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New comment by skywhopper in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

skywhopper — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:28:43 +0000

Give me a break with this. You are not so thick as to think the two things are remotely comparable.

New comment by skywhopper in "Leaving Mozilla"

skywhopper — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:20:01 +0000

Good for you. The point is that a lot of Firefox users actively didn't want these sorts of features enabled and pushed on them. That was clear and obvious to anyone paying attention to general reactions to unsolicited AI helper tools, going back decades. For Mozilla to turn this on without any respect for those users’ preferences was a huge mistake that they keep making over and over again.

New comment by skywhopper in "Leaving Mozilla"

skywhopper — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:16:26 +0000

This attitude is exactly why Mozilla is failing. Total contempt and ignorance of the users that are the core of Firefox’s user base. If someone doesn’t want to use AI features, that’s not “living in a fantasy world”. And if Mozilla had any respect for its users, they would have realized the need to make this sort of thing a first class setting. Pretending that their core users are delusional freaks who only deserve “niche” settings is exactly why they are rapidly losing that audience.

New comment by skywhopper in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

skywhopper — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:53:51 +0000

It’s because they are themselves deluded by their marketing story about their own product.

New comment by skywhopper in "Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water"

skywhopper — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:19:05 +0000

The more important question in both cases is where the water comes from.

New comment by skywhopper in "Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free"

skywhopper — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:34:36 +0000

It makes her arguments highly suspect, yes.

New comment by skywhopper in "Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free"

skywhopper — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:34:00 +0000

2024. I don’t think “our food is safer than ever before” is true anymore in the United States.

New comment by skywhopper in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

skywhopper — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:33:32 +0000

But not all projects can be low stakes. None of the important ones are.

New comment by skywhopper in "Claude Fable 5"

skywhopper — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:09:42 +0000

The thing about AI-generated “solutions” is that they often go down bad rabbit holes and need to be re-run, or since they are so “cheap” to create they are often just thrown away and rebuilt when requirements evolve. Plus, just more stuff is created and needs to be maintained. So in the end, your efficiency gains go out the window.

New comment by skywhopper in "Claude Fable 5"

skywhopper — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:06:33 +0000

In the US, over and above salary, payroll taxes add 7.65%, pension contributions might be up to 5%, and employer healthcare and other insurance contributions can be in the thousands, plus other benefits, equity compensation, and per-employee software licensing, and lots of people just estimate 2x salary as the “total cost” of an employee, although that probably overstates it a bit.

New comment by skywhopper in "Claude Fable 5"

skywhopper — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:01:00 +0000

Yes, but performance is not the only factor in whether a specific language is better than another for a specific project.

New comment by skywhopper in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

skywhopper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:15:02 +0000

To be fair, they ran out of ideas in 2010, if not before.

New comment by skywhopper in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

skywhopper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:09:48 +0000

I think you have the causation backwards: we have people thinking the world is flat because they can access the sum total of human knowledge, both true and false. There’s so much available, with similar production values, that going down brainwashing rabbit holes like flat earth, anti-vax, and more is a lot easier than it has ever been before.

New comment by skywhopper in "Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints"

skywhopper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:29:20 +0000

Sounds like they were waiting for a good design.

New comment by skywhopper in "Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints"

skywhopper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:28:30 +0000

What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with the article, which describes a query plan advice provider that solves lots of problems with typical hint systems, and does so in a manner good enough to be worthy of including in core, rather than throwing in a half-baked broken clone of Oracle because people are scared to install an extension.

New comment by skywhopper in "Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints"

skywhopper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:25:59 +0000

Yeah, this article explains the reasons why, and how this solution avoids them.

New comment by skywhopper in "Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints"

skywhopper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:22:59 +0000

“I’ve never run into it so it can’t be a problem for other people” is an interesting take.

New comment by skywhopper in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

skywhopper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:34:23 +0000

If it’s so easy, why use AI to do it?

New comment by skywhopper in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

skywhopper — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:12:48 +0000

It’s ludicrous to think that 10 million is the “maximum tolerable population” for Switzerland. This is a racist, isolationist move and an attempt to stir up hatred among the population.

New comment by skywhopper in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

skywhopper — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:09:49 +0000

At the very least it’s an infringement of human rights.