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New comment by dinkumthinkum in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

dinkumthinkum — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:52:50 +0000

I'm just being honest but the parent said "production," is that your idea of what that means?

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

dinkumthinkum — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:20:35 +0000

If you go by percentage of Americans, well consider the percentage of Americans that are actually net taxpayers.

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

dinkumthinkum — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:57 +0000

So, this is a complete nonsense take. Why do people keep making this kind of comparison? Is there really such a lack of critical thinking being taught these days?

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

dinkumthinkum — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:25:51 +0000

Is that so? What do janitors? They clean offices, right? What's in offices? Oh people. If no people are office workers, no offices need cleaning, no need for janitors. I think the economy is more complex than people think. It's not like "just be a plumber" is going help anyone.

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

dinkumthinkum — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:15:42 +0000

Maybe its because in the UK, you are basically just giving all of your money to the government so there is nothing to work out.

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

dinkumthinkum — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:09:22 +0000

Has anyone in these comments ever heard of QuickBooks?

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Cisco workforce reductions"

dinkumthinkum — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:05:50 +0000

Most tech companies give paternity/maternity leave. There is the WARN act and most companies provide severance. Are the packages always great? No, but I don't think equivalent in Europe are that much better. Public transport? That's your preference and lifestyle, I don't think that factors in here. Most tech companies provide decent insurance and don't require being part of some socialized wait-list system. And the salaries are quite a bit higher and without the Byzantine level of taxes. I think you might want to analyze it a little more.

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints"

dinkumthinkum — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:57:38 +0000

I hear you. It is impressive technically but as far as finding flaws, I will just say this. This looks like something aliens would create in a dystopian simulation based on very odd understanding of old movies. I found it quite unsettling. Do you really think this would replace films with real actors and real writers (assuming they left the millennial talk and "modern audience" stuff)? I think the memes and parodies for AI video is more interesting than this kind of thing.

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Cisco workforce reductions"

dinkumthinkum — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:56:40 +0000

Yeah, but compare the salaries to the US and then factor in taxes.

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dinkumthinkum — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:53:12 +0000

No. Very large numbers of Indians, particularly ones in the US do not even really speak Hindi or use it much. It is more common for them to speak their local languages and good luck learning all of those. Also, the culture is such that I think they would just have a good laugh as they click delete on your resume or whatever.

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Googlebook"

dinkumthinkum — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:34:18 +0000

Is this reply even real?

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

dinkumthinkum — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:33:15 +0000

Yeah, you're out of your of mind. This is just so stupid. You don't feel this kind of thinking is beneath you? You're literally advocating for cold blooded murder for someone you disagree with. As I said before, do you really think you can have a civil society like that. What do you think that achieves. I feel like you can't really be that mindless. You think that is like pulling a train lever?

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Claude for Small Business"

dinkumthinkum — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:20:42 +0000

I'm sure there are innumerable Adderall infused "startups" vibe coding this exact thing right now.

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

dinkumthinkum — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:48:14 +0000

You might be interested in the history. That was definitely not the case 133 years ago. Since at least the Middle Ages education has had a big impact on profession and station wasn’t just like a pastime for curiosity.

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "In-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored starting July 1"

dinkumthinkum — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:45:21 +0000

This can easily be stopped. I don’t see how you would copy whole paragraphs or the working of a physics this way without easily being caught but this can mitigated against.

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

dinkumthinkum — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:39:36 +0000

What a disgusting take. Leftists such as yourself are beyond the pale. Luigi murdered someone in cold blood. You can civil society like that. Leftists are always going fascists but I don’t they have a problem with fascism. Their only issue is that they want you to be the fascists. How can you not see how a civil society cannot exist if we follow your ideology? It’s fine as long as it happens to people you disagree with politically. Idiocy.

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dinkumthinkum — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:40:13 +0000

So, I'm not usually one to point these out but one of those words is considered pretty offensive by some and I am assuming that was not your intention.

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dinkumthinkum — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:36:01 +0000

MacOS is too complex? What web site even is this?

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Googlebook"

dinkumthinkum — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:26:24 +0000

I for totally agree with you. I actually think the people disagreeing with you are just exceptions that prove the rule. You are right, nobody is really asking for this. Now, we can't say literally "0%" but what this prove, and we all sort of know, there are a lot of neurotic people out there. But, yes, this is just slop for the vast majority of people.

New comment by dinkumthinkum in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

dinkumthinkum — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:13:30 +0000

I don't see it as dismissive, maybe you two are talking past each other but seem to be on similar side. I think the parent just articulated a sense of resignation that many people probably share. I think you might be saying that maybe there is still some shred to hold onto, possibly.