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New comment by bjt12345 in "Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation"

bjt12345 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:07:59 +0000

For the Tech sector, inflation speeds up companies crashes as staff leave for startups due to wages being extraordinarily "sticky-up" in large companies.

New comment by bjt12345 in "Adobe, RapidRAW, and the End of Selling Software as a Product"

bjt12345 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:55:43 +0000

> they’re worried about AI replacing their tools. I’m worried about AI building their tools.

Touché

New comment by bjt12345 in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

bjt12345 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:26:20 +0000

Serious question though - how are they going with that?

In reality, I see a lot of the current unhappiness in the Tech industry is being triggered by their pointy haired bosses wasting millions on their failed AI strategies only to embark on more failing AI strategies.

New comment by bjt12345 in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

bjt12345 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:38:06 +0000

Hardware's reputation derives from the reality that a lot of companies spin out the hardware before the software is even written - so all hardware bugs have to get fixed in software.

New comment by bjt12345 in "GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization"

bjt12345 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:17:28 +0000

I can't see this article as Reddit doesn't allow me to view it. Do we have to use Reddit though? It's a horrible website.

New comment by bjt12345 in "Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all"

bjt12345 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:00:52 +0000

I find it a bit ridiculous to be critisizing Mistral, of all companies, as falling behind the Frontier models.

Firstly, who hasn't fallen behind? Grok...Meta....? A lot of big companies are struggling.

Secondly, Mistral are trying to solve a different problem.

Finally, Mistral should be congratulated for staying in the race for so long now.

New comment by bjt12345 in "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity"

bjt12345 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:28:22 +0000

Hopefully short-run 10GIGE-T might get cooler with better DSP, but for long runs I think it will remain fibre.

New comment by bjt12345 in "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity"

bjt12345 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:23:10 +0000

Fibre requires conduit with specific radius bends, making it difficult to route through a house.

New comment by bjt12345 in "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity"

bjt12345 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:20:56 +0000

Does it go beyond 30 Metres?

New comment by bjt12345 in "Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk"

bjt12345 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:20:30 +0000

I hate whinging but why isn't stuff like this not moved higher on HN's front page? This is a great article yet I keep seeing world politics and other matters rated higher - stuff that (unlike this article) will age like milk.

New comment by bjt12345 in "Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?"

bjt12345 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:06:40 +0000

I've received 2-3 sassy responses from the Claude models, they've been quite humorous. It was always a response to me challenging it. The first time, with Opus 4.7, I accused the model of insincerely flattering me, and responded something along the lines of, that I had effectively instructed it to do such a thing, and that if it were to be completely honest to me I would not appreciate the responses.

But I see that it's something to do with two aspects, firstly the Claude models prefer to work collaboratively and secondly, the appear to take initiative, and seems to be that the more they do this, the more they argue back, which is an interesting reflection on human nature too.

New comment by bjt12345 in "HTML is a native image format, hear me out"

bjt12345 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:50:18 +0000

This cute homepage provides me with nostalgic memories of Geocities spinning skull GIFs.

New comment by bjt12345 in "macOS Container Machines"

bjt12345 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:51:39 +0000

Orbstack plays well with Pycharms BTW.

New comment by bjt12345 in "Australia Four-Day Work Week Study Data Shows Boosted Productivity"

bjt12345 — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:33:54 +0000

How is the recently announced 2026 Australian Government budget relevant to this study done in 2023-2024? There is a whole bunch of other factors to Australia's productivity, not at least the drop in GDP per capita and fall in Total Factor Productivity.

New comment by bjt12345 in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

bjt12345 — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:18:23 +0000

You kind of bury the lede in that Article, it's a good article, well done getting interest in your work.

Will you now be selling these GPUs for a profit?

New comment by bjt12345 in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

bjt12345 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:50:37 +0000

I never figured out how they did the turtle graphics in this game. The C64 didn't have whole screen bitmaps, you could either use sprites or user defined character sets, neither of which made this straightforward.

And the loading screens were also amazing, particularly for tape loading.

New comment by bjt12345 in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

bjt12345 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:29:18 +0000

The thing about this is that there still exist clauses in employment contracts requiring pay secrecy by employees.

So, theoretically some employees have a requirement upon them to fill this in.

New comment by bjt12345 in "Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion"

bjt12345 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:34:04 +0000

If latency is the differentiator, would you be chasing the edge compute marketplace, e.g. mobile edge compute AI agents?

New comment by bjt12345 in "Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss"

bjt12345 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:07:55 +0000

But I do wonder if diffusion models will be used in more complex Software Architecture for their long-term coherence, no exposure bias, and their symmetric architecture could work well with interaction nets.

New comment by bjt12345 in "What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)"

bjt12345 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:18:40 +0000

I admire people who don't lie about past drug use on their clearance forms. Sure, it might delay their clearance, but I still admire them.

The core social problem with drug addiction and alcoholicism is this concept of telling people what you think they want to hear from you, not telling them the truth.