Hacker News: liquid_thyme

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Every GPU That Mattered"

liquid_thyme — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:56:43 +0000

Dystopian future where AI pumps out slop and uses human feedback and comments to correct the output.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Goodbye to Sora"

liquid_thyme — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:50:48 +0000

>The thing is, LLM's produce better quality one-shots than any of the products that get returned from overseas ultra-budget contractors in India or SEA.

Source?

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

liquid_thyme — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:47:54 +0000

They use data from the poor student tier, but arguably, large corporates and businesses hiring talented devs are going to create higher quality training data. Just looking at it logically, not that I like any of this...

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Scott Hanselman says he's working on Windows local accounts"

liquid_thyme — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:55:58 +0000

Since this exodus (year of the linux desktop has been promised every year since 1998) has not yet happened, there is likely an actual reason (or several) that people choose to stay on Windows.

I use both, but prefer linux to stay behind the scenes on my servers. Windows has been a solved problem for me for the past couple of decades. Here's a random 100 day uptime screenshot that I found from 2017, https://imgur.com/a/PRp9L50. These days I usually shutdown more often to not waste power, and my NVMe makes bootups instant anyway.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Apple: Enough Is Enough"

liquid_thyme — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:40:16 +0000

As per https://endoflife.date/macos only 3 MacOS versions are under active support. Also I would wager that most people upgrade the OS anyway due to the piss-poor backwards compatibility for software - Xcode being a prime example.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Apple: Enough Is Enough"

liquid_thyme — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:14:53 +0000

There is no excuse for poor software when you only have to support a tiny number of hardware variations.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

liquid_thyme — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:48:37 +0000

Google takes money to bypass their spam filters. They call those ads.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

liquid_thyme — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:36:13 +0000

Um, Capital sits at the bottom of the payment waterfall, labor, suppliers, lenders, creditors all have priority claims. Capital returns are vastly more volatile than labor compensation. Most startups burn and die, but employees still get paid (keeping illegal practices aside). Capital bears most of the uncertainty that labor doesn't.

To argue your point, the strongest argument is that labor cannot easily diversify or easily re-train for new sectors. But there aren't entire job sectors being wiped out with any kind of regularity or high frequency. Mostly people take skills from one job into another.

And speaking more about the US, social safety nets (not arguing that they're perfect) have some role to play when labor faces downsides. There is no "unemployment" for a company (again I'm talking about average businesses without cherry picking the too big to fail examples - which are a tiny percentage when looking at the number of small/medium/large businesses that operate around the world).

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

liquid_thyme — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:10:53 +0000

Cherry picking examples to paint broad brush/strokes doesn't work. There are game companies all over the world, and have varying levels of work/life balance. Your crude caricature is just that; crude.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

liquid_thyme — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:07:59 +0000

A rational person would agree that unions, like anything else, have pros and cons. They can do good, but also can do harm. It's the commenters here seem to fly off on emotional rants that derail the conversations. The thinking is capital takes less risk than labor; and that model of thinking makes it easy to ascribe faults to capital, but not to labor. You can't argue your way out of that. When you have to manage a bunch of employees and run payroll, bonuses, benefits, increments, that is when you'll know who takes more risk.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams"

liquid_thyme — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:43:22 +0000

Apple and Microsoft need to wake up and bake it into the OS. Hopefully that will take meta and google down a notch.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

liquid_thyme — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:40:48 +0000

They created the largest spying instrument in the world that creates hidden profiles (that can never be deleted) documenting web activity, psychological state, medications, etc, etc for billions of people - and have been caught multiple times sharing data with governments (they're probably compromised internally anyway). I would categorize that as unethical. But yeah, you can cheer for the scraps they throw out.

>about things that barely even register to most people.

News flash: This whole website is about things that don't register to most people. It's called hacker news FFS.

In any case, I think a trillion dollar company probably doesn't need defending. They can easily tweak their algorithm to bury this type of stuff; after all this opinion is probably not "relevant" or "useful" to most people.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

liquid_thyme — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:58:03 +0000

I really don't know how they got nerds to think scummy advertising is cool. If you think about it, the thing they make money on - no user actually wants ads or wants to see them, ever. Somehow Google has some sort of nerd cult that people think its cool to join such an unethical company.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

liquid_thyme — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 01:51:53 +0000

>You might not think it is, but internet is filled utterly dangerous, scammy, phisy, malwary websites

Google is happy to take their money and show scammy ads. Google ads are the most common vector for fake software support scams. Most people google something like "microsoft support" and end up there. Has Google ever banned their own ad domains?

Google is the last entity I would trust to be neutral here.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

liquid_thyme — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:59:41 +0000

Its everywhere. You get nagged constantly for Apple music on your iphone too. My dystopian prediction is that in the near future, corporations will just garnish your wages so they don't have to do this.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Google Safe Browsing incident"

liquid_thyme — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:27:36 +0000

That may be, and we certainly don't need anyone explaining Google's position - we already know what that is. Nobody here actually cares what Google wants, we're expressing what we want. Nerds have helped Google enough with free marketing and goodwill, Google's reputation being tarnished can only help us not hurt us.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Google Safe Browsing incident"

liquid_thyme — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:26:42 +0000

Many phishing attacks originate from Google's owns domains. Gmail users phishing others, scammy youtube videos, scammy comments with links to scams, scammy ads to fake banking pages, etc, etc. But Google would never be hypocritical, never!!

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Google Safe Browsing incident"

liquid_thyme — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:22:48 +0000

You really think talking to a human and a bot is the same?

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

liquid_thyme — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:20:01 +0000

If lockin allows you to ship quality software and tight integration across your product line, there is probably a rationale there. People defend Apple - presumably because of this.

New comment by liquid_thyme in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

liquid_thyme — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:17:48 +0000

Lock-in actually helps internal development. If you're targeting fixed hardware, writing software gets a lot easier.

Your "guess" is not logical.