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New comment by bluedevilzn in "[dead]"

bluedevilzn — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:12:18 +0000

This is AI slop.

>This isn't just a cute analogy. The octopus nervous system genuinely solves the same problem.

>Let's talk real numbers.

Yann LeCun: New Vision Language JEPA with Better Performance Than LLMs

bluedevilzn — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:54:42 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10942

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391566

Points: 10

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New comment by bluedevilzn in "Tesla market share in US drops to lowest since 2017"

bluedevilzn — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:07:43 +0000

The stock on the other hand…

New comment by bluedevilzn in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

bluedevilzn — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:32:10 +0000

Yes…

If you read the comment, you’d notice that there were no loans involved whatsoever.

If you can’t rent or buy a car without a credit score, you should only be allowed to buy a gun until you have proven that you’re a trusted member of the society.

New comment by bluedevilzn in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

bluedevilzn — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:10:17 +0000

I moved from Canada to California for a new job with a mid six figure salary.

I had a very difficult time finding a place to rent as I had no credit score. Only places that were available without credit score was a room to share. That was not an option with a cat, wife and kids.

Finally, I found a place that was willing to accept the entire year's rent up front. Moving such a large amount of money from Canada to US had its own set of hurdles.

Once that was sorted out, I had to deal with yet more craziness to buy a vehicle. I decided to buy a CPO Mazda from the dealer in cash (using a cheque, of course). Once I signed all the papers, they ran a credit check on my newly created SSN. The system could not find my SSN. So, they denied letting me buy the car because they couldn't accept such a large amount from a person they could not verify. My passport and Canadian driver's license were not acceptable proof of ID for the dealer.

On the flip side, my long history with Amex in Canada was ported over. So, they quickly set me up with very high limit credit cards.

We already live in social credit but I fear the ones maintained by companies might be better for the consumer.

New comment by bluedevilzn in "Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth"

bluedevilzn — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 06:33:45 +0000

That too for $1.5 million. 99% of Americans would picture a mansion when they think of a $1.5 million home.

New comment by bluedevilzn in "More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad"

bluedevilzn — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 10:33:28 +0000

Jobs created iAd. He hated bad ads.

Here’s him announcing and talking about ads in WWDC: https://youtu.be/eY3BZzzLaaM?si=Dttc5eJJ1B7Zf3sB

New comment by bluedevilzn in "Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google"

bluedevilzn — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:48:37 +0000

> And all that with wages well below even the local market in our crumbling Third World economy. With no exciting research positions nor self-managed time nor compensation, what was the advantage over a high-paying job at Microsoft or IBM?

When did Google pay less than Microsoft/IBM?

New comment by bluedevilzn in "Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds"

bluedevilzn — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:47:16 +0000

Yes but this exists - ads.apple.com

New comment by bluedevilzn in "OpenAI adds shopping to ChatGPT"

bluedevilzn — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:12:42 +0000

It begins...

New comment by bluedevilzn in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from 'reciprocal' tariffs"

bluedevilzn — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:55:42 +0000

The biggest mistake tech companies have done over the past 2 decades is not spending enough money lobbying. Every other industry manages to stay under the radar by continuing to pay both sides. Tech industry never got involved in politics so they were easy targets for politicians on minor issues.

New comment by bluedevilzn in "Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?"

bluedevilzn — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 01:44:21 +0000

Except paying more for a service doesn’t guarantee better service. I have hired local handymen at $75 per hour and they have been equally bad with fake reviews.

New comment by bluedevilzn in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

bluedevilzn — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:49:52 +0000

Except the movie came out in 1989. Trump wasn’t really well known in the media when the movie was written. There wasn’t even a trump tower.

New comment by bluedevilzn in "Can we communally deprecate git checkout?"

bluedevilzn — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:01:17 +0000

Parent comment is the quintessential example from the article that most people who know git didn't learn git properly.

New comment by bluedevilzn in "I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone"

bluedevilzn — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 02:33:39 +0000

This is due to ad blindness.

The Previa ads were always there but that was the first time you noticed it because it was on your mind.

New comment by bluedevilzn in "Please stop the coding challenges"

bluedevilzn — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:48:40 +0000

Many thousands of Sr. Staff engineers+ and Sr. managers+ across FAANG.

Google alone has 4000 directors all making a million at minimum.

I have only worked at FAANG across my nearly decade long career. So, it’s a biased but very large sample.

New comment by bluedevilzn in "Please stop the coding challenges"

bluedevilzn — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:46:39 +0000

Working 40 hours and making 7 figures, gives you plenty of time to have a life.

The key here is not to categorize as a “language developer”.

New comment by bluedevilzn in "Please stop the coding challenges"

bluedevilzn — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:16:24 +0000

I think you a missed a 0 there.

$100 is insultingly low for a 4 hour assignment.

New comment by bluedevilzn in "Please stop the coding challenges"

bluedevilzn — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:12:27 +0000

It’s lucrative if your bar is 6 figures.

No engineer that makes 7 figures calls themselves a ruby developer with the exception of DHH.

New comment by bluedevilzn in "Swift Homomorphic Encryption"

bluedevilzn — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:13:32 +0000

This must be the first real world use case of HE. It has generally been considered too slow to do anything useful but this is an excellent use case.