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New comment by tonyedgecombe in "The dead economy theory"

tonyedgecombe — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:52:17 +0000

Not really. Their generation never paid enough to cover what they receive now.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

tonyedgecombe — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:12:07 +0000

It will be somewhat ironic if the people losing out in this transition are the ones screaming about it’s benefits.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

tonyedgecombe — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:45:05 +0000

I wonder how safe they look when you take into account the people running over their own kids in the driveway.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

tonyedgecombe — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:14:42 +0000

At this point cutting Rossetta 2 is probably to force the laggards like Sonos to start supporting Apple Silicon.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

tonyedgecombe — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:06:30 +0000

>You can’t get rid of it and replace it with something else?

You can hide it. I rarely use it as I use a launcher.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "The dead economy theory"

tonyedgecombe — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:28:35 +0000

Is it tyranny that my 84 year old parents get free food (via the state pension)?

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services"

tonyedgecombe — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:44:10 +0000

We all own the means of production. Communism crept in right under our noses.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "The worst job interview I ever had"

tonyedgecombe — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:15:33 +0000

I've been on the other side where I decided I didn't want to hire the candidate. I'd ask them some leading questions so they could get out early if they wanted.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "The worst job interview I ever had"

tonyedgecombe — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:05:49 +0000

I expect some people are so desperate to please that they will hand over any information.

For those that don't understand why an external recruiter is asking for that detail they are trying to find new clients to sell their services to.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "The Eternal Sloptember"

tonyedgecombe — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:24:37 +0000

I wouldn’t get too excited, I got that figure from ChatGPT. Who knows if it’s correct.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "The Eternal Sloptember"

tonyedgecombe — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:04:14 +0000

Bad news! The horse population declined by 85% after the widespread introduction of the car.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "The Eternal Sloptember"

tonyedgecombe — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:38:43 +0000

>I think a lot of the problem with the current discourse is how black-and-white it is.

There is too much money involved for any rational debate.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

tonyedgecombe — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:02:20 +0000

That still leaves the browser a couple of keypresses away which is too close for many.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

tonyedgecombe — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:53:46 +0000

Writing code was definitely the roadblock in a rewrite like this.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

tonyedgecombe — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:40:29 +0000

Surely that argument is dead once someone has migrated a million lines of code in eight days.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

tonyedgecombe — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:32:01 +0000

Telling people they are myopic isn’t going to convince them of your point.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

tonyedgecombe — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:09:26 +0000

I see this in my village. There is a good mix of private and social housing. The private houses tend to have modest cars whereas the social houses have something flash.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

tonyedgecombe — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:06:47 +0000

I’ve become quite doubtful about the Vimes theory because getting boots resoled involves labour so has become relatively expensive.

Also my expensive boots didn’t last a lifetime, last time I went to get them resoled I was told they had deteriorated too far.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going"

tonyedgecombe — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:44:46 +0000

Yeah, the general trend I’ve seen is people becoming more cynical about the workplace the older they get.

New comment by tonyedgecombe in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

tonyedgecombe — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:16:39 +0000

In most cases you could work around that. For instance write the code yourself and make the AI write the tests. Or keep it busy writing superfluous documentation. Very few people are micromanaged to the extent that they can’t subvert the system.