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New comment by dickersnoodle in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

dickersnoodle — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:36:12 +0000

Hopefully that EVP feels embarrassed that a big bet was made that not only didn't pay off but left the company in a worse position. Some schadenfreude may be all you can expect, since this is an executive.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting"

dickersnoodle — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:59:37 +0000

You talk about that like it's a problem...

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

dickersnoodle — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:38:41 +0000

> I never connect my smart TVs to the network, I just plug in my Apple TV and move on.

You're not alone.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)"

dickersnoodle — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:53:58 +0000

"We don't want you here" sounds like a perfectly good reason to me.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

dickersnoodle — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:09:49 +0000

Every developer has had this fight with management and most lose.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

dickersnoodle — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:10:38 +0000

This is the funniest thing I've read all week.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

dickersnoodle — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:42:52 +0000

"much more demand than supply"? Demand from who?

New comment by dickersnoodle in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

dickersnoodle — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:42:07 +0000

Someone in management read and misunderstood "The Velocity of Money" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money)?

New comment by dickersnoodle in "How to effectively write quality code with AI"

dickersnoodle — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:34:54 +0000

>I see people at work who are drooling about being able to have code made for them .. but I'm not in that group.

+100 for this.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible"

dickersnoodle — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:40:47 +0000

Rumors are worth exactly what you pay for them.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "CEO of health care software company sentenced for $1B fraud conspiracy"

dickersnoodle — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:30:47 +0000

Good. Now do (Florida Senator) Rick Scott.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

dickersnoodle — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:18:41 +0000

"Monopoly abuse"? Apple Pay was a huge leap forward in preventing credit card info theft, to the point that I only buy gas at stations that use Apple Pay to avoid having my bank account emptied by someone running a pump skimmer.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

dickersnoodle — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:06:40 +0000

"existential threat to Windows" - from your lips to whoever's ear.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

dickersnoodle — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:02:58 +0000

>Gemini can know everything in my Google account

Sorry, this just made shivers run up my back.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop"

dickersnoodle — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:06:15 +0000

It's conceivably politically incorrect to use this reference, but Apple was begging the EU not to throw them into that briar patch.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3"

dickersnoodle — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:06:04 +0000

Apparently not. This is the most perfect example I've seen of "I can recite it, but I don't understand it so I don't know if it's really right or not" that I've seen in a while.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back"

dickersnoodle — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:16:21 +0000

I don't get offended. I've built software for my entire (43+ year) career and call myself a software developer (and back in the day a computer programmer) and I have never worked in a place where they treated it like actual engineering but have worked in plenty of places that had the "never enough time to do it right but plenty of time to do it over" attitude

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

dickersnoodle — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:36:38 +0000

Depends on the app and how it's built. There are ways to architect native mobile apps that give a lot of flexibility, and there are even ways to build both the native and web apps that help with information architecture and UX consistency but you have to design them with that in mind.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

dickersnoodle — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:50:40 +0000

>feature teams" can't easily ship native desktop UI because feature team eng only knows web...

This is the bane of a lot of the native developer's existence. Add to that the designers that only know how to use Sigma plugins and it just makes it worse.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Is Vibe Coding Dying?"

dickersnoodle — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:42:19 +0000

One can certainly hope so.