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New comment by pm90 in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

pm90 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:17:09 +0000

This was an excellent read. I admire the lengths to which the author has gone to enable this experience and then to document and share it. As a new parent myself, Ive been thinking about this. While I don’t have the same affinity to physical media (IMO its plastic waste), I do want to guard the child from the infinite online slop machine; but I also don’t want them to not use technology that may be useful. My approach is to treat them as a human that can make choices based on tradeoffs… critical to this is perhaps some kind of guided experience with tech so that they are aware of it/dont get bedazzled by something they see their friends/clasmates doing. Im not sure what that will look like but I appreciate other parents are thinking along similar lines.

I do think that what exists now by default is just not acceptable… I and my spouse are privileged to understand how tech works, what it can do to someones mind etc. but the vast majority of people probably don’t… and as such a significant % of children are quite likely having a terrible experience…

New comment by pm90 in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

pm90 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:02:51 +0000

can anyone paste a copy for those without meta accounts

New comment by pm90 in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

pm90 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:11:11 +0000

> I don’t think companies will do that. Why don’t they just buy local on-premise infrastructure even though it’s cheaper than AWS?

For customer facing, production software, its worth paying a cloud tax to get the reliability guarantee. For tools that are used by engineers for code development, there is no need for such bulletproof guarantees.

New comment by pm90 in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

pm90 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:08:49 +0000

Yep, its already quite easy to do so with tools like opencode/openrouter. Ive used some open source models and they seem … ok? Im not doing foundational math, just refactoring code, understanding existing code etc. I don’t see a future where companies blow 11% of employee compensation on a single tool; the hosted AI server + oss models will 99% win out.

New comment by pm90 in "4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time"

pm90 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:49:25 +0000

> The study also raises broader questions about how early cities functioned. Archaeologists often link urban growth with centralized political power and rising social divisions. Mohenjo-daro points toward another model, one where collective governance and public investment shaped the city’s long-term stability.

Fascinating. I hope that discoveries like this increase the interest of the public in investing in historical research... so much of our theory of the world is shaped by a narrow focus on the history of areas that were easier (relatively) to study.

New comment by pm90 in "4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time"

pm90 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:45:13 +0000

thank you so much for this recommendation. I've been interested in this topic for a while; while I was looking for something a bit more substantial, I do love it when authors explain history in different ways! My original introduction to history was through the Amar Chitra Katha series; ever since I've always had an interest in learning history.

New comment by pm90 in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

pm90 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:17:37 +0000

if they sold that much in the open market it would probably decrease the price

New comment by pm90 in "Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT"

pm90 — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:42:20 +0000

google nest 6e version is pretty good

New comment by pm90 in "The worst job interview I ever had"

pm90 — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:01:47 +0000

I believe the authors reading of the situation: its likely the interviewer wasn’t intentionally being cruel; most likely its this startups “unique thing that makes them stand out”; quirky twists that every startup attempts to make them stand out from the rest.

Honestly though, I think it ultimately worked out best for all parties. Its clear that the startup didn’t value someone that could be so vulnerable, and hopefully the author ultimately found a place that did.

My personal perspective is that for super early/founding engineer type roles you absolutely have to bring a greater part of yourself to work; you will be working over the weekends, working late, celebrating together and such… generally that environment is closer to a college club or fraternity than a corporation.

New comment by pm90 in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

pm90 — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:50:06 +0000

this is a terribly written article that oversimplifies what happened during zirp to the point of absurdity. We have always had just say no engineers-ask anyone with a platform role. They’re still saying no a lot.

New comment by pm90 in "Cloudflare Flagship"

pm90 — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:35:22 +0000

More of this please: essential tools for building modern software must be oss; Im fine with paying for a hosted version but just the benefit of learning one tool and being able to use it everywhere (linux, k8s, python etc) is amazing.

New comment by pm90 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

pm90 — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:20:33 +0000

I don’t understand why Google still has TK helming GCP when its obviously not achieved the kind of success it should. Google infra is some of the best in the world yet GCP is meh. It continues to underperform and seems content to be a distant 3rd behind AWS and Azure.

New comment by pm90 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

pm90 — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:17:58 +0000

OCI is oracle cloud infrastructure.

New comment by pm90 in "Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI"

pm90 — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:06:44 +0000

can you explain how it makes it more credible? is the assertion that asml is using mistral as part of its research/manufacturing?

New comment by pm90 in "Cisco workforce reductions"

pm90 — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:32:57 +0000

Cisco is well known to do annual layoffs, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.

New comment by pm90 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

pm90 — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:52:14 +0000

Thats usually correct for these “surprise” layoffs. For the ones that are announced in advance there is a bit more coordination (like the meta/amazn ones).

New comment by pm90 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

pm90 — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:50:13 +0000

If you know anyone that works at MBB they would be happy to share this with you; if you’re in SF just hit any bar for a weeknight happy hour and you will 100% find someone.

New comment by pm90 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

pm90 — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:48:32 +0000

Employees are treated as a cost which is why you often see the strongest performers inexplicably laid off (since they are likely compensated higher). In situations like this they don’t care about productivity; leadership is given a list and they can move a few people around but for most its game over once they’re on it.

New comment by pm90 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

pm90 — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:43:54 +0000

Their hiring process is remarkably bad for a company that otherwise is so well run. My most recent experience was them throwing a workday link at me to fill something out before we even had the initial phone screen and the forms/ui was so poorly designed that I stopped responding to them.

New comment by pm90 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

pm90 — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:40:45 +0000

someone has to maintain a he products