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New comment by hellisothers in "The Customer Who Almost Killed Slack, Stripe, and Airbnb"

hellisothers — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:42:20 +0000

I’m the opposite and never use Booking but part of that is I’m put off by the experience of using the site. Also noticing it heavily skews towards getting you into a hotel in “touristy” locations. Feels like these are slightly different use cases and are optimized thusly.

New comment by hellisothers in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

hellisothers — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:33:10 +0000

I’ll bite, why do you deserve this “right”?

New comment by hellisothers in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

hellisothers — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:50:00 +0000

I love building and upgrading stuff as well as paying (much) more for tools that will last. But this is a laptop not a socket set, paying (a lot) more for worse performance up front makes absolutely no sense. Seems like the argument should be the Framework 12 just shouldn’t exist.

New comment by hellisothers in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

hellisothers — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:32:25 +0000

Yea, Dropbox was a pretty good DSLR camera, problem was everybody has a mobile phone now…

New comment by hellisothers in "'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech"

hellisothers — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:08:40 +0000

Lobbyists?

New comment by hellisothers in "Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore"

hellisothers — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:19:19 +0000

> LLM doesn't feel like a person. It feels way better

Somebody trademark this! :D

New comment by hellisothers in "New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing"

hellisothers — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:13:43 +0000

Ease of use. Jellyfin is akin to asking “why don’t people use Linux?” 15 years ago.

New comment by hellisothers in "You Don't Look Like a Gamer: On Toxicity, Gatekeeping, & Women Who Share Gaming"

hellisothers — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:26:07 +0000

Labels are good, they help categorize and provide perspectives. Just try to have many of them not one or two :D

New comment by hellisothers in "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution"

hellisothers — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:07:50 +0000

“In producing textiles but has there been actual positive impact in other sectors?” I’m sure the Industrial Revolution didn’t just happen all at once, it started somewhere and crept.

New comment by hellisothers in "Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin"

hellisothers — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:24:25 +0000

In case the don’t reply I’m betting it was when they changed their API and broke a lot of existing hardware that took a long time to get working right again.

New comment by hellisothers in "Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin"

hellisothers — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:21:44 +0000

> I’m all for paying for a service that offers fair value

They say, about not paying for a product to let them stream pirated content from other services:D. I’m annoyed by all the various streaming services too but at some point you just gotta admit you don’t want to pay for anything regardless of value.

New comment by hellisothers in "Google Plans to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic"

hellisothers — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:59:18 +0000

Same and it is working really well (I say contra to most individual reporting).

New comment by hellisothers in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

hellisothers — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:16:59 +0000

Aren’t you just making their point stronger? Effort is what is being replaced here, with some taste and a pile of AI (formerly effort) you can go to the moon.

New comment by hellisothers in "How to Survive in the Tech industry in 2026"

hellisothers — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:34:05 +0000

I’m not discounting you feeling this way but this argument feels performative or virtue signaling in the same way I’ve had to deal with people making the same argument about “I don’t have kids because children ruin the planet, we all should have less kids”. There are so many “what about”s here that unless the person making the argument is living in tent sustainably growing their own food that it doesn’t feel like it’s intellectually honest.

New comment by hellisothers in "First and Lego Education Partnership Update"

hellisothers — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:01:51 +0000

I was a coach the last two years for this and I found the FIRST program to not be productive or enjoyable for the children or the adults. We all joined for the robotics but 75% of your score is not about robotics, fully 50% is about displays and presentations. On top of that, as others have alluded to, the missions rewarded brute force attempts at perfect replays as opposed to problems solving and didn't get into some of the more interesting sensors available. Add to that the upcoming year is focused on inclusion by relying on vibe coding so which is the opposite direction they should be going.

I hope Lego can find a partner more focused on the robotics and not the pageantry and performance.

New comment by hellisothers in "Nvidia's Huang pitches AI tokens on top of salary"

hellisothers — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:13:29 +0000

I think you’re both right but missing a bigger issue which is the implication that these provided tokens are what the developers will use to develop with, at work “to be more productive”. That’s extra savage, today your work provides you access to AI, in the future you pay for that access out of your own “pocket”. It’s like being a lumberjack and having to bring your own chainsaw and gas.

New comment by hellisothers in "6 Practices that turned AI from prototyper to workhorse (106 PRs in 14 days)"

hellisothers — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:42:10 +0000

I wish this were always an option, I just want the bullet point list, not the 80% filler copy.

New comment by hellisothers in "The era of jobs is ending"

hellisothers — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:16:15 +0000

What indicates that to you?

New comment by hellisothers in "A Sad Collapse in Student Preparation at UC San Diego Was Inevitable"

hellisothers — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:30:15 +0000

As a not-conservative with a child in middle school (in CA) this rings true though. We pulled our son out of a highly rated public school essentially because of this, the whole class was taught to the lowest common denominator.

New comment by hellisothers in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

hellisothers — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:22:09 +0000

In my experience (of friends who drink and/or smoke weed) weed isn’t replacing drinking wine, it’s replacing drinking beer and booze.