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New comment by mpalczewski in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

mpalczewski — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:21:57 +0000

they typically offer a brokerage option. fidelity and vanguard both offered this when I had them. if that wasn't on the table I'd roll it into something that gave me flexibility.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

mpalczewski — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:15:46 +0000

You can buy IVV instead and get the same exposure but this time you get to vote. Or you could just not own spy and buy the shares individually.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027"

mpalczewski — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:03:03 +0000

use ai to read it. we're increasingly moving to world of ai reading the ai slop that someone else wrote to basically get back their original prompt.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation"

mpalczewski — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:30:22 +0000

I have so little faith in "high-level" officials that I prefer our AI overlords.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

mpalczewski — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:20:58 +0000

One beer company tried to do it. But because beer has vitamins in it, they were prohibited from doing it as it might have made the beer seem healthy.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

mpalczewski — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:48:58 +0000

and it's wrong. a 6000 line class is not easier for a model to understand. the same things that help humans also help agents. I find myself adding linters that must pass and the agent muss fix that limit file size, function length, function complexity, how many files in a directory. a little more work for the agent, but the codebase is healthier and the agents write fewer bugs.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

mpalczewski — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:23:35 +0000

Gemini models have consistently disregarded rules and gone their own way for me. They will finish a task and get it done frequently way above the scope that you gave it, but they take a million shortcuts to get there. e.g. deciding the linter isn't important and disabling the pre commit hook. coding features you didn't ask for.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Fame! A Misunderstanding: A new translation of Albert Camus's complete notebooks"

mpalczewski — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:10:32 +0000

I tried reading Myth of Sisyphus by Camus recently. I found it tedious and boring. Sort of a rehash of stoic and Taoist teaching. Yes embrace the absurd but sooo long winded. Has anyone else read this, am I missing something?

New comment by mpalczewski in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

mpalczewski — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:37:38 +0000

My iphone 15 pro max. manufactured in Aug 2023. 536 cycles. is at 84%. I doubt it will make it to 1k at above 80%.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Tariffs Raised Consumers' Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses"

mpalczewski — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:15:12 +0000

only true for commodities

New comment by mpalczewski in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

mpalczewski — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:02:53 +0000

It's literally how you got those things. Without leverage to get them, they would have just been complaints. You ask what you can do, and then you do it.

New comment by mpalczewski in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

mpalczewski — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:06:35 +0000

> Maduro was president of a sovereign country.

It's funny how we accept the importance given to that statement. when he's just some dude who took control of a country and gave himself that title. As if the social construction means anything in this situation.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

mpalczewski — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:28:44 +0000

They aren’t necessarily experts at using Llm’s. They have different incentives as well

New comment by mpalczewski in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece"

mpalczewski — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:52:51 +0000

I helped fund that kickstarter. The first season released on that kickstarter was such a disappointment. As if they forgot to be funny.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

mpalczewski — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:58:12 +0000

California has the worst roads of any state I've driven in. San Fran and San Jose, rank among the top 10 in the country of the worst roads. Whatever they are using it for, isn't for road maintenance.

New comment by mpalczewski in "CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them"

mpalczewski — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:22:01 +0000

Propaganda source

New comment by mpalczewski in "How Airline Lobbyists Just Got Humiliated"

mpalczewski — Sun, 12 May 2024 22:49:26 +0000

They should get out of that business altogether and let anyone sue an airline

New comment by mpalczewski in "Google News is shutting down purchased magazine content, offering refunds"

mpalczewski — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:10:30 +0000

This is par for the course. We've had the gulf of tonkin incident, and weapons of mass destruction. The difference is now we have more information, so it only looks like it's gotten worse.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Android App Devs now require 20 people to test before publishing to Play Store"

mpalczewski — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:36:55 +0000

I bought a t-mobile g1 the first android phone. At the time my school's wifi needed you to log in every time you joined the network. I wrote an app that logged you in automatically. Solved a need I had, I then put in in the app store for $0.99 and sold a few hundred.

I went to a small company career fair for the free lunch. When they saw I had an app in the app store, I had immediate interest and got an internship.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Android App Devs now require 20 people to test before publishing to Play Store"

mpalczewski — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 03:10:43 +0000

This would have prevented me from publishing my first app, which ended up getting me my first job and a great career.