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New comment by blueboo in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

blueboo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:05:27 +0000

Billions in profit may unblock scaling customer support beyond scrappy startup minimums

However (and I loathe this logic) if you can get the marketplace to accept that minimal level, and the brand harm is inconsequential, why not pocket the savings

New comment by blueboo in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

blueboo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:13:33 +0000

For those who find this appealing: Fires still burn down houses so what’s the point of fire departments?

New comment by blueboo in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

blueboo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:10:40 +0000

Skill issue—in management.

Good leaders perceive workhorse vs showhorse spectrum, critical toil vs needless flash (and vice versa).

It’s hard. Most fail at hard things. The industry in the aggregate will fail at hard things

So you get articles like this.

New comment by blueboo in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

blueboo — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:32:46 +0000

Open source meth is still bad in absolute terms even if it’s better than the alternative meth

New comment by blueboo in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

blueboo — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:50:04 +0000

They’re not going to build their own, it’ll just be one of the many capabilities of the agent platform they use. A 2024 SaaS is just a playbook for next-gen AI.

You don’t buy a spelling correction program because it got built into Word. And now, the OS…

New comment by blueboo in "Travel Is Not Education"

blueboo — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:51:54 +0000

Indeed perhaps the most valuable lesson from travel is returning with the realization of just how poorly the generalizations and statistics describe the messy reality of a place. Everywhere has every sort of person

New comment by blueboo in "Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20"

blueboo — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:46:01 +0000

“In a sufficiently complex system, malfunction or even total non-function may go undetected for long periods, if ever”

John Gall, The Systems Bible

New comment by blueboo in "All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)"

blueboo — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:46:13 +0000

When faced with the choice of making genmedia more expressive vs looking higher production-value, big labs always choose the latter.

Expressivity requires intent, which turns out to be rarer and therefore less apt to show up in a benchmark or crowdsourced head-to-head comparison.

New comment by blueboo in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

blueboo — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:03:01 +0000

The recent Acquired ep on “Alphabet Inc” put it aptly: social media moved into Google’s space, video (reels, “pivot to video”), and social media for socialising moved to message groups, iMessage/Whatsapp/Discord.

Revenue-wise, video ads have always been the sun to print ads peanut m&m.

Look where the pucks going then:

Implication: ChatGPT as a realtime video avatar will hit the jackpot with ads, but not before. Count on the ChatGPT device having a screen for that reason

New comment by blueboo in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

blueboo — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:46:58 +0000

What? AI assistants are prohibited from providing legal and/or medical advice. They're not lawyers (nor doctors).

New comment by blueboo in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

blueboo — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:50:01 +0000

We call it “legacy DeepMind”

New comment by blueboo in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

blueboo — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:15:27 +0000

In certain niches, the marginal value of kneecapping the competition exceeds the viable budget for counteracting gaming. It may be a quirk of this reality’s hyperparameters that a UGC media monopoly inevitably suffers from this. Or maybe at a certain point it hits their bottom line and better enforcement is contrived.

New comment by blueboo in "Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway"

blueboo — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 03:59:05 +0000

Can't you trivially reframe the initial purchase as being subsidized by that license? Your $200 smart knife sharpener would be $300 if it weren't recording audio 24/7 (for VAD, surely!)

I don't like it either but here we are

New comment by blueboo in "Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch"

blueboo — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:16:25 +0000

When was the last time you did a deep research? Good agents just do research as necessary. I find GPT5 Pro >> all the top DR agents

New comment by blueboo in "Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app"

blueboo — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:30:19 +0000

These are fun to make. But the real value prop would be demonstrating the effect of following the proposed practice the app indicates.

…have you yourself actually tried it? Where was your technique and where is it now?

New comment by blueboo in "Gemini Robotics 1.5 brings AI agents into the physical world"

blueboo — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 01:11:24 +0000

There’s literally a link to a thing you can use. Google 2025 has some great PMs and dev rel.

New comment by blueboo in "Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles"

blueboo — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:30:44 +0000

The safer the system, the more catastrophic the failures

New comment by blueboo in "We're Joining OpenAI"

blueboo — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:34:14 +0000

Bear in mind 600 of those files are icon and screenshot variants for various screen dpis and spec ratios..

New comment by blueboo in "AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore"

blueboo — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:21:29 +0000

Coding to music was a flag you were just twiddling. People confuse flow with a pleasant surface engagement. Deep problem solving is when you sit forward, turn the music down, and bring up the big cognitive guns.

New comment by blueboo in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

blueboo — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:05:46 +0000

They’d probably be doing significantly better if they were LLM-guided