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New comment by baal80spam in "Programming Used to Be Free"

baal80spam — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:30:14 +0000

And then the second thought was panic: "But how am I going to use GOTO?!"

New comment by baal80spam in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

baal80spam — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:11:01 +0000

Not sure why you were downvoted so heavily. SV is a bubble if I've seen one.

New comment by baal80spam in "Claude Managed Agents"

baal80spam — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:17:46 +0000

But that's exactly what Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) wants.

New comment by baal80spam in "A whole civilization might die tonight"

baal80spam — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:20:01 +0000

Thanks, I guess that makes sense.

New comment by baal80spam in "A whole civilization might die tonight"

baal80spam — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:14:33 +0000

Why is the post miquoted?

It says: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

Will. Not might.

New comment by baal80spam in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

baal80spam — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:43:19 +0000

OnlyOffice? FreeOffice?

New comment by baal80spam in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

baal80spam — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:36:37 +0000

I see what you mean, but I kind of understand the reaction: what does this change in 99.99% of people lives? Nothing at all. It's not necessarily ignorance.

New comment by baal80spam in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

baal80spam — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:23:13 +0000

> Being able to serve is something the feminists have been fighting for the hardest over decades.

If any claim ever required "citation needed", this one is the biggest.

I've never seen feminists fight for duties, only for privileges.

US labor market posts largest jobs gain in 15 months

baal80spam — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:04:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-employment-growth-rebounded-march-unemployment-rate-falls-43-2026-04-03/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632934

Points: 4

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New comment by baal80spam in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

baal80spam — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:42:56 +0000

Uh, the GPT-5 clock is... interesting, to say the least.

New comment by baal80spam in "OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot"

baal80spam — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:53:51 +0000

Something I don't quite understand is why software developers are flocking to CC - product of a company whose CEO literally said they will be out of job because of it.

New comment by baal80spam in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

baal80spam — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:29:28 +0000

Get used to it. All PR statements nowadays get AI treatment before going public.

New comment by baal80spam in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

baal80spam — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:04:33 +0000

Let's not forget that ORACLE is actually an acronym.

New comment by baal80spam in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

baal80spam — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:01:40 +0000

Nah, it's just bad engineering, period. I "like" aljazeera too - they hijack your freaking PageDn and PageUp keys.

New comment by baal80spam in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

baal80spam — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:24:56 +0000

> At this point in my life "it just works" is good enough and no longer a point of ironic derision.

I am the same. I used to fiddle and obsess on customising every last thing possible. Now I just want the damn thing to work, and MacOS does exactly that.

New comment by baal80spam in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

baal80spam — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:07:03 +0000

I agree with this. At this point, Windows is like COBOL.

New comment by baal80spam in "Should QA exist?"

baal80spam — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:45:43 +0000

Thank you, that makes sense. What I meant was that today all unit tests are basically written by an AI so the "cost" is almost zero. Am I wrong?

New comment by baal80spam in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

baal80spam — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:43:06 +0000

> prompt and pray

This is a brilliant reimagining of the old and trusted PnP acronym.

New comment by baal80spam in "Should QA Exist"

baal80spam — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:15:44 +0000

> Unit tests are very expensive and return little value

Why are unit tests very expensive? This goes against everything I know.

New comment by baal80spam in "Should QA exist?"

baal80spam — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:08:27 +0000

> "what if I did X in one tab, Y in another, and then Z, all with this exact timing so events overlap"

As a QA: this bug will get downprioritised by PM to oblivion.