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New comment by brentm in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

brentm — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:35:33 +0000

Maybe it's just me but as soon as something like this, that should be independent, is owned by something it reports on, it becomes something you need to automatically trust less.

New comment by brentm in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

brentm — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:33:14 +0000

I've seen it mentioned before but never checked it out. It def has ESPN vibes but I think it's more like a new Techcrunch.

New comment by brentm in "A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses"

brentm — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:57:51 +0000

It's hard to imagine this turn into 50-60% short term banger starting from a $1.75T market cap, I wonder if people will actually trip over themselves to buy. I had been thinking I wanted to jump on it to flip but at that price and the macro environment it may end up cratering before a pop. Seems like a sketchy buy.

New comment by brentm in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

brentm — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:40:48 +0000

I don't think we could see a bombing campaign like the one we've seen so far anywhere near that length of time. Partly for munitions reasons and partly for target reasons. There is only so much stuff to blow up and only so many bombs to blow things up with. We can't produce them at any where near the rate that would be required to just to do this for years.

New comment by brentm in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

brentm — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:56:28 +0000

He may still wriggle out of it but it is increasingly looking like Trump has stepped into something that he won't be able to reverse his way out of easily, a one way decision.

New comment by brentm in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

brentm — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:57:51 +0000

Clowns get the attention and the attention usually makes for winners.

New comment by brentm in "Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio"

brentm — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:52:56 +0000

My 4yo was a big fan of What The Car? on iPad. It's not quite as pleasant as this but there are some similarities.

New comment by brentm in "Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio"

brentm — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:50:05 +0000

Pleasant and nicely done. Took me a few seconds to figure out how I was suppose to drive around but very pleasant experience.

New comment by brentm in "How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy"

brentm — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:23:01 +0000

I don't think that is likely this time. Injecting capital to cover losses doesn't bring back the forward looking valuations so stock prices would remain down anyway. Gov isn't going to fund losses for like Microsoft.

New comment by brentm in "Product Hunt is dead"

brentm — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:47:06 +0000

I feel like it died in about 2015.

New comment by brentm in "Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks"

brentm — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:06:06 +0000

I've been using Roam Research since about 2020. Is Obsidian better?

New comment by brentm in "I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack"

brentm — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:57:39 +0000

I managed a few artists in the past. Usually Spotify paid something like $0.0035 per stream but it ranges based on where the listen took place. One artist owned part of their catalog so earned the 100% on those streams. The rest of their catalog was owned by a major label where they were credited 15% of the streaming take (which was slightly higher than the direct rate) towards their unrecouped major label account.

I'd say overall though, streaming can be good for artists. It helps keep them fresh in fans ears (via auto-generated & editorial playlists) and provides a revenue stream for the older stuff that would never be selling in stores or iTunes now.

New comment by brentm in "Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz"

brentm — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 01:23:57 +0000

You value clarity and directness in code. You prefer explicit, step-by-step solutions that are easy to understand and debug, even if they require more lines of code.

New comment by brentm in "Search all text in New York City"

brentm — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 02:05:26 +0000

Pretty cool

New comment by brentm in "AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified"

brentm — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:28:40 +0000

Without IP though you lose incentive to invest in new stuff. IP is made up just like saying murder is made up. Both are just concepts but necessary concepts to keep society on track.

That being said, I don't know if I agree that the AI companies are violating IP rights.

New comment by brentm in "AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified"

brentm — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:25:18 +0000

It's a valid question of if the rights were actually infringed here. Nothing stops you from reading books and then writing based on what you learned. Just because this is done at scale doesn't mean the output is violating the copyright.

New comment by brentm in "19% of California houses are owned by investors"

brentm — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:08:17 +0000

But how is that going to trigger someone?

New comment by brentm in "So you want to parse a PDF?"

brentm — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 01:41:43 +0000

This is one of those things that seems like it shouldn't be that hard until you start to dig in.

New comment by brentm in "6 weeks of Claude Code"

brentm — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:05:10 +0000

To me it feels like we're in the VC subsidized days for tools like Claude Code. Given how expensive we know GPU usage is and that it's not likely to come down, and these companies will need to eventually be profitable, I wonder if we're all heading for a point where ultimately Claude Code and the like will be like $2K per month instead of $200 on the high end.

New comment by brentm in "6 weeks of Claude Code"

brentm — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:02:33 +0000

You need to give it something to do that you don't think it will be able to do. That is where I think it starts to click.