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New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:30:39 +0000

IKEA allowed people to afford decent quality furniture who otherwise couldn’t afford it. That’s a huge benefit in my view. Your “spend a bit more” is actually a huge amount for artisanal quality furniture.

That’s how commodization has always worked. Something is suddenly available for the masses with maybe some loss of quality.

Look at Excel. A lot of elitists look down on people doing complex stuff with it but in reality it has enabled many people to do stuff they would otherwise have to pay a ton of money for.

Back to furniture. You are free to buy artisanal furniture but for a lot of people worldwide it would be a huge loss if Ikea didn’t exist.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:07:38 +0000

Back in the day artisans took care of horses and new have cheapened ourselves to use stinky cars. Back in the day we built computers with relays by hand, now we have cheapened ourselves to use weird semiconductors and use inefficient python code instead of highly optimized hand crafted assembly.

Maybe we should go back to hunting and gathering?

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:16:59 +0000

Kind of sad that they didn’t work out. I really wish German industry had a little more willpower to get things done instead of giving up so easily. That’s one strength of the US. They just keep marching forward and have enough investors that are willing to take the risk.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:13:50 +0000

“For me” seems to be the keyword here. From what I know it works for most Brave users.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:12:07 +0000

My Brave installation blocks YouTube ads on iPhone and Mac. Every few weeks there is a day where the ads show but the next day they are gone again.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

vjvjvjvjghv — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:25:50 +0000

PR for good things doesn’t make money.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

vjvjvjvjghv — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:55:28 +0000

I feel if you still architect the code and guide the LLM, it will do a pretty good job. Maybe one day the LLM will be able to do all the system architecture but that’s probably still quite some time out. I don’t even know if that’s possible considering different business needs and other factors that aren’t technical.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

vjvjvjvjghv — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:52:04 +0000

I don’t know. From my experience I get pretty good descriptions of PRs if I ask the right questions and provide some context.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

vjvjvjvjghv — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:07:24 +0000

“ put them on UBI”

Never, ever will they do that. It’s the same bullshit like Musk telling people not to save for retirement. He can distribute his stock by now but instead he is grabbing on to more money.

If there will be UBI, it will be the absolute minimum to not starve. Basically the same as welfare now. No way they are going to share the wealth.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "How Americans View Capitalism, Socialism and Free Enterprise"

vjvjvjvjghv — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:07:33 +0000

The US has the same attributes that most European countries have. Just to a different degree. Socialized healthcare (for some), welfare, free markets (with restrictions), the state heavily involved in steering the economy . It’s all the same just with emphasis on different aspects. The US would be way better off if they accepted that fact and didn’t tell themselves that they are so different from these socialist/communist countries.

A lot of the inefficiencies in areas like health care comes from the fact that the US does things that they don’t really want to accept that they are doing them.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

vjvjvjvjghv — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:39:34 +0000

Losing Ive was probably a good thing for Apple. I often feel that after a few years these big guys have done what they could do and somebody else can take it from there. So far even losing Jobs didn’t hurt Apple as it looks.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Waymo in Dallas"

vjvjvjvjghv — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:39:52 +0000

I used one last time I was in Silicon Valley and I was super impressed with its driving. Very confident and felt super safe.

I can’t wait for broader adoption of self driving cars.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

vjvjvjvjghv — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:06:06 +0000

It's a little weird but the teams and the sports leagues are basically just corporations that engage in show business. They have no real connection to where they are located.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

vjvjvjvjghv — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:05:05 +0000

The crazy thing is that the best case is that the city will hopefully break even i all the promised benefits materialize. In most cases they don't. I bet if they hired a good VC to invest the same money into maybe 50 startups they would have a much higher change of a good ROI. But then the same people who accept sales tax increases for the sports team would probably be complaining about the tax burden.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

vjvjvjvjghv — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:23:40 +0000

The whole tax incentive business is a big race to the bottom. Sports teams also abandon their taxpayer funded stadiums once somebody else offers a better deal.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran"

vjvjvjvjghv — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:46:51 +0000

It was probably the same (imaginary) people who damaged the lining of the Reflecting Pool.

I think we should think about making blatant lies by politicians a crime.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Big Food vs. the People"

vjvjvjvjghv — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:04:19 +0000

Can you give examples of these government policies?

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Big Food vs. the People"

vjvjvjvjghv — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:27:53 +0000

The tort system is too expensive and favors parties with deep pockets. Regulations and laws are more efficient. Imagine there were no laws about theft so everybody who gets something stolen from them would have to go to court.

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Big Food vs. the People"

vjvjvjvjghv — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:25:58 +0000

“ cooked by high-end chefs”

They aren’t high end chefs. They are normal workers that aren’t squeezed by their company to produce food in the cheapest way

New comment by vjvjvjvjghv in "Big Food vs. the People"

vjvjvjvjghv — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:24:29 +0000

What you are describing sounds great in theory, but the real world doesn’t work like that.

In more and more areas the obstacle to enter a market is not regulations but money.