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New comment by jollyllama in "Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL"

jollyllama — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:55:08 +0000

First, they came for the gamers...

New comment by jollyllama in "The death of web development education"

jollyllama — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:22:05 +0000

> which the global capital order falls into a version of late-Soviet decay and collapse -- a major boon to the oligarchs, just as it was in Russia

We were already on track for that anyway. This just adds an interesting twist to it.

New comment by jollyllama in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

jollyllama — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:23:22 +0000

Where do you think most of the hardware is manufactured, and do you think the hardware manufacturers will keep getting paid if labs start going under?

New comment by jollyllama in "Pi.dev: You Said No MCP"

jollyllama — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:13:08 +0000

These reason why they were proclaiming MCP dead and crowning CLI the influencer is that they aren't serious people. They're either vibe coders who never knew what the meaning of engineering for production or they are those who chose to forget the meaning because it fits their chosen vibe coder narrative.

New comment by jollyllama in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

jollyllama — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:18:30 +0000

Fair point about global vs US as your sibling notes.

> 2. Global GDP will be ~$165T by 2031

But GDP is a very different thing than payrolls.

New comment by jollyllama in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

jollyllama — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:26:17 +0000

What's total US annual payrolls? I don't think it's beyond the order of $20 trillion. So they're going to have to replace something on the order of magnitude of half of all jobs OR "create" the difference, in terms of jobs going to AI.

New comment by jollyllama in "Allow Carriers on Planes"

jollyllama — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:26:34 +0000

This. The web page title should be "Allow Babywearing on Planes"

New comment by jollyllama in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

jollyllama — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:11:54 +0000

> it turns out that was a stroke of luck

> demand has cooled off for EVs massively.

Or, maybe they just accurately realized that US consumers don't want EVs.

New comment by jollyllama in "Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries"

jollyllama — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:05:28 +0000

There's plenty of other laws that limit the choices of the poor for their own good. You can't just build a lean-to slum, you can't buy swill milk.

New comment by jollyllama in "What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers"

jollyllama — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:58:20 +0000

When it all goes bust, at least you'll have some real estate.

New comment by jollyllama in "Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees"

jollyllama — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:57:22 +0000

Which is exactly what another post was saying: that large corporations will step in instead.

New comment by jollyllama in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

jollyllama — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:01:57 +0000

Some longer amount of time, potentially. Point taken.

New comment by jollyllama in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

jollyllama — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:46:31 +0000

You're not wrong. But the only solutions appear to be varying levels of being a free-rider, which means the thing you like probably gets deleted anyway when it's deemed unprofitable. The long-term solution is probably to only consume locally-made goods and content, public-domain content, or vintage goods.

New comment by jollyllama in "Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts"

jollyllama — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:55:07 +0000

If it happens in 2026, they will likely be bailed out.

New comment by jollyllama in "My Health Insurance Denied My Cancer Treatment. I Emailed the CEO"

jollyllama — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:47:16 +0000

> Typically brisk, my oncologist was tender. “There’s good news,” she said. “We can use a much milder chemo this time.”

It's really weird to go to bat for the health insurance industry.

New comment by jollyllama in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

jollyllama — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:20:05 +0000

I'm not aware of any mass desertions by Western armies.

New comment by jollyllama in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

jollyllama — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:21:35 +0000

It's not clear that non-mercenary Arab armies are much better in this respect.

New comment by jollyllama in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

jollyllama — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:20:20 +0000

"AI is critical for National Defense."

"But I don't see it helping us, it's just helping our enemies get closer to parity ."

"Precisely. How else are we going to justify the budget?"

New comment by jollyllama in "Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?"

jollyllama — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:34:48 +0000

> Weirdly our contractors can. They wrote it into their contracts. It’s not even fair, really.

Do you draw any other conclusion than that your management wants to replace you with the contractors?

New comment by jollyllama in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

jollyllama — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:10:31 +0000

With all due respect, what's scary about a fanfiction wiki?