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New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

loloquwowndueo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:39:41 +0000

I think stavros means amortization on an individual level - if all software is bloated and requires 16GB to run then my expense for a 16GB stick is not caused by a single piece of software, but everything I use.

Not that I agree of course :) I’m talking more of the net negative of everyone needing to buy 16gb sticks so developers can YOLO vibe-coded unoptimized garbage. But at least I think the former explanation is what stavros meant :)

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

loloquwowndueo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:52:31 +0000

One stick does. How about all the sticks needed for all the people who want to run the software?

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

loloquwowndueo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:16:44 +0000

It would be great if there was a webpage with clear instructions on how to do this, maybe fill out a few questions and get a printable pdf you can mail, or at least telling you how to file an online complaint. Making complaints very low friction will lead to more of those and perhaps more attention to the issue.

Snail mail uses up physical space so it might get more attention, it would be hilarious to see news reports of truckloads of complaint mail being dumped in front of the whatever office.

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions"

loloquwowndueo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:15:38 +0000

That’s not what the person I was replying to was complaining about. I don’t know why you put this unrelated (and perfectly valid btw) opinion as a response to me.

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions"

loloquwowndueo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:05:53 +0000

> Reading on a E-device is a bother, I have to sift through all the "sponsored" books and whatever other crap the ebook reader company decides to add

Sounds like you just chose the wrong device. My Boox does none of this. I just put the epub file in the device and read it.

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

loloquwowndueo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:07:56 +0000

I remember it well. At least Canonical also jumped on the systemd bandwagon when upstream (Debian) made a choice, instead of dragging upstart on, like it has done with countless other projects that are past their time (juju looking at you)

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

loloquwowndueo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:06:18 +0000

It was deprioritized for years, the team gutted to staff other shinier projects you likely haven’t even heard of.

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "20 years on AWS and never not my job"

loloquwowndueo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:22:57 +0000

They just want to earn at least the same as a plumber.

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python"

loloquwowndueo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:34:48 +0000

> at this point, a WYSIWYG just seems like a huge step backwards from just using markdown.

Not for a layperson. There’s a reason WYSIWYG word processors completely obliterated the previous “needs an explicit preview mode” generation ones.

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

loloquwowndueo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:07:38 +0000

Driving across three states to go buy something is peak US :)

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

loloquwowndueo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:21:35 +0000

Everything. No radio signals make it in or out of the capsule due to ionization from the heat and plasma of reentry.

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

loloquwowndueo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:17:43 +0000

> Not sure what they were trying to solve there with git and forges already existing.

What?

Bzr predates git (by a few days but still). Launchpad predated GitHub by a lot. canonical just played those cards horribly and lost.

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

loloquwowndueo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:16:22 +0000

The project bzr was trying to uproot may not be the one you’re thinking of. First release of Bzr predates git by about a month.

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

loloquwowndueo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:32:21 +0000

> instead of making 10 people get in their car and make a round trip to the store

Tell me you’re in the US without telling me you’re in the US :)

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

loloquwowndueo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:20:24 +0000

“I couldn’t find vulnerabilities in Sam’s devices so I contracted a rando over the internet to Molotov his house” sounds fairly implausible :)

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

loloquwowndueo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:59:55 +0000

As a bonus the machine looks like crap so it’s far less likely to get stolen.

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

loloquwowndueo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:58:36 +0000

> Don't be scared. Fuck around a bit.

Bet this person never heard about FAFO

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

loloquwowndueo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:40:06 +0000

We ran a 3-line BBS (Renegade and then Wildcat) on OS/2 on a 486-33 with 12 MB RAM. This was in 1994 or so. Great way to multitask several dos applications!

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos"

loloquwowndueo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:24:04 +0000

> how do you think it'll do at sending emails, doing analysis, writing reports

Unless it learns to make every single email or report NOT a wall of text and reusing the same AI-written telltale constructs (it’s not A. It’s B. You’re absolutely right - the key insight is that I’m writing to express my FEELING). Probably not much better than they do now.

> So companies have the choice of paying Chris $84,000 plus a whole bunch of benefits for 40 hours of mediocre work, or they can pay probably $100-$1000 for an AI

What makes you think they won’t price the AI much closer to what Chris was costing? They know the employer already pays that cost and the premise here is the AI works better and 24/7 (service outages notwithstanding).

> I think what we get on the other side will be far more human and meaningful. Humans building things and sharing value with other humans doing the same.

I want my AI to do dishes and laundry so that I can write and paint. Not for it to write and paint so I can do dishes and laundry.

New comment by loloquwowndueo in "Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem"

loloquwowndueo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:03:52 +0000

No, TFA says the picture was associated to an old account that got flagged - presumably anything linked to that account, picture included, is now cursed.