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New comment by jmspring in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

jmspring — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:23:13 +0000

He's also looking at an incoming congress that is going to give him a colonoscopy that he didn't ask for.

The only people I've seen driving cybertrucks tend to be asian or older white guys that likely think Elon is great. Yes, this is a generalization, but an observation over thousands of miles between the Bay Area and Vancouver, BC.

I think Tesla is in for more hurt over the coming years, which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing in my opinion on how Musk has handled himself in the public arena with Tesla and Starlink.

New comment by jmspring in "Goodbye from Salon"

jmspring — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 21:57:40 +0000

It is a good read. When I was living in Europe in the early 2000s, Salon was something I would read regularly. It had some good reporting and articles. Glen Greenwald even wasn't off his rocker back then.

New comment by jmspring in "Apple reports fourth quarter results"

jmspring — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 23:43:14 +0000

I work on Mac's every day. The device I use most is my AppleTV - music streaming, background noise, etc. It's a passive thing but the first device the last couple of times I've moved.

New comment by jmspring in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"

jmspring — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:25:05 +0000

I've gone LG OLED 65" - C5 I think. I have never connected it to the internet. It's annoying to get prompts about needing to update - they seemed to have stopped.

An AppleTV has been my first purchase or installation for nearly the last decade with a flat screen tv.

New comment by jmspring in "Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now"

jmspring — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:01:28 +0000

The post sort of gave a read that the lower elements may be a culprit rather than triaging higher qualitu.

New comment by jmspring in "OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target"

jmspring — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 21:25:28 +0000

I pay about $0.14/kwh and don't need it all the time. API calls might be cheaper. I develop in a way where I break things out where well defined tasks can be handed to a local model.

New comment by jmspring in "OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target"

jmspring — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:20:23 +0000

I have subscriptions for necessary work and even pay for api calls.

The machine with the 3090 I built years ago and suddenly it’s worth 4x plus what I paid. It is for testing, but I use the model I run on it and the model I run on an mbp M1 Max with 64gig as workers for specifically scoped work.

I’d love to have a few dgx sparcs or the like to do heavy local stuff, but that money is best paying the pimps for now.

New comment by jmspring in "OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target"

jmspring — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:32:18 +0000

The work going on to improve things on single card like a 3090 is nuts. HyperQwen, other things. I have my subscriptions, but always good to explore options.

New comment by jmspring in "Infinite Mac: BeOS"

jmspring — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:27:03 +0000

I occasionally spin up VMs with this and OS2. I miss the era of operating system options. But but linux. It has it's place, I run FreeBSD, but for desktop, options dimish. I like apple hardware, I like apple hardware trackpad support. Running Linux on a MacBook is not something I would ever do. I used FreeBSD on stinkpads for years.

New comment by jmspring in "Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code"

jmspring — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:34:01 +0000

Cisco iOS even on terminal servers in the early 2000s was...special.

New comment by jmspring in "Proton goes all in on using AI"

jmspring — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:20:02 +0000

It seems like it has. My father who is provacy conscious but not really one to seek specific things out started talking about / investigating proton a couple of weeks ago. He is almost 80.

New comment by jmspring in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

jmspring — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:18:54 +0000

And they turn it on by default. If Steve Jobs were around, it would have either worked better or it would have been sold better and those in charge kicked in the nuts. Apple's UX team SUCKS these days.

New comment by jmspring in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

jmspring — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:16:19 +0000

It not only removed the F-keys, but it was not as responsive as a keyboard and a misplaced finger did something you may not want. Personally I HATED the thing.

New comment by jmspring in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

jmspring — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:15:13 +0000

I think this can easily be seen in the introduction of windows into iPad OS. I hate when the wrong motion creates a window from what I was working with. And this is on the 11" pro.

New comment by jmspring in "Start Doing Graph Theory"

jmspring — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:48:30 +0000

Oh this was a descent into past memories. I had the pleasure to take Graph Theory at UC Santa Cruz with Gerhard Ringel [1] way back when. Excellent instructor with some great stories.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ringel

New comment by jmspring in "New iMac with M6"

jmspring — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:48:46 +0000

My M1 Max MBP has 64 gig, still runs well. I understand memory has skyrocketed in price, but Apple has been hamstringing the max ram in their MBPs it seems for awhile.

New comment by jmspring in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

jmspring — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:08:37 +0000

I think it's a role that makes sense. Solution architects and pre-sales engineers are a role that has been sorta defined in the past. Working directly with customers gives much more market insight than PMs that don't actually ever talk to a customer.

New comment by jmspring in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

jmspring — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:32:24 +0000

Actually, I think there are areas of interest that come up in large companies. Microsoft started the equivalent of an FDE organization about 12 years ago. It was interesting to have the freedom to build and grow an organization from about 20 to 800 people. Working with customers and product teams to help get direct customer feedback to help evolve products was interesting. Now, 12 years later, FDEs are sort of the current buzzy role.

New comment by jmspring in "Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed"

jmspring — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:36:00 +0000

There is a $30/mo Claude subscription?

New comment by jmspring in "eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media"

jmspring — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:19:34 +0000

Things have improved to a point, but there are still certain stereotypes by country/region that stand - general outsourcing firms are amongst the worst; targeted specialists can be great (I've worked with such in multiple geos).

My comment was somewhat flip, but I wasn't surprised when I saw what and where.