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New comment by xboxnolifes in "Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe"

xboxnolifes — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:34:17 +0000

People loved flash games.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "How to earn a billion dollars"

xboxnolifes — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:32:35 +0000

That's not the question.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "How to earn a billion dollars"

xboxnolifes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:14:38 +0000

Yet, they are incredibly similar in this context. Both are unrealized assets. Yet, one is far more easy to accurately assess, is assessed constantly at near real-time, but only the other is taxed.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "How to earn a billion dollars"

xboxnolifes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:07:57 +0000

Did you build wealth that way? $100 fund and stock trading?

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

xboxnolifes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:46:05 +0000

Truth is easy when the question is about your own involvement in something. You just don't lie and don't intentionally deceive. This isn't about technical arguments, or moral quandary, or ambiguous situations, it's about marketing yourself in a world where you are expected to lie about your accomplishments to look better. Citing metrics you know are not accurate, but make you look good. Overselling your own involvement in a project. Up-selling the impact of a project by not disclosing the parts you know would undermine your perceived competence.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

xboxnolifes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:07:09 +0000

4 years into job hunting. Answering truthfully does not work. Nobody likes the truth, and every bit of advise i get from anyone is to lie (though, some of them use euphemisms to avoid saying "lie").

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Human Routers of Machine Words"

xboxnolifes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:43:59 +0000

Nobody cared if you translated using Google Translate in the past. People don't care if you use claude to translate now. But people are clearly doing more than they claim when they just translate their text, since their "translations" end up full of AI-isms.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Show HN: I built 80 mini-games using Fable before it was shut down"

xboxnolifes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:19:03 +0000

Software has always been about selling outcomes. People didn't pay for software because they liked that particular ordering of 1s and 0s.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity"

xboxnolifes — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:20:06 +0000

The second largest state by population has the second largest population of a subset of the population? You don't say.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

xboxnolifes — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:52:59 +0000

Just because something is political and is flagged, does not mean it was flagged because it was political.

HN has plenty of unflagged political topics.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

xboxnolifes — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:09:31 +0000

There is a different dynamic between this and that.

New comment by xboxnolifes in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

xboxnolifes — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:11:43 +0000

Close. They will be unemployed because AI be "good enough" and companies won't care about it being better. Nothing they mentioned was really about principles. Everything was about quality output. Too bad companies dont care about quality.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

xboxnolifes — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:07:17 +0000

Then say all of that in the issue. Say you have a real problem. Say you tried using AI. Add the human element by communicating. I dont think there is a real problem there.

People just want to know you put in the effort, and that you didnt just prompt an AI and hand over completely unchecked slop.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem (2015)"

xboxnolifes — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:57:27 +0000

You're trying to apply too much reason to an environment that runs entirely on emotion.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

xboxnolifes — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:31:34 +0000

A customized budget tracking sheet is the personal finance equivalent of a programmer showcasing their TODO webapp. Obviously it's going to be incredibly unpopular. Yet, there are popular tools people have shared in personal finance communities.

New comment by xboxnolifes in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

xboxnolifes — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:43:59 +0000

The article clearly implies she has tried so previously.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Software is made between commits"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:27:01 +0000

This cannot be the counterargument to every post that basically says "The employer shouldn't be able to access, collect, serialize, and own every breath I take". It's too unserious.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:45:35 +0000

You dont think every company wouldn't be able to pay all of their full-time employees 1k less and switch it to AI spend?

New comment by xboxnolifes in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:50:30 +0000

Because they were constantly reinvesting profits...

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

xboxnolifes — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:54:15 +0000

Well outside my field, but I was under the impression that getting the energy into the GPU (solar) was not the problem. The problem is getting the heat out. It takes a lot of surface area to radiate out the heat that GPUs produce. Maybe it ends up economical, but just having it in space adds in a bunch of challenges, not least that once it's up there you can't send in a technician to troubleshoot.

And if solar panels drop another 90%, why not just slap them on earth?