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New comment by yCombLinks in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

yCombLinks — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:38:47 +0000

All of the authors age at a rate of 1 year per year

New comment by yCombLinks in "FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall"

yCombLinks — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:58:45 +0000

That's mostly due to homogenization, a process that spreads the fat evenly through the milk and keeps it from resettling.

New comment by yCombLinks in "If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems"

yCombLinks — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:36:06 +0000

99.9% vs about 20%. Pretty weak argument.

New comment by yCombLinks in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

yCombLinks — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:07:14 +0000

I'm in one of the many states where my vote doesn't matter. Deep red. Doesn't make me a supporter

New comment by yCombLinks in "FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot"

yCombLinks — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:24:24 +0000

Good how?

New comment by yCombLinks in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

yCombLinks — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:42:16 +0000

The difference is jquery went away because better things replaced it (in javascript). If the fundamental need for tailwind has passed why is it's usage growing? It's more that the problem solved by the paid portion of tailwind is now solved by AI.

New comment by yCombLinks in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

yCombLinks — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:33:37 +0000

The texture of the film grain makes Mulan and Aladdin really look better. The large simple filled sections look like they have so much more to them.

New comment by yCombLinks in "LINQ and Learning to Be Declarative"

yCombLinks — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:41:08 +0000

I think the final version is far worse than the second version. This is simpler in what way ?

New comment by yCombLinks in "The Hollow Men of Hims"

yCombLinks — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 01:33:05 +0000

You don't get to speak for how other people feel.

New comment by yCombLinks in "Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates"

yCombLinks — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:57:26 +0000

Well, front brake lights take out user errors for activating them.

New comment by yCombLinks in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten way better"

yCombLinks — Sun, 18 May 2025 16:06:03 +0000

Leetcode patterns, and common problem types to apply those patterns to.

New comment by yCombLinks in "Plain Vanilla Web"

yCombLinks — Mon, 12 May 2025 13:50:37 +0000

Yes, my first GUI apps were about 20 years ago in visual basic. It was far easier than laying out webpages (assuming you're targeting desktop users). It's just far harder to get users to download and run something (and should be). But the browser's layout system (the DOM) has 0 to do with that, there is nothing but inertia locking us into that.

New comment by yCombLinks in "Plain Vanilla Web"

yCombLinks — Mon, 12 May 2025 13:47:47 +0000

How it talks to the backend is irrelevant here. That has zero to do with the fact that the DOM was imply not designed for dynamic application layouts.

New comment by yCombLinks in "Getting Older Isn't What You Think"

yCombLinks — Wed, 07 May 2025 19:49:51 +0000

Maybe that's because these people don't want to argue with their spouse, and these couples are unable to achieve that.

New comment by yCombLinks in "America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era"

yCombLinks — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:29:33 +0000

MAGA is level 10 on it. They went from the hardcore Christian party to supporting the biggest crook American politics has ever seen, that isn't even capable of basic kindness. Same with veterans. A draft dodger, that has called our fallen soldiers losers, and skipped out on ceremonies honoring them, that presidents traditionally attend. MAGA jumped from deficit hawks, to supporting huge tax cuts that will explode the deficit. It's not even close who is worse here.

New comment by yCombLinks in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

yCombLinks — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:24:39 +0000

In my office most people use chatGPT or a similar LLM every day. I don't know a single coworker that's ever used a cryptocurrency. One guy has bought some crypto stocks.

New comment by yCombLinks in "1/4 of startups in YC current cohort have almost entirely AI-generated codebases"

yCombLinks — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:26:47 +0000

Worthless argument, no one cares if chatGPT 3 was a good code in their day job.

New comment by yCombLinks in "1/4 of startups in YC current cohort have almost entirely AI-generated codebases"

yCombLinks — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:24:49 +0000

I believe Acceptance Criteria

New comment by yCombLinks in "Things we've learned about building products"

yCombLinks — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:05:42 +0000

A 9 hour investment to make a decision that will strongly affect 50% of your waking life for years or decades doesn't seem like a big ask.

New comment by yCombLinks in "Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)"

yCombLinks — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:10:33 +0000

You didn't even address what we're getting for that money. Are we getting 65 billion worth of value? 100 billion? 20 billion?