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almosthereon California minimum wage set to rise in 2026

I don't think CA gov should force private businesses out of control. Instead I think anyone making minimum wage (or within $5 per hour of it) should just get an extra $10000 off their taxes.

almosthereon NYPost Coverage of Epstein Release

CNN caught up and has posted the same pictures. NYPost these days isn't an outrageous tabloid like people say. "Page Six" is, which is related to them. The news they post is generally right leaning version of CNN these days.

almosthereon NYPost Coverage of Epstein Release

The CNN one is more about complaining that it's not searchable (as required), but NYPost found some crazy stuff

almosthereon Jeffrey Epstein Files Released

Wow, Bill Clinton in a tub with a woman: https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/former...

Another of him in a pool with Ghislane and an unidentified woman: https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/former...

And another bombshell: https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/former...

almosthereon Engineers should read more blogs

Agree with all except for listening to anything from Netflix.

The Netflix blogs are EXTREMELY well written and convincing. The problem is, everyone that listens to them, ends up coding up a solution they don't need.

RX - suddenly you have one team member writing a bunch of RX stuff that used to be fairly simple. Now it's all RX flows and no one understands it.

Retrying like mad - Now you have random lock ups because something is slightly misconfigured and instead of revealing why, some process is busy exponentially backing off for 6 hours.

Chaos Monkey - Probably the most needed, but actually not used anywhere. lol

I'm not saying they are not good ideas, but half the time you end up with someone understanding 5% of the problem and applying it to everything.

almosthereon Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem

It still sounds the same to me.

almosthereon Meta Segment Anything Model Audio

mSAMA haha, get it

almosthereon Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem

how are skills and mcp different?

almosthereon Please just try HTMX

Everything in that resonated with me.

almosthereon SF lawmakers vote to create reparations fund $5M per Black resident

Idiots. The thing that fuels racial tensions is things like this NOT getting passed. It's never going to get passed, so all this is doing is making people mad. and I think that is on purpose.

I wish the young people of today could have experienced the 90s.

almosthereon Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video

force? turn it off or use another service?

we got into such a place where we don't encourage competition.

almosthereon Waymo and Tesla's self-driving systems are more similar than people think

Waymo's investment in NNs + rules may be costing them. They had first mover's advantage but wasted it because they didn't sell a vehicle.

Now that transformers are out, you can just adapt to video, like an llm adapts to situations.

almosthereon Young People's Mental Health Is Improving. Tech Alarmists Take Note

It's a multi-faceted issue really. starting in 2020 we had covid, which by itself was massively depressing. Many of the issues from there have simply compounded on top of itself. As covid's scare fades, so will the associated depression. However that doesn't alleviate SM's contribution to the problem.

Also the message that social media may be bad for kids MAY have triggered some parents that have at-risk kids to employ SM bans.

almosthereon alpr.watch

Because that's not what I'm for. Goal post shifter. A lot of crimes people travel to a private location by going through public places. Perhaps when we have Star Trek transporters we'll need to go in that direction.

Which is actually a thing in Star Trek - they literally solve crimes by tracking exactly where people are and check transporter logs for where people go.

almosthereon AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

We had 3 interns this past summer - with AI I would say they were VERY capable of generating results quickly. Some of the code and assumptions were not great, but it did help us push out some releases quickly to alleviate customer issues. So there is a tradeoff with juniors. May help quickly get features out, may also need some refactoring later.

almosthereon Dinner with Rob Reiner at the San Jose Airport

What a tragic loss. Glad you were able to experience that. Thank you for sharing this.

almosthereon alpr.watch

Everyone seems to suggest the above narratives, but in truth this is just not the case. Maybe for 0.0000001% of the time it is the narratives above. But the truth is, if Putin or Jay Jones wants someone dead he will get the right spy and do it without a massive surveillance net.

No, the vast majority of the use case is stopping crime that today we can't stop. I want the crime to stop.

almosthereon Ask HN: Do People who treat coding as a job look normal?

coding as a job look normal? Right now they would look like an Indian engineer, kind of like me. So if that's not normal, then probably not.

almosthereon Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

https://circleci.com/pricing/build-your-plan/

If self-hosted runners are free that would change our equation a bit. I'll talk to some folks here, I liked using this product at another company I worked at - but this would most likely shake out AFTER Github charges us the first time.

almosthereon Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

Your pricing page seems to have changed intra-day. but now it's about $400ish.

30 users + 500 builds.

However I don't know what counts as a build, since a typical commit to an open PR uses 10 GH runner machines simultaneously doing odd jobs like integration tests, releases, deploys, etc...

almosthereon Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

Well sounds like $40 per month more for us. Looked at CircleCI pricing, and mostly because of HOW they charge, it would be $3000, so Github it is.

almosthereon No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

I do think dipping your toes into the future is worth it. If it turns out the LLM is trying to kill us by cancelling our meetings and emailing people that we're crazy that would suck. But I don't think this is any more dangerous than giving people a browser in the first place. They have already done enough to shoot themselves in the foot enough.

almosthereon GPT Image 1.5

I tried all of those types of prompts

almosthereon alpr.watch

I'm all for stationary government surveillance EVERYWHERE (in the public), just no surveillance ANYWHERE on individual persons. I think what people do in public should be heavily witnessed and recorded.

almosthereon GPT Image 1.5

I didn't have a good experience with NB. I am half Indian. Immediately changes my face to a prototypical Indian man every time I use it.

This tool is keeping my look the same.

almosthereon YouTube Creators Find a New Consumer for AI Slop: Babies

AI slop accounts have been doing this since AI videos were a thing, it's just that this journalist found it "now".

almosthereon Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

I didn't say anything about genocide in Gaza or the Uyghurs in Xinjiang... What are you on?

When people are unable to engage with an argument this is what they do.

almosthereon 10 People killed in Bondi Beach shooting

No apparently we cannot. This story was horrible, 4 comments. FOUR comments.

Today a story on Children with cancer scammed out of funds. 383 comments - because the scammer was Israeli.

almosthereon U.S. unemployment rose in November despite job gains

So you've never had a cart FULL of groceries? Or are you one of those people that do 30 items at self checkout?

almosthereon A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave

I've been hearing nothing but bad things about the actual education in US institutions. I think they've tarnished their name at this point to no return.