asib — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:22:00 +0000

What is your service and what data are you collecting?

New comment by asib in "The fine print that follows you out the door: non-compete clauses are spreading"

asib — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:57:14 +0000

You are clearly incapable of putting yourself in the shoes of someone who is being told they cannot pursue their vocation for half a decade.

New comment by asib in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

asib — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:15:21 +0000

This is a story about non-compliance. One hopes the Aus government is going to take some sort of enforcement action. If _that_ fails, then you could claim limited success or failure.

Presumably you wouldn't call laws against murder a failure because there are murders.

New comment by asib in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

asib — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:32:11 +0000

So Jack Clark can't use Fable or Mythos anymore?

New comment by asib in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

asib — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:58:05 +0000

Right, I meant the libraries. I haven't used Gleam for a couple years at least though, so my opinions might be very outdated on this.

New comment by asib in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

asib — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:28:14 +0000

You're taking my comment way too literally. I'm basically just making a syntax comparison. Obviously Rust is not at all like Gleam in many ways either. It's just statically typed and has a similar syntax.

New comment by asib in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

asib — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:16:34 +0000

Do you like Rust or do you like Erlang? Writing Gleam is like writing Rust, writing Elixir is like writing Erlang.

I don't know the current state of Gleam OTP, but last I checked it wasn't great.

If you don't care about either of those things and only about types, use Gleam. But then why not just use Rust?

Bambu Lab A2L

asib — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://bambulab.com/en-us/a2l

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357173

Points: 3

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New comment by asib in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

asib — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:36:39 +0000

> > The parent there may be making the same assumption I am, that large enterprise _never_ pays sticker price.

> I shared that assumption until yesterday, when I found out that it wasn't holding for LLM pricing from OpenAI and Anthropic.

This reads like GP saying "enterprise never pays sticker price" and you responding "I thought so too until I saw the sticker price".

Is there some info you have that you can't/didn't share? Your article doesn't offer anything beyond the above.

New comment by asib in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

asib — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:06:31 +0000

Are you serious? This is so ignorant it's unbelievable. There are gazillions of marches that have ended without incident.

Colorado governor commutes sentence of election denier Tina Peters

asib — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:24:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/colorado-governor-tina-peters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155233

Points: 4

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New comment by asib in "I hate soldering"

asib — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:34:51 +0000

"Well ventilated" on its own is completely insufficient. If you are soldering without any fan or extraction, you _will_ inhale fumes because you have to look right over your work when you solder, which is exactly where the fumes are.

In general, the danger with soldering fumes is not the average concentration in the room in which you're working over the duration of a session, it's inhaling the very high concentration of fumes right as the soldering happens.

We could debate how much damage this is going to do and whether it's worth worrying about, but there isn't really room to debate that ventilation alone is going to do absolutely nothing.

Well ventilated area + fan is probably okay, but you need the fan right next to your soldering iron or it needs to be a gigantic fan otherwise, again, you are just going to inhale most of those fumes.

New comment by asib in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

asib — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:26:24 +0000

That’s not the intent of letmegooglethatforyou. It’s a pointed way of telling the recipient they should do the bare minimum research on their own before asking someone else for help. It’s not about being angry that someone told you something they found from a cursory google search

New comment by asib in "I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers"

asib — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:22:55 +0000

> Cool idea, just wondering why you wouldn't travel during a sabbatical.

Because they didn't want to? A very odd question; people have motivations/interests that aren't yours.

New comment by asib in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

asib — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:55:48 +0000

Err what? They bombed various countries in the Middle East (not just US bases) and even a British base in Cyprus.

New comment by asib in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

asib — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:10:42 +0000

WannaCry massively affected the NHS.

Army investigates after two helicopters hovered by Kid Rock's pool as he saluted

asib — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:47:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/30/kid-rock-army-helicopters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586586

Points: 2

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