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New comment by rogerrogerr in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

rogerrogerr — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:58:33 +0000

This seems clearly not very true; Iran didn’t seem very at the mercy of the US this year. There is a ton of resistance to actually using nuclear weapons, seemingly making them practically irrelevant.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "I Fired Google"

rogerrogerr — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:48:33 +0000

This would be great if it wasn't written so breathlessly.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap"

rogerrogerr — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:03:51 +0000

Without looking, I’m guessing one of these was cherry-picked from Amis and one was plucked nearly at random from LinkedIn.

The writing style AI uses has its place, but not as _every sentence_. That’s what is exasperating. At the same time, I’m happy that I can still at least identify AI prose of more-than-trivial length.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

rogerrogerr — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:12:36 +0000

> The house gets repossessed or sold for taxes

Sold to whom? Isn’t the argument that no one will have money? There are approximately as many houses in the US as there are households. We are not going to see all the houses empty and all the households homeless. Maybe the people who are currently buying at a time when home values are historically high will be shafted. But those houses will not end up empty.

> Will we be "not worse" or will our standard of living "fall precipitously"? Those feel different.

Reading comprehension. These are the two relevant statements - speaking of the average:

> we in the west are likely to be not-worse, on average, than we are now.

and speaking of HN denizens:

> average HN denizen is much better off than average. I think there’s room for our standard of living to fall precipitously.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

rogerrogerr — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:45:56 +0000

If I’m one of the six people who ends up with all the money and controlling all the robots, why do I want your 3 bed 2 bath house in Tennessee? Trying to take it from you will only make you riot.

It’s not exactly a bright outlook, but I do think we in the west are likely to be not-worse, on average, than we are now.

Of course, your average HN denizen is much better off than average. I think there’s room for our standard of living to fall precipitously.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Why I email complete strangers"

rogerrogerr — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:46:00 +0000

At least it probably means they haven’t been replaced with LLMs…

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)"

rogerrogerr — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:12:08 +0000

Random dudes in those days couldn’t either.

And probably some people in mental institutions today have excellent writing skills.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself"

rogerrogerr — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:54:31 +0000

Those math proofs from a few weeks back seem plausible.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Waymo Premier"

rogerrogerr — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:27:16 +0000

Mine makes us take the "least cost logical" option, but it only looks at flights that match your current search (airport, day, time window). So if you have a specific flight you want, it's usually trivial to concoct a search where that flight is the lowest cost in a window.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:19:08 +0000

Tesla often does this too.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

rogerrogerr — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:07:26 +0000

DC tours are probably a nightmare to do in a PCI-compliant (and the myriad other standards they claim compliance with) environment.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:47:09 +0000

*quietly takes over reporters’ jobs

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over"

rogerrogerr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:45:24 +0000

I would have assumed hiring / screening resumes is a relatively small fraction of what an HR department does?

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

rogerrogerr — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:56:39 +0000

WSL is 90% of a good product. They just quit improving it too early. Managing file permissions between Windows and WSL is a nightmare, it does horrific things to your filesystem if it ever runs out of memory, at least once every day a teammate is hitting a readonly filesystem issue. A team of some of the smartest people I know tried to smooth it over enough to be useful and we couldn’t do it.

At my bigco, we have all but given up on it and moved everyone to EC2 or Macs for non-Windows workloads.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "You can just say it"

rogerrogerr — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:06:57 +0000

As a lifelong conservative and capitalist, even I think this might be the thing that makes some form of socialism possible.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "You can just say it"

rogerrogerr — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:02:14 +0000

I often use LLMs to write or review code, but never ever copy/paste from them into any text box attached to my name.

If my name is posting something, I understand it. If I can read an LLM response and reword it, I understand it.

I really want copying LLM prose into anywhere without a block quote to be a firable offense.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:30:16 +0000

Curious about the T case - is Intel doing some kind of binning and trying to select the processors most likely to fail under high thermal load to assign that suffix to? And thus the T procs are priced lower?

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:36:02 +0000

Thinking about agents as remote junior devs who _might_ be North Korean operatives has been the right model for me.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

rogerrogerr — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:08:27 +0000

Fully loaded costs for an average employee at a bigco are scary. Not $200 but significantly higher than the number on your W2 by the time the company pays vacation, benefits, unemployment insurance, etc.

New comment by rogerrogerr in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

rogerrogerr — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:40:59 +0000

And your comment was calling it crap for some reason. We wouldn’t be having this conversation if you’d left that apparently superfluous word out of your comment.