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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.

New comment by hellisothers in "An Unexpected Benefit from Quitting Coffee – 10 Months In"

hellisothers — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:31:12 +0000

As an alternative perspective I found no good decaf coffee. I tried maybe 8 different coffees, all very well regarded, very hipster, none came close to creating good pour-over coffee. I admit it’s all about expectations but if you’re currently enjoying pretty fancy coffee and want to go decaf you’re going to be disappointed. Decaf black tea was even worse…

New comment by hellisothers in "You are the scariest monster in the woods"

hellisothers — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 02:08:44 +0000

“It might be true for now…” “As soon as…” “It’s just a matter of time…”

I find myself in this type of discussion with AI maximalists where they balk at me suggesting there isn’t much “I” in “AI” and they get upset that I’m not seeing how smart it is and shocked I think it’s impossible… and then they start adding all the equivocation about time horizons. I never said it wasn’t possible eventually, just not right now. If I try to pin people down to a timeline it all of a sudden becomes “surely eventually”…

New comment by hellisothers in "Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco"

hellisothers — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 01:23:36 +0000

Every person I’ve ever met who espouses “crypto” sounds like they’re in a cult trying to recruit new members. I can’t recall meeting a person who uses crypto who when asked about it (if they didn’t bring it up first) treated it like “oh, yea, crypto, it’s whatever, you just use it or don’t”.

New comment by hellisothers in "Show HN: Automatically set real iOS alarms for calendar events"

hellisothers — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:27:12 +0000

Wow I’ve wanted this for so long and it was impossible to do previously. At $30/yr and $8/mo I’ll write my own app though.

New comment by hellisothers in "What is “good taste” in software engineering?"

hellisothers — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:23:23 +0000

I describe this as the Artist vs Scientist software engineer. I’m also an “artist” and approach the problem as a ball of clay, hacking away at it (and sometimes starting with a new ball) until the solution appears beneath my hands. The Scientist approach is to know the solution ahead of time , write tests to ensure it comes out the expected way, and then execute.

New comment by hellisothers in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

hellisothers — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 03:43:36 +0000

First they came for the TV shows… I jest, they came for the books first

New comment by hellisothers in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

hellisothers — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:23:12 +0000

You can see the headlines though “Apple skirts interoperability law by deprecating API after only one year”. Maintaining a public API is a cost usually only taken in because it has a benefit to the company.

New comment by hellisothers in "All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme"

hellisothers — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:34:55 +0000

“You need to know…” do you need to know though? I agree I need to know the things to work in a mature codebase or make something maintainable in the long run but to bang out a get rich quick project? Probably not.

New comment by hellisothers in "Postal traffic to US down by over 80% amid tariffs, UN says"

hellisothers — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:52:44 +0000

Consider actually traveling, I’ve been to two different countries recently and one had protests about tourists and the other had shirts. The next two I’m looking at going seem to be similarly hostile.

New comment by hellisothers in "I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf"

hellisothers — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:27:35 +0000

I would add one thing my family has complained about wrt road trip charging is it’s not just the time you wait to charge, it’s the time and games/anger dealing with all the people in line waiting to charge.

New comment by hellisothers in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

hellisothers — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:20:55 +0000

Realistically there would be a non-zero cost to allowing this, tech support, or compliance issues, or even PR issues when somebody’s modified hardware does something bad. So few people actually care or want this, it doesn’t feel like a fight worth having as a unilateral mission.

New comment by hellisothers in "It is worth it to buy the fast CPU"

hellisothers — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:35:38 +0000

But at the FAANGy companies I’ve worked at this issue persists. Mobile engineers working on 3yo computers and seeing new hires compile 2x (or more) faster with their newer machines.