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New comment by mrstackdump in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

mrstackdump — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:13:42 +0000

I would argue that the Fed manipulating our financial system causes monetary crisis. The Fed is under the influence of capital which doesn't have the benefit of being even nominally checked by democracy. Were we (speaking as an American) to invest in our country and people we would have a healthier society and the means to deal with actual crisis.

New comment by mrstackdump in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

mrstackdump — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:08:47 +0000

Yes, I would disagree that the Fed has any positive influence whatsoever. It should be abolished and we should solve our problems with policy that relates to them and not pro-capital financial manipulation.

New comment by mrstackdump in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

mrstackdump — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:58:14 +0000

He says it himself! His role its to induce "healthy" unemployment.

New comment by mrstackdump in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

mrstackdump — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:19:10 +0000

I don't think tinkering is the dominant culture behind tech anymore, but it's definitely operating at a higher scale than ever before. There's more OSS projects than ever, and there are tons of niche areas with entire communities. Examples could include: LoRa radios (or LoRA adaptors!), 3d printing, FPGA hacking, new games for retro hardware...

New comment by mrstackdump in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

mrstackdump — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:13:35 +0000

> There are now adults that grew up in the age of social media that have no idea how local computing works.

Very few people of any age understood how local computing (or any computing) works. There's probably more now since most of the world is connected.

Profit scale has reached a point where commercial OS creators have to do stuff like shove ads into the UI. There's probably more legitimate need from non-developers to use Linux now than ever before, just to get a better base-line user experience.

New comment by mrstackdump in "ASCII-Driven Development"

mrstackdump — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:02:51 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by mrstackdump in "ASCII-Driven Development"

mrstackdump — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:37:28 +0000

I would love to see your prompt if you ever post it anywhere.

New comment by mrstackdump in "ASCII-Driven Development"

mrstackdump — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:45:44 +0000

Maybe I'm not understanding it (totally possible!) but could Claude just do that by reading standard out and writing to standard in?