HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

bretticus

78 karma · joined February 27, 2023

submissionscomments
bretticus··on Incident with Actions, API Requests, Codespaces and Pages
The murder and starvation of millions of people?

Even the “communist” government still around like China just have capitalist economies in sheep’s clothing.

bretticus··on Samsung bans use of A.I. like ChatGPT for employees
Why? It’s a valid concern in my opinion. You’re feeding OpenAI your intellectual property and just hoping they don’t do anything with it. I have the same concerns with Microsoft’s TypeScript playground
bretticus··on The socialist calculation debate
> We've seen in real life that a large corporation can plan a proportion of an economy.

No we haven’t. Look at the list of Fortune 500 companies today vs 50 years ago. The landscape is completely different. IBM was the most innovative company in America and now it's seen as a dinosaur. Corporations die each year. It’s cutthroat; your business is more likely to fail than succeed. The idea that Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell could do a better job planning the economy is laughable

bretticus··on New York to ban natural gas, including stoves, in new buildings
It’s only ancient if you’re well off. The majority of renters won’t have induction stovetops
bretticus··on New York to ban natural gas, including stoves, in new buildings
They certainly won’t install an expensive induction stove in housing for poor people
bretticus··on The Disappointment of 5G
Marketing
bretticus··on Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week
This is Carmack’s resignation post for those curious

https://www.facebook.com/100006735798590/posts/i-resigned-fr...

bretticus··on Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week
Hope not. They’ve had several outages and high profile bugs. Also on the verge of bankruptcy.
bretticus··on We're creating a new top-level product group at Meta focused on generative AI
PyTorch, React, GraphQL, Jest, FBOSS for data center networking, the list goes on.

Companies dream of creating just one of these.

bretticus··on FFmpeg 6.0
And even the defense industry.