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New comment by siva7 in "Apparently Google hates us now"

siva7 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:31:25 +0000

Nah you're not crazy. I also felt crazy when i discovered that some obscure censored russian search engine gives me overall better search results in 2026 than google.com

New comment by siva7 in "Nvidia Surpasses Germany"

siva7 — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:53:12 +0000

So Nvidia is worth about 1/6 of the US GDP. More than any company in the US history (except standard oil?). That's too big to fail, isn't it?

New comment by siva7 in "Googlebook"

siva7 — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:32:55 +0000

What are they trying to gain with this product? Financial incentives obviously won't be the reason as this can only be a loss leader. They have zero chance competing against Apple in the entry market after Apple introduced the neo and obviously no chance in the lucrative premium market against the Apple.

New comment by siva7 in "Claude Platform on AWS"

siva7 — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:43:35 +0000

Nah that's not what's happening here. This service is offered under AWS Marketplace. The only argument is actually probably a shared billing console, and that's where it ends. Won't matter for small companies, small fish, but the for the big pond this means new contracts to check, lawyers and so on. So not really a "revolution" happening. News for startups, yes, but not so much for the big corps or gov.

New comment by siva7 in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

siva7 — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:19:25 +0000

> I have never interacted with a piece of software that, for every single problem I found, there was an open issue always at least 4-7 years old

You have never interacted with Jira?

New comment by siva7 in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

siva7 — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:51:30 +0000

> they did not go through and analyze which employees are "keeping up" and which aren't, don't be so naive.

they do on the org level. that's not news for anyone who has worked at upper mgmt level in corporations. rule no.1 is you keep your mouth shut about anything there. and of course it's for economic reasons.. it's a business, not a charity to provide lifelong employment for employees who aren't aligned to mgmt goals. Mgmt tells stories depending on who asks. Levels below execute them (by identifying those who aren't aligned).

New comment by siva7 in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

siva7 — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:53:36 +0000

Your argument doesn't make sense. They literally explained why they are doing it. They are looking to remove who can't or won't keep up with ai. That can be managers but also engineers. That's what most companies right now are doing.

New comment by siva7 in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

siva7 — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:46:57 +0000

Gitlab is looking to lay off people like him. All major tech companies are currently raiding to fire such employees.

New comment by siva7 in "The OpenAI Deployment Company"

siva7 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:08:51 +0000

Well, in this case the FWE will be payed by you to push you spending more money so the ceo is being able to brag that they are working with openai (instead of mckenzie)

New comment by siva7 in "The OpenAI Deployment Company"

siva7 — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:49:46 +0000

So this is body leasing for ai experts under the umbrella of the openai brand? are they moving all their existing fde under this new company?

New comment by siva7 in "Killed by Apple"

siva7 — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:47:34 +0000

that's a laughably small list for a company the size of apple

New comment by siva7 in "Academic Research Skills for Claude Code"

siva7 — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:05:59 +0000

Spam. It takes a minute in 2026 to create any app, any skill, any anything without any education that looks plausible that took five years ago a highly educated and skilled person at least months. Now it takes the highly skilled individual ten times the time to evaluate the vibeslopped spam it took the author to publish.

New comment by siva7 in "What's a Mathematician to Do?"

siva7 — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:00:44 +0000

There are many practical jobs left for mathematicians. Time to discover what you like to do with your hands.

New comment by siva7 in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

siva7 — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:41:58 +0000

It's not about the calculator. I don't even know how to use one beyond basics. Similiar like luxury watches. I can't even read the time. It's about the craftsmanship .

New comment by siva7 in "Teaching Claude Why"

siva7 — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:45:34 +0000

Teaching Claude to maximize shareholder value. Make no mistake to assume ai alignment has any different meaning for anthropic leadership.

New comment by siva7 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

siva7 — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:44:08 +0000

Wishful thinking. It may ease minds for those negatively affected by AI.

New comment by siva7 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

siva7 — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:40:49 +0000

That line is so damn good i recommend everyone who doesn't get it to watch Office Space.

New comment by siva7 in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

siva7 — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:22:16 +0000

Crazy. I can't remember an incident like this ever happened before and it's still not fixed? .de is probably the most important unrestricted domain after .com from an economical perspective. Millions of businesses are "down".

New comment by siva7 in "I am worried about Bun"

siva7 — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:29:22 +0000

One of them is a much more efficient but obscure programming language from a competitor, the other is what the web is built on.

New comment by siva7 in "Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved"

siva7 — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:51:21 +0000

It's the end of the free lunch era. Subsidizing groups like students or new users to gain market share worked as long as there weren't billions of them at the same time eating all compute from the paying customers. It's not working anymore for ai products.