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New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "They See Your Photos"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:04:52 +0000

You guys are completely missing the point. It's not about getting your details right. It's about what will be done with you when the AI's inferences are wrong.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "They See Your Photos"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:03:19 +0000

The point isn't to get it right. It's about what people with more power and capital than you will do when the AI makes the wrong inferences about you.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:20:48 +0000

That’s not the point being argued either, nor it being perfect. It’s just about Apple’s UI frameworks being more coherent and consistent across all their own platforms, unlike Microsoft. Even Android developers who’ve done a bit of work on iOS easily agree that Apple’s SDKs are far better designed and behave more predictably than Google’s.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:57:47 +0000

> If Apple products are so compelling why are so many devs using Electron, React Native and Flutter on macOS

That is not how the decision making for cross-platform works. You choose those alternatives knowing that they are crap in many respects, yet accept the trade offs because you want to save money on dev hours.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:16:25 +0000

Heh, the fact that they aren’t mutually exclusive is the problem. Why give someone with mass surveillance ops in other domains access to yet another domain?

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "Swift 6.3"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:07:31 +0000

That's outright false:

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-at-apple-migrating-the-pass...

You could have easily fact-checked before forming an opinion, but at least the buffoon down there agreeing with you is worse

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:12:06 +0000

Historical data is never a guarantee of future performance. The downside of your attitude is that you can’t really point at the right thing to do, so then you invest your time and effort on the same things, when it could be the case that the rules of the game have changed.

I don’t see the comment as necessarily defeatist. If anything, it’s an invitation to rethink what might work instead, and whether there are things worth lobbying for/against beyond what can be solved at the individual level.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:55:08 +0000

If it ever goes bad, well I hope that that’s an impetus for new open source projects to be started — and with improvements over and lessons learned from incumbent technologies, right at the v1 of said projects.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "Honda is killing its EVs"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:21:45 +0000

Funny that you say that because of all the big tech companies, Apple has the best track record at fighting for consumer privacy. And you certainly cannot say that for any of the car makers that currently have an EV lineup.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "Honda is killing its EVs"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:13:21 +0000

I’m not sure that that aphorism is helpful, my experience with theory is that it includes time and effort considerations

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:06:01 +0000

Do you know that about everyone who is virtue signalling, or are you just assuming that to be a blanket truth about everyone? I don’t think you can ever know the extent to which someone is actually trying, even if imperfect because some things just aren’t within individual control.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:02:43 +0000

You’re not really addressing the obvious though: that at the rate that we are consuming and polluting the earth, we could be pushing ourselves into extinction faster than the sun could just naturally swallow up the earth. I don’t think anyone is debating this eventual death of our star, but our astronomers would very much like to live long enough for us to find another home planet and develop the technology to get there.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:13:46 +0000

Well, any group of 3 people would easily agree on one thing: that they are all just trying to survive. Now, if only what we’re doing to nature is actually killing us…

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "AI is making junior devs useless"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:01:41 +0000

I mean, if we’re doing this, let’s be honest and go as far as mid-level engineers whose work needs constant correction, as well as the many, many senior engineers out there who are senior only because they lucked out in getting the title during the artificial dev scarcity of the ZIRP eras.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:49:32 +0000

I never really bought in to the anti-Leetcode crowd’s sentiment that it’s irrelevant. It has always mattered as a competitive edge, against other job candidates if you’re an employee or the competition of you’re a company. It only looked irrelevant because opportunities were everywhere during ZIRP, but good times never last.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:08:43 +0000

That still doesn’t sound employable

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:07:18 +0000

Ticketing, payroll, point of sale, banking, HFT, e-commerce, warehouse, shipping… how have you not thought of these

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "LLMs as the new high level language"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:11:32 +0000

I mean, are you gonna die on a hill defending every low-quality content in HN? Because I think it’s perfectly OK to call it out so that moderators can notice and improve. You seem to think that readers have an inherent responsibility to salvage someone else’s bad article.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:18:57 +0000

This article is talking about the AI race as if it’s over when it’s only started. And really, an opinion of the entire market based on a few reddit posts?

Author spoke of compounding moats, yet Apple’s market share, highly performant custom silicon, and capital reserves just flew over his head. HN can have better articles to discuss AI with than this myopic hot take.

New comment by rTX5CMRXIfFG in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

rTX5CMRXIfFG — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:10:16 +0000

Practical answer? I don’t know, man. I’m just building a todo list after all. Heck, I build more complex apps than that but front-end work is at such a high level of abstraction that, realistically, I just never bother. I don’t mind a smaller download size, but it’s just a nice-to-have.

The point about Xcode being complex, I disagree with. Honestly I could think of so many additional features to make my workflow easier.