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New comment by shigawire in "Rethinking Database Programming"

shigawire — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:31:08 +0000

There are tons of problems with this, but the simplicity is comfy.

New comment by shigawire in "Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study"

shigawire — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:22:31 +0000

The difference is wealthy people get the care immediately in the US while the poor can go to the ED and get a bankruptcy.

New comment by shigawire in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

shigawire — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:18:38 +0000

We still have Social Security for now. Entitlements are sticky for better or for worse.

New comment by shigawire in "US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters"

shigawire — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:50:40 +0000

Oh no... Anyway let's feed, house, and heal our population like the Bible says.

New comment by shigawire in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

shigawire — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:19:15 +0000

I'm not that guy but I've advised end users submitting tickets to prompt inject the importance of the ticket so that it gets triaged higher by lazy people only using AI and not actually reviewing.

Not sure how efficacious but I know the reviewer is just relying on the AI decision.

New comment by shigawire in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

shigawire — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:18:49 +0000

China is a bloc unto itself

New comment by shigawire in "Grok Build is open source"

shigawire — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:08:12 +0000

Trump seems objectively bad at his job by a number of metrics. So it seems reasonable that would be the consensus in most forums.

New comment by shigawire in "I Learned to Read Again"

shigawire — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:55:58 +0000

Can you read dense novels with this? I feel like you'd miss subtleties, but grasp the overall story or simpler books.

New comment by shigawire in "Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond"

shigawire — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:05:21 +0000

Maybe dumber phone for day to day tasks. Then another phone that only has connectivity by sharing WiFi from the first phone.

So it's only a tiny barrier but if you need it, you turn on wifi sharing and take out the "real" phone. Otherwise it stays unconnected.

New comment by shigawire in "Africans Are Turning to Starlink"

shigawire — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 03:47:10 +0000

>Elon voted the same way as 51% of naturalized citizens

Doesn't make him right.

New comment by shigawire in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

shigawire — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:01:06 +0000

I have a certainty that I don't want to make a bet predicated on SpaceX needing to generate revenue from their AI products that is equivalent to several thousand dollars for every human in a middle income and up country.

I'd bet in SpaceX. I'll not bet on musk grafting in a failing AI business for financial shenanigans.

New comment by shigawire in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

shigawire — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:57:01 +0000

I'm a different guy... But I think he doesn't care and doesn't need to care. His main product is personal branding and hype -- caring about how it works is hardly relevant.

New comment by shigawire in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

shigawire — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:05:20 +0000

We've given up on the next generation of technology and choose to wallow in sweet hydrocarbons.

New comment by shigawire in "SoftBank 2026 AGM [pdf]"

shigawire — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:57:01 +0000

This makes me feel like a spend too much time on slides for my rinky dink enterprise software feature projects.

New comment by shigawire in "Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings"

shigawire — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:10:25 +0000

The problem is the stock is not valued based on the space part. It's sky-high valuation is based on absurd projected AI revenues.

New comment by shigawire in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

shigawire — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:05:14 +0000

Stanford students are criticizing Google for enabling Israel. If Google was providing support for Hamas they could protest that too.

New comment by shigawire in "The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games"

shigawire — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:49:38 +0000

The good faith interpretation is that innovation is spurred by having some guarantees that your innovation isn't immediately ripped off. It allows for investing more into R&D.

I'm not saying the current system achieves that, but it is part of the justification.

New comment by shigawire in "Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals"

shigawire — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:38:28 +0000

Disagree on best for the country.

New comment by shigawire in "Canada in Technical Recession"

shigawire — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:16:17 +0000

Global market for oil. If the oil intensity of your economy is high, higher oil prices impacting all goods/services will outweigh increased oilel revenues.

New comment by shigawire in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

shigawire — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:52:29 +0000

That is the idea behind "mass drivers" on the moon I believe. Maybe that search term helps.