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GoToRO

1,468 karma · joined January 12, 2016

Senior JavaScript/Angular developer $80/hour.

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GoToRO··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Because they are treated very different. They are part of the unique political party that runs the company, like in China. Democracy exists only outside the company, inside the company it's the same political system as in China. What that means is that loyalty is the only thing that matters for those roles. Productivity not at all.
GoToRO··on Qwen has alter egos triggered by flipping a single neuron
Maybe consciousness itself is also just a "pattern matching algorithm at scale". Maybe there is no magic.
GoToRO··on Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
I use AI so much that I too started hearing myself using the same phrasing as AI... not happy about it.
GoToRO··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
I worked in the industry. It would have been really hard for China not to do better. Like really hard. They allocated 2 years, 150 people for a device that already existed but needed to be adapted to a different customer. It took 2.5 years. No improvements added. Every single manager in those companies is very political, no skills, technical or otherwise. So if chinese hired 20 competent people, gave them training on the industry's specific tools, they are already ahead.
GoToRO··on `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
It was just that. And email with the new password. Hard to remember at first but then, somehow, I could type it from memory. Not sure how they got rid of the emails after they sent them but there are ways. It can be leaked from the source, true, but people with better technical skills were handling that source. So I guess overall it was better. The big insight might be that you can't evaluate the security of a system only from the technical aspect. You have to take into consideration also the human aspect. And that's a very weak point. Even Communism failed because they didn't take into consideration the human aspect (people don't want to work more if they get what everybody else gets anyway).
GoToRO··on `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach
There was a time when you would get a truly random password sent, every X months.
GoToRO··on Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy
Facebook will succumb to spam, like all previous social networks.
GoToRO··on I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
..so there's a kill switch. I see.
GoToRO··on Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model
And if you do provide feedback, they also collect the session. So it's a way for them to collect prompts, answers and overall grade for how good the answers are.
GoToRO··on Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
I did. At some point Claude figured out I didn't even check the code and it "minified" the code. Now only Claude can change it. It's a small side project I wanted to do for a long time and now it's Done.
GoToRO··on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
It will be just in time for when AI will run very well on consumer hardware and the need for data centers will collapse.
GoToRO··on Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now
Autism looks to me similar to what a guy had when we were children. His mother was known for drinking even durring pregnancy. I'm pretty sure that we are disrupting some development mechanism today with all the substances we consume, even without knowing. Food, cosmetics, clothes, the air and so on. I think this onslaught on our bodies is what disrupts normal body functioning, in unpredictable ways. Combine that with pregnancy and the disruptions get written in "hardware". So no real cure, maybe some improvements. At government levels I think this is known, but they don't know what to do about it. Giving people a clean environment again, will have to undo most of the "progress" we got. Anyway, this is just my hunch but at individual level is better not to wait for 100% scientific confirmation.
GoToRO··on Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance
Japan ambassador in Romania said just that in an interview.
GoToRO··on Rivian's gambit for full autonomy
I don't like those headlights also. I think it's a case of when founders bring too much of their personality into the product. Otherwise great product and this self drive system at least has a sound start (track objects across video frames)
GoToRO··on Rivian's gambit for full autonomy
Why look foolish if you don't have to?
GoToRO··on Rivian's gambit for full autonomy
"You are right, that was a red light!"

At first I was skeptical, but reading the article, they do track object across video frames which for me it's the minimum a system like this should do. All previous FSD systems are just Fake self-driving.

"That proprietary AI driver identifies features in images and point clouds, groups them into objects, and tracks them across frames, time-stamped to the millisecond to account for differing frame rates. The AI thus builds confidence over time, acting on object detections that persist across several frames, rather than, say, slamming the brakes due to a camera blip on a single frame."

GoToRO··on Rivian's gambit for full autonomy
Where did he said that? A new experiment can be done, responsibly, right?
GoToRO··on How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
Add facebook too. No problem for them to accept money from websites that were reported as fraud. They pause it a little then they are right back at it.
GoToRO··on Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue
This is not a game. Choosing from wrong answers only is not a game.
GoToRO··on Alberta (Canada) slaps punitive tax on solar panels
First you introduce the tax, then you increase it. Minimum public anger. They messed up because it's a recycling tax that I presume does not apply to... everything? So it feels punitive. Also it's big. I pay way less recycling tax on bigger and harder to recycle items.
GoToRO··on Apple Maps Ads Are Here, and There's No Way to Turn Them Off
when I switched from Windows to Apple the amount of ads was the same. The only thing that changed was that they were Apple's ads. Apple hardware is great, but it's being severely botched by it's software. Seems like software is hard, no matter how much money you have.
GoToRO··on Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves
good thing is not climate change, that would be really bad...
GoToRO··on Virginia orders data centers to pay for dedicated new electric infrastructure
Sometimes is hard to understand what really happens for me. So regular people compete on price with companies? That is wild. Here the industry in general is the first one to get disconnected from power if there is not enough. This also creates an incentive for people with money to solve the power generation problem that they themselves created.
GoToRO··on 1 in 4 people in Japan believes AI could replace friends and family: poll
It's by design. Now we are all gig workers, solo everything. You can't have power if everybody works in isolation.
GoToRO··on Impro is a handbook for running a cult
why do you even need justification? This is how things operate in my locale.
GoToRO··on Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)
It went like this:

We need a team of very good sw developers.

Maybe we can have 20% of the team be cheap "developers", people that have no inclination towards sw development to do the boring stuff.

Maybe 20% of real developers is enough in a team. The rest will learn from them.

Let's have 100% cheap developers, the project only needs changes.

We can get even cheaper developers, come to us with no prior experience and in 3 months we will teach you what you need to know.

Our projects are delayed due to covid.

Oh no, the Chinese!

GoToRO··on The Humbling of the Once Almighty Dollar
I guess, on the long economic chain, somebody has to get the dollars in the first place. So they have to sell to US something, maybe not at the best price. In the world economy this acts as a constant pressure to sell to US. Not a problem if the world economy shrinks. If it expands, somebody, somehow need to get the extra dollars from US.
GoToRO··on I Stored a Website in a Favicon
exactly what I said
GoToRO··on I Stored a Website in a Favicon
ai says [^] is not portable; I did not test it. Too bad, I'll stick to [\s\S].
GoToRO··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
Not sure if adding it would be the best. Maybe a different project that reuses parts of this one, build specifically for that purpose.
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