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New comment by jp0d in "Cursor Camp"

jp0d — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:59:13 +0000

It's the same for me. I'm in Australia and on my work laptop I'm connected to an American VPN. It's showing my location as USA. I was wondering how it's detecting the country.

New comment by jp0d in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

jp0d — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:13:31 +0000

> maximize shareholder dividends

This is the whole reason why middle class is dying and power and wealth are being consolidated amongst the rich.

New comment by jp0d in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

jp0d — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:22:54 +0000

I've been through two restructures and both times I'd full access to everything for a month until my position was being decided. There thousand plus employees affected and not a single one did anything like what you've described. I'm Australian if that helps.

Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI

jp0d — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:29:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/atlassian-lay-off-about-1600-people-pivot-ai-2026-03-11/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343156

Points: 224

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New comment by jp0d in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

jp0d — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:31:48 +0000

A 2mph bump isn’t nothing. If it failed to stop it can trample people. It can still do damage to elderly or disabled people. The 17mph collision may have caused some minor damage to the “fixed object” but that fixed object could've been someone standing still. Tesla is not making an effort, they're doing the bare minimum.

New comment by jp0d in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

jp0d — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:23:52 +0000

Are the facts presented in the article incorrect?

New comment by jp0d in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

jp0d — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:37:16 +0000

Shouldn't these workers in Phillipines be required to be licensed to drive cars in the USA to operate those vehicles (even remotely)? I understand that they're not really driving those cars. But they've control over these cars and they do operate them when required on public roads.

New comment by jp0d in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

jp0d — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:32:08 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by jp0d in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

jp0d — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:31:16 +0000

Ahh thank you! I saw a few photos from last night's Aurora sightings down here in Vic, Australia. Maybe next time! :)

New comment by jp0d in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

jp0d — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:47:07 +0000

Well, they make perfect sense to buy down here in here Australia. When I replace my current seven year old ICE car, it'll either be a diesel or a petrol electric hybrid. In either case it'll be a Japanese one.

New comment by jp0d in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

jp0d — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:30:21 +0000

Are there any resources to track Aurora sightings or predicted sightings?

New comment by jp0d in "The State of AI Coding Report 2025"

jp0d — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:52:35 +0000

Environmental restrictions! All our data is on cloud and for customer privacy we're not allowed to download anything locally. We've access to most of the LLM models from all big vendors. I've found them to be very similar.

New comment by jp0d in "The State of AI Coding Report 2025"

jp0d — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:11:25 +0000

The site/visualisations look great. But having used AI tools in my programming, I still haven't been able to justify the cost (to the planet too) vs benefit. I've noticed that it's great for pattern recognition and if I've missed something small or missed a variable name here and there, then it's quite good at finding those problems. However, if I ask it to produce a complete piece of work, I've never been able to get something without any bugs. Forget about getting it to design data pipelines with customer privacy and data security in mind!

For reference I work in finance/econometrics and the code is often about numerical analysis written in SQL and python. More often than not I end up wasting a lot of time fixing issues with AI generated code. None of these nuances ever gets captured by metrics like these and it makes me question people (mostly sales and top execs) that push for "AI" at work.

New comment by jp0d in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

jp0d — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:54:52 +0000

Soon there will be a subscription model to use certain features in the fridge! Spherical ice and fast cooling will cost $9.99 per month!

New comment by jp0d in "Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores"

jp0d — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:29:31 +0000

Care to elaborate?

New comment by jp0d in "Python: The Documentary – An origin story [video]"

jp0d — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 01:00:36 +0000

Thanks for sharing this.

New comment by jp0d in "SimpleIDE"

jp0d — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:05 +0000

I learned VB .net when it first came out back in 2003 (might have been earlier). VB was quite widely used back then and now days it's declined in popularity a lot. I checked the repo insights and it's a single person who's built this and has been maintaining it. Their contribution and dedication is definitely commendable even though the language isn't popular these and even more so on Linux! This is pure selfless programming!

New comment by jp0d in "Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers"

jp0d — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:31:07 +0000

Countless bodies consisting of the said meat have been responsible for the advancement of technology so far. If these meat brains don't contribute to any new advancements then the corpus of data will stay stagnant!

New comment by jp0d in "Australians to face age checks from search engines"

jp0d — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:30:55 +0000

Totally agree with this.

New comment by jp0d in "Australians to face age checks from search engines"

jp0d — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:27:10 +0000

> “not living in Soviet Russia”

Nothing screams "fear mongering" like comparing with living in Soviet Russia.

Look, we can argue all day. There is no right or wrong answer. I don't fully support the govts initiative but I also don't want Meta/X/Google to have unlimited powers like they do in the US.