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New comment by dickersnoodle in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

dickersnoodle — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:15:10 +0000

For a lot of us it's lived experience - "the platform" can hide bugs that don't emerge until a certain rare set of conditions is present and we get glared at by the business folks who don't understand why we can't just "fix it" when it's buried in someone else's Jenga tower.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "We must pace the frontier"

dickersnoodle — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:47:04 +0000

>"durrr it's just matrix multiplications" mfer so is your brain.

Tell me you don't know anything about neuroscience without telling me you don't know anything about neuroscience.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency"

dickersnoodle — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:27:45 +0000

Worth it to who?

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Georgia family says they're forced to sell home to power AI data centers"

dickersnoodle — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:43:17 +0000

I'm sure it seems "entirely fine" to you but the people being forcibly moved off their land have a very different reaction. I guess it comes down to who gets the gold mine and who gets the shaft...

New comment by dickersnoodle in "AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study"

dickersnoodle — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:18:47 +0000

This isn't a real surprise to anyone who knows how "AI" works.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

dickersnoodle — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:43:23 +0000

Why on earth would you need to do that for most things? Not everyone wants to be the next Coreweave. It sounds like you're killing a fly with a cannon to me.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Boomers are hoarding most of America's wealth and power"

dickersnoodle — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:08:24 +0000

As many commenters have pointed out, a lot of that wealth will disappear into the grubby hands of private-equity-owned assisted living facilities and nursing homes.

New comment by dickersnoodle in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

dickersnoodle — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:52:14 +0000

I'd have said ghouls. At least vampires are sexy...

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.