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Funeral for Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard

metabagel — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:15:25 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/glen-hansard-funeral-dublin-bono-eddie-vedder-46b1d6ef619979afb5c0a031a5c3b0bf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179193

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New comment by metabagel in "Don't be a meat proxy"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:27:32 +0000

This doesn't mean that you can't give negative feedback. But, I tend to make suggestions/requests rather than calling someone out.

If you're a manager, part of the job is telling someone that they aren't meeting standard, and that's how I would phrase it. Tell them what the expectation is and ask them to work on meeting it.

Scolding, calling out, or even yelling at people should be consigned to the past. It's unnecessary and counterproductive.

New comment by metabagel in "Don't be a meat proxy"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:19:57 +0000

I see a possible misunderstanding on my part here.

My experience has typically been that engineers respond, "Claude said..." and then say what they think about it. If people are really receiving just a straight dump of AI response from their colleagues, then yeah, I would be disappointed too.

But, I have no problem receiving from a colleague, "Claude says ..., but I don't know what to make of it." The embedded space can be really hard, so I don't fault someone for feeling clueless about something. I feel that way every time I get handed something new to work on which I have zero experience with.

New comment by metabagel in "Don't be a meat proxy"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:14:55 +0000

Depends on what they wrote alongside. Ideally, I get more than just a dump of Claude's response. Ideally, they summarize what they regard to be the key point.

This might be why I'm having difficulty understanding why people are upset about "Claude said..." responses. I would be disappointed too if someone just said "Claude said...", but in general I don't get messages like that in chat. In general, I get some additional input of what the person thinks about Claude's response.

So, yeah, if someone just gives you a dump of what Claude said, that's disappointing.

New comment by metabagel in "Don't be a meat proxy"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:09:12 +0000

So, you have different roles and specialties, but you know for a fact that this person should know the answer to your question. I think we're speaking past each other, because this doesn't make sense to me.

I don't presume that someone will have an answer I'm looking for. I'm pleased when they do, but often I just get breadcrumbs, and I have to solve the puzzle for myself.

New comment by metabagel in "Don't be a meat proxy"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:57:33 +0000

So, people are using AI to answer questions about tribal knowledge? Is that really the assertion which is being made here? Because I find that hard to believe.

New comment by metabagel in "The Future, Made in China"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:54:22 +0000

> and goes along with us (in the US) only thinking politically in 4 year cycles

One of the two parties spends most of their intellectual capital on acquiring and maintaining power. The other party spends theirs on policies which they rarely have power to enact.

New comment by metabagel in "Don't be a meat proxy"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:18:43 +0000

Just FYI, scolding people causes them to resent you. Take great care when giving negative feedback. Courtesy costs you very little and gains a lot.

New comment by metabagel in "Don't be a meat proxy"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:13:25 +0000

I generally provide the source for my information. Even if I already know the answer, I will generally provide a reference on the web or in a document. If I asked an LLM, I will provide that as part of my answer, and I'll generally chip in whether the answer makes sense to me or not; in some cases I'll say that I have no clue if the LLM response makes sense.

Needless to say, I have probably not advanced as far as someone who hoards information, because companies tend to value the information hoarders, but this is just the way I'm designed to operate. I despise information hoarding.

New comment by metabagel in "Don't be a meat proxy"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:08:43 +0000

"I don't know" could also mean they couldn't be bothered. It can't possibly be better than getting a response from someone who lifted a finger to help find an answer for you.

New comment by metabagel in "Don't be a meat proxy"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:06:10 +0000

I appreciate "Claude said...", because it helps me assign an appropriate level of trust in the information.

New comment by metabagel in "Don't be a meat proxy"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:53:48 +0000

I disagree that it's necessarily laziness.

I work in the embedded space, and I routinely have to work with technologies I'm initially not familiar with. Internet searches are very hit and miss. So, is "AI". I generally use every tool at my disposal to try to get my foot in the door so I can understand better questions to ask and get the technical information I need to do my job.

I absolutely have no problem with someone replying to my question with a response from Claude. I appreciate them telling me the source, so I can assign an appropriate level of trust in the information.

New comment by metabagel in "Don't be a meat proxy"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:50:35 +0000

Why is it their job to know, but it's not your job to know?

New comment by metabagel in "Don't be a meat proxy"

metabagel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:48:31 +0000

Would you be OK with someone looking up the answer on the internet?

New comment by metabagel in "Grok Build is open source"

metabagel — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:32:38 +0000

The issue is that only Congress had the authority to cut funding to a congressionally authorized program. What Elon did was illegal and also heinous.

New comment by metabagel in "Grok Build is open source"

metabagel — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:31:02 +0000

Seriously? His destruction of USAID and the various estimates of resulting deaths is well documented.

https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=titl...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

New comment by metabagel in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

metabagel — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:49:33 +0000

Maybe so, but 30 years is wildly disproportionate.

New comment by metabagel in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

metabagel — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:01:54 +0000

The NASA Ames Research Center Modular Supercomputing Facility is highly efficient, both in terms of electricity and water use. The facility isn't air conditioned. The chips are water cooled, and the inlet water temperature is pretty high I believe - I think it's 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/doing-more-...

https://www.nas.nasa.gov/assets/nas/pdf/ModularSupercomputin...

New comment by metabagel in "Never Give Them Your Face"

metabagel — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:58:42 +0000

They didn't say delete your FB account. They just said to stop using it.

New comment by metabagel in "Never Give Them Your Face"

metabagel — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:57:18 +0000

I know two people who have sold on FB Marketplace, so apparently it works. I login to FB about 3 times a year and get icked out almost immediately. I refuse to install FB on my phone, because Zuck snoops on the people you share phone calls with.

Craiglist has served me well in the past.