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IT Wage Slave Simulator

ed_mercer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:26:51 +0000

Article URL: https://knowledgeworker.alexmeub.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539230

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New comment by ed_mercer in "Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight"

ed_mercer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:21:52 +0000

https://archive.md/KJK8v

New comment by ed_mercer in "Making Claude a Chemist"

ed_mercer — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:41:58 +0000

I wonder if every future announcement will be met with this criticism. Like, what's the point if they'll ban it in a few days.

New comment by ed_mercer in "RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8"

ed_mercer — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:25:34 +0000

>the local llm ordered products for me online

do you mean by commanding a browser? or using APIs?

New comment by ed_mercer in "It's death"

ed_mercer — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:30:27 +0000

I've always wondered why doing it before sleep amplifies the anxiety

New comment by ed_mercer in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

ed_mercer — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:37:31 +0000

Hi, is it comparable to Opus?

New comment by ed_mercer in "Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'"

ed_mercer — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:45:18 +0000

If they are recalled, do the cars drive themselves back to the factory?

New comment by ed_mercer in "Claude subscription changes coverage of `claude -p`"

ed_mercer — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:00:17 +0000

I guess Openclaw can update their docs once again.

New comment by ed_mercer in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

ed_mercer — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:17:56 +0000

Bad PR is still PR

New comment by ed_mercer in "Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results"

ed_mercer — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:26:05 +0000

That's easy to say now. Remember 2022 when ChatGPT was released and Pichai was asleep behind the wheel? It wasn't crazy at the time to think Google will lose the race.

New comment by ed_mercer in "Warp is now open-source"

ed_mercer — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:51:31 +0000

I never really understood why anyone would use this when you can just fire up claude code from your favorite terminal.

New comment by ed_mercer in "Claude Opus 4.7"

ed_mercer — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:51:41 +0000

> Claude was still spinning after 20 minutes.

I have been using Claude Code on a medium codebase (~2000 files, ~1M lines of code) for over a year and have never had to wait this long. Also I'm on the max plan and have not seen these limits at all.

New comment by ed_mercer in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

ed_mercer — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:40:35 +0000

Goodbye resale value

New comment by ed_mercer in "Claude Managed Agents"

ed_mercer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:31:36 +0000

Works fine here, also on Firefox mobile (149.0.1) on Android 16.

New comment by ed_mercer in "Apple Is Reportedly Facing a 'Massive Dilemma' with the MacBook Neo"

ed_mercer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:43:12 +0000

Couldn't apple just release a Macbook Neo 2 (or 1.1) or something to mitigate this?

New comment by ed_mercer in "Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors"

ed_mercer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:38:11 +0000

> That's a ridiculous suggestion.

Is it though? Claude's reliability is now at an all-time low of 98.7%. It's not a stretch to think that large companies will have second doubts about about adopting claude for their production environments.

New comment by ed_mercer in "Apple Is Reportedly Facing a 'Massive Dilemma' with the MacBook Neo"

ed_mercer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:12:33 +0000

> Apple would have to disable a GPU core on these chips to ensure that they have only a 5-core GPU, like all other MacBook Neo units sold to date.

This is wild. Why not just leave it a 6-core GPU? Would there really be bad press from having an extra GPU core?

New comment by ed_mercer in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

ed_mercer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:29:25 +0000

> Apple could certainly make some changes to prevent this being an issue at all.

Why Apple still hasn't fixed this in 2026 baffles me. The fact that a company the size of Tailscale has to find workarounds for an Apple blunder like this speaks volumes about how terrible Apple's software management is.

New comment by ed_mercer in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

ed_mercer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:48:33 +0000

Orbiter, the space simulation predecessor to KSP, has exactly such a mission where you see the moon in front of you as you ascent into the sky.

New comment by ed_mercer in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

ed_mercer — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:58:35 +0000

> Thanks for stopping by!

Missed chance to use "slopping by"