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New comment by badc0ffee in "AI Subscriptions Are Dead"

badc0ffee — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:11:41 +0000

> 3. This is the beginning of the wealth gap expansion. Those that can afford to spend $10,000 a month on Fable 5 will build incredible products that eat up more and more of the economy. Those that can’t afford Fable 5 will have an insane disadvantage

Jensen Huang, is that you?

> 4. The government will need to step in eventually. There will be too much civil unrest. I hope the answer isn’t free money. That won’t do anything. I hope the answer is education/access to AI resources for ALL. Universal Basic Opportunity

> 5. You need to seriously reconsider where your money goes every month. If you are complaining about AI prices and in the back of your mind you know your skill set is becoming quickly irrelevant, all while spending money every month on Netflix, Xbox Live, Paramount +, drugs, DoorDash, Uber, and other things that bring nothing positive to your life, you are simply doing it wrong. AI is an investment in yourself. It’s an investment in your relevance to the global economy. You need to make sure you make that investment

Transportation? Entertainment? Waste of money. Buy some tokens.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

badc0ffee — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:37:39 +0000

Not every year, but yes.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Apple WWDC 2026"

badc0ffee — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:36:39 +0000

It's the retro Apple logo rainbow they've had since they opened Apple Park. It could be interpreted as a pride rainbow, but the colours are different and in a different order.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Apple WWDC 2026"

badc0ffee — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:28:40 +0000

IMO it's not fine on iOS. It has the same visual busyness as on macOS.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering"

badc0ffee — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:45:44 +0000

The cryptonomics con

New comment by badc0ffee in "Hacker News, Sans AI"

badc0ffee — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:15:17 +0000

The rsync thread has the requisite comment saying a Rust rewrite would fix everything.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

badc0ffee — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:05:39 +0000

The (misguided IMO) idea was that buying their gas and integrating them into world markets would strengthen ties and liberalize them in the medium term.

Nobody believes that anymore, post-2022.

New comment by badc0ffee in "GoPro warned it may not survive"

badc0ffee — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:07:17 +0000

Did more or less this with my mother-in-law and her Echo Dot.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Coreutils for Windows"

badc0ffee — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:01:46 +0000

At which layer? dir /w, for example, is never going to list the contents of \w.

New comment by badc0ffee in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

badc0ffee — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:56:09 +0000

I've seen AI-generated API documentation do this: "Good for X and Y. Do NOT use for Z - use foo instead."

A human writer would add that sparingly, for cases where there might be some ambiguity. But the bot added that to basically every single API endpoint.

New comment by badc0ffee in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

badc0ffee — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:52:52 +0000

I remember that being how you shut off turbo mode on your XT clone in DOS.

New comment by badc0ffee in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

badc0ffee — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:44:53 +0000

Patrick Wardle, the guy behind Objective-See, had that style in the 2010s when I first started following his work. I actually liked it at the time.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Social Animus"

badc0ffee — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:21:17 +0000

Reading this feels like stepping into two different conversations already in progress.

New comment by badc0ffee in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

badc0ffee — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:00:12 +0000

Evidently you're not familiar with Swedish Lemon Angels.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive"

badc0ffee — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:37:01 +0000

I had some Skullcandy bluetooth headphones I liked, and when the foam started to go, I bought the new model of the same product. The new ones instantly disconnect when charging, so you can't listen with them wired to a charger/power bank. Why???

New comment by badc0ffee in "The worst job interview I ever had"

badc0ffee — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:33:17 +0000

> Even if you hire a cracked engineer, it’s probably not gonna be a good experience all-around if you can’t make a human connection.

"Cracked engineer" is throwing me, but maybe I've just never seen the word cracked used this way before. Should it be "crack", like "crack team"?

New comment by badc0ffee in "Ferrari Luce"

badc0ffee — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:23:31 +0000

> Just being a legendary brand like Ferrari doesn't mean that 100% of us understand 100% about 100% of your products.

This attitude probably alienates the next generation of potential Ferrari buyers, too.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

badc0ffee — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:24:47 +0000

You can't just buy a horse and park it in a garage. You need to exercise it, give it vet care, shoes, feed it, deal with poop, etc. Or, pay someone to do that.

Unless you live in a place with dirt roads, or really love horses, I think a beater Toyota would win in terms of time and cost.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

badc0ffee — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:18:41 +0000

I used to read a book or two when diving into a new language. But I think the last time I did that was in 2017 when I learned Swift. That was supplemented with a lot of Stackoverflow.

I think the next deep dive was in 2022, when I learned Go. But that was completely from online sources.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C"

badc0ffee — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:02:28 +0000

In eBPF-land you're going to be calling C functions in the kernel, and using (generally) C data types like structs and null-terminated strings. You can't do loops (loops are unrolled by the compiler), you can't do variadic functions, and you definitely can't take advantage of all the cool Go stuff like goroutines, select, context, etc.

I'm not really sure why you'd want to use this. If you're writing eBPF, you already need to know how to read C kernel source.