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New comment by jujube3 in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

jujube3 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:05:59 +0000

They don't need US crash or safety standards. Just get an e-bike instead.

New comment by jujube3 in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

jujube3 — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:00:12 +0000

If you buy a cloud-on-a-cloud, you're a clown-on-a-clown.

New comment by jujube3 in "America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy"

jujube3 — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:10:23 +0000

The solution turned out to be to send it all to China.

New comment by jujube3 in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

jujube3 — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:47:42 +0000

I am heavy developer guy.

New comment by jujube3 in "Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business"

jujube3 — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:38:05 +0000

To me it's dishonest to write an article like this without mentioning the reason why Spirit's employees and customers are in this situation: because the owners realized that it wasn't a viable business but were blocked from selling their company by the government.

It's not like the article doesn't go into the history of the company either. There's a paragraph that starts with "Spirit has been unprofitable since the pandemic..." To deliberately leave out one of the most important parts of that history is extremely deceptive.

New comment by jujube3 in "Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business"

jujube3 — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:21:13 +0000

Control-F "antitrust". Zero hits.

Why no discussion of "yet another victory" for antitrust? Was 2024 really that long ago?

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...

New comment by jujube3 in "United Wizards of the Coast"

jujube3 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:56:43 +0000

  Companies often expect employees to give advance
  notice of termination of employment, but employers
  do not feel beholden to their employees to
  reciprocate. This is unreasonable.

Workers can leave their jobs with no notice period at all and suffer no legal consequences. The traditional two weeks notice period is a courtesy and not legally required. Meanwhile, employers often have extensive legal limitations on how many workers they can fire at a time (for example, because of the WARN act). It may be impossible to fire some workers (for example, those on disability leave). It's traditional for employers to pay severance to employees that are fired or laid off, and this may sometimes be legally required.

Nobody can force a worker to work, but an employer is often forced to employ someone they'd rather not. Maybe sometimes this makes sense, but it's actually the exact opposite of what you're trying to claim.

  Many companies showed improved productivity when
  people were given flexibility. Claims to the contrary
  are often not backed up by actual data outside of
  cherry-picked results chosen by those in managerial
  positions.

If remove work is so productive, then management should choose remote work without any coercion. If you want more benefits, then just be honest and don't make claims that you know better than management about what is productive.

  MTG is a creative endeavor, and its output is
  protected by copyright. Copyright is, so far
  (thankfully), only enforceable when the media
  is produced by humans. Protections against the
  use of generative AI are not only good for 
  workers' long-term productivity, but also 
  for legal purposes

Copyright applies to works that are partially produced by AI and partially produced by humans. Refusing to use the tools that everyone else is using to be more productive is just going to make companies into dinosaurs.

  I think maybe you should stop licking boots and
  start understanding why any of our society works
  today at all.

The union is also a corporation, which makes profit for its officers. Maybe you should stop licking its boots?

  As a hint, every protection you have
  ever enjoyed (40-hour work weeks, pensions or retirement
  funds, health insurance guarantees, mandatory paid time
  off, health and safety regulations, and so on) was paid
  for in blood by someone a company decided was not more
  important than profit. Unions are a fundamental  capability
  by workers to ensure their own safety. Shockingly, I think
  it more reasonable to rely on the interpretations of those
  working in these jobs who want to unionize than some random
  person online who thinks "no wait, but think of the poor
  endangered company! :("

I'm not a member of any union. The protections I enjoy are because of the law, which applies to everyone, and because of the economic situation. If the economic situation changes, I will be fired no matter what unions or governments do, the same way saddle-makers were after the rise of the automobile.

New comment by jujube3 in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"

jujube3 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:55:02 +0000

Since you think Cuba and China are such nice places, perhaps try living there. You'll quickly find out about their "merits" (such as the fact that they execute dissidents).

New comment by jujube3 in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"

jujube3 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:47:41 +0000

I think the LLM pranked you. Try using the --no-but-seriously flag next time.

New comment by jujube3 in "For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas"

jujube3 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:15:12 +0000

4 whats?

New comment by jujube3 in "For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas"

jujube3 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:20:59 +0000

It's economical to build a small amount of battery storage, enough for a few hours. For longer term issues, when things are dark and not windy for a long time, I'm not aware of any long-term plan. States like California are handling it by keeping old fossil fuel plants going for longer, and importing power from neighboring states.

New comment by jujube3 in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

jujube3 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:38:21 +0000

Stop reading ahead.

New comment by jujube3 in "Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines"

jujube3 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:37:07 +0000

It's quite simple in Golang.

New comment by jujube3 in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

jujube3 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:41:17 +0000

Parents want to hang out with other parents.

New comment by jujube3 in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

jujube3 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:38:43 +0000

That would "solve" the problem in the sense that it would make students even more uncompetitive with AI.

New comment by jujube3 in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

jujube3 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:47:16 +0000

Zuck realizes that by 20230, Facebook will be mostly for AIs. He's just leaning into it.

New comment by jujube3 in "this css proves me human"

jujube3 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:20:58 +0000

You're absolutely right!

New comment by jujube3 in "The Sideprocalypse"

jujube3 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:48:06 +0000

More like a failure engineer, am I right?

New comment by jujube3 in "10 years building vertical software: are we cooked?"

jujube3 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:31:28 +0000

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New comment by jujube3 in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

jujube3 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:17:16 +0000

Being able to hook up with random strangers on apps might be fun in your 20s and 30s. When you're old and wrinkly, it's not going to be the same. I hate to say it, but this is especially true for women entering their twilight years. A lot of childless people in our generation are headed to a very sad and lonely future.

COVID was exceptionally hard on these people. A lot of the weirdness of the COVID years was just people going crazy in isolation. Trading random stocks, or ordering crazy nonsense off of Amazon. Being alone is literally psychological abuse and a lot of them were subjected to it for months at a time.