Hacker News: desktopninja

New comment by desktopninja in "Why do some AI chatbot subscriptions cost more than $200?"

desktopninja — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:57:12 +0000

I can't readily find the HN post but the math posted was solething like 'Each prompt costs a bottle of water'. Now think about the logistics required to get that amount of water. AI usage currently does not scale well.

New comment by desktopninja in "Application Less Containers"

desktopninja — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:01:48 +0000

Time for Hashicorp Nomad to make its comeback?

New comment by desktopninja in "The Dumbest Move in Tech: Laying Off Developers Because of AI"

desktopninja — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:13:21 +0000

Developers should now just use AI to beat the big tech co's at their own game. Prompt engineer products 10 times better than any offering from FAANG++. Even VC's aren't required!

New comment by desktopninja in "Make Fun of Them"

desktopninja — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:50:43 +0000

I'm in the camp now that asks the question, if AI is so good, why are we still tethered to big tech? why hasn't an untrained human prompted a product out that is 10 times better than anything big tech has to offer. After all intelligence is free :-)

New comment by desktopninja in "The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World"

desktopninja — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:19:56 +0000

I fondly remember running beos5 PE on a computer with a amd k6 processor and ati tv wonder card. I think it was 400Mhz, maybe 600 and 192MB ram. Watched in awe as it purrr'd editing DVs from firewire and the turner. It was a glorious multimedia OS. BeDepot was awesome too! The ports for winamp (BeAmp), zsnes and genecyst/dgens were top notch. the hw support was great too. never had an issue with MS Sidewinder gamepad (gameport and usb versions).

New comment by desktopninja in "Sketchy Boats"

desktopninja — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:09:20 +0000

ah dang. I keep reading "itchy boots".

New comment by desktopninja in "SLAX: Alternative syntax for XSLT tailored for readability"

desktopninja — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:58:07 +0000

Name reminded me of this awesomeness too:

https://www.slax.org/

New comment by desktopninja in "GCP Outage"

desktopninja — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:34:32 +0000

Borg and K8s were fighting for resources, so Gemini decided to take out DNS. Now a sysAdmin has to step in.

* just trying to add a little humour. pretty stressfull outage. grarr!!

New comment by desktopninja in "ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds Revealed"

desktopninja — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 22:42:55 +0000

Am I the only noticing the OG Sidewinder gamepad in the design?

New comment by desktopninja in "AI Does $58k of Engineering Work for $15, but Enterprises Can't Use It"

desktopninja — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:06:06 +0000

I was PIP'd out within 48hrs after vocalizing this sentiment. Now they are selling an enslopified AI centric product. Employee moral evaporated and yet the powers be deniably (sp) claim everything is fine. Fun times.

New comment by desktopninja in "Self-reported race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry in the U.S.: study"

desktopninja — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:35:49 +0000

"One drop rule" makes everyone black in America

New comment by desktopninja in "Former DOGE engineer on his experience working for the cost-cutting unit"

desktopninja — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:54:58 +0000

"lies & deceit"

New comment by desktopninja in "Red Hat Goes All in on AI-Powered Lightspeed System Admin Tools"

desktopninja — Fri, 30 May 2025 19:45:09 +0000

"... Lightspeed with watsonx"

New comment by desktopninja in "Tesla Autopilot Flips Car over in Perfect Driving Conditions"

desktopninja — Fri, 30 May 2025 18:31:05 +0000

Perhaps, like the uber/lyft light-on signage, when FSD is engaged some sort of visual cue should activated on the exterior of the vehicle. It can be subtle like an extra set of LEDs eliminated either on the front or back. The end effect might be that other drivers will make it more predicable for FSD to safely navigate.

But I as one of other drivers should not have to change my driving habits just for elon to make more money.

New comment by desktopninja in "Ensloppification"

desktopninja — Fri, 30 May 2025 16:37:00 +0000

The future is ensloptainment.

New comment by desktopninja in "Red Hat Ansible and HashiCorp Terraform Will Be Coming Together"

desktopninja — Thu, 29 May 2025 14:25:16 +0000

Yay! Terrible!

New comment by desktopninja in "FEMA Head Admits in Meetings He Doesn't yet Have a Plan for Hurricane Season"

desktopninja — Fri, 23 May 2025 09:29:45 +0000

Meant to say "United States Alternative Intelligence Department, USAID". But either works (ツ)

New comment by desktopninja in "FEMA Head Admits in Meetings He Doesn't yet Have a Plan for Hurricane Season"

desktopninja — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:36:04 +0000

I wouldn't worry much ... The new United States Artificial Intelligence Department, USAID gotz Uz Covered

New comment by desktopninja in "The Arcana Framework: Five Functions That Shape Every Team"

desktopninja — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:21:34 +0000

If my 2p is worth it, I believe this framework is dynamic. This means that, on a quarterly basis or per project, members will organically slot into the mentioned types. Managers should be cognizant of this and allow it to happen, rather than fighting the natural order due to biases from past outcomes. There are rare situations where a manager or group has to explicitly slot people in.

Lastly, I like the content of this framework, and it reminds me a lot of "Total Football."

New comment by desktopninja in "The 4 a.m. Wake-Up Is Not Just for Superman CEOs Anymore"

desktopninja — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:13:25 +0000

If you sleep next to cats or the other way round, you'll 'magically' start waking up at 4:30a ... almost on the dot!