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New comment by jinushaun in "Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car"

jinushaun — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:22:19 +0000

Punish the users that use it the most? Sounds fair

New comment by jinushaun in "Google changes its search box"

jinushaun — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:18:53 +0000

Gone are the days where people are searching for websites. People are searching for answers. This trend started when Google Search added a calculator. I distinctly remember when Google started showing answers to simple questions like “what is the elevation of Everest” nearly 15 years ago. This is just the next evolution of that.

New comment by jinushaun in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

jinushaun — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:06:48 +0000

This is amazing and even works on a phone. Controls are intuitive and no bugs or glitches. Incredible.

New comment by jinushaun in "The Zulip Foundation"

jinushaun — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:19:29 +0000

Have you used Zulip? The UX is basically chat for vim and tmux users. It doesn’t “feel” like chatting. Not exactly user friendly.

New comment by jinushaun in "From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control"

jinushaun — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:52:52 +0000

Ironically, GitHub became popular because it gave everyone a centralized repo—exactly the thing people liked about SVN.

New comment by jinushaun in "Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees"

jinushaun — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:24:06 +0000

Maybe, but whoever are currently there aren’t making Windows 11 better.

New comment by jinushaun in "Highlights from Git 2.54"

jinushaun — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:05:17 +0000

`git history reword` is great. Using `git rebase -i` just to fix a spelling error is overkill and doesn’t actually do what I want.

New comment by jinushaun in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

jinushaun — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:49:24 +0000

Because Claude Code provides me more value than simply a chat agent. Claude Code is the only thing I pay for. I can do chat things with the free tier across all the LLMs.

New comment by jinushaun in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

jinushaun — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:22:40 +0000

Cost? Speed?

New comment by jinushaun in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

jinushaun — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:42:57 +0000

I think people underestimate execution. When something is done well, it looks easy. But if it was so easy, why are other competitors struggling to execute the same thing?

New comment by jinushaun in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

jinushaun — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:37:21 +0000

I think you underestimate what he does. It seems simple and obvious in hindsight, but if it were so easy, others would not be so far behind. A difficult thing done well looks easy. Reminds me of when Toyota disrupted auto manufacturing.

Under Tim Cook, Apple has pretty much exclusive access to certain parts and suppliers. Apple buys up all the silicon. Competitors can’t compete at the same quality without paying a premium, which digs into margins. It’s one of the reasons why non-Apple stuff feels so cheap. This lockdown allows Apple to have huge margins compared to competitors because Apple pays a discounted rate due to sheer volume.

New comment by jinushaun in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

jinushaun — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:33:56 +0000

Isn’t this kind of like the Nvidia/OpenAI deal? Just circulating debt/money

New comment by jinushaun in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

jinushaun — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:50:29 +0000

EU is late by 19 years. No one cares anymore about user replaceable batteries.

New comment by jinushaun in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

jinushaun — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:05:41 +0000

I really hope they fire whoever is in charge of Liquid Glass. Whoever is leading Apple software has run out of ideas. Of all the countless things they could be doing in software, we got the useless Liquid Glass refactor.

New comment by jinushaun in "US plans to automatically register young men for military draft"

jinushaun — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:38:54 +0000

But none of those reasons are technical limitations. They are political.

The “system” knows who can vote, even if there might not be a unified system currently to automatically validate that.

Same with taxes. These things can be automatically reported at the time of purchase.

New comment by jinushaun in "Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets"

jinushaun — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:22:36 +0000

Ignoring the gamblers losing money because they lack insider information, the harm is that you changed the incentive for war. It is motivated by money for the gamblers, not military or political objectives. The difference between this and rigged sports gambling is that people die. They die on a whim and they die unnecessarily. I shouldn’t have to explain why people dying is bad.

New comment by jinushaun in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

jinushaun — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:18:27 +0000

Technically true, but this concept is foreign to English speakers. English relies heavily on diphthongs and can’t separate the sounds in their head. Simplest example is probably the word “no” which is very much a diphthong.

That’s why they always have such predictable accents in another language.

New comment by jinushaun in "Goodbye to Sora"

jinushaun — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:33:41 +0000

Only because they promote it. The default experience for a new user on Youtube is to show you content from creators with 5M+ subscribers. It’s a positive feedback loop.

I find all of it lame and cringe, so I downvote all of that. However stuff still sneaks by…

New comment by jinushaun in "JavaScript Is Enough"

jinushaun — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:56:02 +0000

Two way props make for a nice demo, but are a nightmare to maintain.

New comment by jinushaun in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

jinushaun — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:27:57 +0000

No, Windows was broken before AI