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New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

wilsonnb3 — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:47:00 +0000

You can do that, in the US at least.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

wilsonnb3 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:34:58 +0000

Dealing with the alien coworkers has always been the job, that is what software is to most people.

Software developers get paid big money because they can speak alien, the only thing that is changing is the dialect.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

wilsonnb3 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:33:09 +0000

> I can easily anticipate how an inexperienced engineer is going to mess up their first pull request for my project.

Isn’t this just because you have seen a lot of PRs from inexperienced engineers? People learn LLM behavior over time, too.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

wilsonnb3 — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:41:05 +0000

That is definitely the case, they cover this and many other interesting things about Spotify in the book Mood Machine

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214151728-mood-machine

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

wilsonnb3 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:55:05 +0000

You can do whatever you want with your phone too, it isn’t illegal to jailbreak an iPhone for example.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

wilsonnb3 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:19:57 +0000

Massive job loss from AI requires one of two things: actual human-equivalent AGI or no increase in demand.

Focusing on option 2 and software development, teams and companies will only downsize if the demand for software doesn’t increase. Make the same amount of stuff you do now but with less people.

What I think will happen is that enough companies will choose to do things that they couldn’t afford or weren’t possible without AI (and new companies will be created to do the same) to offset the ones that choose to cut costs and actually increase the amount of people making software.

I am pretty sure these are well known economic ideas but I don’t know the specific terminology for it.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

wilsonnb3 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:16:38 +0000

Just curious, how was SQL Server perceived at the time compared to Sybase and Oracle? I know it originated as a port of Sybase.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)"

wilsonnb3 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:33:03 +0000

I highly recommend the book “How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)” if you are interested in this subject.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "MacBook Neo"

wilsonnb3 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:05:27 +0000

My understanding is that students are very hard on school provided laptops, I don’t think many of them that have been in use for a year will be in good resale condition.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "MacBook Neo"

wilsonnb3 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:58:00 +0000

The surface laptop is a competitor to the MacBook Air, the cheaper Surface Laptop Go was the low cost attempt from MS.

Also, there are plenty of good laptops from HP, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, and others, the market is not that dire.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

wilsonnb3 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:43:48 +0000

How are you going to reach out to someone first if all communication is blocked because they don't already know you?

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

wilsonnb3 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:51:28 +0000

You can upload custom emoji to teams, most businesses just turn it off

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back"

wilsonnb3 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:24:00 +0000

I don’t think it is that widely available due to Snapdragon chips not supporting some feature it requires.

Good option for Pixel owners or phones with MediaTek chips though.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

wilsonnb3 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:19:09 +0000

I never really understood that angle - do you think the Germans would have thrown their hands up and not killed anyone because they lacked accurate data on who was Jewish?

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

wilsonnb3 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:24:48 +0000

Programs can’t want things, it’s no different than running any other program as your user

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

wilsonnb3 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:09:23 +0000

They already have a modern copy on write file system (ReFS), you just can’t use it on desktop Windows for some reason

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro"

wilsonnb3 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:47:53 +0000

They already do that for Azure

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026"

wilsonnb3 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:05:34 +0000

I know language evolves over time, but I can’t help but be irritated when people refer to anything non-computerized as analog.

If it isn’t representing something with a continuously various signal then it ain’t analog!

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

wilsonnb3 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:25:46 +0000

To be fair, downloading and running random executables from the internet is a genuinely terrible security model when the OS (like Windows, Linux, or (to a lesser extent) MacOS) does nothing to prevent it from doing anything you can do.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans"

wilsonnb3 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:42:01 +0000

> "Why is Claude writing TypeScript I'm supposed to read?" 40% of code is now machine-written. That number's only going up.

How much of the code is read by humans, though? I think using languages that LLMs work well with, like TS or Python, makes a lot of sense but the chosen language still needs to be readable by humans.