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New comment by thevillagechief in "Angular v22"

thevillagechief — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:44:04 +0000

Everything is signals now.

New comment by thevillagechief in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

thevillagechief — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:20:16 +0000

Not really. Whenever I manually edit the code, the next turn will overwrite the changes back. You kinda have to let them know not to do that.

New comment by thevillagechief in "Google changes its search box"

thevillagechief — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:49:34 +0000

I understand the consternation here about this change. And I've noticed recently getting frustrated because I'm looking for a search list but the UI throws me into AI mode first. But the think is I use traditional search so much less now that those annoyances are the exception. I can't say whether they are making a mistake, but they've got to have extensive data, and I'm going to bet that an overwhelming amount of people don't click through to the search results anymore for most quick queries. They probably really don't have a choice if they are going to effectively keep ChatGPT at bay. Of course, all this is terrible for the internet. That headline should have been: The Internet as you know it is over.

New comment by thevillagechief in "Googlebook"

thevillagechief — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:56:51 +0000

Googlebook Pixel? Or PixelBook running GooglebookOS?

New comment by thevillagechief in "Googlebook"

thevillagechief — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:51:58 +0000

I think it's the overexposure to the inside workings of tech that leads a dislike of these brands. As long as Amazon delivers to you the next day and accepts free returns, you're pretty happy.

New comment by thevillagechief in "Knitting bullshit"

thevillagechief — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:01:05 +0000

It's always absolutely shocking using a regular person's computer. How can they live like this? I have lived in this ad-free bubble for so long that I forget that's not the real world. If I had to live without adblockers, I don't think I'd ever visit the internet.

New comment by thevillagechief in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"

thevillagechief — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:19:38 +0000

I do agree here. Being a CEO is in fact stressful. I think as someone pointed out, your first problem is you're thinkin 3, 5, 10 years. Unless you're a founder building your company, my observation is think in quarters. A year at most. You just need to survive long enough to move on to bigger things. The mess you leave is the next guy's problem. And I don't know how to live like that.

New comment by thevillagechief in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"

thevillagechief — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:44:29 +0000

Lately I’m realizing what an absolute drain imposter syndrome is. I see things like this and I think maybe I could jump three levels up into a completely different department and be just fine, at least for a while. Then maybe fail up?

New comment by thevillagechief in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

thevillagechief — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:00:15 +0000

And Steve Job's Apple was an ethical company because... he pushed people to produce sleek devices? Which is fine, but then I'd propose that growing the company was ethical because it helped retirement portfolios and employed lots of people. The only Apple product I own is a prime-day deal Beats Pill, but I'm not going to claim that Apple grew because of bribes. People do seem to love their products, in ways I find irrational sometimes.

New comment by thevillagechief in "TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale"

thevillagechief — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:36:48 +0000

This right here is exactly right. If it hasn't come for you yet, it's coming.

New comment by thevillagechief in "EFF is leaving X"

thevillagechief — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:49:02 +0000

Not sure this is true anymore. X is now just pay to play. Organic engagement is completely dead there. It's all a virality game now.

New comment by thevillagechief in "You are not your job"

thevillagechief — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:59:04 +0000

Sadly, it seems to me that history has always chosen b), and I doubt this time it's gonna be different.

New comment by thevillagechief in "You are not your job"

thevillagechief — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:44:55 +0000

I think the article's central point is that being nice is the bare minimum. In fact, probably less than that. If you needed life-saving surgery, it would be great to have a nice surgeon, but you're still going to pick the arrogant surgeon at the top of his field rather than a random nice guy. I will say that I in fact agree that people are innately valuable, but that's more of a philosophical/religious debate here.

New comment by thevillagechief in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

thevillagechief — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:39:29 +0000

I believe it. Every summer we buy goat or lamb imported from Australia/New Zealand. It's usually less than $15/lb. Those two countries barely provide any subsidies for their farmers, and the meat is cheaper than my local farmers, even with their strict biosecurity regulations.

New comment by thevillagechief in "Google just killed my project"

thevillagechief — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:14:59 +0000

I can understand your frustration, but this is one case where this is such an obvious product decision it would be a criminal for Google to keep meet and chat separate. Perhaps they took inspiration from Teams or many other chat products that integrate the two. The surprise is that they didn't just do this in the first place. This being Google, that is no surprise though.

New comment by thevillagechief in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

thevillagechief — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:39:38 +0000

Why would a Catholic man of science necessarily oppose the crusades?

New comment by thevillagechief in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

thevillagechief — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:55:53 +0000

This is fine. If successful, the next administration can just leverage it for a different kind of agenda. In fact, by the time we know whether it's successful, this admin will likely be gone. I'm a bit conflicted though. I hated the last admin's censorship efforts for wrong think. Now, looking at the online discourse landscape, I'm starting to think we might have thrown out the baby with the birth water. Why can't we just be normal!

New comment by thevillagechief in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

thevillagechief — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:46:26 +0000

The world, other than the US, runs on WhatsApp. Business, support and payments are done there. So people do care.

New comment by thevillagechief in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

thevillagechief — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:41:16 +0000

In a world where OneDrive exists?

New comment by thevillagechief in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

thevillagechief — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:33:10 +0000

That lawsuit was about trade secrets shared with DMV. And DMV advised them to file a restraining order against a third party seeking redacted info.