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New comment by disqard in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

disqard — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:39:33 +0000

Good luck! Big fan of your work for many, many years. Thank you for the amazing resource that is Adafruit.

New comment by disqard in "Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot' (2025)"

disqard — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:13:32 +0000

I'm so sorry to read about your experience in this thread.

I will comment, that once you left, the next person who joined won't have the benefit of your experience, allowing them to be similarly exploited... and the cycle continues.

New comment by disqard in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

disqard — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:00:03 +0000

I think GP is also specifically alluding to a recent surge of feeling like we're living in a post-Truth society now.

New comment by disqard in "'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused"

disqard — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:59:15 +0000

I'm not advocating for being this way... but if you're starting a company primarily so you can have an "exit strategy", then it is natural to primarily virtue-signal to Wall St (instead of "solve a real problem")

tl;dr: this AI cargo-culting is ultimately unsurprising to me.

New comment by disqard in "Meta Lays Off 8k Employees, as A.I. Casualties Mount"

disqard — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:22:36 +0000

Among the tech giants, what is Meta's "AI play"?

Is it: "we'll serve Black Mirror ads (generated via AI) into people's AR/VR glasses, since they'll wear them all the time"?

New comment by disqard in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

disqard — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:15:21 +0000

> bot behavior

Freudian slip?

New comment by disqard in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

disqard — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:27:15 +0000

That's a pretty good steelman.

I do think there's a gestalt (esp. among younger folks) of "AI is bad", to put it bluntly. An anecdote I saw today was:

parent: we're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight.

kid: oh, that's just AI.

(i.e. "that's made-up" or "that's silly" or "that's just lies") -- none of which are a positive sentiment)

New comment by disqard in "The US Is Using AI to Hunt Down Insider Trading on Polymarket"

disqard — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:07:04 +0000

I imagine the meme "you are like a little baby, watch this", as the POTUS performs over 3700 trades.

New comment by disqard in "Trump's More Than 3,700 Trades Astonish Wall Street Insiders"

disqard — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:00:31 +0000

He's smart! This is how one converts insider information into money.

He also does not pay taxes! That makes him a good businessman.

New comment by disqard in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

disqard — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:20:21 +0000

Your comment made me go read TFA, and yes, that is rather pretty handwriting.

New comment by disqard in "Googlebook"

disqard — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:59:57 +0000

Your argument has merit.

I'm just going to point out that NCSA Mosaic was released in 1993, and the hand-wringing over it being an absolute memory pig is more 1999 than 2019.

But your overall point is well-taken.

New comment by disqard in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

disqard — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:31:52 +0000

I recommend this too!

I like my Dell Precision T7910 (dual-socket Xeon FTW) a lot.

What are you using?

New comment by disqard in "Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery"

disqard — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:45:35 +0000

I love this too! What do you think of the "halfway faked" devices like the Yoto player [0]? My kid uses it to listen to audiobooks -- it has no actual content on the card, just rfid telling the device (now set this as the current album for playback).

[0] https://us.yotoplay.com/

New comment by disqard in "Ask.com has closed"

disqard — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:37:02 +0000

I'm loving the Wodehouse references in this thread.

In case there are folks unaware of it, there is an excellent TV series called "Jeeves and Wooster" (Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie) -- highly recommended!

New comment by disqard in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

disqard — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:59:35 +0000

Right, I've also heard your (1) above expressed as "she basically stole from the wrong set of people -- rich and powerful".

Kinda-sorta off-topic (but not really), it reminds me of Charlie Javice. She sold a database of college loan applicants to JP Morgan for $175 million -- it later turned out that she had fabricated most of that data.

New comment by disqard in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

disqard — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:01:13 +0000

Maybe not bragged "we made them dance"?

That gloating aged poorly.

New comment by disqard in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

disqard — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:55:54 +0000

Thank you for sharing your personal experience!

I often think "I should get me one of those" (MNT Pocket, or similar form-factor), but with my visual acuity getting worse (got my reading glasses in the past year), my X1 carbon might just remain my mainstay.

New comment by disqard in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

disqard — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:39:50 +0000

Elon can remain a successful bs'er longer than you can remain solvent... or something like that.

New comment by disqard in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

disqard — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:37:42 +0000

I don't know why you're being downvoted.

So, lately I've been trying to decouple AI from Capitalism, and it's starting to explain a lot of things, like:

* excessive hype

* doing layoffs, and scapegoating AI

* pushing AI into everything (Copilot)

* etc.

New comment by disqard in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

disqard — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:34:47 +0000

Wow, looks like you've put a lot of thought into this!

I skimmed the breakdown, and you've inspired me try something along these lines...

Thank You For Making And Sharing :)