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New comment by bigtex in "Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal"

bigtex — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:20:46 +0000

Red states are against the deals as well. Many people in Texas are fighting back but sometimes it’s too late because the deal was done in secret.

New comment by bigtex in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

bigtex — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:28:18 +0000

What is funny is the Adobe executive who proved that yearly employee review process is no longer needed over a decade ago but for some reason the trend never caught on across the corporate world. Seems that some trends just don’t catch on for some reason.

New comment by bigtex in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

bigtex — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:43:42 +0000

The Model Y is going on 8 years old, S and X are being shutdown. That leaves you with the 3 and Y. Cybertruck will be shutdown soon. What new models have they announced?

New comment by bigtex in "The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19"

bigtex — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:52:11 +0000

This video on YT explains the not much talked about side effects and risks that can come from egg retrieval. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMrwAGR3GA

New comment by bigtex in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

bigtex — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:35:08 +0000

In the almost 30 years of using Mac’s at home and various desktop pc’s in the workplace I don’t think I have ever seen ram fail. Replaced plenty of old school failed disk drives however.

New comment by bigtex in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

bigtex — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:27:24 +0000

Shouldn't Anthropic just prompt Claude to "make an Electron app, but more reliable and eats less resource?" That easy right?

New comment by bigtex in "Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace"

bigtex — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:09:27 +0000

Does google still have employees who spend all their days in the chat rooms advocating for their lifestyle choices while on the clock?

New comment by bigtex in "2025 was the year Xbox died"

bigtex — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:08:53 +0000

I find it comical that the Switch was completely ignored, which just means to me that Nintendo finally won the console wars while the other two fight for second place. VGCharts has this for lifetime sales for the current consoles in the USA.

Switch 1 (57,530,683) PlayStation 5 - (33,012,035) Xbox Series X|S - (20,764,129) Switch 2 -(4,243,125)

New comment by bigtex in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

bigtex — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:48:18 +0000

All those things can be done with the newer gas F150s minus the frunk storage.

New comment by bigtex in "6B Miles Driven"

bigtex — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:38:21 +0000

What makes you trust the data provided by Tesla?

New comment by bigtex in "6B Miles Driven"

bigtex — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 19:37:13 +0000

Don't forget he promised robotaxis in 2019:

“Next year for sure, we will have over a million robotaxis on the road,” said Musk on October 21, 2019. “The fleet wakes up with an over-the-air update. That’s all it takes.”

https://www.thedrive.com/news/38129/elon-musk-promised-1-mil...

New comment by bigtex in "Tesla's German car sales more than halve in October as wider EV sales jump"

bigtex — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:01:24 +0000

What happened to those 2 million cyber truck reservations? Supposedly had enough demand for 8 years

New comment by bigtex in "Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of almost right AI code"

bigtex — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:10:31 +0000

"You didn't use SOTA" which is what I see when people respond to critical statements about the productivity of AI on Twitter and Reddit.

New comment by bigtex in "Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus"

bigtex — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 20:38:54 +0000

Make bootstrap great again.

New comment by bigtex in "Michael Madsen has died"

bigtex — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:32:23 +0000

He did a short lived tv show about helping people out and then the stipulation was you had to be available when he needed you. It was a great concept but I think it lasted one season.

New comment by bigtex in "A Dictionary of the Language of Myst's D'ni"

bigtex — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:18:17 +0000

Myst was the top selling game for several years.

New comment by bigtex in "Unsold Cybertrucks Are Piling Up at a Decaying US Shopping Mall"

bigtex — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:50:16 +0000

I remember when articles were written saying Tesla had almost 2 million pre-orders https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-cybertruck-orders-1-9-millio.... Good times.

New comment by bigtex in "When will tech workers start creating Unions?"

bigtex — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:25:11 +0000

Do you think the union can get me a great salary working from home 5 days a week like I have now?

New comment by bigtex in "Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?"

bigtex — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:05:00 +0000

You shared my sentiments exactly. What none of these "all junior developers will be out of a job by 2026" proclamations never deal with is the non coding stuff. Sure it can generate a boiler plate app in 1.5 seconds, but can in communicate with a stakeholder about the requirements and ask the right questions to determine the scope and importance of features.? I just imagine my Sales President spending more 90 seconds trying to write the proper prompt before he gives up and calls and talks to a human. There is just no way a C-suite executive is sitting in front of a computer typing in prompts.

New comment by bigtex in "Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency"

bigtex — Sat, 24 May 2025 15:21:25 +0000

Are any of those companies profitable?