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New comment by mrhottakes in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:38:21 +0000

What if you're needed at the end of the meeting but not the beginning?

New comment by mrhottakes in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:31:28 +0000

Two degrees with practically zero education in the liberal arts, humanities, or philosophy. You're missing a big chunk there.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:11:48 +0000

Black and white text is very readable, and text-based news is very useful. I don't think the NYT will see huge success trying to reinvent itself as a YouTube channel.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:09:44 +0000

It seems strange to assume that you can even put a number on it. What's frivolous to you may be extremely important to another person.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Musk loses trillionaire status as global tech rout hits SpaceX"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:07:52 +0000

Gosh I hope he's alright, it would be such a shame if something bad happened to him.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Four by Three Puzzle"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:24:14 +0000

Played for several minutes, it's fun!

New comment by mrhottakes in "Could You Pass Thomas Edison's Job Application Test?"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:19:34 +0000

I could, yes.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:17:49 +0000

Your post is a good description of how journalism has operated for hundreds of years. Maybe we're seeing that the twentieth century was just a (positive) blip and now we're regressing to the mean.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:24:09 +0000

They're all actually a pile of numbers getting multiplied against each other to sometimes produce output that convinces some humans they're people.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:20:53 +0000

"Guidance" that's often wrong and that will change if I ask a follow-up question? Wow where can I send my money??

New comment by mrhottakes in "Registration"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:15:14 +0000

Can't wait to register for this!

New comment by mrhottakes in "Self-hosted bot that posts PR fixes after testing in air-gapped Docker"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:10:42 +0000

A docker container that can be reached by the bot is not air-gapped. Words mean things.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:05:09 +0000

All that Zuck, Altman, Musk, etc do is give money to people

New comment by mrhottakes in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:04:43 +0000

They're relevant in the sense that all of their products are 100% silly junk compared to the rest of the market, which is about 80% silly junk.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:03:30 +0000

> This is just trash talk.

Trash talk is Musk's entire M.O., so that seems like a good way to proceed in 2026.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

mrhottakes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:01:49 +0000

> Also: ageism isn't sexy.

Typical boomer needing things to be based on sex all the time.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

mrhottakes — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:24:43 +0000

The answer to institutional collapse, the topic of the post to which I replied.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

mrhottakes — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:23:52 +0000

All it takes is for the engineer in charge to be degenerate and the others willing to go along with it, that's how you get a Meta, etc

New comment by mrhottakes in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

mrhottakes — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:54:42 +0000

You don't seem to grasp that the answer isn't "oh well, Western democracies were just going to fail I guess"

New comment by mrhottakes in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

mrhottakes — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:54:02 +0000

It's not even useful for that, it's controlled by those same institutions now.