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New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:08:02 +0000

"Americans where some places buying an EV is considered "gay""

They would jump on EVs in heartbeat if Trump told them to.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

vjvjvjvjghv — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:39:56 +0000

That’s a problem. I work quite a bit with AI now by if I didn’t have a ton of experience writing code myself things would go off the rails quickly. I often have to steer the AI in a different direction from the initial plan it comes up with.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

vjvjvjvjghv — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:32:51 +0000

Yeah. It’s weird. I just booked 2 flights to different meetings with very questionable value in the next few weeks. The whole travel costs around 3000. I would much rather spend this money on tokens but even 300 is too much per month.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:05:32 +0000

"Today's interfaces are much cleaner which comes at a price of less information and hence, more ambiguity, but I for would rather pay that price than go back."

If you take today's interfaces to an extreme, you would get a white sheet. Very clean, but unusable. I wouldn't call interfaces "clean" where users increasingly have trouble figuring out what's clickable, how to scroll, move or resize a window.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:15:26 +0000

'It's worse for our users, but easier for our developers'

That's how a lot of software gets done these days. More bloat, less features, lots of inconsistencies.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)"

vjvjvjvjghv — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:15:52 +0000

Mine loses maybe 20% over 2 weeks if unused.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "U.S. science is in chaos"

vjvjvjvjghv — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:04:46 +0000

Why attach this stuff to every grant? This guy was dealing was dealing cutting edge research using multi million dollar equipment. Stuff only a few people world wide know about. That’s difficult enough.

This leads to purely performative diversity statements that mean nothing in the real world.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

vjvjvjvjghv — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:25:40 +0000

It's really hard to understand how these trillion dollar companies somehow can't afford to maintain quality apps. Seems every new Office release makes things worse. I assume the WebView2 makes things a little easier for devs but how much are they really saving at the expense of quality? And I have no idea what the product managers are doing. They are certainly not thinking about improving the product. The new Outlook and Teams feel like they are being hacked together by a bunch of interns that are trying out Scrum.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at 90% lower cost"

vjvjvjvjghv — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:22:12 +0000

You are confusing capitalism with competitive markets. These are very different things.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at 90% lower cost"

vjvjvjvjghv — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:21:20 +0000

"Drug prices in the US are high for non-generic drugs because patent law gives the patent holder an artificial government-granted monopoly, which is blatantly not "pure" or "maximum capitalistic"."

This is very much capitalistic. It's not competitive markets (which are good for consumers) but capitalists hate competition once they have made it to the top.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "U.S. science is in chaos"

vjvjvjvjghv — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:14:06 +0000

To be honest, research funding turned stupid before DOGE. I remember talking a guy who was struggling to write the mandatory diversity statement for a grant in quantum computing.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "U.S. science is in chaos"

vjvjvjvjghv — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:11:39 +0000

I honestly think the decline started sometime in the 80s when it was accepted that everything is solely about profits and nothing else. It took a while but the enshittification of the country is accelerating. The latest developments are in my view just a symptom of this much longer trend.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

vjvjvjvjghv — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:06:49 +0000

"Reading AI code all day is _agonizing_. Just, a horrible way to live, and it melts people's brains at the moment you need them to be the most capable."

I think it's very similar to dealing with large offshore teams. Every day you get a huge pile of code to review. It's really exhausting.

I prefer dealing with AI because at least it tends to follow rules once I write them down. Not so much with a lot of offshore guys. Same mistakes every day.

I guess my company needs to hire better offshore devs....

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)"

vjvjvjvjghv — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:00:55 +0000

A military is usually a big supply chain operation with an attached small war fighting branch

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says"

vjvjvjvjghv — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:42:55 +0000

I remember watching a documentary about this crash. The pilot was known to violate rules and in this case he banked too much if I remember correctly.

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

vjvjvjvjghv — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:49:21 +0000

When I grew up in Germany, I had some pretty bad phases during my teens. I wonder if I had had easy access to guns together with lots of information and videos about shooters on the internet, maybe I would have thought about that too. I didn't have any of those so I sometimes thought about suicide but never about shooting others.

The US has a combination of SSRIs (maybe that's a factor, we don't know for sure), easy access to guns, gun culture, glorification of violence and vigilantism and over the last decades a lot of school shooters to imitate. Basically a ton of risk factors combined.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "DNI Gabbard Reveals Evidence of U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Global Biolab Program"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:11:21 +0000

Who is that?

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:10:57 +0000

They will break the system and use it for their friends. No way they are shutting it down. There is way too much money to be made in selective enforcement.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "A PDF that changes based on how its read"

vjvjvjvjghv — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:55:18 +0000

What would that be good for? If a human can read it, you can also use OCR.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "A PDF that changes based on how its read"

vjvjvjvjghv — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:54:12 +0000

Exactly. It’s pretty insane that we have converged on storing documents as PDF. And it looks like no work is done on making PDF files machine readable.