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New comment by namesbc in "Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics"

namesbc — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:55:12 +0000

You cannot have a functioning economy or political system when there are billionaires because they no longer are accountable to the market or the people

New comment by namesbc in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

namesbc — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:22:32 +0000

Vibe coders are so insistence that the rest of us adopt their shitting tooling because they need other people coding slop too to justify their lack of effort.

If programmers keep up good coding practices then the vibe coders are the ones left behind

New comment by namesbc in "ChatGPT Health"

namesbc — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:12:01 +0000

Such a dystopian nightmare we live in now. The US is cutting our actual healthcare services to subsidize this shit so billionaires can become trillionares while the rest of us suffer

New comment by namesbc in "GPT-5.2"

namesbc — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:40:19 +0000

Check the wages of coders outside of the US

New comment by namesbc in "GPT-5.2"

namesbc — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:35:57 +0000

It you take of the rosy glasses, it is more like 10 hours saved per-month at an unsubsidized cost of $1000/month

The $100/hr is worth it for US programming jobs, but nothing else

New comment by namesbc in "GPT-5.2"

namesbc — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:29:39 +0000

Yep, bulk of AI usage is generating marketing emails

New comment by namesbc in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

namesbc — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:24:47 +0000

Measuring productivity by number of words written per day is as useless of a measure as number of lines of code written per day

New comment by namesbc in "GPT-5.2"

namesbc — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:39:12 +0000

So the rosy biased estimate is OpenAI is saving 1 hour of work per day, so 5 hours total per-work week and 20 hours total per-month.

With a subsidized cost of $200/month for OpenAI it would be cheaper to hirer a part-time minimum wage worker than it would be to contract with OpenAI.

And that is the rosiest estimate OpenAI has.

New comment by namesbc in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

namesbc — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:10:31 +0000

Software engineers used to know that measuring lines of code written was a poor metric for productivity...

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

New comment by namesbc in "Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law"

namesbc — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:17:01 +0000

Ug, this bill is all about preventing regulation of multinational corporations, it has nothing to do with the right for individuals to compute anything.

New comment by namesbc in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"

namesbc — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:39:46 +0000

Spending $1500 per-month is a crazy wasteful amount of money

New comment by namesbc in "Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf"

namesbc — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:45:15 +0000

I'll choose the wheel over using a country's worth of electricity to parrot unusable AI slop to gullible fools.

New comment by namesbc in "Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview"

namesbc — Wed, 07 May 2025 08:28:05 +0000

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New comment by namesbc in "Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment"

namesbc — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 05:35:57 +0000

Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-cent...

New comment by namesbc in "Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment"

namesbc — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 05:33:08 +0000

That doesn't solve the problem

New comment by namesbc in "Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning"

namesbc — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:26:59 +0000

It is the lack of regulation that is the problem here. The power company is incentized to make higher profits year around by not preparing for a disaster.

New comment by namesbc in "The AI Trust Crisis"

namesbc — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:29:05 +0000

All it takes is a simple tiny change to the user agreement and then OpenAI will start training on this user data and most people won't notice in time to switch their toggle off

New comment by namesbc in "To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use"

namesbc — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:06:12 +0000

We tried this cruel inhumane expensive policy for the decades called thew war on drugs and it was one of the worst failures in US history

The US has spent more than a trillion on the War on Drugs, we should use a fraction of that on housing and healthcare, instead of thinking about restarting the trillion dollar war on drugs

New comment by namesbc in "To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use"

namesbc — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:02:05 +0000

We tried this cruel inhumane policy for the decades called thew war on drugs and it was one of the worst failures in US history

New comment by namesbc in "To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use"

namesbc — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:01:07 +0000

Permanent Housing is the only solution. Shelters are at best temporary to survive a cold night, but they are not a solution for a sustainable life.