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New comment by mns in "Waymo Premier"

mns — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:29:27 +0000

I find it somehow like a dystopia that things like these happen. This isn't about kids dying in some foreign country on some distant continent and we're investing in fancy robot taxis. This is actually that some people have the privilege of living in a bubble and using this technology that these huge corporations put money in (for the profit of their shareholders) while in the same time ignoring the core issues of the society that lead to such acts happening (stealing in broad daylight stuff from a car while people are inside it). I know people will say that this isn't for Google to fix (yeah, they only fix and lobby for laws that help them make more money) or for the tech people working for these companies and browsing these forums to fix, but I do find it a bit disgusting.

New comment by mns in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

mns — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:18:14 +0000

I also find this weird. Even though the companies I worked for didn’t have any crazy rules or restrictions (never had phone from work), but I never used my work laptop or computer for anything personal. I have friends doing their own side projects on theirs. Even though in the countries where I worked/work they have to let you know what they track if they track, I still remember one of my contracts that stated that any work done on the work computer belongs to the company. That’s why, even if maybe it’s not legal for them to say that, I never ever used any subscriptions, hardware or tools provided by my employer for personal use.

New comment by mns in "Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act"

mns — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:55:43 +0000

But you know what's not amusing, but rather sad? the comments here. It's wild that people now are upset that the big bad EU is somehow doing something against companies that make profit from selling products that could hurt people, products targeted for kids that can poison or kill them, but the main issue, as seen by tech people, is the EU targeting Temu...

New comment by mns in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

mns — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:29:05 +0000

When I first read the comment I thought this must be satire, it sure does sound like a Silicon Valley episode, but in modern times. I've been a skeptic for quite some time, but managed to get quite good results with Claude in general, not even going through the normal limits for a Pro account, but what people are describing here seems like just tokenmaxing, brute forcing a solution, I don't understand what code people need to write and what projects people are building, is everyone just constantly rewriting systems from scratch, or what is everyone spending these insane amounts of tokens on?

New comment by mns in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

mns — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:40:32 +0000

Yes, MONEY. Companies and their management couldn't care less about DEI, they care about pleasing whoever in in power in order to get benefits and make as much money as they can. You could literally have Hitler in power now and you would see what companies would do for their survival.

New comment by mns in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mns — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:24:13 +0000

It's the way he's doing it. The entire ecosystem is just one giant ad for various paid projects. It's one thing to offer paid services, there are users out there that want to use them or need to use them, that's not the issue. From my perspective Laravel became a huge ad with purposely bad documentation that ends up directing unknowing users into using features, libraries and products that will lead them into paying for things that they might not need. Everything in Laravel recently is set up so that users folow documentation and best practices to end up using whatever subscriptions and paid products they offer (and then in some case pull the plug on them and come up with something new, abandoning whatever UI library they made people buy 1 year ago).

New comment by mns in "They See Your Photos"

mns — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:02:30 +0000

Is this one of those things like the old Facebook games where people were answering personal questions that can be used to guess all kind of secret answers for taking over accounts? Are people actually uploading real photos of themselves here?

New comment by mns in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

mns — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:52:02 +0000

The site is selling SaaS templates and AI courses. The post is just an ad for whatever services it is offering...

New comment by mns in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

mns — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:35:20 +0000

Did he struck a nerve? All I'm seeing here are attacks on his person rather than discussing his post, which is not even that controversial, just some common sense stuff.

New comment by mns in "How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe"

mns — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:08:08 +0000

They had official trainings on how to use Copilot/ChatGPT and some other tools, security and safety trainings and so on, this is not some people deciding to use whatever feature was there from Ms by default.

New comment by mns in "How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe"

mns — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:36:36 +0000

What do you mean? Deloitte has been all in on Microsoft AI offerings for quite some time, people have access to a lot of AI tools through MS.

New comment by mns in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

mns — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:15:58 +0000

Does this mean that in an absurd way you can get banned if you use CodexBar https://github.com/steipete/CodexBar to keep track of your usage? It does use your credentials to fetch the usage, could they be so extreme that this would be an issue?

New comment by mns in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

mns — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:26:22 +0000

If you work in a medium to large company, you know most of the documentation is there for compliance reasons or for showing others that you did something at one point. You can probably just put slop at the end of documents, while you still keep headlines relevant and no one will ever read it or notice it.

New comment by mns in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

mns — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:26:17 +0000

Unlike virtue-signaling corporations that burn the planet down just to get more shareholder value in the next quarter.

New comment by mns in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

mns — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:20:24 +0000

But why are you lying? It's not about you, no one is stopping you to go and throw everything you own in a landfill, this is about the companies that act environmental in their marketing, but then go ahead and destroy new and unused products.

New comment by mns in "GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment"

mns — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:47:35 +0000

I'd rather get judged by a human than by the financial interests of Sam Altman or whichever corporate borg gets the government contract for offering justice services.

New comment by mns in "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"

mns — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:40:07 +0000

OpenAI releases an electron slog of an app, while they have basically unlimited computing power, compared to anyone else except their direct competitors. Why aren't they just pumping out proper software built by their own AI/Codex...

New comment by mns in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

mns — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:37:51 +0000

He still had a decent player career, and anyhow, this is a completely different field. The issue is that good engineers are not promoted to management positions because their skills are needed or they don't want to get promoted because of politics. But one of the things that I noticed a lot is people "specifically trained" to be managers. Our company is full of project managers and POs that never built anything their entire life, they never led a team, they never did anything except start with something like an assistant or QA and then all of the sudden they want to manage people. This is what I find frustrating, people that never in their life did something productive or build or contribute to something, but their expectation is to be a manager, just because they were "specifically trained in that discipline"

New comment by mns in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

mns — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:22:56 +0000

As I was following Siemens Energy in these years, I remember them getting a huge bailout, or you can call it help or whatever, at one point and from there on the stock price started going up.

New comment by mns in "Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)"

mns — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:19:15 +0000

Is this a US thing? We renovated the apartment in Germany in the last year and every faucet and piece of equipment that we got has a manual including a table with list of parts and technical drawings and how to take it apart. We also got from the original owner all the manuals of the existing things, and this helped a lot in finding the proper part to replace and fix the bathtub drain. None of this is old stuff, the building is 15 years old.