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New comment by gritspants in "Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling"

gritspants — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:42:09 +0000

I think you and your environment are very different from the average consumer. At least in the office there's a shared community. I think you'd shudder to see what comes to the Starbucks/Dunkin drivethru.

New comment by gritspants in "Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling"

gritspants — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:13:38 +0000

I don't mind the downvotes but, what? No responsible company is going to want a bunch of unused cups interacting with their gear.

New comment by gritspants in "Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling"

gritspants — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:26:55 +0000

Bringing your own is a health hazard. It spreads germs all over the equipment.

New comment by gritspants in "MS SQL Arrow"

gritspants — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:30:37 +0000

Disappointed with the lack of Linux performance, though they're working on it. If you're dealing with MS/Azure SQL Server this is a god-send. For years I had to carefully configure CI/CD pipelines, dockerfiles, etc to enable devs to interact with our database.

MS SQL Arrow

gritspants — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:30:37 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/introducing-apache-arrow-support-in-mssql-python/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110556

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by gritspants in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

gritspants — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:45:09 +0000

There's no reason to tie every software companies rise and fall to AI. Several years ago they changed their enterprise licensing costs. It was such an aggressive and needless cash grab (1k/dev). The writing has been on the wall for a long time.

New comment by gritspants in "Coursera and Udemy are now one company"

gritspants — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:18:02 +0000

I recommend anything by jonas schmedtmann for js/ts/react to work colleagues.

New comment by gritspants in "AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures"

gritspants — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:52:40 +0000

I'm here for white-hate culture. You should, you should know better.

New comment by gritspants in "Let's talk space toilets"

gritspants — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:21:38 +0000

I've often wondered - what is the exact amount of vacuum (pressure?) that you can get away with without disemboweling someone?

New comment by gritspants in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

gritspants — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:33:30 +0000

Then... why are you using it? I used to get some degree of infotainment out of it but then it became this. Here's an idea: I had a need for some custom metal machining (aluminum). I just looked up some local companies and found a guy who was happy to work it into his shop. I've had some other needs, and just wound up hiring some guys to teach me (stick welding). It's not free, but there is incredible value doing it the old way.

New comment by gritspants in "Claude Code Routines"

gritspants — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:37:39 +0000

Here's the problem I keep running into with AI and 'history'. We all know where this is going. We'll pick our winners and losers in the interim, but so far, this is a technology that mostly impacts tech practitioners. Most people don't care, in the sense that you're a taxi driver. Perhaps you have a manual transmission and the odd person comments on your prowess with it. No one cares. I see a bunch of boys making fools out of themselves otherwise.

New comment by gritspants in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

gritspants — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:14:00 +0000

Well then I owe you an apology. Perhaps I inferred too much about your point of view and understood too little, which is my own loss. Sorry.

New comment by gritspants in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

gritspants — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:40:58 +0000

I believe the idea that you (or I) might know better than the 'average people' to be incredibly conceited, arrogant, and frankly wrong. It is an attitude that gives you superiority for having achieved nothing.

New comment by gritspants in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

gritspants — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:17:42 +0000

Wants and needs are not the same. We are experiencing the difference in real time. AI does not give society a want or need.

New comment by gritspants in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

gritspants — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:05:32 +0000

We can absolutely conceptualize what we want or need. I was born in 1980 in NYC. When I was a boy my father took me to a tech conference where they had a demo of ordering TV shows on demand. It was a miracle, to my young mind. Was this what I needed?

Growing up I had a friend group of misfit boys, who discovered h4ck1ng and phr34king. But we also discovered slackware Linux on 3.5" floppies. We also had to discover ASM and compiling the linux kernel in order to do anything with it. Boys with machines. That wasn't what I needed either.

Later on we did have great things with tech. Google made the world searchable in ways Altavista didn't. I remember strapping the original iPod on my arm to go for runs outside. I didn't even need a car for a while investors subsidized my Uber rides to and from the office.

Now, it seems the US is balanced on a precipice. The economy seems to have an incredible amount of money desperate to grow, but to what purpose. In my lifetime, and in my parents, and their parents before them, when the dollar becomes restless the flag goes forth. The dollar follows the flag.

And here we are at war.

New comment by gritspants in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

gritspants — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:19:17 +0000

I don't think you understand. Frankly, AI is a failure if all it does is replace coders. AI needs (given its current investment levels) to conquer all forms of knowledge work. This is an example of tech/industry needing to impose itself on society, rather than society needing it.

New comment by gritspants in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

gritspants — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:36:33 +0000

At what point do we look at 'Industrial Society and its Future' and go from "yeah that'll never happen", "ok some parts of it are happening", to ...? I swear tech folks are the most obtuse people on the planet.

New comment by gritspants in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

gritspants — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:51:58 +0000

Do fundies! We all failed, initially. We had a blast bunking up and spending days in the water though.

New comment by gritspants in "Muse Spark – Meta Superintelligence Labs"

gritspants — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:40:51 +0000

Thank you for telling me how stupid I am.

New comment by gritspants in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

gritspants — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:33:50 +0000

I would like someone to tell me how stupid I am. If I were Meta/Zuck I'd open source a great model the moment my company developed it. This just looks like a pitch to investors, otherwise.