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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.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari"

mpalczewski — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:27:09 +0000

I've always had the sense that Google was really bad at negotiating.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts"

mpalczewski — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:06:49 +0000

A big centralized government bank is not somehow going to be magically better than multiple commercial banks. At best it would be equally bad but more likely it will be worse than the dmv and irs put together. Going to the bank will be like doing your taxes. Maybe it would be so bad that it would solve this problem because people would have cash.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17"

mpalczewski — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:05:00 +0000

I’m in a similar boat. Header files typically led to faster compile times. OCMock worked like magic.

Where both languages are poor is how large the binaries they produce are.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig"

mpalczewski — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:59:46 +0000

I’m most productive when I’m having fun. There’s always going to be not fun shit. Is on you to find the fun and on the employer to make it possible. Otherwise I’m unable to give my best.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why"

mpalczewski — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 17:37:14 +0000

The way they carry themselves it's like they know it.

New comment by mpalczewski in "B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations"

mpalczewski — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:37:51 +0000

They would have posted and much fewer people would have seen the announcements. You have to go where the users are.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time"

mpalczewski — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 23:09:46 +0000

Gravitational waves warp space/time. so the distance between two points will be slightly longer/shorter.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

mpalczewski — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:51:13 +0000

Patagonia is pushing polyester with its associated micro-plastics, instead of the renewable natural fibers that they were using before like wool. Good, evil, depends on who is counting.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Chegg stock sinks after CEO says ChatGPT hurt growth"

mpalczewski — Sat, 13 May 2023 15:46:02 +0000

They had bad numbers and the ceo went, fuck the stock price, I need everyone to know this wasn’t my fault. I had no faith in management after that. I sold all my chgg stock.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Classic fountain pens"

mpalczewski — Tue, 02 May 2023 18:07:13 +0000

I would not reccomend TWSBI for beginners, I find that the nibs are way to finicky. I needed to tune mine a bit before it wrote well. Pilot and Lamy are great out of the box.

New comment by mpalczewski in "Ask HN: How can techies influence companies to stop implementing SMS/phone 2FA"

mpalczewski — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:02:30 +0000

Techies can best influence by understanding why sms otp is popular and come up with something better.

Not only do you need to understand what shortcoming sms has, but non cynically understand why other solutions are worse.

New comment by mpalczewski in "I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer"

mpalczewski — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:00:06 +0000

I bought a used nuc computer on eBay for less than $100 recently. It’s much more powerful than a pi. Used computers are some of the best bargains now.