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New comment by brendanjbond in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

brendanjbond — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:06:36 +0000

Care to elaborate with some evidence that this statement is "mindless populist drivel?"

New comment by brendanjbond in "“No tax on tips” is an industry plant"

brendanjbond — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:27:41 +0000

You can already filter out drivers that don't take tips (so, filter to zero) by just not placing the order.

New comment by brendanjbond in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

brendanjbond — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:14:27 +0000

You can't find a critique of extreme wealth concentration? There are many. Here's one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...

New comment by brendanjbond in "Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs"

brendanjbond — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:35:00 +0000

I once knew a founder of a pre-GPT-3 AI product that analyzed certain cost-adjacent documents to find "hidden" optimizations. The "AI" was the founder, an expert in that industry, churning through the uploaded documents himself and writing reports by hand detailing potential cost savings. How far we've come!

New comment by brendanjbond in "Developing with Docker"

brendanjbond — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:05:45 +0000

This is all very good and true, but as usual the devil is found in the details. For instance, my company sells Docker images that depend on a very old and recently unmaintained binary. Over the years, I've found issues with that binary that make it very hard to be sure issues are completely reproducible from system to system (or, as the article suggests, from local to production). Sometimes, it's as simple as a newer base image updating a core dependency (e.g. Alpine updating musl), but other times it seems like nothing changes but the host machine, and diagnosing kernel-level issues - say, your local Mac OS' LinuxKit kernel versus your production Amazon Linux or Ubuntu, and don't forget x86 emulation! - make "test what you develop and deploy what you test" occasionally very daunting.

New comment by brendanjbond in "The Aha Stack"

brendanjbond — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:33:19 +0000

The author of htmx has a lot of material on this topic: https://htmx.org/essays/