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New comment by mbfg in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

mbfg — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:39:08 +0000

Gabriel Jesus is not a goal keeper.

New comment by mbfg in "Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds"

mbfg — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:15:29 +0000

The glaring truth is no Large company ever says WOW with AI we can do so much more with the same staff. It's always We can do the same, with much less staff.

New comment by mbfg in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

mbfg — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:11:14 +0000

you could have stopped with AI makes them rich. Why cares about anyone else.

New comment by mbfg in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

mbfg — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:17:52 +0000

This collection of people, well actually, more like the 1% set the tax rules. Compare the tax rules from 1970s, to today, and you will definitely see that wealth is a zero sum game.

New comment by mbfg in "3.4M Solar Panels"

mbfg — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:03:53 +0000

What are all the tables and plots for rooftop solar presented in the article then? I am confused.

New comment by mbfg in "3.4M Solar Panels"

mbfg — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:00:47 +0000

Amazing how politicized panel use is obvious by these maps, as opposed to effectiveness.

New comment by mbfg in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

mbfg — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:45:01 +0000

The top 10% of American families own close to 70% of america's wealth. So if "America" is rich. Those are the folks who are rich. 90% of Americans are not rich.

New comment by mbfg in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

mbfg — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:17:02 +0000

I suspect if he changed the name to not include the college name, while people would be angry, there wouldn't be a real reason to take it down. The sending emails to the college system is also iffy.

New comment by mbfg in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

mbfg — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:21:21 +0000

I've never have a personal computer that came even close to powerful enough to do what i want. Compiles that take 15 minutes, is really annoying for instance.

New comment by mbfg in "The Future of Version Control"

mbfg — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:40:36 +0000

well, the mismatch here is widened by the fact that almost everyone it seems uses git with a central, prominent, visible, remote repository. Where as git was developed with the a true distributed vision. Now sure that truely distributed thing only becomes final when it reaches some 'central' repo, but it's quite a big different than we all do.

New comment by mbfg in "How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"

mbfg — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:55:13 +0000

More importantly, the US has banned these cars in America to give protection to american manufacturers.

New comment by mbfg in "How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)"

mbfg — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:36:58 +0000

Now we need the 1 cut and fold algorithm.

New comment by mbfg in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

mbfg — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:49:59 +0000

I definitely think it's language specific. My history may deceive me here, but i believe that LLMs are infinitely better at pumping out python scripts than java. Now i have much, much more experience with java than python, so maybe it's just a case of what you don't know.... However, The tools it writes in python just work for me, and i can incrementally improve them and the tools get rationally better and more aligned with what i want.

I then ask it to do the same thing in java, and it spends a half hour trying to do the same job and gets caught in some bit of trivia around how to convert html escape characters, for instance, s.replace("<", "<").replace(">", ">").replace("\"").replace("""); as an example and endlessly compiles and fails over and over again, never able to figure out what it has done wrong, nor decides to give up on the minutia and continue with the more important parts.

New comment by mbfg in "Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems"

mbfg — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:46:51 +0000

I wonder how one does like queries.

New comment by mbfg in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

mbfg — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:03:06 +0000

Is there anything stopping americans buying chinese EVs in canada and bringing them home?

New comment by mbfg in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

mbfg — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:29:48 +0000

a pick up without flat bed rails has significantly reduced the areas where it can be used as a work truck. Pretty clear signal that the CyberTruck was a status symbol not a work truck.

New comment by mbfg in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

mbfg — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:25:35 +0000

why would you think that?

New comment by mbfg in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

mbfg — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:12:19 +0000

IMO mockito has a relatively good use experience. If you use MockitoExtension, especially, you write code that is relatively maintainable, and easy to mutate. The problem without MockitoExtension is you can throw all kinds of junk in there and it just sits there doing nothing, without you knowing it.

Spy's on the other hand, are a pain in the neck. I think they should be good in theory, but in practice they are difficult, the debuggers really don't work correctly, setting breakpoints, stepping, etc, is just broken in many cases. Would love to know if this is just a difficult bug, or something that is baked into spying.

New comment by mbfg in "Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI"

mbfg — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:29:30 +0000

Maybe where AI needs to take over is at the CEO level.

New comment by mbfg in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"

mbfg — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:43:53 +0000

also, there is the case of the mismatched quantities for shopping, ie, the old hot dogs come in 10 packs, and rolls in 8 backs, etc.