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New comment by jkubicek in "When electric cars were for women"

jkubicek — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 02:39:19 +0000

I drove a Miata for years in the early 00's. It was one of the early models, so dramatically underpowered, but still a blast. I found it fun to drive in the exact same way bikes are fun to ride. I could hit any line around any corner, the stick shift was tight. I even learned how to heel-toe shift (even though I never got good at it)

New comment by jkubicek in "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"

jkubicek — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:26:47 +0000

I was there 5 years

New comment by jkubicek in "A Health Update"

jkubicek — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:56:54 +0000

HE ALSO INVENTED THE CHOCKLOCK AND HAS GIANT FLESHY PALMS

(It's terrible what he had to go through, but I'm happy to hear that he's come out the other end happy and healthy. I hope you get to swim in the ocean soon Craig!)

New comment by jkubicek in "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"

jkubicek — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:41:06 +0000

My reputation is 49,636 (I was a relative expert in iOS and git when both technologies were young, and answered a LOT of questions that are still getting upvoted to this day)

My last answer was December 28, 2015, and corresponds pretty closely with me getting a more interesting and engaging job. That, and the two areas I knew well were maturing and there were a lot fewer easy questions to answer.

New comment by jkubicek in "Anthropic S-1"

jkubicek — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:54:57 +0000

I don't think AI will be able to sustain cloud compute-size margins. Inference is a commodity and value-adds can't be sold for anything. Why pay for an advanced harness when you can just ask the model to build one for you?

New comment by jkubicek in "Victory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is Unlawful"

jkubicek — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:49:05 +0000

The implication of "witch hunt" is that there isn't really anything to find; authorities are abusing their power to harass someone for political reasons.

Why would a billionaire known for bribing authorities pay Alina Habba $50MM (for no apparent reason) immediately before receiving a presidential pardon? If we continue to let people like this get away with committing crimes right out in the open, we're never going to get back to a world where the rule of law matters.

We can't let accusing your political enemies of a crime as you are actively committing the same crime continue to be a get-out-of-jail-free card. There's no both-sides here. One side is obscenely corrupt, the other is... the best we have at the moment.

New comment by jkubicek in "Victory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is Unlawful"

jkubicek — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:43:50 +0000

I don't want to oppress a people, I want to jail criminals.

New comment by jkubicek in "Victory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is Unlawful"

jkubicek — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:06:51 +0000

I've become a jail maximalist. Everyone who stole government data while working for DOGE? Jail. Everyone who offered a bribe to the Trump administration or accepted a bribe on behalf of the Trump administration? Jail. Everyone from private to general who was involved in murdering all those Argentinian fisherman? A hole in the ground under the jail.

New comment by jkubicek in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

jkubicek — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:09:17 +0000

What the LLM vendors are doing seems functionally identical to a paid forger. The forger and the buyer know that it's fake, but anyone else would think it's real.

New comment by jkubicek in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

jkubicek — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:27:59 +0000

No, I couldn't claim that and I don't think I did.

New comment by jkubicek in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

jkubicek — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:57:20 +0000

I don't understand your argument. Wikipedia and a satirical cartoon are both things clearly not made by Obama, nobody in their right mind would be "fooled" by the presence of his signature.

These cartoons are intentionally drawn in the style of a cartoonist and feature their signature. The goal is forgery. The whole point of these AI-generated images is to look like the real thing.

New comment by jkubicek in "Apple Pass Designer"

jkubicek — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:01:26 +0000

I've been the person with all those problems.

I prefer my passes live in the Wallet app if at all possible. In addition to just being more reliable, passes can be geo-tagged, so they pop up on your lock screen when you get to your destination. So much more straightforward than hunting for emails / screenshots / etc.

New comment by jkubicek in "I don't want the details"

jkubicek — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:57:14 +0000

The SVP doesn't need to make any decisions here. Part of leadership is giving your team the space and time to make the decisions themselves.

New comment by jkubicek in "US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'"

jkubicek — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:07:05 +0000

This sounds like heaven, actually.

I don't care enough about this issue to form any opinions on the impacts to free speech or anything like that, but being able to choose to a social media feed that's entirely from the users I follow would be fantastic. What a dramatic quality-of-life improvement.

New comment by jkubicek in "I don't like passkeys"

jkubicek — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:29:21 +0000

The users are the ones manually copy/pasting the password. There's no way the password manager could prevent this short of disallowing copying/viewing passwords.

New comment by jkubicek in "The Beauty of Roundabouts"

jkubicek — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:34:18 +0000

Two lane roundabouts are fantastic if you’re familiar with the intersection. If you’re not it’s too easy to get shunted out of the roundabout early

New comment by jkubicek in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

jkubicek — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:49:36 +0000

A React Native app would have all the same access to your personal data that a native app would

New comment by jkubicek in "Splash-free urinals (2025)"

jkubicek — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:07:08 +0000

I was on a work trip to Indianapolis last week and encountered two separate urinals with plastic screens branded by the same supplier. One screen was branded so that the plastic fingers point towards the user, one was branded so that the plastic fingers pointed towards the drain (i.e. the wrong way).

Makes me wonder why. Was that a misprint? Did someone get confused about the correct direction for the fingers?

New comment by jkubicek in "Fences, Not Sandboxes"

jkubicek — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:11:15 +0000

If I had $122k/month to spend on tokens I would simply.... not.

$1.5mm/year buys more of everything I want out of life than I could possibly consume.

New comment by jkubicek in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

jkubicek — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:06:47 +0000

> We got here by putting two of the most hated people in the country on the ballot against him, twice.

I hate this victim-blaming. Democrats deserve heaps of criticism for how they handled the last few elections, but Clinton was the most qualified presidential candidate we've had since maybe McCain in 2008? (I didn't vote for McCain, but it would be hard to argue he wasn't qualified).

You said yourself where the blame should lie:

> These are especially doomed against a completely amoral propaganda machine... Earning legitimate democratic victory against people who are quite literally and explicitly bad-faith actors is very hard.