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New comment by damnitbuilds in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

damnitbuilds — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:31:48 +0000

This article is just an advert disguised as journalism.

" Most experts agree that Turkey’s strategy for success in hair transplantation no longer relies on low prices or volume; instead, it hinges on creating an unshakable brand value through innovation, purpose-built technological equipment, and medical expertise that has proven itself on a global scale. "

New comment by damnitbuilds in "The desperation of NYTimes"

damnitbuilds — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:19:49 +0000

Tech means things should get progressively better.

Why don't companies see that people will pay a reasonable amount for better things, but making it worse and charging too much means people will go elsewhere ?

We have seen through the enshittification, IBM, NYT, HP, Netflix, etc. etc.

New comment by damnitbuilds in "What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI?"

damnitbuilds — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:07:35 +0000

My "Oh shit" moment was when my boss got the bill for me trying to vibe code a bugfix.

New comment by damnitbuilds in "AI will consume as much water in 2030 as 1.3B people"

damnitbuilds — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:44:31 +0000

"B"

Because "billion" was too hard to type.

New comment by damnitbuilds in "How to fight back against Gen-Z socialism"

damnitbuilds — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:42:22 +0000

I like socialism. I believe in people.

I hate the demented woke. I believe in people.

There is nowhere for normal sensible people any more.

New comment by damnitbuilds in "Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history"

damnitbuilds — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:14:40 +0000

It was a general point.

New comment by damnitbuilds in "Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history"

damnitbuilds — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:22:03 +0000

Excavation with our soon-to-be-outdated techniques is needless destruction.

We should only excavate what is about to be destroyed.

( And we shouldn't destroy stuff just to put up yet another shitty modern building. )

New comment by damnitbuilds in "Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history"

damnitbuilds — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:18:45 +0000

"Twenty centuries are stacked in 4 meters (13 feet) of earth — or about the height of two-and-a-half Napoleon Bonapartes standing on top of one another."

Way to get history wrong in your story about history.

New comment by damnitbuilds in "Foldable Reflectarray Turbocharges Cubesats' Data Rates"

damnitbuilds — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:54:44 +0000

Worthless without pictures of the expanded array.

New comment by damnitbuilds in "xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity"

damnitbuilds — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:35:43 +0000

"strip" ?

Really ?

New comment by damnitbuilds in "StereoTales: Multilingual Open-Ended Stereotype Discovery in LLMs"

damnitbuilds — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:58:53 +0000

Who determines what is a stereotype versus a fact ?

Who determines if a stereotype is "harmful" ?

Let the LLMs read the literature and come up with their own, unbiased views without random Big Brothers tipping the scales of fairness.

New comment by damnitbuilds in "Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper"

damnitbuilds — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:47:01 +0000

We are in a blip. It will end when Big AI crashes and we can all go back to running stuff locally (on cheap VRAM).

New comment by damnitbuilds in "Ask HN: Why most of us programmers are men?"

damnitbuilds — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:30:42 +0000

Because men and women are different and enjoy doing different things.

New comment by damnitbuilds in "Am I too pessimistic about Python's future?"

damnitbuilds — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:44:29 +0000

Not me but a library I use requires Python 2 - to build a version made last month, FFS.

New comment by damnitbuilds in "Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

damnitbuilds — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:42:53 +0000

Someone could make a decent amount by buying a short the day before the dump...

New comment by damnitbuilds in "The AI cost is going to create a new excuse for mass layoffs"

damnitbuilds — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:47:11 +0000

"You’re firing people just to make more profit by not having to pay those extra devs"

You seem not to understand how companies work.

New comment by damnitbuilds in "Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

damnitbuilds — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:38:14 +0000

I think you'll find the USG is only holding those shares temporarily and they will be transferred to ... someone ... just before January 20th, 2029.

New comment by damnitbuilds in "The CIA crash that opened a fraught month in Mexico–US relations"

damnitbuilds — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:32:31 +0000

https://archive.ph/aSWVT

New comment by damnitbuilds in "What to Do as the World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action"

damnitbuilds — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:10:32 +0000

"We are in week ten of a war that has reduced the flow of hydrocarbons from the Strait of Hormuz to the rest of the world – or more accurately to the U.S., Israel, and their allies"

India and China are not our allies.

The fight against global warming deserves better advocates.

https://www.hormuztracker.com/exposure

New comment by damnitbuilds in "Am I too pessimistic about Python's future?"

damnitbuilds — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:46:51 +0000

The Python 2/3 disaster is not even over yet - I had to deal with a Python 2 problem TODAY.

There can be no Python 4.