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New comment by bgilroy26 in "Jev Meets the Trolley Problem"

bgilroy26 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:57:43 +0000

Thank you for the article, it is a very clean and compelling angle on decision models

I wanted to comment because I would have liked to have heard more about Verdict

New comment by bgilroy26 in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

bgilroy26 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:21:10 +0000

This financial loss is a report at a point in time about that point in time. A company's valuation is also reported at a point in time but it represents an aggregation of how much profit the company might generate across time (please forgive the layman's understanding). They are apples and oranges.

New comment by bgilroy26 in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

bgilroy26 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:51:11 +0000

You aren't going to escape the association with President Donald John Trump. He is the present and future of the Republican party.

New comment by bgilroy26 in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:22:12 +0000

Leonard Leo's

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:10:00 +0000

The biggest obstacles to Chinese vehicle sales in the United States are political and they are tremendous. Whichever party is blamed for their entry will lose Michigan for a generation and car dealership owners across the country

That's where the power is

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:42:52 +0000

When kids have to buy a textbook for school the price goes way up

New comment by bgilroy26 in "On Really Trying (2009)"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:05:55 +0000

If you are considered to be rich in terms of ways and means and generous of spirit as well, you really have it made in the shade. Traditionally speaking.

New comment by bgilroy26 in "On Really Trying (2009)"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:49:27 +0000

It's funny you should turn the conversation to literature

I felt very seen when I read this story of Nathaniel Hawthorne's https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/ebrand.html

It's about a man who left home on a journey because something was bothering him and he didn't stop investigating until he figured out what it was.

It turned out (spoilers!) that he regarded his fellow men at an arm's length. He saw himself apart

I am of that kind and it causes me great pain. If I'm reading you right it seems you feel yourself in the thick of it with everyone. I hope you do not take that feeling for granted

New comment by bgilroy26 in "On Really Trying (2009)"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:08:34 +0000

Once you've made it this far, the new spectrum everyone is measured on is their magnanimity.

It's okay that you didn't turn out to be that magnanimous, but don't lie to yourself and pretend that you tried as hard as you could

You had more in your humanity tank than you knew you had

New comment by bgilroy26 in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

bgilroy26 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:01:59 +0000

You've identified a load-bearing problem and it's worth naming

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:11:41 +0000

It's really funny. I would read HN headlines about PhD research in the area of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correctness_(computer_science) and it always seemed really boring

Now it is obvious to me how important this work is

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

bgilroy26 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:11:11 +0000

Thomas Bayes would say that the population of people who hate Facebook is really big and the population of people who are scrupulous about whether or not their comments are specific to the matter at hand is relatively small

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:39:08 +0000

This approach accumulates codebase-understanding debt and the call to pay the piper could come at any time

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:35:59 +0000

At least in 2020 when I was in this pool, the rate for recent grads from an average program was $75k-$85k

New comment by bgilroy26 in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

bgilroy26 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:33:15 +0000

The bendy arm people

https://www.wired.com/story/corporate-memphis-design-tech/

New comment by bgilroy26 in "The End of an Era"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:27:32 +0000

>Sales and marketing, of course, were always and will always be a different story.

If we could fix these, we could have bike lanes in places where they make sense

New comment by bgilroy26 in "After the AI Crash"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:43:29 +0000

It's more a post GamerGate understanding of a nerds vs the world narrative framing

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:27:42 +0000

>The phrase appeared in print in the 1885 biography of the noted swindler Joseph "Hungry Joe" Lewis, "King of the Bunco Men". The author writes:

>>It was always a saying with Joe that there was a sucker born every minute, and all through his business career he acted on that basis, and generally found a good crop of them

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Jaron Lanier: there is no AI (2023)"

bgilroy26 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:45:23 +0000

I would walk

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:12:10 +0000

Does the atmosphere stay attached to the earth due to the bending of time?