Hacker News: lowbloodsugar

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

lowbloodsugar — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:16:15 +0000

Any IT cost center will send to the lowest bidder. This isn’t intellectual property: it’s annoying shit that is an unwelcome cost of doing business. China might copy our tedious scripts? Will they make a product out of it? Can I buy it and fire my IT staff? Great!

Not everyone using AI is using it to code core value IP.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production"

lowbloodsugar — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:42:16 +0000

Hilarious comparison. I bought one. Unusable garbage. Tiny screen. Unusably slow. 8 second battery. Awful keyboard.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production"

lowbloodsugar — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:39:27 +0000

>a decade ago

It's more powerful than my $4000 M1 Max until it heat soaks.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production"

lowbloodsugar — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:34:34 +0000

"Do you fear technology?" should be "Do you have no fucks to give for all the bullshit?"

I've got Pis and FPGA boards, and a threadripper for fun, but I daily macOs because I've got shit to do.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

lowbloodsugar — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:33:58 +0000

In what way?

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux"

lowbloodsugar — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:49:37 +0000

This is why I read HN.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

lowbloodsugar — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:29:00 +0000

Most of those stories are 1/ crashes and 2/ hybrids. Again, with rare exception, manufacturers are just making gas cars with EV power trains. Tesla and BYD are making next gen transport. Are you old enough to remember when TVs broke so often that TV Repairman was a job? One day we will look back on car mechanics the same way.

I do remember the visceral joy of trying to keep a supercharged Camaro on the track, but those memories are overwhelmed by the terror of “what is that noise”. Now I drive a Tesla that accelerates faster than that Camaro, handles better, and hasn’t been to the shop once.

If I win the lottery I will buy another Camaro and a Corvette and I’ll work on them for fun, and kids will look at me the way I looked at old men who take care of antique steam engines and traction engines and take them to fairs. That sure is a lot of noise and smoke and doohickeys for very little speed and power!

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

lowbloodsugar — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:18:53 +0000

Apple Silicon has a special mode that modified how the ARM chip handles memory transactions to be like x86. Does this nvidia ARM have the same?

What would be interesting to me would be how quickly developers start targeting ARM64 directly.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

lowbloodsugar — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:16:27 +0000

ARM64+GPU sure seems like the future. I'm still using my M1 and even that can handle models well, has decent graphics, M5 is a beast, and M6 must surely go even bigger on LLM compute. Now Microsoft has a compelling ARM64+GPU future too.

What does AMD or Intel have here?

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

lowbloodsugar — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:01:39 +0000

lol. Apparently folks where I work don’t ever talk at lunch. I work remotely, and over the course of about 20 meetings I discovered that what everyone “knew” was wrong because none of them talked to each other and each assumed they knew how it worked. Each person knew their own piece and had an incorrect idea of everyone else’s. There were twenty different systems in twenty different heads. These people all shared an office and lunch space. I work remotely.

Any large scale engineering product where “who you’ve talked to” is how things “get done” is going to fail.

Really you are just outing yourself as a member of the political class: someone who believes feelings and opinions matter to the behavior of CPUs.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC"

lowbloodsugar — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:26:12 +0000

Oh then please stop reading. There are many of us who are really good at solving complex problems and also really bad at communicating them. Your attitude is just the latest bastion of bigotry. So do feel free to self-select out of useful knowledge and experience.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "The dead economy theory"

lowbloodsugar — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:11:19 +0000

While also fantasizing that now the revolution will happen.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "Voxel Space (2017)"

lowbloodsugar — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:39:09 +0000

I imagine that far map squares are more than one pixel wide so that read is amortized. Not so if going vertically.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "MCP is dead?"

lowbloodsugar — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:37:04 +0000

Fixed with subagents.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

lowbloodsugar — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:22:49 +0000

We’ve been there for nearly thirty years. We make more than enough food for everyone on earth. Yet it hasn’t happened. Why? Now ask if you and me getting fired changes the answer.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

lowbloodsugar — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:21:17 +0000

During Covid, we, the intellectual class, spent our year lamenting, explaining, meme-Ing, about what a change it was. Meanwhile, every day, billions of poorer people got up and went to their jobs as normal. I’m in lockdown and Grace, the grocery store clerk, is going to work just like any other day, just in a mask.

We’re up in arms about AI. We’re asking what does a future where AI can do all the work look like. Where fantasizing about the end of capitalism or fearing the dark futures.

We believe that our jobs matter. That the destruction of our jobs will start a revolution. That we matter.

AI grief is our class realizing that our future is that of those grocery store clerks, and that we did nothing for grocery store clerks when we had money and influence, and no one will do anything for us.

Elysium is the future, not Star Trek.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "The dead economy theory"

lowbloodsugar — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:36:40 +0000

I call it "Drinking your own piss." America is drinking its own piss.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

lowbloodsugar — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:17:45 +0000

If IT is a cost center, then a company has likely already outsourced (and if it's called IT it probably is). If you are a software development company, that makes money from software, then a local team of SDEs using what-ever AI they want is a competetive advantage vs local team of SDEs trying to deal with an 11.5 hour gap to India. AI is coming for software developer jobs, and its coming for: a/ the low skill ones and b/ the high skill ones where turn-around and iteration matters. I've worked with great engineers in India, but the time difference was brutal for our fast moving business.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

lowbloodsugar — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:15:02 +0000

“Engineers design. Agents implement.”

This.

New comment by lowbloodsugar in "FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop"

lowbloodsugar — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:44:00 +0000

Tried “a daily driver for at least 10 minutes a day”.

lol. That’s not the definition of a daily driver. Thats something I really don’t want to do, like pushups.