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New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Jensen Huang resigns"

halfmatthalfcat — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 14:52:36 +0000

Going through dating, marriage, having children, growing a family, co-parenting children is a massive time and emotional investment (for most people who take it seriously). A large part of, at least Western, society is built on this concept of spousal trust. It's part of the tax code, its part of the legal code (spousal privilege), it's part of our moral fabric, it's a cornerstone of many religions. Breaking that is a huge betrayal of our collective societal moral understanding.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:47:10 +0000

Yesh - glad we could have this conversation that didn't devolve into ad hominem attacks.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:42:39 +0000

It doesn't matter about the objective power of any given man, I don't know why you keep reverting back to the laymen example. The virtue of men being at the top is in and of itself the issue. From the micro to the macro, you can find gender power imbalances that are residual from the sociological evolution of humans. We have been socially conditioned to rank men higher then women, and white men at the top. And now that that notion is being refuted and dismissed by a growing part of society, that's where the reckoning is.

Who held what job when, who died when, who actually held power when is irrelevant.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:15:39 +0000

Yeah and as a millennial I'm thrilled to have to clean up the boomer's messes but we don't get to choose what we inherit unfortunately and yes, we do have to pay the debts of our ancestors whether we like it or not.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:10:56 +0000

So the commanders of those men dying in battle or the ones running the companies whose coal miners were dying, or or or...just because men have suffered doesn't mean men has a cohort have not been at the top of the food chain. The point is that it is men controlling everyone else: men, women, etc until somewhat recently, historically.

So no, not useless and maybe should help color the conversation a bit more on WHY men are feeling as they are, because the power dynamics of society are shifting, of which men have been led to believe that they would, in fact, be at the top forever.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (Canada)"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:03:27 +0000

Totally what I said, thanks for the recap.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (Canada)"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 19:57:43 +0000

Oh ok, me supplying "numbers" will definitely change the conversation we have going right now.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (Canada)"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 19:38:48 +0000

I'm talking about the discourse in this thread and I can talk about or bring up whatever points I want, as can anyone else. Feel free to disagree.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Queen of the Bagel Business"

halfmatthalfcat — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 21:21:36 +0000

> When I tell her she makes it sound easy, she responds smoothly. “It is,” she says, reminding me her own shop sells 1k bagels on the weekends.

> To start a bagel shop today, she says, costs ~$500k.

"To START" - key quote. Rent, machinery, staff, etc. And then you have to do volume (~1k/day) to even start to cover costs. Then you need ancillary products like coffee (huge margins), cream cheese, etc.

I've been making bagels for almost 4 years and looked into the economics, it's hard and you wont break even for at least a couple years. As someone in tech, trying to get to my current salary would take around 5 years, that doesn't include the time investment, especially with a family.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"

halfmatthalfcat — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:29:59 +0000

I completely agree and I think smart companies also understand this. There is still a lot of leverage employees have, especially in tech. Tech as "adult daycare" isn't a meme for no reason.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "GPT-6.1 Terra"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:56:55 +0000

We aren't talking about the API. We're talking about the model names. If someone fires up the OpenAI website to ask it a question, nobody knows what the names mean. That's what normal people do and are probably super confused at what is going on.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "GPT-6.1 Terra"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:59:15 +0000

That’s the issue - this isn’t an engineering problem, it’s a general consumer problem. It’s what focus groups full of regular people are for.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "GPT-6.1 Terra"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:12:56 +0000

> If you have suggestions on how to name our products better, I'm all ears.

For some reason, this is just hilarious to me. Idk if you're being serious or if this is passive aggressive but the thought of OAI actually taking advice from a random HNer and basing their naming scheme off that is peak.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Anthropic S-1"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:48:35 +0000

Ngl, I've been on Opus 5.5 but had to switch to open for a while. DSv4/Minimax 3.1 were pretty damn good/comparable. Definitely not the same but completely servicable.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "EA is shutting down BioWare"

halfmatthalfcat — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:20:41 +0000

I was honestly surprised at how good it was, would recommend if you have any interest at all. I played ME 1 - 3 then Andromeda in a row and Andromeda took the #2 spot behind ME 1.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "EA is shutting down BioWare"

halfmatthalfcat — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:18:38 +0000

I've bought Minecraft, Skyrim and KotOR (I/II) on at least 3 different devices, I would say that's residual.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Security Disclosure"

halfmatthalfcat — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:58:43 +0000

The secret ones

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Security Disclosure"

halfmatthalfcat — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:51:22 +0000

User since 2011 and you’re asking this question?

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier"

halfmatthalfcat — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:46:18 +0000

That's not necessarily true. The point of war is to force control. You can force control without killing people. Economically, psychologically, digitally, etc. Killing people is one of the ways but not the only way to wage war.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "I know why the mathematicians weep"

halfmatthalfcat — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:43:10 +0000

There are different avenues of "solving" something though. Asking an LLM to one shot something vs iterating on it collaboratively are different ways of achieve potentially different ends.

If the result is black and white, then yeah, its probably not super fruitful but if the end result is subjective, then there really no is objective "solve".