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Carrok··on Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
> People are billionaires because they “share with society”. They take a small fraction of the wealth and surplus they create.

I truly cannot believe that anyone with an ounce of empathy or integrity could possibly believe a statement as absurd as this.

Carrok··on I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook
I have no issue with liquid glass. IMO it’s a few people making a bunch of noise about vanishingly minor complaints. So, like all things, not universal.
Carrok··on I want to live like Costco people
This has nothing to do with Costco. You have described a relationship/communication problem, not a Costco problem.
Carrok··on Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator
Looks cool! Now add (simulated) billing. ;)
Carrok··on YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes
I'm confused why you're bringing up parents and kids. Are you implying only children might have problems with self-control wrt media consumption?
Carrok··on How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home
Curious why you say this when the linked article says the best thing you can do is avoid synthetic textiles
Carrok··on A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC
"We overestimate what we can achieve in a day, and underestimate what we can achieve in a year."
Carrok··on Hold on to Your Hardware
I have been self hosting for years. The maintenance is minimal to nonexistent. You are conflating modern SaaS with a stable OSS docker image.
Carrok··on How the world’s first electric grid was built
> Stanley's system was however an experimental system designed to be proof of concept. It was short lived as the weak points in the system in the system eventually shut the system down (Westinghouse's steam engine was unreliable and the Siemens generator was 'unsatisfactory').
Carrok··on Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
Wow, someone figured out how to reproduce dang? Nice.
Carrok··on Vim 9.2
The copilot plugin works well
Carrok··on The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
From your source:

> Effective pile management and aeration are key to minimizing CH4 emissions.

So it sounds like a correctly managed pile is not a problem.

Also, I have a hard time believing my composting in my backyard is in any way worse than my sending the same food scraps to a landfill.

Carrok··on The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
I've started composting. I'm sure that'll outweigh the average Vegas visitor's emissions. /s

I'm being a bit facetious obviously, but it does feel a bit like tilting against windmills. We need policy and systemic changes, if we're relying on individuals to all collectively start doing the "right thing", we're sunk.

Carrok··on Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
Yes, that Toyota. Looks like it came out of this group. https://www.toyotaconnected.com/about
Carrok··on Communities are not fungible
I can’t disagree with this more. Even on discord I have four accounts for different contexts. One, my real name. Another, my gaming name. Another, my music/stage name. Another still, a different gaming name. Why? Because I don’t want people in any of those contexts knowing anything about who I am in the other contexts. This is a feature, not a bug.
Carrok··on GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
"I am fine with my code being public, but I am not fine being badgered by people about changes I have no interest in." is a perfectly valid stance.
Carrok··on A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived
Is this a serious question?

human trafficking? yup. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-to...

prostitution? yup. https://www.awakenjustice.org/is-prostitution-a-choice

drug trafficking? yup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...

gambling? yup. https://www.powerball.com/

racketeering? yup. https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/rico/

Carrok··on A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived
Most just call them the government.
Carrok··on Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
Yes.
Carrok··on Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
Not OP but OpenCode and DeepInfra seems like an easy way.
Carrok··on Track Your Routine – Open-source app for task management
I’m not sure this as widely held a practice as you would think. For an app as low stakes as this I couldn’t care less who wrote the code, as long as it does what it says (and only what it says) on the box.
Carrok··on OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
The creator is a big part of what concerns me tbh. He puts out blog posts saying he doesn’t read any of the code. For a project where security is so critical, this seems… short sighted.
Carrok··on Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k
“You only get this money if you submit yourself to Christ and living a conservative lifestyle”

Still not worth questioning?

Carrok··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
There are an absolute ton of very capable tiling window managers for macOS, posted here frequently. From yabi to aerospace to fully programmable ones like hammerspoon. A quick search will turn up plenty more. I would be shocked if none of them meet your needs.
Carrok··on U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization
Long, exasperated, existential sigh
Carrok··on Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
We know how the employees did. Same as ever. They got whatever slop was left in the trough after the big pigs ate their share.

Bitter about VCs? Me? Never.

Carrok··on Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026
> Atheists are quite new

What ever you're smoking, I'd like to try. A break from reality sounds nice right now.

Carrok··on Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011
This was true, but today I would much rather have an llm categorize my expenses. Me doing it manually will never happen.
Carrok··on iMessage-kit is an iMessage SDK for macOS
Also https://github.com/steipete/imsg/
Carrok··on Professional software developers don't vibe, they control
It is trivial to append to files without reading them. Also, no AI provider even wants your secrets, they are a liability. Do whatever you want though, I'm not here to convince you of anything.
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